Legit, it strikes me how...impressive, the first half of 2018 looks in retrospective.
Like, we got two hits in Jujutsu Kaisen and Act-Age (though the latter took some time to grow) and the three that failed all had initial promise. Bozebeats had beautiful artwork (until it devolved into crappy digital scribbles) and Noah's Notes and ZIGA had unique concepts that were worth exploring.
And, in the roughly the same span of time, what did we get this year?
We got:
-A series which did have some honest promise on exploration, but lacked an interesting hook or strong pacing to garner an audience quickly.
-A disastrous mess of a come-back from Shiibashi.
-An underwhelming return for Kishimoto that has left readers feeling perpetually unfulfilled.
-A train-wreck of a shogi manga with zero direction or focus.
-An EXTREMELY generic and forgettable spokon.
-A generic and poorly recved battle manga with zero ongoing narrative.
I know you can dispute a few of those points, but I think Jump's editorial was not doing the best job this year >>
No, Yui is selling better and constantly being placed above all others and Taisei is actually selling better than i think everybody imagined but this one will need luck to survive but Saiyuki is almost guaranted to survive another round unless SJ decides to go crazy.
Taisei is still selling like garbage, it's just slightly less garbage when put next to Beast Children. It'll probably be canned alongside it, with no one complaining.
Shinobi I imagine will last a bit longer, but even with the Nightow recommendation it's looking to sell just 3K-5K.