No, why would it?
I've suggested this a few times before, but tbh, it wouldn't be a terrible idea to include four rotating monthly series like Sunday used to do. Jump has already experimented with the idea of monthlies in the past as well like with Boruto.
That'd certainly be different, and it would make sense for Togashi or new monthly from the start series, but that also begs the question of what is Jump SQ and Ultra Jump for, then? Jump SQ is already stacked to all hell, and Ultra Jump only has some big series come through on occasion, but still. There's even Jump+, which offers even more scheduling options (weekly, 3 chapters a month, bi-weekly, etc.)
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I can understand those concerns, however Jump SQ has a completely different team of editors and contracted mangakas behind it, and Ultra Jump is a seinen magazine in addition to also having its own team. I doubt it would really interfere or cut into their profits. Especially given Jump would only have a very limited (4 max) spots open for monthly series.
I don't necessarily have an issue with any of those points, but one argument I would make in support of Jump+ having monthly series versus WSJ; Jump+ is digital only, and as such the chapters are always available digitally. My concern with WSJ is that despite the fact that it too has a digital issue, as well as chapters appearing on Jump+, I would worry that people picking up the physical issues may skip it/forget about it being there monthly as they'll only see it that once a month, compared to Jump+ readers who can check the chapter list at any time. Maybe a silly concern that doesn't make much sense, but that's the best I can explain it at the moment.
Fair concern tbh, however I can see it being somewhat alleviated by including the schedule of the four monthly series in the ToC every week. So even though they may not appear, it may still show up on the ToC page remind readers of its next chapter date.
8Kaijuu is tropes done right. I’d rather have someone who does a generic manga but executes it well than a newbie trying something “shocking”, “non-standard” but have no idea how to execute them.
That's how I kind of felt about Kaijuu's first chapter, and it's an argument I often use for Jujutsu Kaisen.
Turning One Piece and Hunter x Hunter into monthly would be a disaster in terms of pace.
Monthly chapters are twice as long as weekly ones (sometimes longer).
They can adjust pacing though? You pointed out Araki is doing fine monthly. Other mangaka like the To Love ru and Death Note duos switched to monthly and while Platinum End has all kinds of issues I don't think I've ever heard pacing (although to be fair I haven't read it)
To be completely fair, the manga is still in its early stages. It’s taking its time to do a little world-building, introducing characters and setting up a couple of things in the future. And that’s completely fine. It hasn’t reached a point where things are getting dragged out yet, and all of the past chapters have served a purpose.
I actually kind of like that fact about Araki. When JoJo was weekly, there were a lot of fights that felt like they should have been longer, but instead ended up feeling like villain of the week fights, even when they were more significant than that.
This. I really don’t like the shonen community on Twitter because it feels like you can only like one series at times. All this arguing about why your manga is the greatest while belittling others for stuff you don’t like. Okay, you don’t like this series, but goddamn it other people do and you just saying it’s trash and wishing it fails and dies only breeds more hatred. It really does feel like people only hate popular series because they wanna be different and contrarian at times. And people shout “axed” so early because they want to be the ones who were like “I called it” when it does get axed most of the time.
Why are you assuming that One Piece and HxH would suffer like JoJo (that's if you believe it did) did despite sharing different mangaka? Different mangaka will adapt to monthly serialization differently. There have been plenty other mangaka used to weekly serializations that adjusted to monthlies afterwards just fine (like Inoue. Ashihara, Konomi, and Takei to name a few from WSJ who I think are actually better under the monthly schedule).
Why are you projecting artistic limitations onto Oda and Togashi? There are plenty of counter examples to what you are saying.
Monthy serials in Jump usually get cover acknlowlegement in the issue they get published. And they usually get the big spaces in the ToCs (After the 1997 overhaul of the ToC design). So unless you were actively trying to mentally block it out, they would be hard to miss.
