WSJ - Weekly Shonen Jump

Weekly Shoseki Ranking Top 500
6. Blue Box #20
13. Kagurabachi #7
49. The Elusive Samurai #20 (6,240 / 45,348)
212. Me and Roboco #22 (1,934 / 12,722)
233. Astro Royale #5 (1,818 / 14,398)
341. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #3 (1,327 / 11,513)
376. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo #5 (1,222 / 9,439)

Axe Kiyoshill already

roboco too

This art is just blatant kek

anon discovers what a tribute is

Suzuki won't fuck you bro

He is right, you are just seething for some reasons

13. Kagurabachi #7

Declinebachi...

3rd week

Usually it's hovering around the 30-40 mark, but you guys never cared about the actual facts

It seems that Roboco started declining even harder after the movie.

Hori drawing Goku or Naruto is tribute.
Sakamoto is just bar for bar a try for another Gintama even the anime uses Sugita.

KGB BROS NOT AGAIN

shitter still resorting to making stuff up to attempt to shit on KGB

Take your meds, anon. Sorachi has no qualms with Suzuki.

Ruri Dragon? Same shit every week

The winner of the 2022 GFC just deleted everything but this x.com/shirasaki_s/status/1584204104787558401
So a serialization should be soon, and even more so because Blue Box is ending and Himaten isnt doing well enough to be a substitute
However this won because it was published on the issue HxH came back, the highest selling issue in a while x.com/WSJ_manga/status/1582613243235041285

So if everything goes well it will be a 30k seller at best

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gets awarded for its setting

and everyone loves it

Elusam seems to be back under 50k again

There's still another week until 4 weeks and yet another week for a full month

Hayashi gets serialized before the winner

Are GFC winners actually picked based on popularity? I don't get that impression given the winner's tendency to crash upon serialization

OtR of Flames? A future King

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Winners aren't forced to automatically start a series

It better be worth it after how long he's been grinding.

Winning then starting a series three-four years later seems like a terrible idea

People vote for them on the issue iirc
The one with Sezaki was the most sold one so it got a shit ton of votes
and the serialization comes whenever they are ready/want
Neon vampire did an one shot in J+
Life liar from hell is doing beethoven

The one with Sezaki was the most sold one so it got a shit ton of votes

That's not how the voting system works.

It worked for Ruri

How how long do you think will Blue Box last? The only thing I'm sure about that Sakamoto will last longer.

Ruri was about two years after its one shot and there was a vomic in between that which blew up. It's been mostly silent for the 2022 GFC winner and the wait is over three years.

no one would buy the ones before so they never read them, so Sezaki would get more votes simply by probability

2

shows 8

Why would Gorilla have any qualms. He was parodying shit himself.
There's just no reason to read nor watch Sakamoto despite the different spin on the Yorozuya trio. The appeal/homage to Gintama fans just fall flat. It's not like Shinpachi/Shin is better, nor Sakamoto/Sakata Gintoki, nor Kagura/Lu (if she was even allowed to be a character in the first place). You can consume Gintama and get everything Sakamoto offers plus much more, which is ironic.
It's unlike Dragon Ball and Journey to the West, or something like Evangelion into Darling in the Franxx into Make Heroine ga Oosugiru.

November/December

how old was he?
maybe he was in highschool when he submitted the work

However this won because it was published on the issue HxH came back, the highest selling issue in a while x.com/WSJ_manga/status/1582613243235041285

So if everything goes well it will be a 30k seller at best

Didn't help seiji tanaka whose one shot was in final chapter of kochikame and then went to be lowest selling jump series

Hyping up a gfc winner like it wont get axed.

nakano's ghost will save it

10k sellers get to live now

t-this time it will be different for sure!

The most fascinating thing about its stagnation is copium kgbfags make up to justify it.

Unironically yeah, Kiyoshi sales are good enough to live

Quote tweet and likes have more japanese people than foreigners

Bros!

Why does Japan love it so much?

shitter is samefagging since no one will fall for his baits anymore

"literally me" effect

Thank you for flopping for our sake, Hakutaku

fell for the bait

It does count even if you don't give (you), naive bachifag

Years where they won the GFC but did not succeed:

Takaya: Otonari-san Panic!! (2004),

Over Time (2005),

Mysterious Story Ikkyu Hanasaka (2010),

Devily Man (2014),

Seiji Tanaka (2016),

Phantom Seer (2018),

The Hunters Guild: Red Hood (2020),

Fabricant 100 (2021)

Every one of these series ended in 5 volumes or less, most around 2-3.

Years where they won the GFC and did succeed:

Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan (2007),

Beelzebub (2008),

Ruri Dragon (2017)

Initial failures that led to successes:

Hungry Joker (2011)-> Black Clover

(2015),

Demon Prince Poro's Diaries (2015)-> Mission; Yozakura Family (2019)

And then Beelzebub's new series, Dolphin Cop got axed (it would totally live nowadays)

Do Shueisha count Numa as a veteran? Samon was 10 volumes long, had a pretty dedicated fanbase but got axed.

Phantom Seer (2018),

He got sabotaged it doesn't count

GFC losers that went on to succeed

Successful series: Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigations (2004, directly followed), Demon Slayer (2014), Akane-banashi artist (2015), Jujutsu Kaisen (2016, led to JJK), Marriage Toxin (2016)

Unironically, a lot of WSJ series got art from other famous mangaka, but only Kgb didn't get anything from someone popular

Tamura is doing tons better on Cosmos now. It's all parts of life.

Successful series:

Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigations (2004, directly followed),

Demon Slayer (2014),

Akane-banashi artist (2015),

Jujutsu Kaisen (2016)

Marriage Toxin (2016)

GFC Losers that went on to be a big success*

kino

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hakutaku tier...

kawaguchi derangement syndrome

Why does no one care about Ichi anymore?

Grand Total Across All Volumes: 10,200 copies

Imagine getting btfo by one volume of Kiyoshi

crepal...

How did this 4k series manage to mindbroke /wsj/?

This is Chojo description on mangaplus

The creator of Samon the Summoner returns to Jump with a new series about a super-powered policeman!

How much did each 1st volume sold in a month? Did they at least sell over 10k aka the new standard?

everything has stagnated or declined

They should have kept CSM. It would have been better for everyone. Fujimoto would have a whip to keep him working, and the magazine would have another manga that sells well besides OP.

warmpisser

Opinion discarded

everything has stagnated or declined

brings back another shitter that declined

Wait, what won GFC 2024?

they would have axed CSM on sight after the handjob

Otr future sales

What do you read in WSJ?

Wolfonium

Does Oricon monthly include stuff that didn't chart in Top 50?

What do you read in the magazine?

lol

They know which manga is good or not

Of course not.

Psychic themed romcom 'All Signal Red'

Just Ruri

KGB
Ichi
Ruri
Otr

A bunch of coomers decided that their chosen manga is the next big thing.

maybe WSJ should've serialized GMR

Oh this one was decent.

Honorable mention in the Next Shonen Jump generation award

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Signal All Red

Would’ve been axed on sight before even participating in tsugimanga

hungry marie wasn't that bad i suppose, shame it got axed early

More like Signal All bred

Fujimoto coded

Yukari Yakumo meets Rean Schwarzer classmate

And that mindbroke you? Kek

tl when?
we have all shat on the action, anatomy, artstyle and design but we need to shit on the story too

They would axe CSM ass if it was still in WSJ

Glad I wasn’t the only person who thought about Yukari

ZUN invented long blonde hair

What won?

retradbro... its the same dress

didnt know akanebanashi started out this strong

Why is the fire spirit similar to Otr’s sister?

ZUN invented long blonde hair

Yes

CSM quality nosedived hard in Part 2.

this is just shoseki estimation without oricon, too lazy to find out each volume desu

WSJ

Sakamoto
Ichi
Elusive
Shinobi
Beethoven
Otr

J+

Centuria
Ryota Killed His Brother
Maison and the Man-eating Appartment

SQ

Kemono Jihen

Ultra

Bug Ego

Male MC looks like too much of a cuckold for my taste.

You need to check what was in the magazine at that time, even RxL got axed while selling 60k.

I heavily agree. It’s not like there’s anything in it that wouldn’t be suitable for WSJ instead of Jump+.

That's slightly less tenuous, but still a big reach.

Whose Catharsis

Why is Japan letting Syd die?

its shit

Because it's trash

More like Myd

The girls aren't feminine
Japan can be based sometimes

You guys are just haters :|

Elio is cute.

tell that to the japanese

KGB
Ruri
Otr (time will tell if I keep reading this”)

No, it's the truth. You can see him starting to change Sou clothes and showing Eli novelist side.

Why is Japan letting Hima-ten live?

I just don't like rehashed Bokuben but crappier.
Write something new.

HI

MA

TEN

"exclamation mark"

Comestic Brand "Himariz"

An energetic high school girl president

With 80,000 followers

I'm the charismatic model Yoshino Himari

But I can't cook

I can't do laundry

I can't clean the dishes

And I can't even use the copy machine.....

I totally suck at housework

My company hired a personal housemaid for me

A GUY FROM MY CLASS?!

IEMORI TENICHI?!

I CAN'T LET THE ENTIRE SCHOOL KNOW ABOUT THIS

It's a secret between us

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!

Good Morning Iemori

"yawn"

My high school life is over

I'm so lame

That's right, you baka

Himariz? That's my cosmetic

I look up to my housekeeper

From now on, please protect my home, okay?

My housekeeper <3

Feminist won

Himaten is surviving but Syd is about to die

It kinda sell more than every new series for now

Himarizz

Saito serializes another romcom

Nice Shoujo magazine

So this shit came in 2nd place????

Hokazono faces

He's already made his impact

Fujimoto ruined the manga industry.

Why is KGB stagnating?

Could be foreshadowed or just pure coincidence, who know, really.

You won't get it

never knew how bad i tell c sold but holy shit, vol 2 and 3 never made it to top 500

Kubo voted it for the lol

Bad genre combination. Haremsfags don't care about the mystery part, mysteries are too bland for mysteryfags and a bunch of them are filtered by Syd being a harem. Setting is mostly beloved by women in Japan, but not men yet women won't touch it because it's a harem. Characters aren't very liked.

Might still be alive if it wasn't yurishit

the samurai armor was one of the few background items in the rakuzaichi drawn by hokazono

Souya-disguise bros, we are so back

judges Hori, Kubo, Gege and Tabata

The absolute state of battle shonen is that grim nowaday

Tell me you didn't read The Vertical World without telling me

guess the WSJ manga (it had 3 vols)

cosmos sells like nothing
he got all his friends to recommend it too

Started with Oda recommendation and was constantly shilled after, what else did you expect? First month sales were grim though, 30k back then wasn't anything special and close to axebaits.

too gay

WSJ

KGB

Otr

Jump+

Hero Organisation

Seihei Slave

Exorcist in Love

Dandadan

Chainsawman

Wrong volume 1 was recommended by Kochikame mangaka, Akimoto, volume 2 was Hideaki Anno, volume 3 was Oda

The one that was supposed to be the next big thing with 200k views on jump plus

Double of Otr. Kek

Shit bait, 1/10 because I still replied.

Recommendations mean nothing
Kubo, Fujita, Arakawa, and Takahashi all banding together, and it sells less than mediocre
Tamura seems to have run out of influential friends too since the latest volume only has the Tegami Bachi mangaka shilling it

it's doing fine compared to hungry marie and the cop one

nothing

Amazon Pre Order

Digital / Physical

Akane-Banashi #17 60 / NA
Sakamoto Days #22 63 / NA
Ichi the Witch #3 98 / NA
Hima-ten! #4 1055 / NA
Kill Blue #10 2494 / NA
Shinobi Undercover #3 3500 / NA
Syd Craft: Love is a Mystery #2 4912 / NA
Star of Beethoven #1 25718 / NA
Embers #1 34604 / NA

So if everything goes well it will be a 30k seller at best

Definitely a doa

embers..

Our PSYCHOs will return

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kill blue dropping again?

ichi drought lmao

You know, considering how popular seem to be Roboco's chapters about manga, Roboco's successor manga probably needs to be a gag version of Bakuman.

This thing is useless until 1-2 days before the release.

I'd rather have a gag manga that has heart and soul like sachi's records

Kill Blue isn't very popular on Amazon for some reason.

I remember sydfags cope like this before

Yep

Anon, who the fuck pre-orders a digital book

I miss MHA…

I think he should do bi weekly in jump+ for his new manga

Your pathetic shitposting aside, I feel the KGB last arc has been going for too long. I feel it could have been reduced and maybe broken up in smaller arcs maybe with previous characters appearing.
Dandadan begun declining due to, among other things (e.g. love triangles people hate), arcs getting longer too soon

Why are you lying? That's not correct at all.

maybe broken up in smaller arcs

It's already broken up in small arcs and it shifted focus to different characters.
It's just a long ass arc, because it's important.

Hori just needs a good writer. As an artist he has always been great, incredibly lacking in choreography, but still

Nah, unless he pairs up with fucking ONE. I prefer it to be another Solo work.

It's already broken up in small arcs and it shifted focus to different characters.

Eh, it's shifting focus for real only now. What I mean by smaller arcs is treating this whole arc as a overreaching plot point while doing important side quests.

It's just a long ass arc, because it's important.

Yeah, but maybe it should have come a little later if the intention was to make it this long.
Gachiakuta also had the problem of making a long ass arc early on

Doing 30k in current jump gives you pillar status

He sucks at writing though. All he has going on for him are emotional moments and he overuses them to the point of making them useless.

muh short arc

Man, there's a reason there's no memorable modern shonen arc aside from the shibuya arc in jjk.

Don't care. I want him to bring all the bad and good with him.

good

?

shifting focus for real only now.

There was a clear focus shift after Samura killed Uruha
Dropped Hakuri, introduced and focused A LOT on Iori and Samura. It's clearly different from the first volume and so of the arc.

while doing important side quests.

The issue is that there aren't important side quests to do.
I honestly like these long spanning arcs, bleach started the SS arc basically by chapter 50 with Renji appearing.

Only Hori could write something like Deku’s and Bakugou’s relationship. I’m ok with his writing.

It is definitely different, but again, the focus is shifting form Iori and Samura to other characters only now. I feel it would have been better to go back and forth from them to say Hakuri&Co (Samura's bodyguards)

The issue is that there aren't important side quests to do.

I don't see why couldn't make them. Shit is starting even now so there were other important things going on to focus on

I honestly like these long spanning arcs, bleach started the SS arc basically by chapter 50 with Renji appearing.

In a fast paced story like KGB I don't, but my whole point was mainly addressing the relatively stale sales

This arc is basically the final prologue mission before we go to the open world choose your own adventure to hunt down the Hishaku / Aligned blade wielders

Bakugou's girlfriend

Ok fujo

relatively stale sales

Oh so you're just shitposting

I’m being serious and sincere!

the relatively stale sales

It just reached its peak pre anime probably?
It's normal.

fast paced story

Definitely shitposting
The story has been slow as hell since the hallway

Could modern audiences handle Namek if it came out today?

Could be, but with WSJ having no new hits besides KGB and Ichi and open competition for the future battle shonen mega hit I'm inclined to think the current arc is just not that appreciated

current arc is just not that appreciated

Anon it's literally by far and away the most popular arc in nipland

One piece would be axed if it came out today. It took it a lot to reach the redline

I heard that next week's Ichi chapter will just be 20 pages of Ichi getting railed in the ass by Gokuraku

Is it now?

Yes, what?

Can confirm.

How do you know? What metrics are you using?

It's when the series blew up with the public

Jump in digital performance from volume 5 to volume 6 and then volume 7 was fucking massive

Its characters get by far the most fan art outside literal main protagonists and ongoing events in the manga

>It's when the series blew up with the public

? It blew up form the get go

>Jump in digital performance from volume 5 to volume 6 and then volume 7 was fucking massive

Are these chapters views, digital volume sales or something else?

>Its characters get by far the most fan art outside literal main protagonists and ongoing events in the manga

Leaving fujos aside, this is definitely a good sign

anyone got the other winners?
they cant all be like this

? It blew up form the get go

No, I'm talking about Japan retard, it literally had nothing besides "being kinda popular from the start overseas", which only otaku would've even known about, general public didn't care or know about it until the SBA arc

volume 5 to volume 6 and then volume 7 was fucking massive

Digital sales, which are the biggest indicator we have for "general audience" as physical volumes grow to be "otaku items"

Our

cuckolds

Delusional. The samurai armour the guy is wearing was outside the restaurant when Farmer went back from the Rakuzaichi.

it literally had nothing besides "being kinda popular from the start overseas"

retard

NTA, but this is a blatant lie

Which WSJ manga do you think made a mistake of going into a long arc already?

Anon, your chihiro lust forum doesn't reflect arcs' popularity, sry
Not a single new character except for the one killed at the beginning is genuinely well received in Nipponland.

Tafuku...

Not a single new character except for the one killed at the beginning is genuinely well received in Nipponland.

Actual fucking blatant lie or you only listen to 5ch shitposters

it literally had nothing besides "being kinda popular from the start overseas", which only otaku would've even known about

No. It had good sales from the get go. It had to be reprinted multiple times and grew a lot with each volume

Digital sales, which are the biggest indicator we have for "general audience"

The best indicators are chapter views, but digital volumes selling well is definitely a factor, though physical sales are still massively important

KGB

Why is Hiyuki so fucking ugly?

Otr

I think KHR had a case where the "long arc" essentially lasted like 80% of the manga's lifetime. By comparison, you have less time to complete the rest of its arcs than you can with the Future arc

NTA, but no he's not lying.
Current day WSJ outside the obvious big hitters which just ended last year and OP are definitely niche items only WSJ fans and some bigger manga fans know at the moment.
You can look up Sakamoto, BB, KGB our 100k+ group outside WSJ circles and barely anyone Japanese cares. No Japanese YT shitposting/reviews channels. Amazon review counts are lower triple digits. No Twitter posts/memes regularly getting 5 and more digit likes.
Compare with DDD that just blew up. Or Bocchi the Rock. You won't see them topping manga sales chart but they're fucking everywhere. Manga sphere is contracting after COVID.

Not sure how I survived future arc back when I was a teenager.

Same with Namek. Shounen was insanely slow back then

I completely forgot about the second chapter

Manga sphere is contracting after COVID

2025 might end with top selling manga only selling 4 M copies
Grim

2 sneaks

NTA, but no he's not lying.

He is. You can literally look at sales data and see it growing with each volume and it's no secret it was underprinted for a while

Compare with DDD that just blew up. Or Bocchi the Rock.

Both had good (Bocchi was great) anime adaptations. Bocchi wasn't on anyone's radar before it and DDD was declining and even now the interest is dwindling again

BB and SD are a problem on their own.
There's a reason they were stuck at 100k with zero growth for most of their run.
SD anime fumbling it doesn't help.

2025 might end with top selling manga only selling 4 M copies

What's even the biggest anime hit so far this year?

They should just announce a Miniso x Ruri collab or something like that
or Hello Kitty x KGB for maximum funny

DDD I guess?
It's doing amazing in digital to cover for its lower-ish physical sales.

Weekly

Just Ichi on the regular but I do dabble on KGB and I am giving Otr a chance.

J+

Mato
Spy x Family
Centuria
Drama Queen

Ichi is fine, problem is that the initial momentum from vol 1-2 has kind of slowed down and it's in the middle of its first major arc

I said this year.......

They are kinda the same in a way. Can be nice, but they become increasingly more boring with each chapter. People fight! and fluffy romance need more substance

Toriko

For some reason I thought it aired in winter not fall.
Medalist I guess? it got a really nice boost in general.
And there's Gundam, obviously.

Spy x Family

SxF basically reached the saturation point now

Growing each volume doesn't mean it's known by the general public. Gokurakugai is also growing each volume but people who know and buy it are all Jump SQ readers. You forgot Japan has 120M+ people.
We're at the point where there's a chasm between people who regularly follow manga and the general public/normalfags who might like manga but don't follow them. It's how you explain stuff like the significant Jump in KGB digital rank just by putting it on street-posters and the huge disparity between BB physical and its digital.

As far as new ones go

Medalist

Gundam

Witch Watch (Before you salesfags go all autism mode, this is the one series where you're better off watching the anime than the manga.)

you're better off watching the anime than the manga

Popularity NATURALLY flows towards the source material no matter how crappy.

Our WINNERS

Looks up

Love Live x Kuroko no Basket memes

What an unholy combination. How did this meme even catch on

anime

Gundam I'm pretty sure. That's still freaking niche too nobody outside Japan cares about it.
Which means we're not getting any manga boost from it. DDD will sell 4 M and that's this year manga market.

It's how you explain stuff like the significant Jump in KGB digital rank

Do you have the figures?

I assume June will start with One Piece and Me & Roboco anniversary covers and then move on to BB and KGB for their volume releases (and anime news)

That's not how it works else you'd have seen Bocchi the Rock selling 200k+ manga volumes fm.

Growing each volume doesn't mean it's known by the general public

Growing with each volume means it has more going on than ""being kinda popular from the start overseas", which only otaku would've even known about"

The franchise that hates men to the point of removing their existence

The colossal fujo series of the 2010s

Kino

Yugioh is more popular as an anime. Detective Conan is more popular as an anime movie.

anime news t-this time for sure

Compare pre and post anime BTR.

Regardless of anything they'd be fucking retarded to not announce it with volume 8

YGO sold extremely well.
Conan and its spin offs sell extremely well.
If the anime is popular, the manga is too.

I also forgot to mention Kindergarten Wars
Sucks that it's ending soon

What are you on about? We're finally having a Garden arc.

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What are you on about? We're finally having a Garden arc.

I was just replying to the anon saying sxf had a long arc too soon. The series itself at this point basically sold everything it could sell and new sales come from the new vols, not the whole series anymore

I look up the Bocchi manga and the anime absolutely carries it. I havent touch it since. And just waiting for s2.

Like K-on, i bet most bocchi fans dont even know its a manga adaptation

I also forgot to mention Kindergarten Wars

Sucks that it's ending soon

I'm still unbelievably angry at Rita not killing the katana guy. It made no fucking sense

Gquack
I think nips like that Girl Band anime too, but don't quote me on that one.

S3 is coming out in October
Like goddamn dude stop being a negative bitch

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Aomine roleplaying as someone who really really likes Love Live. Somehow, there's overlap in both fandoms to get the joke

You can look up Amazon right now and check each volume's rank. Compare it with other manga that sells better on physical. New volume 7 also has been on the higher side for weeks.
Of course you wouldn't be able to see the rank history from that and I don't keep the numbers on an excel or shit. You'd probably have to consult Brasil's twitter if he even saved it everyday.
You forgot people who know of KGB pre and post Tsugimanga are still otaku. WSJ 100k+ sellers aren't that well known yet, bro.

I'm not? It's the opposite actually. Sxf sold a fuckton, so people buy only new vol because they already bought the rest. It also didn't do its long arc too soon, it balanced things well
Stop seeing negativity were it's not

We're getting OP cover this week and 29-31 will be most likely reserved for new series. OP should be getting another cover in July.

Is Love Live even alive?
Feels like it's being sidelined and Bamco is all on IM@S games nowadays

I enjoy Witch Watch more than I did with Sakamoto.

FLOPPAmoto bros...

I'm more impressed it could hold up an entire thread of a series that's essentially 70% filler and 30% plot

How successful will the eventual Ruri anime be?

I do as well.

Likely a difference in expectations but WW anime ended up being a blast.

WW was surprisingly fun for me. I knew basically nothing about the manga and went in with 0 expectations and ended up enjoying it immensely, much more than say Vigilantes which I had high expectations on.
It's good old school dumb comfy comedy

It's when the series blew up with the public

Series blew up with the public with Vol4-5, after Tsugimanga win. That was Rakuzaichi. At SBA the growth almost stopped, which is the opposite of blowing up.

Jump in digital performance from volume 5 to volume 6 and then volume 7 was fucking massive

Physical volume's growth stagnates. Given that there is still a natural flow of the new buyers and people dropping the series, this means that some old physical buyers got less passionate and went from collecting to a quick digital reading, and manga isn't that good for a new readers to buy physical, but good enough to buy digital. In comparison to earlier days when people mostly bought physical copies, showing their excitement, it speaks of an overall more lukewarm response to the series currently. Guess why.

Its characters get by far the most fan art outside literal main protagonists and ongoing events in the manga

This is useless and subjective metric. Fandom surely became bigger in comparison to the early days, recency bias is at work as well.
Good's prices for different characters on Japanese markets is a better metric.
Only Uruha, dead character from the beginning of the arc, has the value somewhat comparable to Chihiro and Hakuri.
Samura has the similar value to Hiyuki and Shiba, but former has the whole bigass arc for himself and recency bias factor, while latter ones are inexistent in this arc.
And other new characters are dragging behind.
So, in summation your arguments are lie+shallow analysis+"feel like" approach.
Typical kgbfag.

say volume 6+7 is when the series blew up with general audience (i.e. NOT OTAKU)

people keep bringing up otaku stuff

appeals to waifufags

baits yurifags

family friendly

huge in japan

Witch Watch having its own dedicated youtube channel is pretty neat. Why can't others do that?

this means that some old physical buyers got less passionate and went from collecting to a quick digital reading, and manga isn't that good for a new readers to buy physical, but good enough to buy digital. In comparison to earlier days when people mostly bought physical copies, showing their excitement, it speaks of an overall more lukewarm response to the series currently.

See, this is a MASSIVE reach.

series explodes after award and stabilizes soon after (even so it kept growing after it, especially in digital)

no, it's because people don't like the current arc

(me)
Jesus fuck you schizos are so fucking annoying, are you being purposely obtuse to push your lame agenda or are you just this retarded

There is a real possibility that the second half of the year will only have like 3 axes.

well BB and TES might end this years

BB can keep going on for a year

Chinatsu graduates

adjusting to this

the nationals

Kyo and Ayame

Hina and Yusa

end of third year and graduation

Probably don't have free access to post chunks of episode content. Witch Watch can get away with posting almost all of the episode in either a normal video or youtube shorts

they just fucked

Well, they might've need the big channel so that their subscribers can see it which makes sense.

!?

Kaguya went on for 100 chapters after the fact.

and it was awful

much more than say Vigilantes which I had high expectations on.

I'm liking Vigilantes but holy shit, I can already sense the popularity difference between it and MHA for not having any fujobait

hormonal teenagers kissing all night

not ending up in sex

would be such a clown show

It was already shit before it and kept being shit after. Aka just can't accept he sucks at serious drama and he's only good for comedy

Yeah but Quality just remained the same EXCEPT for that arc.

Oh, I thought they fucked already and somehow missed a chapter.

Vigilantes anime also came way too late, should've been adapted both when it was running (or about to end) and when MHA itself had more momentum

I'm liking it but it's kinda slow compared to the rest of this season

Vigilantes hasn't gotten to any of the actual good characters yet

It's a pick your poison

Deku is unbearable but incredibly popular

Koichi is better but has zero marketability

It there anyone that seriously care about TES, even in Japan?
SD is heading towards its end too, right?

And it was fucking shit.

I love Deku.

Can't wait to see CC and O'clock(s)

yeah but SD can have entire chapters of people fight so it could end well into 2027

Koichi is better but has zero marketability

Unfortunately. He has the generic harem MC design

It there anyone that seriously care about TES, even in Japan

it kinda sped up after controversy where it depicted Takeuchi as a rapist

He’s not cute at all. Mainline MHA is full of cute boys. All Shonen must have cute boys if they wish to succeed.

People will care about Koichi when he gets...

Koichi looks more like a background character to be honest. He's definitely not meant to be marketable

sped up

The pacing got faster?

Now you fuckers understand why fujobait is a necessity

Yeah it timeskipped and now its two years away from Tokiyuki recorded death

Ahh got it. And this together with the controversy made people more interested in it

nah, people probably just checked it out because he fucked his harem for like 3 chapters

Realistically, how many chapters does Syd have left?

is better but has zero marketability

You just described Vigilantes in general.. It's definitely better than MHA but the lack of interesting character designs will always be its downfall

Witch Watch is just way better overall

You gotta be kidding me

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I think it was on purpose. It's a spin-off of a popular series, Koichi can look truly ordinary like he's meant to because all the popularity comes form the main series anyway

This ain't worksafe.

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GAYoshi

Would it kill Vigilantes though to have at least one cute college boy?

The fuck are you on.
Vigilantes are straight up the opposite of what made MHA popular: that Harry Potter academy drama
Who the heck wants superpower nobody interacting with nobodies

literally yes
His artstyle melted whenever he had to imitate Hori artstyle and draw All Might or Endeavor,

Would Vigilantes be more popular if Koichi and Number 6 kissed and fucked?
The answer is no. Vigilantes is just devoid of interesting characters and plot no matter how you spin it.

it became clear that shitters couldn't use it to shit on kgb anymore and that makes up half of the discussions around it

Why did Kagurabachi decline?

Author introducing a bunch of random

They are all useless

They get shafted by the new randoms

They job and disappear

Least obvious samefag of all time

The pedophile was livid!

They lied about the premise.

The sales started to tank the moment the art and actions became mid hmmmm

3

Can WSJ please not have both SD and BB ending at the same time? Fucking 3/4ths of the magazine don't even have anime

There's no updated chart but the only ones with anime running assuming BB/SD/Elusive all end soon

We just have OP/Roboco/Witch Watch

Yes, it is that sad

Nue save this magazine pls

Akane really should've gotten that anime already.

Our WINNERS are carrying this magazine

I'm just interested to see how jump is going to handle One Piece ending.
We havent seen a power vaccum this big since Dragon Ball ended 30 years ago

Haha...

I wonder if we'll ever get a true long runner in WSJ again. These new mangaka all share the same curse of ending their series early

How long was JJK?

Blame the editors and the suits.
To be fair, it does allow for more potential talent to come in

Only 271 chapters.

I'm seeing the pattern though

Never giving an anime until the manga is at like 150+ chapters in

And when the anime is finally airing for the FIRST season, the manga decides to go into the FINAL arc

Rinse and repeat

271

Almost close to the 300 mark

And when the anime is finally airing for the FIRST season, the manga decides to go into the FINAL arc

These were Mashle, UU, and Yozakura.

What even

Kimetsu.

It's still less obnoxious than making an anime while the manga is still new and then having entire seasons worth of filler arcs

Meds.

Axebaits

Didn't the mangaka decide that one on her own?

Armored Hishaku will be another loudmouth twink, that probably dances to Creepy Nuts. Why does Hackazono has to self insert that much?

I feel like shorter lived manga (even super successful ones) just don't have a big of an impact but I get why this could've been preferred over the olden days. Less stress on the author and less loss over time

That should go for all of them.
Kimetsu's anime was meant to boost its sales towards the end of the series since popular series tend to sell more in the last couple volumes.
Jump didn't expect what happened (like the retards they are because they gave a jump series to the fate company)

I just think Jump is going to be in the same spot it was between Dragon Ball and One Piece for a while, especially once one piece ends.

New gen mangaka probably don't want to dedicate their entire lives to making manga.

Only if you're really dedicated that you can go into that sort of commitment

>Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan (2007),

>Beelzebub (2008),

both of them got axed in the end

That's not a curse, it's how it should be

Other factors could be that they don't want to write for the same manga anymore and want to do a new one. Fujimaki intentionally ended Kuroko early so that he could work on his dream golf manga (guess how that went)

The olden days also had "short" manga. It's only under Torishima did they decide to force series to continue out of fear of repeating the early 90s fiasco

Rakugo won.

Kill Blue felt like an experiment to me. There's no way he thought it managed to live this long

We actually do have someone who can manage to do long running manga in jump right now: Osamu Nishi.
She's 5 chapters shy of her 400th chapter of Iruma, and she may eventually end the series in another half decade or so.
So in theory, Ichi could be a long runner in its own right if Nishi and Usazaki want to and more importantly can make it happen

What was Torishima’s problem?

Shit isnt even close, give it another 10 years or so

a good writer

Like who?

He initially got shafted for EiC despite his track record (launched V-Jump instead), Jump sales collapsed post Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk, they then turned around and begged him to take over. By the 00s when it had more or less rebuilt itself he created a don't-let-it-end culture to both increase revenue and avoid that type of slump again. This continued after he left (probably fired) but naturally it created the situation where tons of old series were just limping along and nobody gave a shit. Arguably this also stifled a generation and didn't let them carry through.

You can argue this slump is happening now but its also masked by having eggs in many more baskets than they did in the 80s-90s. (+, Saikyo, V, etc). Logically I assume most magazines will be consumed by + with the exception of weekly and other flagships

Fujimoto

8...

Lost the history otaku readers

Lost the fujo and shotacon readers

Lost readers with the pacing and writing issues

Generated some meme-level fleeting interest with the commitment to the harem but not enough new readers who are only interested in that are going to trudge through all the volumes that were spent trying to appeal to history and shotafag readers

It's over

It's definitely better than MHA

Only retards believe this

Good day nuerats

Grrr you evil devil Yoru, you killed a potencial pussy for my dick, I will fight you RAAAAA

Next chapter

"Do you want to come in me UwU"

aarf arf woof yes my QUEENru, I already forgot why I was mad. You are crazy but maybe I can fuck you. Woof woof are you cold? take my jacked. Do you want me to fight Fakesawman? At your command my OWNERu, grrr bad FSM you evil devil you are ruining our date I will fight you RAAAAA

What's your point? Fujimoto is still an amazing writer. Imagine Hori's art with Fujimoto's mad genius.

Japanese readers don't like Syd's girls and don't care about them

Western readers love the girls and adore their hijinks

Eh?

Fujimoto is still an amazing writer

Oh, so you are actually retarded? Nevermind

Aesthetic as fuck. I would've bought this just for display regardless of what's inside. The fact that this is the first time Akane has styled its cover like this after 17 volumes is such a bummer lmao

Rip Syd

Hey I'm not the one equating sales to quality, that's true retardation.

The discrepancy is so weird. The Western discussion I've seen has been nothing short of positive and those who read it really like it. But Japan clearly doesn't care about it based on the views, lack of fan-art, poor sales, and now the seemingly impending end. It's as if Western readers love it for the exact reasons the Japanese avoid it.

chensoy bros...

not the extra 70k drop

Wanna know what worse, the chainsawtard still think Fujicuck is a good writer

My guess is the japaneses hate the mystery part and only want romance.

Maybe that's why Himaten is doing way better

Probably

It's not fair that we don't get Syd spoilers when even Bokuben did.

they announced the anime a while back but the release timing is new I think, along with the footage in the trailer

Syd not having any leak, is already a bad sign.

I don't think we've ever gotten leaks for it outside maybe chapter 1.

Yeah, they pretty much gave up after Chapter 1.

Bokuben had a lot of western fans. As a Bokuben reader and someone familiar with 22i's writing and tropes what I can say is the following : the mysteries are just okayish and the romance seems like a rehash of bokuben, I was expecting something more creative from 22i. Apart from that, Syd is a master detective from the get go, and he has no goal, I'd be better if he's a rookie detective making his way to the top and trying to solve a conspiracy with personal stakes. Honestly I give it a 6, and that's being generous, but even then, I'm never reading himaten, none of my Syd bros are ever picking up that

I know Bokuben was never as big as 5Toubun but I could have sworn it was decently popular in Japan when it was still around. Mafuyu was a big deal there after all.

How would you react if Syd does end? Will the Bokuben fanbase on Anon Babble really vanish into thin air once it's gone?

Look like chihayafuru cover

I feel like Tsutsui had more plans for the mysteries, but the feedback wasn't so good so he pivoted towards focusing on the harem. I doubt Lulu was even planned from the start but instead was a way to drum up readership.

Bad day, BlackedClover? As usual.

The problem is that they botched the Anime, which stopped it from getting a bigger fanbase. Also, if it ends it ends, I'm also a vet jump reader so I don't mind, we'll be here lurking. It seems that it caught everyone by surprise when they saw so much Syd discussion. Back in the day there's barely any bokuben discussion in the jump threads.
I don't think he cooked a heroine that quickly, but maybe nips aren't that interested in heterosexual mysteries

Should plummet faster. Society is too kind.

It seems that it caught everyone by surprise when they saw so much Syd discussion.

Ironically it has some of the most active threads of any Jump series, far more than safe series like Blue Box and Sakamoto Days. I have a feeling that most of the people in the Syd threads don't read others in the magazine. Not like I'm any different, the only ones I read are Syd and Himaten since I dropped Blue Box ages ago.

I don't think he cooked a heroine that quickly

Uruka?

It's already at <150k.

IF Ichi doesn't flop compared to both Nishi's and Shueisha's expectations. Sure, it's better performing than most of Jump's current roster, but I can see it flopping a bit later. Nishi wanted to make her take on pokemon, but it quickly devolved into pokefujos, which could be a big hit or divisive. In general Jump is catering to girls and fujos heavily. Let's see if it pays off.

Doesn't deserve it. Even 50k is too much at this point.

Chenso hate is so forced

Does anyone know if Tsunehiro Date's Ieyasu manga in Young Jump is in danger of getting axed anytime soon? It's already outlasted of any of his previous serializations.

Sure cuckincel bro.

it only charted in shoseki for a few days and it was rather low
but yj axes last for like 30-50 chapters

Denji gets more action than you

What about Misao no Keiyaku?

I doubt everyone here reads everything, but I wouldn't be surprised if Syd fans read only Syd, some anons that joined the bokuben hype train were surprised to discover it's a jump Manga

I think we can all agree that blacked clover sucks and only retards like BCuck like it

chainsawbros, what is our response to this?

He just finished uni I'm pretty sure

I'm surprised that not even the Bokuben chapter was enough to save it.

Pretty easy, sales is not quality. I'm certain anons here don't suddenly believe Wan Piss is the greatest piece of fiction to exist.

babby's first CGDCT SoL

Its manga sales got cut by 2/3 despite being massively more shilled now though. Everybody and their moms would agree pre-timeskip was better, so One Piece is actually a pretty good case of sales as a measure of quality.

Is there anything currently selling better than Wan Piss?

Shush you, don't engage that retard, he actually think Fujitrash is a good writer

baby first samurai manga

Scared he's going to make your side look bad? How bitch made of you

If anything the Anime proved that he isn't as good and the general audience see CSM as juvenile at best, childish and immature at worst

inb4 BUT THAT WAS THE DIRECTOR'S FAULT REEEEEEEEE

Yeah right

Its kinda funny that chainsawtard still think the guy behind a manga that drop half of its sales in such a short time is a good writer though

still no answer

It's as if fujihaters know their retard logic blows up in their own face.

I remember when retards on this board hype it to heavens, what happened?

Otr..... will not be axed

Our WINNERS.... will WIN

The MC wants to have sex, so mature and deep. He's not like the other Shonen MC's

Oh yeah

one week of Otr

1996 birthyear

lol

Get this poor guy a writer for his next manga

An artist who knows how to do action too.

Is that supposed to be bad? Seems a lot better than Syd's.

Isn't that good?

Stay on that side. When Otr is a success, i will make sure wsj becomes an otr general.

Otr is good tho, he learned a lot

tho

"Otr has bad art" fags are the same faggots who will say horikoshi has bad art.

Nothing wrong with what’s written

?

Oh wait I thought that was the Tate Roll guy

I like his art in RH more desu

I didn't read this week's Otr. How was ch.2?

Setup chapter for a training arc + shitty cluttered pages

This is why mangaka publish on digital be it J+, Magapoke, or others
This could've been 2 pages just like the first chapter should've been longer

a training arc

Not sure if that's a good call.... That sounds like a mistake. Throw the kid to the wolves and have him adapt as he grows. Too early to do any sort of training arc atm.

shitty cluttered pages

That page is fine, you just petty little bitch.

That's fine. You just want something to flop

of course we do, what do you think this is is? Plebbit?

shitty cluttered pages

bachikek when half the page isnt recycled

KaguraGREENS fighting against global warming and contamination

Amazing

Someone put Luffy as Kakasihi and Otr, Chihito, and Ichi as the trio

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Chihito

I don't get why won't WSJ have 2-3 more digital only series. It's perfect for ecchi/otakubait manga.

Kakasihi

Yeah, because this tired ass meme hasn't already been done a million times.

Plus, people get it wrong every fucking time.
When it was Goku and the Big 3, it's cause all 3 were Dragonball inspired.

Then it was done again with MHA, Black Clover, and forget which other, abd they had Luffy as Kakashi. But the thing is, those 3 took from Naruto, not OP.

Then it was done again with Kimetsu, and JJK, etc... but those took from Bleach, not OP.

Now you're telling people to do it with Kagurabachi, Otr, Ichi the Witch, but none of those are pulling from OP. Otr can be compared to MHA. Kagurabachi to JJK, and Ichi is just gay.

If you want Luffy as Kakashi then it should be Ruri, Akane and Otr

Someone make Chihiro tell stories of Deku and Yuji to Otr and Ichi

Nothing in the main magazine
Ghost Fixers, Maison, Lunatic Terrapop and Chuck Beans in J+

Crazy how One Piece hasn't inspired anything

fairy tail

It inspired a fuckton of oneshots imitating Oda's style.

slut

7D, undead cuck, mashima slop and demon slayer lowkey is like bleach exorcist plot with one piece goofyness + formulaic ‘run around in place X, sad backstory and kill new villain’ arcs.

But by and LARGE every shonen nowadays copies Bleach (a YYK ripoff)

YYK

Yuyutsu Kaisen?

Nothing really imitates it, any similarity is from the shit it copied in the first place.

Calling Bleach a YYH ripoff and not a successor to Saint Seiya proves your ignorance. Which is especially ironic considering how hard the Dark Tournament arc ripped off from Dragonball.

It literally almost didn't get published for its pitch being a shameless yyh ripoff.
Substitute shinigami is just yyh's ghost detective arc.

Why do you tell lies?

Saint Seiya is a generic tokusatsu retard. It didn’t inspire shit. And what does tournament formula have to do with YYH’s exorcist theme

bro your dark tournament?

Team HUNTER v.s. Team Pirate
Who wins?

As an Otr bro, I regularly see bachifags defending us. It must be ichi the bitch.

hunter perma hiatus

sakafloppa

Team pirate.

mashima slop

?

I'd read it

Romeo and Juliet

Yeah, because Oppenheimer dad and Mr concrete are going to get in their way, considering that they're dead

None of these were inspired by One Piece. Kagurabachi is inspired by Naruto and Bleach, Ichi is inspired by Iruma (which is its own thing), and Otr is too new to know if Matsui has influenced Kawaguchi.

Naruto and Bleach

Are Bleachfags for real?

Captain on hiatus

Vice-Captain is falling off and is FLOPPING its main villain

One of the duo managers is being overhyped for its bland fujo fantasy.

Other duo manager is too niche

Team pirate

This isn't unusual. It's why every new blatant axebait got a following that keeps crying about "potential"

Everyone could see it for what is actually was.

Kagurabachi is inspired by Ajin

Hishaku pulling a 9/11 soon

chap 1 barely just reached 1m and chap 2 lost half its audience
this shit is dead

90% of the story is a direct line from Naruto, with the rest basically being sprinklings of AOT and Ajin