Happy days! Akane Banashi getting top spot in the TOC, first volume looking to hit 30k, Me & Roboco Cover + Lead CP again with rumours of it being live-action, PPPPPP rebounding (fingers crossing the volume this month gets a boost).
he didn't take well the axe
How is him moving on to another series not taking an axe well? Surely not taking it well would being stuck in the mud compared to moving on to something else to work on instead?
it seems we will have a 12 places TOC, until Ruri and Aliens get ranked and One piece and Black clover come back I'd say it's still too soon to say what will happen (except EC axe)
Whether it's 12 ranked series or 15 (which it would be if One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Black Clover weren't on break this week) it doesn't matter because they would all be above the series at the bottom so they'd still be in the same bad spots at the end of the TOC.
But what's important to remember is if the magazine needs to cut two series for the next serialisation round it will do that regardless of how many series there are in total that are 'ranked'. Earthchild and Doron Dororon are clearly the next on the block when that needs to happen (both of their volumes sales are poor, Doron showed no growth in Vol 2 specifically, Earthchild's early decent placements have collapsed, and Doron also has the worst average TOC ranking of anything ongoing). If for some reason they only cancel one next round then whatever sticks around would be surviving purely by circumstance rather than its own merits.
Looking further beyond on the established series we know are ending, my predictions at the moment for when (roughly) they'll end will be:
- Undead Unluck - 2 serialisations rounds from now (#47-#50, 2022)
- Mashle - 3 serialisation rounds from now (#7-#9, 2023)
- My Hero Academia - 3/4 serialisation round from now (either #7-#9 or #18-21, 2023)
Personally I'd predict the only series from what we currently have joining them and getting cancelled in that time would be Doron Dororon, Earthchild, and then maybe Super Smartphone/ALIENS AREA. You'd think High School Family would be in danger at some point but doesn't feel like it and it's defined survival odds going on three years now. Only other thing that could realistically join them is a mega flop that starts next serialisation round.
Come mid-2023 we should be a looking at a younger magazine in general. We'll have:
Veterans (all in their endgame, they could start ending in the next 2-5 years):
- One Piece
- Black Clover
- Jujutsu Kaisen
Semi-veteran (around 175 chapters):
Established series (between 100 - 140 chapters):
- Me & Roboco
- High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku
- Sakamoto Days
- The Elusive Samurai
- WITCH WATCH
- Blue Box
2022 successes/survivors (between 45-70 chapters)
- PPPPPP
- Akane Banashi
- Super Smartphone (if it survives)
- ALIENS AREA (if it survives)
- RuriDragon (I'm going to take a very safe bet than this will survive)
And then about 5 - 6 new series that haven't been serialised yet, all below 40 chapters. At this point unless we get a lot of late-2022 hits I think next year could look to be one where anything outside of this newcomer category will have a very good shot of making it through 2023, assuming there's no major collapses in popularity or they don't end naturally.
