Currently Running Manga Discussion

[Spark Of Spirit]

I knew that, I was joking. Just laughing at the fact that it's dead last in the rankings. It's about time to wrap it up, isn't it?

[VLordGTZ]

If Bleach continues to take an ungodly amount of time to end,  I wouldn't be surprised if Shueisha moved it to Jump+ or some other magazine. 

[LumRanmaYasha]

To celebrate their 2-year anniversary, this week's Weekly Shonen Jump podcast is a special video episode!

[Markness]

I knew that, I was joking. Just laughing at the fact that it's dead last in the rankings. It's about time to wrap it up, isn't it?

The same Bleach fanboy I mentioned earlier has this strange dillusion that Bleach is the number one manga in Japan in terms of popularity and sales despite the statistics showing One Piece is still number one while Bleach has been dropping in both rankings steadily.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Here are the rankings for the May 25th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump:

Devily Man (Cover, Lead CP, New Series, 54 p.)
1- One Piece
2- Assassination Classroom
Lady Justice (Center Color, 25 p.)
3- My Hero Academia
4- Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
Haikyu!! (Center Color)
Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
5- Hinomaru Sumo
Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club (23 p., not ranked)
6- Black Clover
7- Toriko
Nisekoi (Center Color)
8- Gintama
9- Kagamigami
10- World Trigger
11- The Mishaps of Kusuo Saiki
12- Bleach
13- Kochikame
14- Ultra Battle Satellite
The Story of Isobe Isobee

[Spark Of Spirit]

Man, if anything else gets canceled before Bleach I could totally understand the complaints. Longevity shouldn't count if you've spent a chunk of your run at the bottom of the popularity rankings.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I'm guessing that the paperback volume sales for Bleach are still pretty good to justify it being kept on the magazine. Clearly it's still making WSJ money in some capacity, and as long as it does that, they won't forcefully cancel it.

[VLordGTZ]

Bleach still makes it into the Top 20 Best Selling Manga each year, so it's definitely still doing well sales-wise.  I don't think Bleach will get cancelled, but it's clear that the majority of people who are buying the manga in Japan are not WSJ readers.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Here are the rankings for the June 1st issue of Weekly Shonen Jump:

World Trigger (Cover, Lead CP, 2nd Anniversary)
1- Black Clover
2- One Piece
Devily Man (Center Color, 25 p.)
3- Assassination Classroom
4- Hinomaru Sumo
Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club (Not ranked)
5- Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
6- Haikyu!!
My Hero Academia (Center Color)
Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
7- Gintama
8- The Mishaps of Kusuo Saiki
9- Nisekoi
Collection of Jump+ Series' Special Chapters (Center Color, 32 p.)
Lady Justice (23 p., not ranked)
10- Toriko
11- Kagamigami
12- Kochikame
13- Ultra Battle Satellite
14- Bleach
The Story of Isobe Isobee

Wow, Black Clover is going strong.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Looks like they were smart to pick it after all.

[LumRanmaYasha]

The top selling manga list for the first half of 2015 is now out. The top ten is as follows:

1. The Seven Deadly Sins - 7,059,400
2. One Piece - 7,046,066
3. Assassination Classroom - 5,231,158
4. Attack on Titan - 5,047,725
5. Haikyu!! - 3,588,366
6. Tokyo Ghoul - 2,640,791
7. Naruto - 2,459,918
8. Blue Spring Ride - 2,326,507
9. Terra Formars - 2,303,931
10. Yowamushi Pedal - 1,956,019

Sins taking #1 for this semester is a bit surprising, but the anime must have really boosted it's popularity. OP seems to have regained a sizable lead over Titan now that the hype about it has somewhat wound down. AC's numbers have also gotten a decent boost from both the anime and the fact that the series has just been knocking it out of the park these past few months. Haikyu!'s steadily popular so it's numbers aren't much of a surprise. The rest seem to be enjoying steady popularity thanks to recently concluded anime, or in the case of Naruto & Blue Spring Ride, conclusion-high numbers.

As far as the rest of the top 30 goes, it's great to see World Trigger now in the top 20, and selling more than Bleach. Magi's dropped quite a lot, which surprises me, but I guess japanese readers haven't been as enthusiastic recently much like myself. Parasyte making the list is cool and hopefully encourages anime studios to dig up more unadapted classic manga for new anime in the future (like this summer's Ushio & Tora remake). Overall, this looked like a good semester of sales for a lot of series. I'll be curious as to how things will be different at the end of this year, considering how certain series are going right now, new anime slated for later this year, and the overnight popularity of Black Clover.

[Spark Of Spirit]

From what I've seen, Magi's current dip in popularity has been focusing on the wrong things and going places nobody had any desire for the story to go.

I'm glad to see Parasyte getting a boost, especially if it means older works being adapted is a possibility now.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Another week, another Weekly Shonen Jump review from yours truly! In this week of Jump, Bakugo tries to kill plaque, Toriko sets a wave on fire, and Yugi burns a man to death. Also, a bunch of secondary characters whose names I can't remember come back in just about every series in the issue. All this and more, After the Jump!

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Nice write-ups.

I wasn't really into the Sports Festival arc, so this was a fresh chapter of MHA, and the first one that I really enjoyed in a while. I also like the superhero comic book-style tribute covers.

I'm still really "meh" on One Piece. The problem is that Oda has dragged this arc out for so long that I can't feel any tension no matter what he does because I just want him to wrap it up already.

You know, I'm genuinely surprised by how suitably mediocre the Naruto Gaiden chapters have been so far. They are of course incredibly bland and predictable on their own, but compared to the last few hundred chapters of the manga, the writing feels shockingly.....well, competent, for lack of a better word. That said, I found the last 20 chapters of Naruto to be more entertaining in how awful they were to the point of being hilarious, whereas this stuff is just generic shonen fluff. Neither terrible nor good. It's just simply there.

[Spark Of Spirit]

That MHA comic art cover page. Yes.

Another great write up, Mr. X. Please keep it up.