Shonen Jump ToC Rankings

Sadly, I haven't had time to look into how the current batch of new series are faring.

We won't know for a couple of weeks yet how Hi-Fi and Salt are faring—next issue is presumably Judos' first real rating.

Speaking of Hi-Fi cluster, we learn that apparently an inability to use normal ability labels is, in fact, one of the signs that you can use a Hi-Fi superability. And they have special gadgets that allow the use of normal labels (with limited slots) for their superagents. So if the government was smart, they'd be actively looking for such people.

Issue 45:

Kochikame (Cover, Lead Colour, 38th Anniversary)
1. One Piece
2. My Hero Academia
3. Assassination Classroom
4. Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
Sporting Salt (Chapter 3)
Gin Tama (Center Colour)
6. Hinomaru Zumō
7. World Trigger
Saikyo Jump 4-Pack (Center Colour)
8. Naruto
9. Haikyuu!!
Hi-Fi CLUSTER (Chapter 4)
Nisekoi: False Love (Center Colour)
10. Toriko
Judos (Chapter 5)
11. Isobe Isobee Monogatari
12. Bleach
13. PSI Kusuo Saiki
14. Yoakemono
15. Mitsukubi Condor

Cover for this week.◊

Nisekoi is getting a season 2.

The Kuroko threat person withdrew his appeal.

Issue 46 Info:
Cover, Lead Colour: Naruto
Center Colour: My Hero Academia, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Moromono no Jijō (New Series)

Moromono no Jijō is a short series.

English Issue 44:
World Trigger (Cover, Lead Colour)
Naruto
Sporting Salt (Center Colour, Jump Start)
Toriko
Nisekoi: False Love
Hi-Fi CLUSTER (Jump Start)
Bleach
élDLIVE (Full Colour, Jump Start)

This week's Nihongo Lesson is on male pronouns ("Watashi", "Boku" and "Ore"). After the explanation, there's a quick quiz asking what character uses which pronouns.

This week's comments.◊

Congratulations to Kochikame and keep the quality going!

So next week is when we start seeing how the "Jump Start" titles are polling. Sporting Salt looks like it has the most potential (sports medicine is a fascinating field that's under-represented in fiction) but the wacky powers of Hi-Fi or the visceral action of Judos might go over better with the main audience.

I'm fairly sure it's 3 weeks from now, unless the English magazine was doing something I wasn't aware of?

Next week will be Judos' first real ranking, right? Which is why I wrote "start" to see.

Everything's ranked from chapter 8, and this week was chapter 5.

Dammit, I really want to read more of "My Hero Academia" now, but no one's picking it up beyond chapter 1!

At least that's an improvement. A week or two ago, nobody even had chapter 1.

Naruto will end on November 10. That means it will be one of the last series to end in the next batch.

edited 6th Oct '14 2:57:57 AM by burnpsy

Ah.

Naruto will actually end? Though I have seen rumors of a sequel/spinoff, so the fans will not be too bereft I suppose.

Naruto ending is good news, at least from a business perspective. In a cutthroat magazine where spots do matter, Naruto and Bleach have basically had secured placement while they march on their death throes. They've certainly earned such with their influence on the industry, but for some time they've really needed to step down and allow room for other manga to shine. Now to wait for Bleach to do the same.

That said, this is definitely the end of an era. Once upon a time I loved the anime, but between the flashback-heavy filler and the heavy focus on Sasuke I fell off the bandwagon, keeping updated mainly through the games and my cousin. Still, can't deny how huge it was, especially for the growing anime fanbase here in the US, and despite its setbacks it will be remembered fondly.

It is not good news from a business perspective. Naruto was still bringing in more in the way of money and consistent readership than ten new series combined unless multiple new series were instant hits on the level of Assassination Classroom. The anime money certainly didn't hurt either. To a much lesser extent, the same could be said about Bleach.

edited 6th Oct '14 8:08:53 AM by burnpsy

I had to reread it to believe it.

A 5 week announcement sounds really abrupt when you consider how long Naruto has been going.

Ah, my bad. The impression I had gotten was that Naruto and Bleach were sinking weights that Jump couldn't simply ax. Or at the very least Bleach seems to be, given how much sales have fallen. Didn't realize Naruto was still going so strong, given what I've heard of the War Arc.

Thinking too much about the rankings, derpdy-derp.

edited 6th Oct '14 9:01:54 AM by Watchtower

Bleach was usually a mid-lister, but was anime-friendly and exportable,so in America we got the impression that it was a heavyweight like Naruto and One Piece. As it is, the farewell arc has been dragging on and is likely to go another year.

We'd suspected Naruto was ending "soon" for a while now, but feared that the Sasuke/Naruto fight would be stretched for a couple more volumes. There really wasn't much elsewhere to go to.

Not to mention how the titles of each recent issue all hinted that the ending was coming. FOR A YEAR.

new/old feature in this week's online edition: Jump Back, which will print the first few chapters of older hits. In this case, Death Note.

Issue 46:
Naruto (Cover, Lead Colour)
1. One Piece
2. Hinomaru Zumō
3. Assassination Classroom
4. Haikyuu!!
My Hero Academia (Center Colour)
5. Toriko
Judos (Chapter 6)
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (Center Colour)
6. Nisekoi: False Love
Hi-Fi CLUSTER (Chapter 5)
Sporting Salt (Chapter 4)
7. Gin Tama
8. PSI Kusuo Saiki
Moromono no Jiyo (Center Colour, New Mini-Series)
9. Kochikame
10. World Trigger
11. Isobe Isobee Monogatari
12. Bleach
13. Mitsukubi Condor
14. Yoakemono

Issue 47:
Cover, Lead Colour: One Piece
Center Colour: Assassination Classroom, Bleach, My Hero Academia

Issue 50:
Final Chapter: Naruto

English Issue 45:
Blue Exorcist (Cover)
One Piece
World Trigger
Nisekoi: False Love
Naruto
Sporting Salt (Jump Start)
Toriko
Bleach
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign
One-Punch Man
Death Note (Lead Colour, Jump Back)

There was an interview with the editor of World Trigger in this issue. It was revealed that they had to speed up the series like mad to avoid cancellation early on. It was originally going to be slow with lots of mysteries. Also, apparently Ashihara-sensei is a a sort of rational person who doesn't show much emotion. His editor was more excited than he was about the series gaining popularity.

This week's Nihongo Lesson covers "ryokou" and "toire wa dokodesuka".

This week's comments.◊

edited 12th Oct '14 3:11:30 PM by burnpsy

Anyone see the first episode of the World Trigger anime? A complete and utter travesty. I've literally seen one-man flash animations on Youtube that look like Hollywood productions compared to this hilariously badly animated tripe. I've never really liked Toei, but I didn't think they would ever be THIS bad at animating something.

As for profitable series ending, milking them for too long and in the process letting series that could wind up being "the next one piece"(for lack of a better term) die early because there simply isn't space for something that isn't immediately breathtaking would be like a manga-version of Dutch disease. WSJ is a prestigious magazine for a reason.

edited 9th Oct '14 7:02:47 AM by brainblow

Kuroko's getting a sequel in Jump NEXT!.

I agree completely on both counts.

That's interesting news.

Naruto is also getting a new series, though I hope it will be in a different magazine as well. No point announcing the series "ending" if you're just going to continue it in the same place.

So is One Piece