Do you guys think Sunday's going to experience what Jump experienced in 2020? Just a bunch of veterans ending, in addition to axes? It would be... devastating to the magazine IMO and might truly make for a wake-up call to serialize new series.
Sort of. Unlike jump they're a lot less likely to axe something just because it isn't doing well, look at Daiku and Ariadane as examples. Veterans ending however is a very real thing that's happening and they should be actively trying to run more series, I agree. I know Ichihara is concerned with running things that pass rigorous standard check which is why they're less serialization happy as WSJ or WSM but the downside to this of course is less new serials, and the fact that no one knows what'll be a hit until it is a hit.
Either way they do need to get moving on more serials sooner rather than later.
I feel like the axing part only holds true to veterans lately. Newbies were cut without any issues, even if from what
we can tell Nokemono got much more going than Daiku (sales, interest in markets abroad), it was cut before it. A lot of new series by newbies were cancelled within only 2 volumes which didn't happen before or happened very rarely.
I also believe this should mean that there will be more series published but ironically since Ichihara started to cut series with only 2-3 volumes, it's been reversed and we had as few serializations as it's humanly possible.
Yaneura Cisco that was with Sunday/Shogakukan for 4/5 years (one-shots, assistant to Ryo Minenami when they were serializing Hatsukoi), started a new series in Jump + this week. Wishing the best of luck, sad that another promising rookie is going to other publisher.
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