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[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

The last good thing to come out of that studio was Level E.

[VLordGTZ]

Osomatsu-san is really good, but aside from that, I agree Level E is the last good thing the studio has worked on (and even that was just a co-production with David Productions).

[LumRanmaYasha]

Mob Psycho 100 is getting a TV anime and it's being produced by BONES.

One more anime to look forward to! 

Twin Star Exorcists is getting a TV anime

Uh oh.

One less anime to look forward to... 

[LumRanmaYasha]

Osomatsu-san is really good, but aside from that, I agree Level E is the last good thing the studio has worked on (and even that was just a co-production with David Productions).

Level E can't be the "last good thing" to come out of Pierrot because Osomatsu-san is good, silly. 

[LumRanmaYasha]

Here are the rankings for the December 7th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump:

One Piece (Cover, Lead CP)
1 - Assassination Classroom
Koro-sensei Quest! (Special Chapter)
2 - Hinomaru Zumou
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kouen-mae Hashutsujo (CP)
3 - My Hero Academia
4 - Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma
Ayakashi Ishoku Henitai Garo (CP, One Shot)
5 - The Mishaps of Kusuo Saiki
6 - Haikyuu!!
7 - Samon the Summoner
Buddy Strike (not ranked)
8 - Black Clover
9 - Toriko
10 - Gintama
11 - Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club
12 - Mononofu
Isobe Isobee Monogatari (CP)
13 - Nisekoi
14 - Bleach

Not a good week for SU! and Mononofu.  Hoping these low rankings will be outliers for them. And ouch for Nisekoi. Guess japanese readers just didn't care for the recent arc much.

[LumRanmaYasha]

I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to cover Buddy Strike's Jump Start run, and will probably miss the first few issues of the new year too. I'm going to be relieved when this month is over and I can start doing stuff like After the Jump again.

But, with the 2015 year of Jump over, I thought it would be neat to look back at how I ranked certain series throughout the year in the surveys, a lot of which luckily I had archived for After the Jump reviews. Though, I had to estimate for some of them since I wasn't reading Jump until the month of free preview issues started in late January, and I wasn't recording my survey picks until I started writing After the Jump reviews in May.

Spoiler

Issue 1:

1 - World Trigger
2 - Toriko
3 - Food Wars!
4 - Gakkyu Hotei

Issue 2:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - Gakkyu Hotei
4 - Naruto (Jump Back)

Issue 3:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - One Piece
4 - Naruto (Jump Back)

Issue 4/5:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - One Piece
3 - World Trigger
4 - Toriko

Issue 6/7:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Assassination Classroom
3 - One Piece
4 - Toriko

Issue 8:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - One Piece
4 - Toriko

Issue 9:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Nisekoi
4 - One Piece

Issue 10:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - One Piece
3 - Gakkyu Hotei
4 - Nisekoi


Issue 11:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - Gakkyu Hotei
4 - Toriko

Issue 12:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Kagamigami
4 - Black Clover

Issue 13:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Kagamigami
4 - World Trigger

Issue 14:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Toriko
4 - Ultra Battle Satellite

Issue 15:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Toriko
4 - Ultra Battle Satellite 

Issue 16:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Toriko
3 - World Trigger
4 - Gakkyu Hotei

Issue 17:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Toriko
4 - One Piece

Issue 18:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - Gakkyu Hotei
4 - World Trigger

Issue 19:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - Gakkyu Hotei
4 - One Piece

Issue 20:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - Black Clover
4 - World Trigger

Issue 21:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - Food Wars!
3 - Gakkyu Hotei
4 - World Trigger

Issue 22/23:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - Gakkyu Hotei
3 - World Trigger
4 - Toriko

Issue 24:

1 - Gakkyu Hotei
2 - Straighten Up!
3 - Toriko
4 - Food Wars!

Issue 25:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - Straighten Up!
4 - Black Clover

Issue 26:

1 - Black Clover
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - Food Wars!
4 - Devilyman

Issue 27:

1 - World Trigger
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - Devilyman
4 - One-Punch Man

Issue 28:

1 - Gakkyu Hotei
2 - One Piece
3 - Food Wars!
4 - Devilyman

Issue 29:

1 - World Trigger
2 - Toriko
3 - Food Wars!
4- Naruto

Issue 30:

1 - Foile A Deux
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - One Piece
4 - Naruto

Issue 31:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - Nisekoi
4 - Toriko

Issue 32:

1 - Nisekoi
2 - World Trigger
3 - One-Punch Man
4 - Naruto

Issue 33:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - One Piece
3 - My Hero Academia
4 - Best Blue

Issue 34:

1 - Nisekoi
2 - Food Wars!
3 - My Hero Academia
4 - Toriko

Issue 35:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - Nisekoi
4 - World Trigger

Issue 36:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - One Piece
4 - World Trigger

Issue 37/38:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - World Trigger
3 - Food Wars!
4 - Blue Exorcist

Issue 39:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - One Piece
3 - My Hero Academia
4 - Nisekoi

Issue 40:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - One Piece
3 - World Trigger
4 - Food Wars!

Issue 41:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - World Trigger
3 - One Piece
4 - Food Wars!

Issue 42:

1 - Mononofu
2 - World Trigger
3 - Toriko
4 - My Hero Academia

Issue 43:

1 - One Piece
2 - Mononofu
3 - Food Wars!
4 - My Hero Academia

Issue 44:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - One Piece
3 - My Hero Academia
4 - Mononofu

Issue 45:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - World Trigger
4 - Nisekoi

Issue 46:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - Food Wars!
3 - World Trigger
4 - One Piece

Issue 47:

1 - Nisekoi
2 - Food Wars!
3 - World Trigger
4 - My Hero Academia

Issue 48:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - World Trigger
3 - Nisekoi
4 - My Hero Academia

Issue 49:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - Food Wars!
3 - Nisekoi
4 - One-Punch Man

Issue 50:

1 - Food Wars!
2 - Nisekoi
3 - World Trigger
4 - My Hero Academia

Issue 51:

1 - Nisekoi
2 - World Trigger
3 - Buddy Strike
4 - Black Clover

Issue 52:

1 - Nisekoi
2 - My Hero Academia
3 - Buddy Strike
4 - Black Clover

Issue 53:

1 - My Hero Academia
2 - World Trigger
3 - Nisekoi
4 - Buddy Strike

[close]

I'm not going to tally up points, but I think it's safe to say my favorite series in Jump this year was Food Wars! by far (It was my #1 16 weeks in a row!), with World Trigger and My Hero Academia about tied for runner-up. But there really was a lot of good this year, and nearly every regular series got ranked in a survey at some point. The only ones that didn't were Bleach, Seraph, and the two Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, and the reasons why are pretty self-explanatory.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I'm sure without looking it up my top three ranked were MHA, WT, and FW!, since they were really on a roll this year.

As for the rankings, I'm utterly puzzled as to what happened there. Especially with Samon at #7 above mainstays like Toriko, Gintama, Nisekoi,and Black Clover, not to mention up and comers like Straighten Up, and Mononofu, is straight out bizarre.

But Nisekoi also has really good volume sales, so I doubt this will have much effect on it. I only hope this was a fluke week for Mononofu and SU since they really don't need to be that low right now.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Nisekoi is also probably ending sooner than later, so it's not as worrisome for it to get low rankings as it would a series in the middle of it's story. But yeah, really hope SU! and Mononofu rebound. I don't want them to get cut short before they can meet their full potential like Gakkyu Hotei was.

[VLordGTZ]

Food Wars is going to have an important announcement next week in WSJ.  My guess is that they'll finally announce a season 2 for the anime.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Sounds good to me. Just cut down on the added ecchi elements like the back half of the last season and it should solve the show's only problem.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The first chapter of Yu Yu Hakusho is as great as ever. It almost works well enough to be a one-shot of its own. I have to say that it's a great choice for a Jump Back, even if it is one of the best chapters in the issue.

I also like how much more natural Black Clover has been the last few chapters. Naturally unfolding action and drama suits it much more. Had he made the invasion take place after this material, it would have went over better, I think.

My rankings:

1. Yu Yu Hakusho
2. My Hero Academia
3. Food Wars!
4. Black Clover

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

So, YYH was this week's Jump Back? That's neat. Hopefully it inspires some readers to check out the series who have yet to experience the classic.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Yep, it was the great first chapter. Also, the manga is on sale in digital bundles at the same time.

Much as some like to complain about Jump Backs, they are a great idea to revive interest in older series and give more exposure to underrated works.

[gunswordfist]

Really? Now that is cool. I love how the anime starts.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Don't know how I missed this from Horikoshi. He drew this for last year's Jump Festa:



It's impressive how he kept his distinctive style while managing to capture the other series just as well.