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I like The Hunters Guild: Red Hood's attitude. Had no expectations for it (didn't read the one-shot) and it was a pleasant surprise. Pretty nice art, interesting themes. It has potential. i tell c is done, as expected. The previous arc with the art thief was pretty fun, but otherwise the series was a bit of a mess. The most interesting thing about the ending is seeing how it wrapped things up in comparison to other series that get the axe early: in this case, chalk one up in the "our adventures continue" column as it didn't offer any resolution to the ongoing plot. That might be the road Nine Dragons' Ball Parade takes too; we'll find out soon. What else... The Elusive Samurai has really come into its own lately. Mashle remain uninteresting whenever Mash isn't on screen. Witch Watch funny. I'm getting the feeling Blue Box isn't going to be spending much time at all on the sports matches. Which doesn't bother me much, it's the romantic dramedy elements that are compelling. Few series are quite as reliable as Sakamoto Days for delivering badass full-page spreads every issue.
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I like the monster design in Red Hood. I also like Elusive Samurai's innocent smiles.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:41
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elusive samurai had great crossover potential with the chainsaw man teaser https://twitter.com/zzzankizero/status/1409105583194591235?s=19  everybody just having a good time splashing around 
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Jun 28, 2021 02:59
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Mikl posted:I wish to state this on the record: big same hunter series seems neat
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Jun 28, 2021 03:06
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the monster design in red hood was cool, def gonna stick with it for at least a while longer
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Jun 28, 2021 04:05
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hunters guild: Careful it could be ruff. That pun alone makes it worth reading at least another chapter. Art was awesome and the huntress swapping between kid and adult form was actually pretty funny. 9Dragon balls: Hurray, time for the comeback! This series might get a good ending. I know it wasn't anything special, but I like it. Elusive Samurai: Just echoing what the others are saying. This poo poo is good now. Candy Flurry: Can...can we keep the popcorn guy. I love him far too much. Everyone is an idiot there and they just made their own King.
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Jun 28, 2021 08:02
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Darth TNT posted:Candy Flurry: Can...can we keep the popcorn guy. I love him far too much. Everyone is an idiot there and they just made their own King. Popcorn guy threatening to denotate the corn kernels he had strapped to his waist was some fuckin' funny poo poo.
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Darth TNT posted:
Going by actual History. Tokiyuki will retake Kamakura when he is 12 or 13 (Can't remember which.) Then will lose it to the villain the same year. (Lots of stuff will happen in fact.)
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MonsterEnvy posted:Going by actual History. Tokiyuki will retake Kamakura when he is 12 or 13 (Can't remember which.) Then will lose it to the villain the same year. (Lots of stuff will happen in fact.) The backdrop is interesting enough, but I'm also enamoured with how he keeps weaving reality and fantasy in and out of the story. Like how this guy gets delusions from blood loss. The art really sells what's happening.
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candy flurry is surprisingly good. the setting, the conflict, the fight scenes, none of those are anything special. they are all adequate, but sort of bland. but then the manga keeps popping out fun, charming characters left and right.
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Jun 28, 2021 23:47
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Red Hood's first chapter might be good, but it will absolutely be cancelled because it has a "manga that will be cancelled" title. I will trust my gut on this.
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Ytlaya posted:Red Hood's first chapter might be good, but it will absolutely be cancelled because it has a "manga that will be cancelled" title. I will trust my gut on this. Counterpoint. The internet is getting really horny over the female character. That should give it some staying power.
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Jun 29, 2021 11:08
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Mulderman posted:Counterpoint. Ziga is proof enough that widespread fanart isn't enough to save a series by itself. I think it's still a little early to predict if Red Hood has what it takes to survive. Still, seems to have a clearer path forward than most of the recent flops.
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Jun 29, 2021 11:52
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chiasaur11 posted:Ziga is proof enough that widespread fanart isn't enough to save a series by itself. I don't think the Internet got horny over Ziga though.
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The only thing that gives me pause about Red Hood is that the MC is not terribly distinct in personality/design and wasn't sold hard enough for a first chapter. The thing I noticed that just kills a new series is a bad or non-distinct MC- you can have the opposite effect where you try way too hard and overshoot (see: Build King, I Tell C), or push a single characteristic as a point of distinction in an annoying/shallow way (see: Phantom Seer), but if I can't tell you anything about your MC in a one-shot it's probably not good. This reminds me a bit of a Weekly Jump version of Kiba no Tabishounin, except it lacks any of the strong characterization and edge. The loss of edge is because it's weekly jump- I read the original Red Hood one-shot and it's almost -exactly- the same (which is kind of unusual) as the serialization's first chapter, except the One-Shot has a fair amount more gore.
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Jun 29, 2021 12:37
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Ziga died so that Kaiju 8 could live.
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Jun 29, 2021 12:48
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Mikl posted:I wish to state this on the record: poo poo I'm still mad about Mx0.
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Jun 29, 2021 13:57
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Also lol that the main character's name was mistranslated as Bellou on one of the pages.
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I'm finally catching up to Nagataro, and I gotta say, I'm having a complete turn around about President and her little...sister? cousin? I thought they would end up being another just lame love rivals, but instead, they managed to find a spine lying around and pound it into Senpai somehow, so that he finally asks Nagataro on a date. 
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Jun 29, 2021 17:36
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that choujin x thing from the tokyo ghoul guy updated and god what a mess of a chapter that was also, tomaytoes?
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Manatee Cannon posted:that choujin x thing from the tokyo ghoul guy updated and god what a mess of a chapter that was Yeah, when you end a chapter with a cliffhanger, it's traditionally good form to open by following up on the cliffhanger. Choujin X went with the less conventional route of going on a completely different plot line, only to casually resolve the last chapter's setup in the final page. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jun 30, 2021 |
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Jun 30, 2021 03:01
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I have no idea what's happening in Chojin X, but I'm down to clown.
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Jun 30, 2021 03:19
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Okay good. I thought I was getting old. Because Chojin x was an incomprehensible mess to me. But I did like the Tomaytoes actually. She’s a farmer.
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Jun 30, 2021 06:38
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https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1410133147103211520?s=19 Y'all called it
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Jun 30, 2021 16:42
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Is it my imagination or are more series dying out quicker?
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I think that it's just more noticeable since everything is on official apps now instead of at scanlator whim
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I think the churn is pretty consistent, it's just more noticeable now that we see everything in every issue of WSJ for free. There's always been an incentive to cut the worst-performing series regularly since the next new one could be a mega hit.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Is it my imagination or are more series dying out quicker? It tends to come in waves from what I've noticed. A few series end / get canceled around the same time, which means a bunch all start around the same time to fill those gaps. Not all of those new series wind up being good, so they tend to get canceled at around the same time. I Tell C had 21 Chapters, and Nine Dragons currently has 19 (final will be 20) - so they started within two weeks of each other. Elusive Samurai and Witch Watch were around the same time (currently at 22 and 20 chaps, respectively) - both part of the same "batch" of new series. We're just now starting up another new batch with Red Hood and whatever the other new one starting this week is - if neither catch on, I suspect in a few months we'll be going through the same thing again.
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CodfishCartographer posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1410133147103211520?s=19 So next chapter is the last? That’s going to be one hell of a rush chapter. I’m not surprised but a little disappointed. I liked it even if It wasn’t particularly special or anything.
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Jun 30, 2021 18:20
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The churn where series die at ~20 chapters if they bomb has been the norm for a while, minus previously successful authors.
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imagine being the only sports manga in jump and blowing it i read bone collector and it was great, too good for this world
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I've belatedly started reading Witch Watch and this is pretty funny. These spells are spectacularly dumb.
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Cloks posted:imagine being the only sports manga in jump and blowing it Like if you're gonna do High School Baseball in a big magazine, you gotta be able to beat Ace of Diamond- which is a tall order. Nevermind Rookies, Mr. Fullswing, etc. If you're doing soccer, you gotta be able to compete with stuff like Blue Lock and somehow escape the shadow of Captain Tsubasa. Kuroko's Basketball kind of escaped being lumped in with Slam Dunk (yes, the joke is "because it's not as good") by going more for the fantastic elements rather than the personal angle. I feel like you gotta be pretty different to not be "ah, this is trying to be Captain Tsubasa/Rookies/etc".
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Fabricated posted:IMO Baseball and Soccer are sports where you basically have to destroy it to succeed in Weekly Jump because there are multiple very good serializations both past and current. So the answer here is Jump needs someone to create an Ice Hockey manga.
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The Black Stones posted:So the answer here is Jump needs someone to create an Ice Hockey manga. The Hitman Reborn author made a hockey oneshot some years after the reborn manga ended. I liked it but it didn't get picked up.
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Jun 30, 2021 20:54
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The Black Stones posted:So the answer here is Jump needs someone to create an Ice Hockey manga.
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Jun 30, 2021 21:45
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Cloks posted:imagine being the only sports manga in jump and blowing it High School Family's volleyball plotline beg to differ. (It was pretty funny the week Roboco did a baseball story and did it better than Nine Dragons in fewer pages, even hitting some of the exact same beats.) Also, the love for Bone Collector has convinced me that there is nothing Jump can cancel that won't be praised as a lost classic a few months down the line.
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chiasaur11 posted:High School Family's volleyball plotline beg to differ. I have yet to see people talking about Guardian of the Witch positively, but lmao I still see people talking about how Time Paradox Ghostwriter got canceled too early.
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CodfishCartographer posted:I have yet to see people talking about Guardian of the Witch positively, but lmao I still see people talking about how Time Paradox Ghostwriter got canceled too early.
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