The old Jump manga I'm the most interested would be Wing-man (the first Jump success of Katsura). Unlike Video Girl Ai and I''s, Wingman is pretty obscure outside Japan, but is very known in Japan.
I'm worried for Black Clover. Guess I should just accept that we won't ever see the full story in it's full glory :'(
I wouldn't worry, on the whole, removed One Piece, it's the jump series that has sold more this month.
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I don't understand the concerns for Black Clover: they are respectable sales.
I guess you have a good point. But it's still never racking. Why are the sales dropping?
I think that all depends on the roster of the magazine. It's a shame it's way underperforming because it never got and won't ever get its big boost, but aside from that it couldn't be in a luckier position with the current state of Jump. Of course it's still terrible to depend on the failures of new serializations in the long run (as that is what Tabata was gunning for and not just a year or two more). I just selfishly wish he stopped doing these 13 to 15 pages long chapters so he could get the most out of his plans.
Probably the moderate boost and momentum that the bad start of the anime gave it has already run out. I also think that its lighthearted tone and character archetypes might have gotten out of style or just don't have as wide an audience anymore.
Well, 150-160k copies are not bad, it has a good fan following and it is quite popular, for another 2-3 years it is safe for me (it is not I think terrible, because it would be about 7-8 years, which for a shonen there are also many).
I will never understand this thing about blaming the anime at all costs.
Simply put, a manga like BC can only be successful for as long it has before hitting a plateau sooner than later.
You mean like all mangas, that unless it ends at the peak, sales go up, are stable for a few years and then go down. And sales and popularity is not equal to quality.
My point is that a manga cut from the same cloth as BC, which has nothing to make itself stand out from its peers, and take a too much by-the-books approach within its genre, will have a much lower ceiling to hit compared to the rest in the magazine.
I honestly don't reply much but when people bring up misinformation like that I can't stop myself lol. Not meaning any harm, just trying to keep people well-informed. Thanks for the suggestion! Seems it's working properly
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Never been a fan of female character models in most manga since they often look generic but Kei is truly unique.
Every single cover and color page of Act-Age just amazes me. How blessed we are of having Usazaki.
Why are the characters frpm Yozakura, Mitama and Agravity Boys not in that group picture? Like do they not belong to the same "batch" or is there a different reason?
"Better" look of Time Paradox Ghost Writer characters.
Now that I notice, except Mashle and Mori King, ALL newbies are coming with a pair set of MCs. We can include here Yozakura, Mitama, and the deceased ZIPMAN too.
Agravity Boys is the other exception in the other side of the spectrum with 4 characters.
They're a bit longer, Mitama and Yozakura are from 2019 Jump and Agravity also started last year (even if if was 2020 #2 for Jump). They've all survived a round of cancellations already, so they're a little more established than these 6 which are still completely new and haven't been in the running to get cancelled yet (though the older 3 could still certainly get cancelled, none of them are doing well enough to be safe quite yet).
That's the two most recent batches. Agravity Boys and Zipman were at the start of the year, and Yozakura and Mitama are both getting close to 40 chapters, so that's probably why.