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Re: Weekly Shounen Jump [2009] - Discussion & TOC Talk v.2

One Piece is gonna be the King of Jump for 15 years.
 

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Therefore, I made a conclusion that actually Jump has lots of popular series, low ranked series not going to be cancelled if their volume sells are high.
Exactly... which is why a while back, I mentioned that WSJ is heading for a equilibrium state... where nothing much is really worthy of getting cut, with everything having good potential and/or good tank sales.

I mean as much as some people kept saying how Mago and ToLoveRu might be next, or that Bakuman is in danger zone... their tank sales is much MUCH higher than that of series from other publishers. The latest quarterly sales of WSJ is at 2,788,164 magazines, but we all know that profit margin from magazines are much lower than tanks. With these all selling 100k~200k per volume, do you think Shueisha would want to give them up just for a few more readers for WSJ?
 

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The magazines are zero profit, no? They're made cheap and sold cheap. Their primary purpose is to drive tankobon sales, especially as magazine sales continue to slide (Jump being an exception).
 

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I'm worried for Mago... I really hope that notice is fake

About the b5... I don't understand Psyren's situation: one week in good position and now is in b5 again...
 

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It was fake. It said Hoopmen would end next issue, and the preview doens't mention it. So forget it.
It's unolikely HXH would take to issue 45, too. That isn't till October or so...
 

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It was fake. It said Hoopmen would end next issue, and the preview doens't mention it. So forget it.
It's unolikely HXH would take to issue 45, too. That isn't till October or so...
Actually, the rumor said that Hoopmen going to be end at issue 31. So we still have 2 weeks to know whether Hoopmen will end or not. But, I also think (and hope) the rumor is fake.
 

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I'm worried for Mago... I really hope that notice is fake

About the b5... I don't understand Psyren's situation: one week in good position and now is in b5 again...
Mago is consistantly low because it's an action series. Jump is dominated by established action series, making votes for noobs hard to come by. Unlike Psyren, Mago sells well. Volume 3 and 4 sold around 200,000 copies each. As Finestela said, this is an unusually high number; it would be the most popular series in many, many anthologies. With the fifth volume just out it has room to grow. Bakuman and To Love Ru (and maybe D. Gray Man) have polling issues as they both are aimed more at high school age readers, a demographic that doesn't necessarily buyWeekly Jump but will go out and buy Jump Comic tankobon.

Psyren is low because it's not that popular =p It rarely yo - yo's, generally staying in the bottom ten.

Have no doubt, Hoop Men will end in June. Doesn't matter what issue.
 

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has anyone ever read Hoopmen? seems heaps of people think it will be out next
 

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There's nothing to worry, it's not even in the bottom 5 for the upcoming issue.
It's already completely ignored over there at 2ch, so I don't really see any point for us to obsess over it any longer.

Mago is fine.





I agree with the view regarding action series in WSJ.

Remember, you can only pick three out of 25 (I think... not 100% sure about the current list...) choices on the reader's response form. For your average school children, it's likely for them to pick at least OP or Naruto (or both), and then maybe one out of the Toriko/Bleach/Reborn pool. Where does that leave us with Psyren and Mago? One or even zero spot.

Therefore, it's pretty normal for Mago and Psyren to be fluid on the ToC, simply because the "action votes" are already preoccupied.
 
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has anyone ever read Hoopmen? seems heaps of people think it will be out next
It's actually a decent series. It's just that every ranked chapter has been in last place, so there's been no point in reading it.
 

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I think there is still hope for Mago. There were multiple rumors of Psyren ending long ago but it's still here. I bet Psyren will jump up. The most current issue was very very interesting and set it up for more conventional shonen battles.
 

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There's nothing to worry, it's not even in the bottom 5 for the upcoming issue.
It's already completely ignored over there at 2ch, so I don't really see any point for us to obsess over it any longer.

Mago is fine.

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I agree with the view regarding action series in WSJ.

Remember, you can only pick three out of 25 (I think... not 100% sure about the current list...) choices on the reader's response form. For your average school children, it's likely for them to pick at least OP or Naruto (or both), and then maybe one out of the Toriko/Bleach/Reborn pool. Where does that leave us with Psyren and Mago? One or even zero spot.

Therefore, it's pretty normal for Mago and Psyren to be fluid on the ToC, simply because the "action votes" are already preoccupied.
This point is mainly why I really want to see how Akaboshi ranks. If it ranks extremely low the only thing left for it would be Tank sales to try to offset that ranking.

An action series almost always has it tougher if there are juggernauts like OP and Naruto always at the top and a strong 2nd tier following them.
 
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This point is mainly why I really want to see how Akaboshi ranks. If it ranks extremely low the only thing left for it would be Tank sales to try to offset that ranking.

An action series almost always has it tougher if there are juggernauts like OP and Naruto always at the top and a strong 2nd tier following them.
Keep in mind Mago and Psyren ranked really well for (something like) three straight months, always between 6 and 10. They crashed after that. If Akaboshi can do that it will last long enough to be judged by tank sales. Otherwise......
 

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how often does jump hold a serialization meeting, once a month? once a week? or what?
 

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Bakuman in the bottom 5.. So bad..
 

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They have those serialization meetings only a couple times a year I think. But this year a lotta stuff's ending so maybe it's more than usual.

I didn't notice at first it was skipping some weeks so it'll be a few till we know if it was real or not.
 

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Is their any plan for popular character poll for Mago? Psyren got their poll when they got this 1st year anniversary. Then, why not Mago, it sold more volumes than Psyren and it already passed 1 year. I'm started to worry about Mago because if Mago have a character poll, it means that Mago is safe for at least one more year. (I think)
 

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Somehow I get this feeling one of the two (bakuman or psyren) is sacrificed for a es21's last and highest position ever. Anyway no worries about the two, it's been a while (for bakuman it's been the first time) for the to be in the bottom 5. Let's wait and see
 

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Psyren is ok, as it is known for it's yo-yo properties, but Bakuman isn't so much, considering that the ranking before the colour page showed signs of dropping, so this only supports the trend. I guess the next ranking will either prove or crush any worries considering this trend.
 

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Well if Bakuman does start to plummet ranking wise there is still its sales to consider. Unless those take a hit too it might just be another safe basement dweller like To Love Ru.
 
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