Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Magazine News & Discussion (2014 - 2021)

[Franz]

Horikoshi had health problems that led to more weeks being skipped

Source ??

 

[Koni]

Man, the recent Senryuu Shoujo chapter looks SO much better now that Chapters 151-152 happened. It really feels like Nanako's getting more aggressive and now that their relationship has crossed the barrier from "practically dating" to "actually dating", it honestly does feel like things are developing again now that their feelings are out in the open.

Doesn't seem like an axe is in sight, too, so I'm interested in seeing them grow ever closer. Also, I want more of the Prez and judo president. They're great.

 

[Blue Rock]

Shonen Magazine 2019/52

Enen no Shouboutai (Lead Color)
Toukyou Revengers
Kanojo, Okarishimasu
Daiya no A - Act II
Bakemonogatari
Go-Toubun no Hanayome
Haru no Ongaeshi by Miura Kouji (Color/Oneshot/46p)
Eden's Zero
Hero's
Days
Runway de Waratte
Orient
Hitman
Blue Lock
Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru
Sen wa, Boku wo Egaku
Necromance
Senryuu Shoujo
Kyoryuu Senki
Danshi Koukousei wo Yashinaitai Onee-san no Hanashi.
Nanatsu no Taizai
Domestic na Kanojo
Fumetsu no Anata e
Seitokai Yakuindomo

Spoiler: Preview 01

Spoiler: Shounen Magazine Sales 11/11 - 11/17

Oricon Top 50, November 11-17

(11/15) - 3d
#1 - Go-Toubun no Hanayome v12 - 221,275 / 221,275
#2 - Nanatsu no Taizai v39 - 108,084 / 108,084
#4 - Go-Toubun no Hanayome Character Book: Ichika - 74,384 / 74,384
#12 - Days v35 - 41,452 / 41,452
#21 - Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet v16 - 32,594 / 32,594
#35 - Eden's Zero v7 - 21,669 / 21,669
#37 - Domestic na Kanojo v25 - 21,340 / 21,340
#40 - Danshi Koukousei wo Yashinaitai Onee-san no Hanashi. v5 - 20,132 / 20,132

Magazine Pocket

(11/08) - 10d
#13 - Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest v4 - 38,180 / 68,294


Shoseki Ranking, November 11-17

(11/15) - 3d
#72 - Runway de Waratte v13 - 17,086 / 17,086
#75 - Orient v7 - 16,300 / 16,300
#93 - Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet (SE) - 11,584 / 11,584
#161 - Necromance v1 - 6,151 / 6,151
#182 - Nanatsu no Taizai v39 (LE) - 4,912 / 4,912
#185 - Sen wa, Boku wo Egaku v2 - 4,735 / 4,735

(10/17) - 32d
#109 - Daiya no Ace - Act II v19 - 9,219 / 207,628
#160 - Enen no Shouboutai v20 - 6,210 / 91,670
#175 - Toukyou Revengers v14 - 5,325 / 81,324
#178 - Bakemonogatari v7 - 5,148 / 111,822
#192 - Kanojo, Okarishimasu v12 - 4,322 / 86,669
#197 - Hajime no Ippo v126 - 4,027 / 99,202
#215 - Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru v2 - 3,678 / 71,402
#235 - Blue Lock v6 - 3,448 / 48,285


Magazine Pocket

(11/15) - 3d
#83 - Infection v17 - 14,204 / 14,204

(11/08) - 10d
#74 - Iji-ranaide, Nagatoro-san v6 - 16,562 / 32,526
#103 - Ojousama no Shimobe v5 - 9,573 / 21,921
#183 - Fechippuru ~Our Innocent Love~ v4 - 4,853 / 9,859
#312 - Tenkuu Shinpan Arrive v1 - 2,616 / 4,961
#349 - Youkai Izakaya Nonbereke v2 - 2,357 / 5,024

(10/17) - 32d
#267 - Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Gaiden: Hannin-tachi no Jikenbo v7 - 3,080 / 82,746


Enen no Shouboutai
#368 - Enen no Shouboutai v19
#401 - Enen no Shouboutai v1
#431 - Enen no Shouboutai v2
#443 - Enen no Shouboutai v18
#454 - Enen no Shouboutai v3
#456 - Enen no Shouboutai v4
#464 - Enen no Shouboutai v5
#465 - Enen no Shouboutai v17

Ahiru no Sora
#300 - Ahiru no Sora v1
#318 - Ahiru no Sora v3
#319 - Ahiru no Sora v2

Blue Lock
#423 - Blue Lock v5
#478 - Blue Lock v4

Oricon Top 50, November 18-24

(11/15) - 10d
#2 - Go-Toubun no Hanayome v12 - 149,340 / 370,615
#3 - Nanatsu no Taizai v39 - 116,019 / 224,103
#29 - Days v35 - 38,618 / 80,070
#30 - Go-Toubun no Hanayome Character Book: Ichika - 38,370 / 112,754
#37 - Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet v16 - 29,756 / 62,350
#43 - Eden's Zero v7 - 24,124 / 45,793


Shoseki Ranking, November 18-24

(11/15) - 10d
#59 - Domestic na Kanojo v25 - 18,364 / 39,704
#68 - Danshi Koukousei wo Yashinaitai Onee-san no Hanashi. v5 - 16,528 / 36,660
#70 - Orient v7 - 16,120 / 32,420
#74 - Runway de Waratte v13 - 15,304 / 32,390
#224 - Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet (SE) - 4,230 / 15,814
#249 - Necromance v1 - 3,793 / 9,944
#233 - Sen wa, Boku wo Egaku v2 - 4,073 / 8,808
#288 - Nanatsu no Taizai v39 (LE) - 3,110 / 8,022

(10/17) - 39d
#144 - Daiya no Ace - Act II v19 - 7,646 / 215,274
#261 - Enen no Shouboutai v20 - 3,583 / 95,253
#281 - Toukyou Revengers v14 - 2,333 / 83,657
#308 - Blue Lock v6 - 2,844 / 51,129
#315 - Hajime no Ippo v126 - 2,795 / 101,997
#331 - Bakemonogatari v7 - 2,683 / 114,505
#332 - Kanojo, Okarishimasu v12 - 2,676 / 89,345
#362 - Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru v2 - 2,466 / 71,402


Magazine Pocket

(11/15) - 10d
#83 - Infection v17 - 13,468 / 27,672

(11/08) - 17d
#62 - Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest v4 - 17,752 / 86,046
#194 - Iji-ranaide, Nagatoro-san v6 - 4,971 / 37,497
#280 - Ojousama no Shimobe v5 - 3,250 / 25,171

(10/17) - 32d
#480 - Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Gaiden: Hannin-tachi no Jikenbo v7 - 1,840 / 84,586


Enen no Shouboutai
#378 - Enen no Shouboutai v10
#399 - Enen no Shouboutai v9
#402 - Enen no Shouboutai v1
#404 - Enen no Shouboutai v11
#410 - Enen no Shouboutai v8
#418 - Enen no Shouboutai v19
#433 - Enen no Shouboutai v12
#440 - Enen no Shouboutai v14
#444 - Enen no Shouboutai v7
#445 - Enen no Shouboutai v13
#450 - Enen no Shouboutai v5
#454 - Enen no Shouboutai v2
#458 - Enen no Shouboutai v18
#462 - Enen no Shouboutai v15
#468 - Enen no Shouboutai v6
#479 - Enen no Shouboutai v3
#482 - Enen no Shouboutai v17
#494 - Enen no Shouboutai v16
#496 - Enen no Shouboutai v4

Ahiru no Sora
#358 - Ahiru no Sora v1
#403 - Ahiru no Sora v2
#423 - Ahiru no Sora v3

Blue Lock
#497 - Blue Lock v5

 

[Aipom626]

2019 proved that Go-Toubun no Hanayome reigns supreme in Weekly Shonen Magazine for the time being. If it wouldn't have been for WSJ's Kimetsu no Yaiba blowing up beyond imaginable proportions, I would've said that Gotoubun had the biggest explosion of backlog sales thanks to its anime adaptation. In fact, Gotoubun ended up being 5th overall in the rankings for all manga series for 2019, becoming one of a small selection of WSM series to do so. In addition to Gotoubun, many other series currently running also received anime adaptations during the year, with more typical levels of backlog sales, but nonetheless, I have found the adaptations to be good thus far.

WSM's current lineup is quite different from many of the other weekly magazines. Most of their series are at least a couple years old, and are either pretty stable or exhibit slight growth. While stability can be seen as a good thing, it could also have a side-effect of promoting stagnation. This can be seen by the fact that WSM only premiered 5 new series during 2019, and one of them already ended. In total, 6 series concluded, one of which being the 4-page short series Mako-san wa Shindemo Jiritsu Shinai. I am expecting this number will increase significantly next year due in part to many of the older series appear to be gearing up to their natural conclusions.

During the 2019 publication time, there were 7 series with perfect attendance: Days, Senryuu Shoujo, Tokyo卍Revengers, Kanojo Okarishimasu, Go-Toubun no Hanayome, Danshi Koukousei wo Yashinaitai Onee-san no Hanashi, and Eden's Zero. I'll also give a special shoutout to the author of Eden's Zero, who not only maintained perfect attendance for the main series, but also had a few weeks where he either released 2 chapters at once or released the miniseries Heroes at the same time. Regardless of how you feel about his works, you can't deny that he's some sort of machine, similar to Boichi in WSJ. The award for most color pages also goes to Go-Toubun no Hanayome with a total of 7 color pages. Unlike most other weekly magazines, WSM does a better job at spreading out its color pages to most of its series, with much of the rest of the lineup falling within the 4-6 color pages range.

Looking ahead to next year, as I previously mentioned, I am anticipating some major changes to the lineup of WSM. Between series that were announced to be in their final arcs or those that seem to be naturally concluding, I wouldn't be surprised if Go-Toubun no Hanayome, Domestic na Kanojo, Nanatsu, Senryuu, and Tokyo Revengers wrap up by the end of 2020. This list includes the 2 best selling series of the current lineup, and many others the fall in the sure and steady sales group. With Kishuku also having recently ended, I am anticipating several new romcoms are in our near future, with the author of Yamada and the 7 Witches likely filling one of those slots. While it will be sad to see them go, I am pleased to have been along for the ride, and hopefully what comes after them will be able to fill the big shoes left behind. I, for one, am feeling optimistic for 2020!

Special thanks to u/hni-scantrad from Reddit for telling me the page numbers for Hajime no Ippo each week! I couldn't have done it without you!

 

[Koni]

2019 proved that Go-Toubun no Hanayome reigns supreme in Weekly Shonen Magazine for the time being. If it wouldn't have been for WSJ's Kimetsu no Yaiba blowing up beyond imaginable proportions, I would've said that Gotoubun had the biggest explosion of backlog sales thanks to its anime adaptation. In fact, Gotoubun ended up being 5th overall in the rankings for all manga series for 2019, becoming one of a small selection of WSM series to do so. In addition to Gotoubun, many other series currently running also received anime adaptations during the year, with more typical levels of backlog sales, but nonetheless, I have found the adaptations to be good thus far.

WSM's current lineup is quite different from many of the other weekly magazines. Most of their series are at least a couple years old, and are either pretty stable or exhibit slight growth. While stability can be seen as a good thing, it could also have a side-effect of promoting stagnation. This can be seen by the fact that WSM only premiered 5 new series during 2019, and one of them already ended. In total, 6 series concluded, one of which being the 4-page short series Mako-san wa Shindemo Jiritsu Shinai. I am expecting this number will increase significantly next year due in part to many of the older series appear to be gearing up to their natural conclusions.

During the 2019 publication time, there were 7 series with perfect attendance: Days, Senryuu Shoujo, Tokyo卍Revengers, Kanojo Okarishimasu, Go-Toubun no Hanayome, Danshi Koukousei wo Yashinaitai Onee-san no Hanashi, and Eden's Zero. I'll also give a special shoutout to the author of Eden's Zero, who not only maintained perfect attendance for the main series, but also had a few weeks where he either released 2 chapters at once or released the miniseries Heroes at the same time. Regardless of how you feel about his works, you can't deny that he's some sort of machine, similar to Boichi in WSJ. The award for most color pages also goes to Go-Toubun no Hanayome with a total of 7 color pages. Unlike most other weekly magazines, WSM does a better job at spreading out its color pages to most of its series, with much of the rest of the lineup falling within the 4-6 color pages range.

Looking ahead to next year, as I previously mentioned, I am anticipating some major changes to the lineup of WSM. Between series that were announced to be in their final arcs or those that seem to be naturally concluding, I wouldn't be surprised if Go-Toubun no Hanayome, Domestic na Kanojo, Nanatsu, Senryuu, and Tokyo Revengers wrap up by the end of 2020. This list includes the 2 best selling series of the current lineup, and many others the fall in the sure and steady sales group. With Kishuku also having recently ended, I am anticipating several new romcoms are in our near future, with the author of Yamada and the 7 Witches likely filling one of those slots. While it will be sad to see them go, I am pleased to have been along for the ride, and hopefully what comes after them will be able to fill the big shoes left behind. I, for one, am feeling optimistic for 2020!

I’ve read your analyses of the three “weekly shonen” magazines - they’re all fantastic by the way - and I’m coming to the conclusion that 2020 will see some major shakeups happen within them. Loads of new manga are going to have a better chance than ever at establishing themselves because huge old guards are set to conclude - I only hope the new manga that are set to come out will be able to fill in their shoes.

 

[Aipom626]

I’ve read your analyses of the three “weekly shonen” magazines - they’re all fantastic by the way - and I’m coming to the conclusion that 2020 will see some major shakeups happen within them. Loads of new manga are going to have a better chance than ever at establishing themselves because huge old guards are set to conclude - I only hope the new manga that are set to come out will be able to fill in their shoes.

Thank you very much! I think this upcoming year is going to be one of the best years in the past few years to secure a stable slot in the 3 primary weekly shonen magazines due to so many of the older series starting to wrap up at around the same time. I can see this impacting Weekly Shonen Magazine the most right now since many of its series are at least 2 and a half to 3 years old, with more than a handful being much older than that. Either way, losing their 2 biggest series, Go-Toubun and Nanatsu, is going to be a tremendous hit to happen at approximately the same time. With several openings available in the romcom and adventure genres, authors definitely have the opportunity to get while the getting's good!

 

[revo68]

Seitokai Yakuindomo by Ujiie Tozen is entitled to a Colour Page & has an Important Announcement scheduled in Weekly Shonen Magazine Issue #02•03

 

[henry9960]

https://jaiminisbox.com/reader/read/the-cuckoo-s-fiancee/en/0/0/page/1 3rd oneshot by yoshikawa miki

 

[puppeto4]

Enjoyable, but it's hard to see it working as long series, and considering yoshikawa track record of going off rail for both her past serialization, I don't have much faith it'll be that enjoyable if it's run longer than a year

 

[Aipom626]

Enjoyable, but it's hard to see it working as long series, and considering yoshikawa track record of going off rail for both her past serialization, I don't have much faith it'll be that enjoyable if it's run longer than a year

I wouldn't mind reading more of this if it were serialized. In terms of being interesting, I think I'm learning towards this one being my favorite of her three oneshots, followed by the first one about the demon and angel, then the last one about vampires or whatever that was. During 2020, if we had this, Miura's recent oneshot from this past issue, and another harem series of some sort, I would be quite satisfied with the romcom lineup in the magazine.

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

To Your Eternity Present Arc will begin on Issue 8 (January 22)

Also:

EDIT: I've read there are more comments on Twitter about Hiiragi-san (the oneshot of the vampire family) than about Cuckoo. I hope we know the Mishikawa oneshot winner soon.

 

[Aipom626]

EDIT: I've read there are more comments on Twitter about Hiiragi-san (the oneshot of the vampire family) than about Cuckoo. I hope we know the Mishikawa oneshot winner soon.

No kidding? Maybe the dialogue might change my mind if it ever gets translated into English, but that one seemed like it was the least interesting to me. However, even though it was my least favorite, I thought it still seemed like it could be decent. Honestly, it doesn't really seem like there is a bad choice among the three oneshots, but I am definitely eager to see which one got the most votes.


Here's Mishikawa's Twitter announcement to start the voting. The first Tweets underneath seem to be her reposting the links to each of the oneshots. They all look pretty close to me looking solely from Twitter.


It looks like the deadline to cast votes is long past as well, so I'm hoping this means we'll be able to see the results soon enough. All three of her original announcement Tweets for each oneshot have about the same number of likes and retweets as well, so I'm not sure I can predict which is going to win.

 

[Koni]

No kidding? Maybe the dialogue might change my mind if it ever gets translated into English, but that one seemed like it was the least interesting to me. However, even though it was my least favorite, I thought it still seemed like it could be decent. Honestly, it doesn't really seem like there is a bad choice among the three oneshots, but I am definitely eager to see which one got the most votes.


Here's Mishikawa's Twitter announcement to start the voting. The first Tweets underneath seem to be her reposting the links to each of the oneshots. They all look pretty close to me looking solely from Twitter.


It looks like the deadline to cast votes is long past as well, so I'm hoping this means we'll be able to see the results soon enough. All three of her original announcement Tweets for each oneshot have about the same number of likes and retweets as well, so I'm not sure I can predict which is going to win.

Have all the oneshots been translated to English?

 

[Aipom626]

Have all the oneshots been translated to English?

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the Cuckoo one is the one one that's been translated into English. However, I think that devil and angel was was translated into Russian if you're able to understand that language.

 

[Chuck_Atlas]

Would be fun for more authors to pull this same tactic just to catch a glimpse of what their next series may be about

 

[Tamil]

Clips like these really turn me off from wanting to get back on FF.

Does it ever stop? I dont mind fanservice but when its used to this extent...Tamaki getting groped &/or landing in ridiculous positions is too much.

 

[Koni]

Clips like these really turn me off from wanting to get back on FF.

Does it ever stop? I dont mind fanservice but when its used to this extent...Tamaki getting groped &/or landing in ridiculous positions is too much.

Damn, they weren't kidding when they said that's all Tamaki was used for... it fuckng sucks because I really liked her design and personality when she was first introduced and I wanted to see more of her but... not like this.

 

[Jovan]

Miki Yoshikawa is coming! New WSM series recruiting assistants for the work date starting December 12

【週刊少年マガジン／通い／デジタル／急募】吉河美希氏アシスタント募集

講談社週刊少年マガジン編集部の高橋と申します。週刊少年マガジン新連載、吉河美希氏のレギュラーアシスタント（通い）を募集いたします。●作業形態：通い●仕事場所：山手

ganmo.j-comi.co.jp

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

It would feel really really really odd if both Nanatsu and 5toubun are still running in late-January. Both of them are giving very strong vibes of "ending in 4 chapters". Dunno about Domekano because it can easily stretch into new subplots.

I feel we are going to have some strong months in terms of new serializations. I also hope to see the next big romcom happening (and I have high hopes in Cuckoo).

 

[Chuck_Atlas]

Clips like these really turn me off from wanting to get back on FF.

Does it ever stop? I dont mind fanservice but when its used to this extent...Tamaki getting groped &/or landing in ridiculous positions is too much.

Lol this is really sad, I only read up to between chapters 90-100, and I do recall Tamaki losing her clothes at every single turn but this is just ridiculous