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[Spark Of Spirit]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #45 (October 10th, 2018):
Dr. Stone (Cover, Lead CP)
1. The Promised Neverland
2. One Piece
3. My Hero Academia
4. Black Clover
Act-Age (CP)
5. Hinomaru Zumou
6. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
I'm from Japan (Not Ranked)
7. Jujutsu Kaisen
8. Haikyu!!
Smart Debu (One Shot, CP)
Prinprin Yoshida no Karei Naru Jinsei (One Shot, CP)
Matagi to Gakusei (One Shot, CP)
9. We Never Learn
Hunter X Hunter (Not Ranked)
10. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
11. Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Souma
12. Alice & Taiyou
13. Tanaka Seiji
Teenage Renaissance David


Look like they're swapping Japan and David to see which one does better in the bottom slot. Anyway, ranks are pretty normal and it's nice to see MHA back at the top again. Next week Haikyu gets the cover, and We Never Learn and Jujutsu Kaisen get color pages. There will also be a mini-series by Kazuki Takahashi (of Yu-Gi-Oh! fame) as well as another one-shot by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. In other news, it looks like MHA has finally overtaken Haikyu in sales to be #2 in Jump behind One Piece.

In non-Jump news Souboutei is still selling really well and is still getting zero attention from anyone. Too bad. Hope the Karakuri Circus anime will give it some spotlight.

[VLordGTZ]

Looks like Viz will simulpub The Comiq (Kazuki Takahashi's new manga) in Shonen Jump, as well as a new RWBY manga by Bunta Kinami

I kinda wish they'd pick up Act-Age and/or Jujutsu Kaisen while they're at it, but hey at least we're getting more content for the magazine.

[VLordGTZ]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #46 (October 17th, 2018):
Haikyu! (Cover, Lead CP, 34 pgs)
1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
2. Act-Age
3. Dr. Stone
Jujutsu Kaisen (CP)
The Comiq (New Series, 53 pgs)
4. The Promised Neverland
We Never Learn (CP)
5. My Hero Academia (11 pages)
Watashi no Hero Academia (Special Chapter by Yoko Akiyama)
6. Black Clover (13 pages)
Black Clover Gaiden (Special Chapter)
Hajimete no Mochikomi  (One-shot, Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro)
Teenage Renaissance David
7. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Hunter x Hunter
8. Hinomaru Sumo
9. Food Wars
10. Alice & Taiyo
11. Tanaka Seiji
I'm From Japan

One Piece will have the cover next week, and Boruto, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Demon Slayer will get color pages.  I'm surprised The Comiq isn't getting any color pages at all, though maybe it's because of it being a limited-run series.  It's interesting that David and Japan have been swapping places at the bottom of the ToC.  My guess is that the editorial is trying to figure out which series works better as a closer for the magazine.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I hope Horikoshi is okay. The last month of chapters have been incredibly short and could all have been stacked to make regular length ones. He usually only does this when he's not feeling well. It has been a heavy year for him so I was hoping he'd be more free to work back at his usual pace.

Everything else is about where I'd expect. KnY's been on fire so it's nice to see it so consistently high.

[VLordGTZ]

World Trigger is resuming publication on October 29th!

It will run 5 chapters in Weekly Shonen Jump before moving to being a monthly series in Jump SQ.  It's good to see Ashihara finally coming back!

[Spark Of Spirit]

I knew it would be moving to monthly. I'm going to guess this is to complete the part they were already on. Nonetheless, I'm just glad it's back and I'm eager to read more.

[LumRanmaYasha]

It's been a long two years! So glad World Trigger is back. It looks like Caleb Cook, who translates MHA and Dr. Stone for Viz, will be its new translator too, which makes me even more excited to read it.

Viz has also put up the entirety of the B-Rank Wars arc (chapters 82-164) to read for free online for the next two weeks! This is really great for anyone who needs a refresher, and I'll probably revisit as much as I can before the series comes back, though thankfully a lot of it is still fresh in my mind thanks to rereading it for Manga Mavericks earlier this year.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

This is terrific news!

Unfortunately, it's been two years since I caught up with the series, and I'm not going to lie....I've forgotten a shit-ton of stuff since then. I'll need to find a way to do a quick refresher as I simply don't have the time to re-read the whole series up to its current point, and that includes re-reading an entire story arc. Maybe I'll just re-read select chapters or something. I mean, I'm glad that it's back and all, but I wish the Jump staff would have announced this a month earlier or something so that I had more time to prepare for its return.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Yeah, World Trigger has so many characters, intertwining subplots, and lore that it's really hard to remember everything. I definitely appreciated the series a lot more reading it again from the beginning and seeing how all the pieces fit together, and I think it really is a series best read in chunks. But it's also a really dense read, and while I'm really glad that Viz has put up over half the series for people to re-read for free on their site, I definitely won't be able to read all of it either. I think the easiest way to segue back into keeping up with the series without completely re-reading it for now is to just re-read chapters 147-164, since those chapters set up and address Tamakoma's priorities going into their next match and the motivations of the main characters right now, which should be enough to get back into the swing of what the series is about.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I only reread the last two Rank War matches and felt refreshed. Just needed my memory jostled a little.

The next match which starts in the next chapter is very important and will certainly not be finished in the five chapters left in Jump. It's the first one with Hyuse, and they're going against three of the best teams. They need to reach the top 2 in order to get on the away team for various reasons, and this is basically the match the whole last arc was leading up to. So it's a pretty big deal.

He should be able to get through it quicker at a monthly pace though.

[VLordGTZ]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #47 (October 22nd, 2018):
One Piece (Cover/Lead CP)
1. The Promised Neverland
2. Black Clover
Jujutsu Kaisen (CP)
Hunter x Hunter
The Comiq (23 pages)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (CP)
4. Haikyu!
5. Dr. Stone
Boruto (CP)
6. Act-Age
I'm From Japan
7. Hinomaru Sumo
8. Food Wars
9. We Never Learn
10. Yuuna & The Haunted Hot Springs
11. Alice & Taiyo
12. Tanaka Seiji
Teenage Renaissance David

As we know, World Trigger returns in issue #48!  Additionally, The Promised Neverland will have the Cover/LCP, and Yuuna and Food Wars will have CPs.  On a side note, Hinomaru Sumo and We Never Learn have also changed editors. 

[Spark Of Spirit]

I keep hearing that Hinomaru is heading for the end so I'm not sure how much could really be changed. Four years in and I'm pretty sure he's got things locked down. WNL is an interesting case. Not really sure why you would need to switch editors on a series like this, especially when it's getting an anime, and I'm not really sure what more you could do to change it. As long as it doesn't go the Nisekoi route of doing nothing for a long period, I suppose.

Most excited for World Trigger's return, though. Been waiting two years to see what happens next!

[LumRanmaYasha]

I'm unsure if Hinomaru and WNL getting new editors is a move meant to change the direction of the series themselves, necessarily. My guess is that the editors either got reassigned to upcoming new series or another series just because they needed to shuffle people around to accommodate as many artists as possible. After all, when Nisekoi got a new editor five chapters before it ended I'd imagine it was done to help its previous editor get a head start on working with a different series rather than trying to shake the series up as it was heading towards its conclusion.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

The current arc of KnY is getting really damn interesting with how Nezuko has become the center-piece of the coming conflict between the humans and the demons. It was also a brilliant idea to have the demon attacks abruptly stop to fill us (and the Demon Hunters) with an eerie and foreboding sense of dread, like this is the calm before the storm and the enemy is gathering up for a big attack. It kind of feels like an endgame is already in site, which would be way sooner than what I expected, but there's still a lot of unanswered questions left about Tanjirou's past.

Also, it really has been a while since we last saw Tamayo. I almost completely forgot who she was until I placed her in my memory from one of the really early story arcs.

[VLordGTZ]

I forgot to post Issue #48's ToC, so I'll post it right now along with Issue #49's.

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #48 (October 29th, 2018):
The Promised Neverland (Cover/LCP)
1. One Piece
World Trigger
Yuuna and the Haunted Hotsprings (CP)
Henshuusha Nante Rokunamon Janai by Matsui Yuusei (One-shot, 5 pages)
2. Dr. Stone
3. My Hero Academia
Watashi no Hero Academia (One-shot)
Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (CP)
4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
5. Haikyu!!
The Comiq
6. We Never Learn
7. Black Clover
Teenage Renaissance! David
8. Jujutsu Kaisen
Hunter × Hunter
9. act-age
10. Hinomaru Sumo
11. Alice & Taiyo
12. Tanaka Seiji
I'm From Japan

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #49 (November 5th, 2018):
Black Clover (Cover/LCP)
1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
2. One Piece
3. Dr. Stone
World Trigger
act-age (CP)
4. My Hero Academia
5. The Promised Neverland
Haikyu!! (CP)
6. Teenage Renaissance! David
7. Jujutsu Kaisen
The Comiq
Teenage Renaissance! David (CP)
8. We Never Learn
9. Hinomaru Sumo
10. Yuuna and the Haunted Hotsprings
11. Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
12. Alice & Taiyo
13. Tanaka Seiji
I'm From Japan

Food Wars will get the Cover and Lead CP in Issue #50, with Hinomaru Sumo and I'm From Japan (which will have 2 chapters) getting CPs.  This is also the first week in which I'm From Japan has stayed at the bottom of the ToC instead of swapping with David, so I'm assuming that it'll be staying static at that position for now.