Hello, this is my third attempt to digest and understand a little more about the story of WSJ through it's series and authors, last two attempts are in the Shueisha thread.
Pardon my spelling, if this attempt ends up becoming something steady, I'll proofread everything in a future date. My english is kind of good, but I'm not a native speaker, and I sometimes get confused about the weird lazy letters and the repeated letters. Also Japanese is hard.
A little about me:
[Hide]The first series of the magazine that I had contact with was Mazinger Z, I barely remember anything about that Anime, and I didn't realize that it was a WSJ published series until recently. After that I had contact with the usuals, Dragon Ball, Yu Yu hakusho, Slam Dunk, Saint Seiya, Ruronin Kenshin, Shaman King and Houshin Engi known in anime as Soul Hunter.
When I dabled into manga was because the difference between Houshin engi anime and manga called me to see the real history about it, then about Shaman King, Naruto, Bleach, Death Note and finaly One Piece in the slow and fun chrissmass of 2006. Not until I knew about the smash bros inspired games of the Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars that I understood the rich and shared history of all the series that I've come to enjoy separately.
Of course there were other series, both anime and manga, but this is about Weekly Shonen Jump, the other magazines while had some great series like Fullmetal Alchemist, Gash Bell, and great adapted anime like Sakura Card Captors and Slayers, didn't had the story to make me wonder about their past, so I just cherrypicked what I liked, and ignored the rest.
The first serie that I've read from the begining was Bakuman because it's author's last work, after them a whole other lot of series, past and current that have been a fun distraction, and something to look forward every week.
I own some manga, while I lived in venezuela I colected the kanzenban of Saint Seiya and Kenshin, that are available in spanish editions, and I want to collect someday every series that I've read illegaly and realy enjoyed, not out of a sense of shame or regret (it's like 300-600 yen the magazine, give me a shueisha account and I'll pay it, but don't you dare take gintama away from me!), but because they were realy fun, and I'd wish to read them the way that they are meant to be read. And I love the glossy pompous covers from the Kanzenban.
Digitaly I own over 90% of one piece, viz editions, and I've been a subscriber of Engish Shonen Jump since I had an android phone and managed to get through the region locks. The secret is to get the things through the Amazon App Store.
Currently I'm without a steady job and spaceless to store them so I can't collect the kanzenban that I see almost daily at the manga store. Soon I'll be able to make an irresponsible purchase out of the Dr. Slump Kanzenban. [/Hide]
About this project:
I want information, I want covers, I want history and authors, I want to know what was a hit, what was a miss, and what deserved to be a hit but was a miss. I want tales about accountanship, some work and unlikely success. I want to know why City Hunter and Mazinger Z don't show up in the extended media of the magazine. I want this done before 2018 when the magazine is 50 years old, before the 50th year aniversary project (hypotethical but surely comming) is released. This is just the start, If I manage to get enough steam to move past rumors, reviews and links to baka updates, I'd like to build a blog or a wiki.
In my last attempt I tried to start from the big series, those with already published Kanzenban, but Saint Seiya and it's 5 editions scared me.
Then I tried to do it chronologicaly, and the darkness of the japanesse side of the internet scared me, too little information about the eraliest series is available, and most of it in japanese.
So this time I'll try to pick a year, do the short series, anything under a year of publication, to see if it was planed to be that way, or not. Then whatever is less than 2-4 years, things that ended before obtaining an anime, a game or another manga. I'll leave the big things for last, I don't look forward to rehosting the who knows how many volumes of Kochikame, or maknig sense of Jojo's publication history.
Glosary:
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Kanzenban: "Definitive Edition Volume" or something like that, is a collector's edition version of the manga, with new covers, larger volumes, color pages where they existed in the original publication. Usualy prettier and neater than the regular volumes.
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