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

[GARusashi]

Ugh Medaka Box, how the hell did that get serialized. It looked like a shitty anime that would have a horrible following..

Hoop Man is definitely out the door with 2 new series starting up though. I wonder if Suikoden will be based off the video game... that'd be weird. He's the same guy who wrote Over Time though, right? I loved that manga.

 

[Mr. Prince]

Holy...if Hoop may live on for one more round I'm pleased MAX. Seeing how it's currently doing in the ToC I should be thankful for every week. XD

Amano Yoichi sounds really familiar, I feel like theirs a one shot I'm forgetting <_<

He did "Over Time" in 06 and had an OS called "Season Call" in spring Akamaru in 07.

 

[[Cross]]

Hoop Man is definitely out the door with 2 new series starting up though. I wonder if Suikoden will be based off the video game... that'd be weird. He's the same guy who wrote Over Time though, right? I loved that manga.

Not really, with Neuro and Bokke out the two spots are filled and thus Hoop Men remains safe. Unless of course there is a third new series, the week after. And Suikoden...yeah I feel a little weird about having a manga adaptation of that series.

Hey but, when the hell is HxH supposed to come back?

Whenever Togashi feels like it.

 

[Kaiten]

Over Time! That's where I knew Yoichi's name from. Now I'm really excited about the new series! I dropped Bokke a long time ago, can't cry over that one. Medaka Box looks like something meant to appeal to readers over 14, always a treat in Jump. I'm surprised such a well known novelist is writing a serialized manga, but Ishin is really good. If nothing else Medaka box will be very well written!

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

And there goes Bokke-san. It looks like Hoop Men is safe for another 3 months, then. It will need some sort of incredible rebound to make it any further, though. (P2 kind of managed to do that after bombing right at the start and got up to the 1 year mark, but it's still pretty rare)

More color pages for Kuroko is cool, too. I'm glad that it is doing so well.

He did "Over Time" in 06 and had an OS called "Season Call" in spring Akamaru in 07.

Whoa, awesome! I loved Over Time, and was upset when it got canceled so quickly. I might have to check the new series out.

 

[Rejuvenation]

Spoiler

#22-23 (27/04) :
Op (Couv & Pc)
Gintama, Belzee (Pc)
Yûsuke Murata/Blust! - OneShot (Pc - 51p )
Es21 (absent)


Bottom :
Nurari
Gray
ToLove
Hoop
Jaguar
Bokke (End)

#24 (11/05) :
New series Nishio Ishin & Akira Akatsuki/ Medaka
Bleach, Kuroko (Pc)

#25 (18/05) :
New series Amano Yoichi/Suikoden

Another week and no Psyren or Sket in the bottom. [noparse][/noparse]

Get out of the danger zone Mago. x[

I guess that is how the cookie crumbles for Bokke. I wonder if Nishi knew ahead of time about the cancellation? He should have made the previous arc wrap up a bit better. Well Bokke's beginning bored the hell out of me but the middle was a bit better. The final few chapters were underwhelming. It seemed to have a flicker of potential but then never truly delivered. Oh well.

Hmm looks like Hoop Men is the next to die off. I'm fine with that but the fans must really hate it if its ranking even lower than To Love Ru. If HunterXHunter does come back that will be the nail in Hoop's coffin.

More new series. I wonder if they will interest me or just be used to protect series I actually care about.

Color for Kuroko and Bleach continues to be the color whore it is. -__-

 

[[Cross]]

Seems Hoop Men is the designated cushion for the next round of cuts, and assuming ES21 will die off by then as well, is seems as if everything else looks safe this round, so maybe the authors will realize this and hopefully they won't be under so much pressure this time around.

 

[DeidaraGrimmjow]

I did not like that Medaka Box one-shot. After looking at it I practically remember begging that it did not become a series. I'm not sure what that other one is about. You guys seem to know, so would someone mind explaining?

Oh, yeah I am shocked and appaled that Bokke dies while Hoop Men lives...oh, well...it's days are numbered...

 

[Rejuvenation]

How long ago was the Medaka Box one-shot? Also a Suikoden adaption makes me think of when Houshin Engi mentioned it in its early chapters. XD

I'll hope it grabs me at least.

 

[Mr. Prince]

How long ago was the Medaka Box one-shot?

Only a few months. It was in #10/09.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

*mutters something about deidaragrimmjow and garusashi having no taste*

all in all not a bad week, hoop men lives on, bokke-san dies it's well deserved death, and sket and psyren are out of the bottom..... 4

 

[Koen]

Yes Over Time's mangaka has come back. Show those so-called-we-have-taste-but-only-care-about-major-series-fan what great skills you have. Over time was so great but too smart for most people. It could have been an epic sports manga.

I am quite surprised medaka is going to be serialised so fast. Is jump lacking talent? Obata and ohba, Toshiaki, Nishi, uchimizu,... All mangaka that had another chance, some failed and others didn't at this moment. When I read latest chapter of bokke-san, I knew it would happen. Sadly another underestimated manga with potential has to go (*cough* double arts *cough*)

Well psyren not in the danger zone. That's what I didn't expect. Hurray for psyren, hurray for the new manga ^^ (and hurray for hoop men being the cushion)

 

[GARusashi]

*mutters something about deidaragrimmjow and garusashi having no taste*

we both still like beelzebub don't we

 

[StrangerAtaru]

I guess it wasn't meant to be for Bokke...sad, considering Muhyo's success but...that's Jump for you.

Interesting names coming in from how it sounds. I guess the fans of Isshins novels (and Corrector M&Y) will like "Medaka Box"...but who knew that the author of "Over Time" would return with Suikoden...heck, how the heck could a tale like that go considering that there's a massive cast both connecting to a video game and the original book? (though Hoshin Engi did it...) We'll see how it turns out.

 

[Koen]

I am totally not into games. But are manga of games succesful? and what is suikoden about?

 

[Kaiten]

Some video game adaptions are very successful. Dragonquest comes to mind. Others are atrocities, Ral Grad being the most obvious. Jump doesn't do video game adaptions that often, that's usually left to less mainstream magazines.

I've never played Suikoden, I'm not a gamer either, so I'll leave the description to wikipedia.

 

[fxu]

Medaka Box... another ecchi series?

Sigh.... -_-'

 

[StrangerAtaru]

Never played the games but basically here's the score (based on Wiki):

Suikoden is actually based on a Chinese novel called "Water Margin" (Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn in Chinese); Suikoden is actually a Japanese reading for this. The tale, written in the 13th-14th century, involved 108 "evil spirits" who have repented (based on Taoist lore) and are reborn as outlaws, who eventually all band together to defeat a great evil. Similarly, the video game series involves 108 particular characters who usually band together in time of a certian war or crisis to save a kingdom from an evil. There have been 5 Suikoden video games, all connected to Konami. I can't tell, though, if this manga will be more an interpretation of the games (akin to Dai no Daibouken) or the novel (akin to Hoshin Engi)...but we'll leave it to the author.

 

[[Cross]]

Medaka Box... another ecchi series?

Sigh.... -_-'

If that's the case, maybe they want to establish another ecchi series to succeed TLR in the same manner they've been prepping up Kuroko for ES21's end.

 

[Kaiten]

Neuro and ToRa were the only series really geared to readers in high school or older. With Neuro out it makes the most sense to add something with the potential to attract an older audience. And fanservice does not equal ecchi. But since I can't read Japanese I don't know what Medaka is about so I can't really say if it's ecchi or not. Thank god it won't be another generic Jump action comic. At least to the eye it's a lot less lame then ever series, other then Beelzebub, that has come along this year.