Shonen Jump ToC Rankings

Ouch for Kiruko.

Also, and again - how do you post items in a list without spaces in between them?

You put \\\\ at the end on a line to make a new line, so typing out:

Line 1\\\\
Line 2

Would get you:

Line 1
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edited 29th Jan '13 7:02:06 PM by burnpsy

Thank
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edited 29th Jan '13 7:04:13 PM by probablyinsane

Got the cover.

Edison is apparently another gag series. Expect it to die quickly.

edited 30th Jan '13 7:36:41 AM by burnpsy

Edison was a douchebag. Long live Tesla!

That manga is about Thomas Edison or it's just called Edison?

Aside from it being a gag series, I am not at all aware of the content.

From the little Japanese I can read on the cover, Edison is a genius (kinda) girl, so I'm guessing she builds wacky gadgets much to the terror of her guy friend.

Issue 11:

World Trigger (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series)
1. Assassination Classroom
2. One Piece
Koisuru Edison (Center Colour)
3. Naruto
4. Kuroko's Basketball
5. Toriko
6. Beelzebub
PSI Kusuo Saiki (Center Colour)
7. Haikyū!!
8. Shokugeki no Sōma
Nisekoi: False Love (Center Colour)
9. Sket Dance
10. Kochikame
Mukōmizu-kun (One-Shot)
Mukōmizu-kun (One-Shot)
11. Hungry Joker
12. Medaka Box
13. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
14. Cross Manage

World Trigger will run simultaneously in the English Shonen Jump. Since I didn't mention it last week, Dragon Ball has been added to the English magazine in full colour, starting from the part that was the beginning of Dragon Ball Z.

Bleach and Gintama are absent this week without prior notice.

As of chapter 5, Shokugeki no Sōma has been receiving help with its recipes from the allegedly famous cook/gavure idol/writer/talk show host Yuki Morisaki.

Assassination Classroom is the top recommended manga by Japanese book stores in 2012. Haikyū!! came 4th and One-Punch Man came 9th.

Issue 12:
Lead Colour: Haikyū!!
Center Colour: Gintama, World Trigger, Kokkuri Yaai (One-Shot)
Absent: One Piece

Haikyū is celebrating its first anniversary, revealing the results of its first character popularity poll, and revealing a special project in issue 12.

A one-shot will also run in issue 13.

—

Since there's voting in the English magazine as well, should I start including it in my posts?

edited 5th Feb '13 8:44:39 AM by burnpsy

Sure, go for it, man.

Well, I suppose this is more for archival purposes than anything, since we have no idea what effect(s) the voting even has.

In any case, here are the ones for the issues since they rebranded to Weekly Shonen Jump:

January 21st, 2013 Issue:
Naruto (Cover, Lead Colour)
One-Punch Man (Center Colour, New Series)
One Piece
Nisekoi: False Love
Bleach
Cross Manage
Toriko
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL

January 28th, 2013 Issue:
Toriko (Cover, Lead Colour)
One Piece
Naruto
Nisekoi: False Love (Center Colour)
One-Punch Man
Bleach
Cross Manage
Kintoki (One-Shot)

February 4th, 2013 Issue:
Dragon Ball (Cover, Full Colour, New Series)
Naruto
Ruroni Kenshin: Restoration
One Piece
Toriko
Cross Manage
One-Punch Man
Bleach
Nisekoi: False Love
Blue Exorcist

February 11th, 2013 Issue:
New Series: World Trigger
Center Colour: Nisekoi: False Love

edited 4th Feb '13 7:53:19 PM by burnpsy

Found the cover.

Gintama was apparently absent because the mangaka's still recovering from norovirus or something.

This issue's one-shot apparently ran as two shorter one-shots - an old version and a new version.

edited 5th Feb '13 8:45:27 AM by burnpsy

Any word on what the plot is? I know this thread is for rankings, but think you could provide any details you can find on new series that are introduced in the future?

All we really know about World Trigger is, hilariously, courtesy of Viz. Their announcement said:

edited 5th Feb '13 9:15:30 AM by burnpsy

Sounds like something I'd expect out of Sgt Frog.

Issue 12:

Haikyū!! (Cover, Lead Colour, Character Popularity Poll)
1. Toriko
2. Assassination Classroom
World Trigger (Center Colour)
3. Shokugeki no Sōma
Koisuru Edison
Kokkuri Yaai (Center Colour, One-Shot)
4. Naruto
Gintama (Center Colour)
5. Kuroko's Basketball
6. PSI Kusuo Saiki
7. Nisekoi: False Love
8. Sket Dance
9. Kochikame
10. Beelzebub
11. Bleach
12. Medaka Box
13. Cross Manage
14. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
15. Hungry Joker
One Piece (Absent)

Issue 13:
Cover, Lead Colour: One Piece
Center Colour: Bleach, Kuroko's Basketball, Glass Feet (One-Shot)

English February 11th, 2013 Issue:
World Trigger (Cover, Lead Colour, New Series)
One Piece
One-Punch Man
Naruto
Dragon Ball (Full Colour)
Cross Manage
Toriko
Nisekoi: False Love (Center Colour)

English February 18th, 2013 Issue:
Center Colour: World Trigger
Absent: One Piece

edited 12th Feb '13 6:43:55 PM by burnpsy

Ouch, Bleach is below the top ten... I thought it was doing better, final arc and all that.

Bleach's ranking varies wildly from week to week.

Understand, though, that it's never been as big as Naruto or One Piece over in Japan, but it's still leaps and bounds ahead of the bottom-feeders that are constantly just barely holding onto existence.

edited 12th Feb '13 9:52:35 PM by Gilphon

It's also worth noting that Bleach's rank is no surprise given its overall performance in terms of rankings last year. Being at the top of the bottom 5 is to be expected, since only three series that did worse in 2012 are still running.

edited 12th Feb '13 9:04:18 PM by burnpsy

, Ohh... that's good to know, The ranking makes more sense now.

Its anime had to be canceled too, which explains that.

edited 12th Feb '13 9:21:59 PM by Shota

Koisome Momiji's fourth and final volume ranked 13th in last week's sales list with over 53K sold. I mention this because it's volumes all performed much better than practically every other recent series in Jump that got axed quickly (and sold more than Kochikame 184, but Kochikame's immunity is due to Grandfather Clause, not sales).

edited 13th Feb '13 6:21:25 PM by burnpsy

Issue 13:

One Piece (Cover, Lead Colour)
1. Assassination Classroom
2. The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki
Kuroko's Basketball (Center Colour)
3. Toriko
World Trigger (Extra Pages)
Glass Feet (Center Colour, One-Shot)
4. Naruto
Bleach (Center Colour)
Koisuru Edison
5. Shokugeki no Sōma
6. High Kyū!!
7. Nisekoi: False Love
8. Gintama
9. Beelzebub
10. Kochikame
11. SKET Dance
12. Medaka Box
13. Hungry Joker
14. Cross Manage
15. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san

Corrected a few series names based on this interview from a month ago with the Japanese editor-in-chief, where one question has him explain why several popular series are currently being deliberately kept out of the English version of the magazine, and he names them by English title.

Assassination Classroom has passed 2.7 million in circulation with only two volumes released.

High Kyū!! is getting a novel adaptation.

Issue 14 Info:
Cover, Lead Colour: Beelzebub (Fourth Anniversary Celebration)
Center Colour: Toriko, Me wo Miharuhodo no Miseinen (One-Shot)

English Shonen Jump February 18th, 2013 Issue:
One-Punch Man (Cover)
Naruto
World Trigger (Center Colour)
Bleach
Nisekoi: False Love
Toriko
Cross Manage
Dragon Ball (Full Colour)
One Piece (Absent)

This is the first time the English magazine hasn't had something conveniently have an unused cover-style colour page for them to use. As a result, the character on the cover is in black and white.

English Shonen Jump February 25th, 2013 Issue Info:
Cover, Lead Colour: One Piece
Center Colour: Bleach
Monthly: Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
Extra Pages: World Trigger

edited 21st Feb '13 7:55:32 PM by burnpsy

Issue 14:

Beelzebub (Cover, Lead Colour)
1. One Piece
2. Assassination Classroom
3. Shokugeki no Sōma
Toriko (Center Colour)
4. Naruto
5. Kuroko's Basketball
Me wo Miharuhodo no Miseinen (One-Shot, Center Colour)
World Trigger
6. Nisekoi: False Love
Koisuru Edison
7. High Kyū!!
Gekikara!! Curry Prince (One-Shot, Center Colour)
8. The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki
9. SKET Dance
10. Gintama
11. Bleach
12. Medaka Box
13. Kochikame
14. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
15. Hungry Joker
16. Cross Manage

This is the lowest we've ever seen Saiki, IIRC.

All of the New Power Generation series will release their June volumes on the same day.

Neondroid figurines for several Jump protagonists (and occasionally one extra) have been announced. These include series that have ended.

First wave
Second Wave
Third wave
Fourth wave
Fifth wave
All of them (including ones hidden in the above pics, though a few are tiny and colorless)◊

Issue 15:
Cover, Lead Colour: Assassination Classroom
Center Colour: High Kyū!!, Nisekoi: False Love, Medaka Box
Extra Pages: Shokugeki no Sōma

Rumour has it that this is the end of Medaka Box, even though this is an irregular time.

Jump Versus:

This is a special magazine meant for action one-shots that could be entering Jump (or, at least, that's how Jump hyped it as). The one-shots published in it are as follows:

Lead Colour: Stealth Symphony (Ryougo Narita (Story) and Youichi Amano (Art))
Center Colour: Kokodake no Himitsu (Naoki Iwamoto), Kaibutsu Kangoku (Gen Oosuga)
Other:
DAME GAME (Ryuu Horie)
Kachigumi! (Satoru Miura)
Iron Knight (Tomohiro Yagi)
Yoakemono (Yuusaku Shibata)
Jorei Senshi Kitamakura-kun (Kukita Fumiaki)
Kaizou Ningen Rogii (Yuu Miki)
Parasite B (Ryou Ishiyama)
EGG KNOCKER (Hideyuki Furuhashi (Story) and Masaru Miyokawa (Art))
Shippuu no Nakayoshi (Tatsuya Suganuma)

Potholed the biggest works by each one that has a previous serialization.

English Issue 58:
One Piece (Cover, Lead Colour)
Toriko
Naruto
Nisekoi: False Love
Bleach (Center Colour)
World Trigger
Cross Manage
One-Punch Man
Dragon Ball (Full Colour)
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (Monthly)

Starting this issue, they're giving us the author comments from the Japanese ToC for the series they cover. This time around, these are what was said:

Eiichiro Oda (One Piece): After five years on the job, my editor, Hattori, is leaving me. Thanks so much! And now I'm back with Onishi!
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko): The one-shot Mukomizu-kun that appeared in issue 11 [in Japan] was great! So good! So hurry up and get serialized!
Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto): Our beloved cat has really become spoiled lately. It refuses to eat the diet foods...
Naoshi Komi (Nisekoi): My father managed to get a Nisekoi Fumo Fumo Soine Strap [Nisekoi Cozy Sleeping Pillow Cell Phone Strap]. (Embarassed)
Tite Kubo (Bleach): Ran into fellow manga artist Oishi and he gave me Dragon Quest VII as a gift. Why...?
Daisuke Ashihara (World Trigger): I'm shorthanded on assistants, so temporary support staff helps me every week. I'm grateful.
KAITO (Cross Manage): I bought an alarm clock. A really loud one. It woke up my assistants sleeping in the other room, but not me...

English Issue 59:
Center Colour: Toriko
Monthly: Blue Exorcist, Ruroni Kenshin: Restoration

edited 27th Feb '13 8:23:35 PM by burnpsy

The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki - I keep on forgetting to look into this.

I sympathize with Naruto's mangaka. Very hard to make a cat eat something it doesn't want to it.