Mag Talk Weekly Shounen Jump [2009] - Discussion & TOC Talk

[Sexy Randal 105]

*sigh* Basketball manga are just dull IMO...

 

[Maxy Barnard]

well i don't know if ya checked it out yet but so far this is pretty low on the basketball compared to most other basketball manga i've checked out *remembers slam dunk* oh wait this is chapter 1 i could be well wrong

EDIT: also thanks eni on the hildegard front, it could well be meant to be that way in beelzebub, so i'll switch it to that from now on in my Edited Mangas... unless a romanisation proves otherwise.

and relax i think he just said you stab people with an umbrella sword... or look like her

 

[StrangerAtaru]

Re: WSJ 2008 31 & 47 Covers

Another thing I've been slowly working on...



Eventually I'll scan all the 1996 Weekly Shonen Jump covers and put them up as larger sizes. If anybody else has old covers you should do the same~!

Definately put up the '96 covers...it's probably one of the more interesting years of Jump (even if this was in a strange nebula were DB was over and OP hadn't started yet). Besides, that cover alone is win for both Slam Dunk in front and the triple start of the Kenshin/Makibaou/Nube anime. (and of course, being a Nube fan myself, this is probably the year with it's most covers)

 

[Maxy Barnard]

on the nube note i've been reading my way through the first 16 volumes of raws ataru, and i can definitely see why you're a fan of it(even if i can't even understand all but the VERY bare minimum of text)

definitely the sort of 90s manga that i can't imagine being made in these current times of jump(it'd be genericised to hell and back)

 

[StrangerAtaru]

on the nube note i've been reading my way through the first 16 volumes of raws ataru, and i can definitely see why you're a fan of it(even if i can't even understand all but the VERY bare minimum of text)

definitely the sort of 90s manga that i can't imagine being made in these current times of jump(it'd be genericised to hell and back)

Nube is probably just one of those series you don't find in Jump anymore. For one thing, any manga series that essentially has a combination of influences from "Devilman" (Go Nagai's horror classic) and "Dokonjo Gaeru" (a classic day-to-day Jump shonen of the early 70s) is just something you would never expect. For another, even with a lot of the horror setup, it's a charming series where characters actually grow and change as they interact with one another and with the freaky environments they live in, probably a bit like early Takahashi such as UY and early Ranma. (I'd also throw in Gintama there since I've noticed a couple Japanese sites linking the two...but Makura/Okano are more interested in the charming with weirdness and fanservice and Sorachi is more cynical with a taste for the strange and adult) Somehow if I could get my hands on some raws (since I doubt I can take my manga with), I'd start my translations of the series over from chp. 1 and do a complete run with it. (though currently I have other concerns with Kinnikuman, Jii-chan G and some other stuff that's been coming up)

 

[Maxy Barnard]

well the raw request thread has a link to zips and rars of all 31 volumes ( http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94014 ) from when i requested it if ya after those, and it'd be fun if you went onto it in the future. but then you already have so much on ya plate just with what's left of kinnikuman alone.

but then this isn't really for here, ya have ya translator thread for me to post about things like this to ya....

so on topic... on topic.... um.........

uh......... reborn's chapter this week was like it's trying to reconnect with it's fanbase that aren't bishi lovers... forcefully. too forcefully. the translation used in the scan at onemanga may be responsible for that but eh... hopefully it'll fall from that.

 

[StrangerAtaru]

well the raw request thread has a link to zips and rars of all 31 volumes ( http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94014 ) from when i requested it if ya after those, and it'd be fun if you went onto it in the future. but then you already have so much on ya plate just with what's left of kinnikuman alone.

I'm afraid that if someone puts these up on MH, someone else will swoop down and do the series instead...I probably will DL it for my own files but that's about it fer the moment.

 

[Rejuvenation]

and OOH I WANNA FIELD THIS ONE!

it's really popular, 7-9 pages long, kinda a mainstaple of jump since 2000, popular mangaka, sells well, and gives the readers an excuse to read all the way to the end.

Does it sell like a mid-tier series?

Also only 7-9 pages is surprising to me.

But giving them a reason to read until the end is a smart move on Jump's part.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

it sells a bit better than the mid tier really, especially considering the volumes are less frequent (about 21 weeks+ for each volumes worth of material)

most gag manga are under 10 pages. ones like beelzebub and gintama that are more than just gags are longer sure, but that's cause they're got less episodic plots (same goes for sket dance). examples: yaoyoro is 4 pages a week in sunday it seems. inumaru dashi hits 7 pages mosta the time i think... and so forth

 

[Dofla]

#15 (09/03)
Bottom 6:
Psyren
Bokke
Sket
Es21
Neuro
Jaguar

#16 (16/03):
Bakuman (Cover & Cp)
Nurari, Bokke (Cp)

 

[Googlez_kun]

#15 (09/03)
Last 6:
Psyren
Bokke
Sket
es21
Neuro
Jaguar

#16 (16/06):
Bakuman (Cover & Cp)
Nurari, Bokke (Cp)

thanks Dofla!

and yes! bakuman gets the cover and a colored page

 

[Mr. Prince]

*stares at the ToC*
Holy...ES21 is going down. : O

And ToLove shows signs of living? I'm amazed.
I don't like this week's bottom...

 

[Akainu]

Bokke gets a colour? sweet enough not to get over the low rankings

 

[VASSiLi]

Thank you Dofla. Finally Bakuman'll have color pages! However, here the original text from 2ch:

小ネタ
・15ドベ５　ネウロ、21、スケ、ぼっけ、PSY
・16巻頭バクマン　Ｃぬらり、ぼっけ

 

[Maxy Barnard]

#15 (09/03)
Bottom 6:
Psyren
Bokke
Sket
Es21
Neuro
Jaguar

#16 (16/03):
Bakuman (Cover & Cp)
Nurari, Bokke (Cp)

is this bizarro world? a series that's AILING GETS A COLOUR PAGE?! have they learnt how to promote? admittedly psyren and sket deserve them more for doing pretty well lately, but what the fuck right, nishi's established and successful let's roll with it.
Es21 dead on the ground is lovely, just punishment for fucking up. neuro less so but hey it'll end soon.

sket and psyren though... why the hell are they so low? slight consolation is the massive HOLY CRAPNESS of both's latest chapters will boost em up in 8 weeks time.

not to mention psyren still has it's colour page for the popularity poll coming soon

 

[StrangerAtaru]

I'm sort of shocked To-Love suddenly is out of the bottom tier...must have been something they did that week. Though ES21...yeah, it screwed up royally and now it's paying for it.

And while Bakuman getting a cover/color is good news, even more interesting next week: Mago's anniversary CP.

 

[Kaiten]

Mago out of the bottom for a second straight week and getting color makes me happpy. I would have preferred to have seen ToRa, wherever it is, switch with Psyren. Then it would be close to an ideal bottom five. Also looking forward to Bakuman cover.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

ah so mago's isn't promotion it's actually a step down from what it SHOULD get... bah

 

[VASSiLi]

Mago? What's this?

 

[Maxy Barnard]

nurarihyon no mago is getting a colour page for it's birthday. nowadays newbies (even those with good sales) don't appear to deserve the cover