Shonen Jump ToC Rankings

Glad to see The Ancient Magus' Bride get some well-deserved love, too.

Speaking of which, My Hero Academia also made this list, though the top two are reversed there. Hinomaru Zumo was 14th instead of 5th.

edited 7th Feb '15 3:57:03 PM by burnpsy

I'm working on a page for Gakkyu Hotei, so suggestions of which tropes to put on would be appreciated. PM me if your list is long.

So E-Robot ended this week. Thank goodness. I would have despaired if this thing lasted at all.

Prettier version.

Issue 12:

Black Clover (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series)
1. One Piece
2. My Hero Academia
Kagamigami (Center Colour, Chapter 2)
3. Assassination Classroom
4. Toriko
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (Center Colour)
5. Haikyuu!!
6. PSI Kusuo Saiki
Hinomaru Zumō (Center Colour)
7. Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment
8. Gin Tama
Tonkatsu DJ Agetarō (Special Chapter)
9. Nisekoi: False Love
10. Kochikame
11. Takujo no AGEHA: The Table Tennis of AGEHA
12. Bleach
E-ROBOT (Final Chapter)
Isobe Isobee Monogatari
World Trigger (Absent)

Looks like my prediction regarding E-ROBOT was correct after all.

A spin-off to Food Wars! titled Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: Etoile has been announced. Its protagonist is one Kojirō Shinomiya.

This initially escaped my notice, but now that I've read chapter 1, Kagamigami seems to be based on the recent one-shot Shikigami Twilight Days. The opening chapter is, in fact, near-identical minus a few points.

Tonkatsu DJ Agetarō normally runs in Jump+. Speaking of which, iShōjo's sales have been doing surprisingly well since the shift over to said magazine. Nothing groundbreaking, but volume 1 of iShōjo+ sold 16,211, which is more than you expect from a series that shifted to a brand new magazine in lieu of being canned.

On the subject of sales, it may be bottom 4, but volume 16 of Nisekoi opened with 196,123 in sales (and the limited edition sold an additional 31,067). These are not huge numbers, but enough to make second place on the week's listings. It also did decently as an anime. However, given the recent shifts in plot, I would not be surprised to see it naturally conclude within the next round. It is worth noting that this level of sales for a series that has run this long is merely okay by Jump standards.

Issue 13 Info:
Cover, Lead Colour: Cyborg Roggy (New Series)
Center Colour: Black Clover, Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment, Haikyuu!!

English Issue 11:
Kagamigami (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series Jump Start)
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
My Hero Academia (New to Lineup)
Toriko
World Trigger
Nisekoi: False Love
Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment
Bleach
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign

Due to Kagamigami starting this week, My Hero Academia is the first series to start a run in the English magazine since the first issue to not have a dedicated cover page. Rather, it is simply noted on the side while Kagamigami has the cover. In any event, a few pages were dedicated to summing up the plot until now. This summary is comprehensive and far more useful than the one for Food Wars! was.

This week's Nihongo Lesson is on brain foods: "onigiri", "umeboshi" and "takoyaki".

This week's comments.◊

edited 12th Feb '15 11:44:59 PM by burnpsy

Is E-Robot any good

If you're into the fanservice comedy type of manga, it's pretty decent.

If you're not into fanservice in a fanatical way, E-Robot is very avoidable.

Two new series in this week's online edition, one of which isn't very shounen at all.

Because they explicitly state that it's a Shoujo manga.

Yeah, for some reason they randomly added Boys Over Flowers: Season 2 to the Jump Start line-up this time around.

I mean, what can you expect from a manga calles E-R Obot?

The name was never the problem.

Actually curious about this, but what was your problem with that series? Other than being fanservice-based - Jump's never going to stop putting those out.

edited 17th Feb '15 4:11:51 PM by burnpsy

Ranks aren't out yet, but I ran into this. Someone checked all Jump series debuts since 1997 and sorted them into three broad categories of success, which is a nice bit of trivia I suppose. Ignore their listing for 2013 and 2014, though, since the listed successes in that section don't match the guy's own criteria by default.

I see not wrong with E-robot but the guy get power up thank to you know what

I never read E-Robot, but i am not that interested in fanservice

there's pr0n for that

Prettier version.

Issue 13:

Cyborg Roggy (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series)
1. Assassination Classroom
2. One Piece
Black Clover (Center Colour, Chapter 2)
3. My Hero Academia
4. Gin Tama
Haiykuu!! (Center Colour)
5. Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
Kagamigami (Extra Pages, Chapter 3)
Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment (Center Colour)
6. Hinomaru Zumō
7. PSI Kusuo Saiki
8. World Trigger
9. Nisekoi: False Love
10. Toriko
11. Bleach
12. Kochikame
13. Takujo no AGEHA: The Table Tennis of AGEHA
Isobe Isobee Monogatari

The magazine Jump SQ. 19 is ending its run after 18 issues. A new Jump SQ. spin-off magazine will run in July. For the record, it had that name because it always released on the 19th. The now-defunct magazine was quarterly, then bimonthly.

Issue 14 Info:
Cover, Lead Colour: Ultra Battle Satellite (New Series)
Center Colour: Cyborg Roggy, Assassination Classroom, Bleach

English Issue 12:
Black Clover (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series, Jump Start)
One Piece
My Hero Academia
Bleach
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
Nisekoi: False Love
Kagamigami (Jump Start)
Toriko
Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment
Boys Over Flowers Season 2 (Lead Colour, New Series, Jump Start)

If you were to ask me what I thought of Black Clover, I'd say it's a nice setup, but also one that's too generic. The protagonist is a dude who's effectively the only person who can't use magic, so he gets an anti-magic sword when everyone else gets magic tomes. On the other hand, his best friend and rival is a super-prodigy at magic.

Boys Over Flowers Season 2 debuted here the day before its debut in Japan. It runs in Shōnen Jump+ and will have 4 chapters, 2 per month, for its run here. Unlike the rest of the stuff in the magazine, this is a shojo manga. If the title didn't make it obvious, it is the sequel to the 1992-2003 Margaret series Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango), which is one of the best-selling shojo manga of all time, moving over 54 million copies and being adapted into 6 live-action TV series (2 in Taiwan, 2 in Japan, 1 in South Korea, 1 in India) and two Japanese live-action films. That is why Viz chose to run it. It takes place 3 years after the original, meaning that, being a high school series, there are no returning characters.

This week's Nihongo Lesson is on more brain foods: "bento" and "oden".

This week's comments.◊

edited 19th Feb '15 2:12:57 AM by burnpsy

Toriko author going all "Imagine all he people" right now

I don't know why toriko popular of all the series

Excellent news!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-19/viz-announces-print-release-for-my-hero-academia/.85185

No issue this week?

They don't get scanlated till tommorow

edited 25th Feb '15 11:56:14 AM by Demongodofchaos2

Yeah. At this point, I have unverified and incomplete data. By tomorrow, the relevant stuff should all be scanned and available.

It's not 100% consistent, though, there have been scans put out on Wednesday, and sometimes at midnight Thursday morning. If a double-issue just released, the next issue being leaked on a Tuesday is not unheard of.

edited 25th Feb '15 12:30:12 PM by burnpsy

And in the official edition, there are a couple of in-jokes that might not be obvious to everyone. In School Judgement, the reason Hikari is called "Picasso" is that in very bad handwriting, such as you might see from a first-grader, the katakana for Hikari can be mistaken for Pi-ka-so. See the manga Genkaku Picasso.

In Kagamigami a certain character uses the Internet handle "Bludgeoning Angel" as seen in the Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro Chan series. It's a big hint as to that character's personality.

Another in-joke/name theme is explained in the vocabulary section.

Issue 14: (Cover)

Ultra Battle Satellite (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series)
1. Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
2. One Piece
Cyborg Roggy (Center Colour, Chapter 2)
3. My Hero Academia
4. Haikyuu!!
Assassination Classroom (Center Colour)
Black Clover (Extra Pages, Chapter 3)
5. PSI Kusuo Saiki
6. Toriko
Kagamigami (Chapter 4)
7. Nisekoi: False Love
Bleach (Center Colour)
8. Gin Tama
9. Hinomaru Zumō
10. Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment
11. Kochikame
12. World Trigger
13. Takujo no AGEHA: The Table Tennis of AGEHA
Isobe Isobee Monogatari

While some of that bottom stuff may surprise you, remember that there are 4 unranked new series in this issue. Also, Bleach has a color page instead of still being around the bottom as usual. It's kinda hard to tell if they're actually doing poorly.

Within the first 14 issues of the year, My Hero Academia is actually outperforming One Piece slightly on average in terms of ranks.

Issue 15 Info:
Cover, Lead Colour: One Piece
Center Colour: My Hero Academia, Isobe Isobee Monogatari, Ultra Battle Satellite

English Issue 13:
Cyborg Roggy (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series, Jump Start)
One Piece
Black Clover (Center Colour, Jump Start)
Kagamigami (Jump Start)
Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment (Center Colour)
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
My Hero Academia
Nisekoi: False Love
Bleach
Toriko
World Trigger
One-Punch Man
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL

This week's Nihongo Lesson doubles as a translator's note for School Judgment: "Momotaro", "Inu", "Saru" and "Kiji".

This week's comments.

edited 26th Feb '15 8:03:11 PM by burnpsy

Honestly, if there is one series that i'm okay with dethroning One Piece, it's Boku No Hero Academia. All i care about is that One Piece is not cancelled, which shouldn't happen anytime soon.

One Piece wouldn't be cancelled unless Oda literally died.