BTW Kurogane was bad and the author is bad for ranting about Jump and Medaka Box on Twitter.
Sources, please. Sounds like some good drama that I missed.
BTW Kurogane was bad and the author is bad for ranting about Jump and Medaka Box on Twitter.
Sources, please. Sounds like some good drama that I missed.
What? I don't know if they had a flashback and the character looks exactly the same, or if they discovered a magic spring of healing, but isn't like the entire point of the main character of Judos that his hands look like they have been through a garbage disposal? I wonder if there really is an explanation or if it was just a slip up.
And I am kinda happy to see Gakkyuu Houtei at the bottom. I enjoy it, but it really isn't the type of thing that I would want as weekly manga, or a manga in general. There is a reason why Ace Attorney is game series. Even the manga of it is released in bursts.
I much rather see what collab Obata will due next. It seemed that at the end of Bakuman he and Ohba alluded to working together again.
Sorry, I meant, the banter between the two lead characters is really bad.
I would have favorited this reply if I had the ability.
Cyborg Roggy is a lot of fun. The banter between the two lead characters is really funny. Hope you guys who are SJ subscribers enjoy that. (I'm doing the Jump Start)
I feel spoiled somehow, hearing that. Nonetheless, I look forward to it. I am kind of scared that I am actually going to like all of the series from this round. I was rather nonplussed on the ones from the last two rounds.
@Maxy:
Nobody expects Embalming. Ever. In any context.
This made me laugh while eating rice.
I really like both covers for Yoakemono and Mitsukubi Condor. It's a shame I only heard about how weak their stories were. : (
The big question there (at least as far as I see it) is if they can manage to get the cost scaling to a proper place where they can hire pros to do it, at least for the important properties. Last I heard, most of the CR-exclusive manga is paying starving student rates, which basically just guarantees that they will only ever have scanlation-level quality. Sure, some of the people willing to work for pennies will actually be good, but they're not going to stick around if the industry as a whole can't support a living wage.
I can't say I know much about the translation industry, but it was always my assumption that Crunchyroll had more of an editorial issue, than a translation quality one. There is probably not one manga that I have read on Crunchyroll that I haven't found typos in, but they are always stuff like a repeated word, or something like too instead of to or there instead of their. I haven't ever come away from a translation and been like, "I think this person just totally made up that dialogue….." which was an unavoidable occurrence with basically every scan I ever read.
Like I said for the anime, their breaking of the fansubbers was because of both the swiftness and quality of translation and subtitling. In this case it is translation and lettering, and I think they just haven't got the later down yet. It is hard to think that their manga translators are of a significantly lower quality than those for their shows right now, some of which are surely just bombing in the view counts(here's looking at you, Majin Bone(...I watch it every week...)). I would assume that they would try to use the translators/company they already have for anime scripts, and they seemed to be pretty good people based on an interview with their boss on Anime New Network's podcast a while ago, and he seemed to care a great deal about making sure they had fair wages.
A question just for fun: if one piece were to end, let's say 3 months from now. Would you wait till the official version came out, or go ahead and read the final chapter on the faster scanalation sites albeit in questionable quality?
I would wait. I have both a subscription to Viz's digital Weekly Shonen Jump and the physical Japanese Weekly Jump, and I don't think I have read a scan since probably a few weeks into Shonen Jump Alpha, when it was still two weeks behind. When it comes down to it, it is just people whining about how they aren't catered to, but they are still people, but so are the creators. The main reason I dislike scans is because of just how cool a lot of authors seem. Like, if I met almost any of them, and they would never ask, but if they did, I would never want to tell them I just pirate all their stuff. On the other hand, almost every scan site I have ever been to has been the shadiest, gross aura exuding places on the net. The worst part is when you hear some of the people who run them, and they 100% treat it as nurtured business that they are like the extinguished CEO of. A business of pirating other people's work.
But, this is all just my philosophy on it, and I think anyone else's is valid too. I basically just stick with the whole "If you don't want your mom seeing you doing it, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it at all," mentality, with the mom being the creator in this case. This though, is a very moralistic view that probably only people who are easily susceptible to shame would understand. I know that there are probably droves of people that would love to shout at the creator's faces that they pirate all their work and that they are stickin' it to em, but I definitely don't want to be one of those people, or even associate with them.
P.S.
I totally avoided Arlong Park for a week so I could read the last chapter, well chapters, of Naruto on Monday without getting spoiled.
Yeah. It is an understatement to say the leak problems are substantial. But, even if they can't be completely eliminated, I think it could still work if a company gets a quality library and backcatalogue. Just like whiners who complain about the more accurate official translations when they buy a volume after reading hundreds of chapters illegally that have all kinds of nonsense translations they have gotten attached to, readers who read the series backcatalogue on a legit site would get attached to that translation and reading environment. There are still a ton of free users on crunchyroll who wait a week for episodes just because Crunchyroll is the site they like to interact with.
There is also the aspect of basically disheartening scanlators. Crunchyroll's quick releases have basically convinced a lot of fansubbers to just pack it up and just release rips of crunchyroll streams for shows. Why put so much work into something that is gonna be made available in superior quality in the span of moments in internet time?
A part of me is just waiting till a company just does the manga buffet system perfect. I really love Crunchyroll's selection, I read like everything, but they need to flip it and do what they did with anime; everything should be free but the most recent chapter. And then they need to work out something to get the back catalog for those major series like Attack on Titan and Fairy Tail. I get why they can't and why those involved are afraid to, but I just wanted to get it off my chest that I honestly believe in that whole, "The manga industry is like 7 years behind the anime industry(in America)," thing.They can do whatever they want with their properties, but if everyone just reads everything for free and legally buffet style on Crunchyroll in 5 years, I won't be surprised in the slightest.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah. Crunchyroll. Streaming. Basically streamlined the entire translation and subtitles encoding industry. They push them translations out like nothing now en masse. Once a legit company does that for manga with the right system, I don’t think them penny-translating a series like Gintama would be that surprising at all.
I love how even though there is probably now way it will be cancelled based on the volume sales and the new anime, World Trigger's placement is absolutely brutal. It is nice to know that the editor probably still really cares too, even if it won't get cancelled.
I like both Naruto and Sporting Salt. There. I said it.
Was really surprised by Sporting Salt. It is definitely my favorite of the three. None of the three are bad, but to me it just seems like almost all of them have this distinct kind of, "I want to make a Shonen Jump manga!" and not, "I want to tell a story!" vibe, which is a huge turn-off for me.
But besides the art being incredible too, I definitely felt that Sporting Salt had the most heart. It does seem though, that it may fall into a quick monsterclub-of-the-weekarc formula, kinda more like the arcs of Medaka Box, with Shioya helping different clubs.
And even though I found the emotions to be try-hard, I think Hi-Fi Cluster definitely has the most long-term potential. The art is really good, and the characters seem like they can only go up from here, like one of those nice slow-build shonen.
Judos is super C grade. I actually rather like the art, but it just seems super stagnant and just "a manga." Don't really like the whole sports manga where the main character starts off stronger than the gold Olympian for said sport thing. And the canon of one man taking out an army of 15,000 barehanded is extremely aggravating to me.
Did I miss why Stealth Symphony is getting a third volume?
Was listening to the new Shonen Jump podcast and it seems that they might know a few things about the new series, and they seem to be excited about something.
Pretty baseless, but it would be interesting if the Ohba and Obata pair finally make a return, with Obata coming to New York Comic Con and all.
I believe on the last episode of the Shonen Jump Popdcast, or maybe the one before last, an English editor said that Assassination Classroom was only supposed to be 10 volumes from the beginning. It could round out to twelve volumes with 3 or 4 more chapters…
Why the hell would you read wikia for that ? You might as well not even read the series if you can't even give it a try and read at least first 2 volumes .
I don't read scans, hence why I was so looking forward to the anime. I am pretty sure that at this point I won't like the series, but I would still like to know if maybe there is something really interesting about what the series is trying to do. It may seem weird, but I do this with a lot of things, not just manga. Like if there is a show or movie I am not sure I will like, or if I know I won't like but still feel compelled to know what happens, I just read the wiki summaries of the plot.
Was really looking forward to this series, but after just watching the first two episodes I found it really unbearable. The manga being so popular though, I was hoping I would be able to just read summaries of the chapters and see if the series actually turned around, but I couldn't find any via wikipedia/wikia, so can anyone point any summaries out? That, or just tell me does the series actually prove grey at all? Or are all the characters really just horrible murders that if I want too see them all killed already I just shouldn't even bother?
WELL!!!
18. World Trigger #3 (50,838)
Ugh. Man I ate poop. Knew the new ranking would be out in a day, but I totally just assumed it wouldn't make it again.
And I genuinely like World Trigger, but their is just so many other series I have liked more. Going back to that whole "Why you say my thing should get cancelled just cuz you don't like it?!?!!?!" thing from a while back…..I would cancel so many World Triggers just to give other series a better shot. And I LIKE AND READ World Trigger.
Wait. When did people start liking the Fullbring arc? All I ever heard was crap about it. It's my favorite arc….....
@Aru:
But he did. That's why the Fullbringer arc, the best thing to come out of Japan, ended so suddenly - because by that point Bleach was losing it's anime AND was constantly at the very bottom of the rankings. Kubo decided to just press the DELTE button and skip as fast as he can to anything remotely good he could think of, just so Bleach wouldn't get dropped. That's probably also the reason why it had so much color pages then - probably Jump editors wanted to do anything to make readers care about Bleach again.
I didn't get that impression at all. After Aizen I was under he impression he planned to have two arcs left, a really short one and a really long one(Fullbring and Quincy) and I actually think the Fullbring arc lasted longer than expected.
And sad to see Hachi at the bottom.
And I really feel like there is some World Trigger cahooting going on. The volumes don't even place on the top 50 in sales. I haven't seen a series place so high in the TOC and have poor tank sales like this since Enigma, and Enigma would always get 30-40k units too. World Trigger apparently isn't even hitting 18k.
@No:
Cause if there's anything that would make them invest a crap ton into expanding into an untested and largely comics free market (aside from a handfull of trades released once in a while, and Naruto and Bleach), it's Facebook :P
I doubt there'd be more then one person (me) posting anyway.
I definitely understand why that would make you feel down, but I think it is even just important that you would be an international voice period, not just your specific country. I think every company would love to, and definitely wants to, have global distribution rights to series outside of Japan, Asia, or as few other territories as possible. The smaller your territory is, the more likely you would actually be included in this. It is the countries that already have sizeable manga markets that will be the ones skipped over. There hasn't really been much of this in digital manga right now though, but that is the way sites like Crunchyroll operate, and Viz has already shown interest in expanding outside of just the territories they also have a print business in currently, and if any manga would be able to do it, I would guess Shonen Jump series have the best chance.
And man do I want to see chapter 3 of Hachi. Hopefully Jump's online reader will upload it as the last preview…...
Good news (at least for me since I wished it), WSJ Alpha is picking up Owari no Seraph.
What makes you say it is Owari no Seraph?
And for people who aren't in territories where the English Jump is available, you should let them know you want it on their facebook or twitter. They are still trying to add more territories.
Issues and subscriptions are now also available on Andoid in all 6 regions.
And as pointed out in the TOC thread, the next series for the magazine has also been descided:
I personally really would love to see Hachi, but I also think it would be smart for them to Nisekoi another series and start it once it has proven successful.
Probably gonna be Shokugeki no Soma, small chance it could be Haikyu!, and basically zero chance of it being Assassination Classroom(they confirmed that the wole school shootings in America have pushed the chance of it getting in the magazine way down).
I kinda feel like I wouldn't be surprised if Ohba and Obata came back to the magazine soon, but I probably also wouldn't be surprised if they never came back.
Kinda off topic too, but does anybody know if the eReading apps for Otokujuku and Ginga are legit on iTunes. They are both released by some company called Creation Advance Inc. that I can't even find a press release on. Would like to check out both series though…..
I actually really like the Naruto covers. And I believe this one actually is supposed to be familiar looking, because it is a throwback to pre-timeskip color spread with all three of the main characters sitting on the snake, toad, and slug like that with their portaits in the background.
Really like the Cross Manage cover. Man. I guess we won't get to see a color version of Choran though unless they pull a classic shonen final volume cover with basically every single character ever on it.
And One Piece Chapter 0 is gonna be in the English Weekly Jump next week. Woot.
The magazine now has back issues for 3 months back from the current issue. The back issues will be $.99 cents each and are only available in the US and Canada for the time being. I believe you do have to purchase them online through their site, but once on your account you can access them from any of their portals.
And WOOOOOOOOOOOH! They will have One Piece Chapter 0 in the issue next week! So excited. They got the color spread and everthing.
And Cross Manage Vol. 2 (YEAH!YEAH!YEAH!) and Nisekoi Vol. 5 (cool…) come out tomorrow, and I believe still in time fore the 20% off sale too, so they will only be $3.99 each.
@Maxy:
You could always subscribe in the interim and then just read scans. That's another way of being less scummy, whether consuming the actual material or not
I totally agree. Plus, I am not sure anyone said if international issues expire as well? I assume they don't so you can always have them on your account to go back later to.
^^ i agree with you on that note, £1.99 isnt that much, but my thought is if they have a browser friendly version, they would get more international customers and also they should have a more aggresive advertising, i just found out today through this thread
I really do wish they would get the browser out, I feel like it would be the easiest one, but I guess it is harder to region block their entire site then just an app. Do tell them you want it though through their twitter and facebook and such. I have been asking them about it, and they are working on it, but they are gonna do an their android app first.
And on the gender stuff, I have always felt the females are the main buyers of manga in the west, and even if we do like to throw around the "big 3" though, that really isn't the case right now, because the most shojoest shojo to ever shojo has been the highest selling manga in the west for the past two quarters, Sailor Moon.
And I think the main reason Viz actually has so much shojo on their site though is just because they are short and/or finished. They didn't really waste any time putting up Zombie Powder, and now they are putting up the over a decade old, but definitely finished, Flame of Recca too.
Seems that they will be announcing more international regions for release in the coming weeks. Looking forward to it. Seems like they have already covered all the regions where they publish the series themselves already, so I guess we will get how they have worked things out with foreign companies.
Also they started a 20% off sale on all digital manga until the end of the month, making all Shonen Jump titles only 3.99. Time to catch up on Nisekoi…..
FUUUUUUUUUUUH-
Mutou ends and they still cancelled Cross Manage. So painful.
And if World Trigger is seriously that popular among voters to push it up, more power to it, but if it is just being spared by editors then more pain for the cancellation of Cross Manage. I wonder if vol. 2 will even make the top 50.
For US and Canada a year subscription to Weekly Shonen Jump is now $19.99 when you use promo code WSJSDCC2013 during checkout until July 28th.
Anyone know about expiration dates for countries outside of the US and Canada? I don't know if there are any, but I really hope people realize that there is a really good chance if there is that they will get all those issues back once Jump and Viz gets comfy in those regions.
And now that that one glorious series is officially over, I wonder what Viz will be adding next. They said before that whenever a weekly series ends they will always replace it, so even if Jaco counts as it, they have to be preparing for the 10 weeks from now when it ends.
I don't think they will get any from this new batch, but I actually really hope that they Nisekoi a new series soon. I'm not really following any of the series not available from Viz, but it would be really nice to have an Assassination Classroom or Shoukugeki no Soma to actually be able to read and not fear cancellation every week. But then you get the whole guns in school and porn artist drama…
@No:
Sees this has nothing to do with Europe outside of the UK and Ireland
falls ass-backwards due to this shocking development
I don't get this comment…..
God I hate it. I am seriously in denile that it will end, but it is pretty much confirmed, especially since Viz left it out of their new Shonen Jump Starter Pack they released today.
I wish it could continue in some other form, be it in the new Jump Live or Jump SQ or some other miracle.
It seems the last chapter (or maybe two chapters) will probably just be a love confession stint.
But yeah, most recent chapter was great.
Yeah, but I thought it would be nice to have a specific place to discuss International Weekly Shonen Jump. There is not a lot of exclusive stuff to it, but there is some. Like it doesn't run all of the series from the Japanese Weekly Jump, but it does also run other series outside of Weekly Jump like One-Punch Man and Blue Exorcist.
And I am not sure if it was also included in the Japanese Jump, but the introduction comment to Toriyama's "Jaco the Galactic Patrol Man" confirmed that the story will be only 217 pages long. I also believe it was the International Shonen Jump team that originally revealed that the series would run for 10 chapters. (Though it seems like it might run for 11 chapters actually, but the first chapter is marked as "1 out of 10+1" so the eleventh chapter is probably kind of special. And though not directly a part of the issues, the podcasts for the international magazine is really informative. Like they said the previous week that they heard from Japan that Jaco seems to be tied to Dragon Ball, and this week with the release of the first chapter they discussed their theories. Since the first chapter is also marked "DB-11" one of the editor's takes it to be not as DB dash 11, but DB negative 11, meaning that this is a prequel to Dragon Ball, and that the alien Jaco is worried about is actually baby Goku. This is all just fun speculation for now though.
Also the new Shonen Jump Starter Pack is available to all the territories through their iOS newsstand app and includes chapter 1 of Jaco.
US and Canada can also read it on there browser here:
http://www.vizmanga.com/reader/1140-weekly-shonen-jump-previews-5
And this week's issue is honestly probably one of the best issues to start on. It is the 45th anniversary of Jump and not only do you get a new series from Toriyama, but you also get 4 full color chapters. I really loved the color by the way. I really wonder how the mangaka feel about it though. Interesting to see that the Japanese Jump actually upped the Japanese price for this issue. I know that coloring costs money, but when it's digital they really are only paying for the act of the first coloring though, not the reproduction of it with every copy they sell. Though I don't know if the digital issue in Japan comes with all the ads the print one does…..
I am surprised I couldn't find a thread for this already, but here is a thread to discuss the international releases of Weekly Shonen Jump. The current regions they are available in are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Customers from the US and Canada can read their issues through their browsers on http://vizmanga.com/ , or through Viz's iOS and Android applications.
Customers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Austarlia, and New Zealand can currently read their issues through Viz's iOS application. They are planning on releasing an Android application soon. (They also seem to be working on browser reading, but they will probably get the andoid application out first.)
US and Canadian customers will be able to access their issues permanently, as well as be able to download them on certain devices. (I believe on iOS you can download
each issue as its own file.)
I am not sure about the customers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, so some help here would be nice.
Here are the release schedules and pricing.
Release Schedule
US & Canada: Monday, 10 AM (Pacific Standard Time)
UK & Ireland: Monday, 6 PM
South Africa: Monday, 7 PM
Australia: Tuesday, 3 AM
New Zealand: Tuesday, 5 AM
Pricing US and Canada: ____$25.99/year__________or $2.99/month_________or $0.99 for a single issue
UK: __________________****£1.99/month_________or £0.69 for a single issue
Ireland: _________________________________2,69 €/month________or 0,89 € for a single issue
Australia: _______________________________$2.99 AUD/month_____or $0.63 AUD for a single issue
New Zealand: ____________________________$4.19 NZD/ month____or $1.29 for a single issue
South Africa: _____________________________R24.99/month_______or R7.99 for a single issue
**FREE Weekly Shonen Jump Starter Pack is now available in all regions above on Viz's Shonen Jump Newsstand app on iOS. It includes the first chapter of Jaco the Galactic Patrol Man.
Subscriptions are now available in all 6 regions above on Android as well.** I really wanted to start this thread before they announced they were going international so people could discuss what they wanted to see, but I am happy they went international so soon. As a US subscriber I can say I am entirely satisfied with my subscription and it is worth way more than the $26.99 a year. I definitely want to hear what international customers want though. I do think it is honestly just going to get better though. They seem to always deliver in the end. In about a year they went from two weeks behind Japan and only had issues that at most would expire in a year, to simultaneous with Japan and permanently owning issues and the abilitly to download your issues. They even gave all the people who ever bought single issues that had already expired months ago all of their issues back permanently.
I do think in few months international subscribers will probably have almost all the abilities North American customers do.
I would also like to see what people think might happen for countries where Shonen Jump titles aren't distributed by Viz. Shueisha always has the supreme power over it's titles, but I can't see them forcing other long-time partners to work with Viz Media or go digital. I do believe Viz and Shueisha want to partner with as many countries as will take them though.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It actually made it on the chart!
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-07-10/japanese-comic-ranking-june-30-july-6
I'm so happy!!!!!
It sucks that it is probably going to end soon. A part of me really hopes they are just like,"…..Screw Mutou Black," and just cancel that instead.....
Since we don't know the numbers from previous volumes, I'm just assuming this series has only gotten more popular now, and has sold more than it used to to get on the chart.
And I would love to see Kaito in Weekly Shonen Jump again before another magazine. I think he/she will be able to handle at least one more heartbreak of cancellation from the magazine. I think he/she will be more stable in another mag, but I really feel that Kaito can actually "balance out" Jump for what it's worth. I feel like there is nothing cooler than being able to read an issue with pirates on one page and girl's lacrosse on the next. I do hope that if there is a next series it wouldn't be gag. Kaito's previous one-shots don't really seem to be my taste…
And I am honestly confused by whether or not Kaito is a male or female. I thougt it was a woman, but the English Shonen Jump refers to Kaito as a male, and they said they aren't sure either, but they did say that the Japanese side gave them the ok to use male pronouns. And it is probably sexist, but I just can't see a female mangaka being so obsessed with Monster Hunter.
Definitely my favorite Cross Manage cover yet. It would be awesome if the next one was the entire team in uniform…..and then the cover after that all of Choran.....
Come on! I want to know what the heck they actually look like colored!
And I actually like the World Trigger cover. I have a feeling if the first volume sells well enough, World Trigger will be the next Kurogane.
I hate that I am actually pretty down on World Trigger now, because if it was doing worse then the next canned would probably be
it, Edison, and Sket Dance. But no. They have to take my Cross Manage.
Also though, out of all the most recent new series I have read, World Trigger is definitely the one I liked least.
I enjoyed Barrage and Takama-ga-hara loads more, and even if I can respect that World Trigger is taking the steady
world building approach, I can't ignore that it is bitterly slow and boring.
Gonna read Soul Catchers soon....seems like it may not bomb....
No!!!! Cross Manage! Please! Stay alive!
God. They could at least give Cross Manage a color spread.
I would cancel a thousand World Triggers if it kept Cross Manage alive.
And the low rankings for Mutou Black and Smoke B.B. don't bode well, right?
And for minutely related stuff, you can vote for "Nube" and "Otoko Juku" on Daisuki. https://www.daisuki.net/topics/view/10031
Looks like One Piece will have another short hiatus and be absent from issue 30.
And World Triggeer tanked.
Source: (NSFW) http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-16808.html
Bah! I don't come here for Naruto and Bleach bashing!!!! I come here for pomeranian gifs!!!!!!
Chapter 33 Talk
Man. I really am glad the series lasted another round. This most recent game has just been so good. I really don't see it ending in any way other than defeat, but man, if the series doesn't survive another round there is no way they can fit in a satisfying ending after a defeat here.
Haha. I actually would quite like it if they somehow did win, and then just totally fell over themselves the next round, thus disgracing Choran even more than if they won the entire tournament.
Oh, and the Choran's director is hilarious.
End
And I also got the digital Volume 1.
Only has the common intro, and then character sketches inbetween chapters, but I was really hoping for some author talk at the end. :sad:
Apparently Volume 2 does have this though? I think….
And I really hope it gets a physical release. I did buy the physical release of Barrage, and seeing as Takama-ga-hara won't be getting one, I should pick up the digital release of that too to show support. They actually already have a physical mock-up for Takama-ga-hara...
I really want a physical release of this though, and I hope that people do support the digital one, since that seems be the number 1 factor in getting a physical release. I already gifted 2 volumes of it.
how many of the other series will not last one year?
I would put money on Naruto ending before the end of 2014.
Kishimoto has basically said he isn't rushing with this final arc, and he has definitely kept a really good pace with most battles,
but he has also totally left some things to the imagination for the sake of time.
Luckily the anime did take advantage of this and supported the idea of "implied filler."
Bleach probably only has a year's worth of content left too, but this will definitely be spread out over 2-3 years and many 2-page spreads.
I actually do like Bleach though.
I kinda feel I am the only one who actually likes the big three. :( (Considers Bleach, not Toriko, a part of the big three.)
Koudansha is aggressively headhunting lately.
They got Nakaba Suzuki of Rising Impact and Kongou Bancho fame to launch successfully a new series (Seven Sins)
They got Eri Yamazaki of Themae Romae fame to run Steve Jobs in their Kiss magazine
And now they got Hiromu Arakawa of Fullmetal Alchemist fame in their bessatsu for Legend of Arslan.
With already Shingeki no Kyojin and Aku no Hana under their belt, Bessatu Magazine is starting to rival Young Jump in content.It's not just Jump, they're grabbing talents from all over the industry
Yeah. I was really suprised when Arakawa went to Shogakugan too. Though she did have that small one-shot series through Shogakukan, and also had a very niche autobiography series through a smaller publisher, but other than that she really seemed to be company loyal and always stuck with Square Enix.
With Kodansha getting her now too, I can only assume they definitely are being super aggressive. Haha. I really hope it isn't that Arakawa is just willing to go to the highest bidder though….but I seriously doubt anyone doing a serial weekly and monthly at the same time is only in it for the money, especially when they already have so much.
I always thought of Nakaba Suzuki not really getting bought by Kodansha though, but more that he just left Shogakukan. I believe he was one of the mangaka that left during Shogakukan's major screw-up phase, mainly being a huge loss of art that also caused fellow Shonen Sunday artist Makoto Raiku to jump ship. Raiku moved to Kodansha too and his Animal Land manga in Bessatsu(haha, ok, yeah they're totally head hunting) is one of my favorites. I pray it gets an anime someday.
Look's like the Pajama na Kanojo artist took his ball and went home.
He's launching a new manga in Kodansha's good! Afternoon magazine.
And it's about badminton?! ( >.>)
Have there been artists that come back after two or more faliures?
It seems most either make a moderate success with their second series,
or they just kind of drop off the map if they don't.
Cover for volume 2 is out.
http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/bigimg_put.cgi?isbn_cd=978-4-08-870669-6
Man. I really don't like these covers. They alwasy seem off.
Really hope a digital vol. 1 gets released by Viz soon. I still absolutely love the series.
Most recent chapters are amazing as well.
Like it is kinda a bad comparison, because the other one actually is shojo(even though it is totally shonen in disguise),
but the only other series that is so emotionally involving to me is Chihayafuru.
Like every week both Cross Manage and Chihayafuru give me the feels.
And just cus I think about it sometimes…...he totally touched her boob in the first chapter.......it....just kinda seems weird to look back on....
@RobbyBevard:
Just think of how big a stink it was when a OP anime episode leaked a day or two early due to the Viz server being hacked… and thats stuff they air on tv for free!
It was FUNimation actually…
And I completely love digital, but I still am not comfortable with all the pricing. As it is now, there are some volumes actually cheaper to get in print. The ones still priced at the $7.99 for their paperbacks are still priced at $4.99 on the VizManga store. If you just wait for a sale, it is really easy to get those volumes for $4.80.
I just don't like knowing I am paying more, for a cheaper product, and then knowing
that the company knows this as well, and is intending to let it slide under the rug for their own profit.
I definitely think a lot of manga is worth more to me than what I am paying,
but from a consumer perspective, it really just erks me knowing a company
is ignoring inconsistencies in pricing for their own advantage.
It just makes me feel used.
Holy crap. This last chapter. Was amazing. It is probably the most a chapter of anything has ever actually chemically engaged me in what people call "the feels" in a long time.
I usually am like a statue when I read, but this chapter was just too amazing. I was laughing, hit the table at one point from the awesomeness, and ended up rolling my eys
multiple times at how it could possible be so good. When I finished reading, I was seriously so overcome with emotions that I just had to get up and take a walk for a while to clear my head.
I know probably many won't find this chapter as amazing as I did, but it definitely is a good one, and in my opnion the best in the series so far.
I love basically everything about Namine, and the ending was so good. I can't wait to see what comes out of this next arc.
I know they will finish the tournament before the series may get cancelled, but I really hope that KAITO doesn't chose to make the team lose their first round in the finals.
It would definitely be a twist I didn't see coming, but in this case that is a bad thing.
Fudge. I love Cross Manage so much. I really don't want to end.
At least we will get to see a Choran match for sure, I just hope Fujioka are the ones to face them.
Kaito's author's comment is sort of sad though….
Just wondering? Did Medaka stay terrible to the end?
I have only seen the show, but I pretty much felt like I was being spat on by Nishi Oisin the entire time, but out of masochism I stuck with it,
and yeah, it stayed terrible, but made me feel bad that it actually had some cool ideas that I just wish some other mangaka thought to use first.
And I have been curious, so I just flip through it in Jump time to time, but idk how it could even end coherently, for a while I have just seen random reverse time skip toddlers. Weird…..
And I think Kiruko getting axed is probably gonna all depend on how volume one does. I think both series are getting some sort of special treatment behind the curtain, but I think it is of note how long it comparably took the first volume of Cross Manage to come out, and how fast Kiruko has come out.
I don't expect Cross Manage to be doing any killer numbers, but hopefully it will rank at least high enough so we can see the numbers it does do, and if Kiruko gets anywhere near the 100k mark, pretty safe to say it will be the one they save from getting axed.
I think I am the only one that doesn't like this cover. I like Kaito's random changes to toony and super realistic in the chapters, but I think it does not work for the cover.
It just doesn't look like Misora.
Loved this chapter. Thank god for some Saiga time finally.
Don't really feel it is harem-y at all. It is just embarrassing sometime when you actually becomes friends with someone.
Aw. So sappy.
And still not satisfied with Aya though. Basically her only personality traits are "mischievous" and "dem clavicles"
Hahaha
What. You just reverted back to your original argument.
So do you think what is in Jump is determined simply by weather or not it is good?
You yourself said you don't like Medaka, but do you consider it Good?
Do you think it deserved to be in Jump?
According to your cold hard facts arguement earlier, Medaka is by simple definition, a good series that deserves to be in Jump.
These gag-mangas completely abandoned its format and went all-battle.
Ok. But were they all battle manga by at One Piece's debut?