Dexo posted:

Though they should make another one of those games. They were pretty fun. I imported Ultimate Stars when it came out.

Fuego Fish posted:

Plus it just so happens to be the greatest sports manga ever created, provided you like American football as played by superhumans ranging from 4 feet tall to 14 feet tall.

Pewdiepie posted:

Now that Naruto and Bleach are over, what would you say the new big 3 are?

Kuroyama posted:

I think "Big Three" is a western creation. I prefer thinking in terms like "Top Draws" or "Main Eventers" myself [1], which currently looks like One Piece, MHA, Haikyuu, Shokugeki no Soma, Black Clover, and Promised Neverland. And you got a decent mid-card with titles like Gintama, World Trigger, Toriko, PSI Kusuo Saiki, Straighten Up, Samon the Summoner, and Yuragi-sou no Yuuna. I think that leaves just the new titles that haven't yet gotten over or won't last past 2 months. [2]






[1]: All Jump popularity discussions should use wrestling terms.

[2]: Judgement based on about 2 minutes looking up Jump ToC's.

ConanThe3rd posted:

I really want to like TPN but I really need it to get to the opposite end of this current arc before I can call it.

Ytlaya posted:

Even when a series deserves to be cancelled, I still always feel kinda bad because you know the writer must have been super excited about getting into Shounen Jump. It's like someone winning the lottery and then having it rescinded.

edit: Though I imagine that part of it is that they're aiming specifically for Shounen Jump. A lot of the series that I see get cancelled from Shounen Jump (like Red Sprite) seem like they could have easily been serialized in any "lesser" shounen magazine.

Allarion posted:

Read Bakuman. But basically, the series that get more reader votes are generally placed at the front of the magazine, while the series that are lagging behind, are placed in the back. The exceptions are if they're a big long-time runner like Kochikame was, or still selling well in merchandise and volumes, so they can sit anywhere, and not be canceled. Bleach was sorta like that in its last two years, where everybody knew it was ending and dying so it was always in the back, but it was still making enough profit that they could let that final arc drag on and on. Series on the verge of ending tend to be in the back in general, hence me correctly assuming Toriko was in its final phases even though I don't read Toriko, because it kept showing up at the bottom on a consistent weekly basis.

EDIT: Other fun facts, covers and color pages are generally discounted from rankings. Color pages tend to be used for promoting the series, so if a series gets a color page consistently, that generally means Jump's heavily pushing it, which happened with MHA and Black Clover.

Slime posted:

But I thought Boruto was being written by somebody else.

Personal_Nirvana posted:

Ballroom e Youkoso is the best ongoing sports/drama manga period.


Hopefully the hiatus comes to an end soon.

Ytlaya posted:

I've been enjoying that other ballroom dancing manga (not Ballroom e Youkoso, but the other one). I like how the muscular fro guy isn't just some gay stereotype comic relief and is an actual character with a personality who people interact with normally. The main character's dancing partner/maybe love interest is also pretty cool and a bit unusual as far as shounen female love interests go.

Another kind of interesting thing is how the main character and his partner aren't really exceptional in any way, and it's been explicitly stated that their 2nd year upperclassmen were more talented than them when they started out. It has less of a shounen sports manga feel as a result, with the 2nd year guy feeling more like a typical sports shounen protagonist than the MC. It feels more like a story about the main characters having fun dancing as a school club/hobby than a "AIMING FOR THE TOP" competitive sports manga.

One minor issue is that it's kinda hard to determine how well the characters are dancing from the art. I imagine this is mostly just because it's really hard to convey that through images, but it seems like every time the characters dance and aren't actively loving up they look mostly the same. Ballroom e Youkoso has better art overall, but this one is also pretty decent.

Buzzsaw Roomba posted:

Only 2-3 new series survive each year. So at least half are dead for sure.

Ore Golazo had its first ranking this issue: #14 of 15.

dordreff posted:

Shika High Dance Club has been getting a bunch of updates lately and with every chapter is getting more and more Sports Anime and i'm mad about it. I just want it to go back to cute kids having fun and dancing and less "oohrah my special ability lets me counter yours" poo poo that it was making fun of like 5 chapters before it actually happened.

Mikl posted:

A couple new chapters have popped up on Mangastream.

We Can't Study is generic as hell, but the art is nice. I give it two more chapters before it devolves into Nisekoi-style shenanigans.

The Promised Neverland: the train has no brakes.

Allarion posted:

It was never sitting near the bottom, so I assumed it ended naturally, but I stopped reading cause scans dried up for a while, so I dunno.

Hate-Senpai posted:

Scans dried... but only 5 chapters away from the end???

http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Seshiji-o-Pin--to-Shikakou-Kyougi-Dance-bu-e-Youkoso

bondster posted:

Read U19, yea its loving terrible and not subtle at allllllll Grown Ups Party = G.U.P

ConanThe3rd posted:

Oh god every time someone brings U19 up they find some new angle to the writing

Mikl posted:

The most interesting way U19 could go is for the protagonist to organize an uprising and take over the school in a coup, setting it up as an independent state.

Also says that he actually has an even higher genetic result than his childhood friend (maybe quadruple-S or S-star or something), based on the fact that he didn't want to look at the result in the first place and he's apparently "special" so he can awaken libido problems.



Also also, can we get a name change for this thread?

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > ADTRW > The Miscellaneous Shounen Thread: Shonen Jump Manga Death Watch

Nalin posted:

I still don't get it. Is it a play on the German Worker's Party? Grand Old Party? I don't know anything that shares that abbreviation.

ConanThe3rd posted:

Quite how it's kept it's reputation as the big one, given it's prone to author burnout (World Trigger, Bleach, HxH, Oda's had a few IIRC)

Ytlaya posted:

I dunno, after reading the whole thing I was able to tell apart most of the main named characters. I mean, they look kinda samey, but not so much that I can't tell them apart.

I hope World Trigger starts again, because I actually like it a lot. Its world-building is pretty weak, but it has some great fights and likable character, which are the main things I'm looking for in shounen battle manga.

Jose posted:

how do you or anyone else know this?

madmac posted:

It does feel a bit directionless even by Shonen Romcom standards, sure. I don't dislike it but there's nothing going on to make me keep reading it either.

OTOH, most Shonen Romcoms have some unbelievably terrible plot hook that just drags the story down like Nisekoi's secret promise girl magic keychain BS, or Love Hina's secret promise girl...secret...promise...thing so it could always be worse.

U-19 is just aggressively bad, but Demon Prince Diary is charmingly goofy in the first chapter at least.

Crain posted:

Hell. Sena would probably be scouted for the olympics with his speed and running style. Sure a 40 yard dash is way different from a 100 meter sprint. But that's just a ma of training.

Side note: my autocorrect keeps trying to make Sena into Sean and I realized that's probably what a 4kids translation would have made him. Sean. Sean ... kowalski. Yeah.

Heavy Metal posted:

Rurouni Kenshin is still the best miscellaneous shounen saga of all time, just sayin'! Hiten Mitsurugi style baby.

Nate RFB posted:

The Kyoto arc of Kenshin remains to this day what I would probably consider the top-to-bottom best singular shounen arc. Lots of memorable villains and fights with a great build up to a great finale.

I've never really been a fan of the arcs that followed, despite Enishi being probably the best overall villain in the story and it having at least one really shocking scene/panel (folks probably know the one I mean). It got really silly around this point (one of the villains had a straight up modern day grenade launcher) and outside of Enishi every other villain was throwaway and forgettable.

Kuroyama posted:

Volumes 25 and 26 of Rurouni Kenshin are the best volumes of manga ever, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Cipher Pol 9 posted:

Is We Never Learn being translated online still? I rarely venture outside of MangaStream these days but I would definitely like to continue reading it if it doesn't get picked up by the English Jump. I didn't know there was a third girl!

Allarion posted:

Jaimini's box usually picks up Jump's stuff, which you can find on their site or batoto.

Ytlaya posted:

It's alright for a harem series, though dark skin and glasses girl are both pretty common stereotypes (the former is a very typical "genki athletic girl" and the latter is a Yuki Nagato-esque "socially dumb" type character). Long hair is sort of like a mix between a "ditzy beauty" character and a yamato nadeshiko (though more the former than the latter).

At the very least it's better than that other WSJ harem series with the ghost girl.

edit: Probably my favorite recent example of a harem-ish shounen romcom is Masamune's Revenge, because 1. actual progress is made in a relatively timely manner and 2. the main character's gimmick is that he's actually good looking, so it comes off as less bizarre that girls are interested in him (and even then the series limits the number of girls who are clearly interested in him to like 3 or 4, only 2 of which are ever treated as serious contenders).

I mean, I don't know if I'd go as far as to say that it's good, but I was at least able to read it, while I can't bring myself to read harem series that run for hundreds of chapters with zero progress/resolution. I also really dislike when the protagonist is a socially awkward reader stand-in (this is something We Never Learn is pretty good about; the MC is a decent looking guy who has some genuinely exceptional qualities, so it's not that unbelievable that some girls might be interested in him), so the few series that create believable romances gain some points in my book.

Dexo posted:

chumbler posted:

The anime doesn't really get to the good stuff.

Ytlaya posted:

So I guess Norman is actually dead in Promised Neverland? For a long time I kept expecting there to be some trick involved, but I can't imagine any way that he could have avoided dying in his situation.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

The ruse won't last past the OP but what a ruse it will be.

Plutonis posted:

Where's the story? Also iirc it was because he was peeking on women's baths or something lol

Rodyle posted:

Mashima at one point had 2 fairy tail spinoffs and the main series running concurrently and would still randomly toss out omakes, idk what that crew runs on

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

what, don't you remember the old bleach threads where a few dumbasses were convinced that kubo had an elaborate story plotted out from the start, with numerous callbacks and hidden depth? then there was the actual bleach manga, where the writing was poo poo with a side of poo poo and a poo poo milkshake.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Personally, I wasnt convinced as much as I sincerely wanted a good end to the series, it was something I acrually enjoyed and the end was like seeing your childhood pet grow old, have all its fur fall off and die in a puddle of its own poo poo and piss.
I think around yhwach's umpteenth rear end pull everyone just checked out and started shitposting.