Shonen Jump ToC Rankings

A girl has a sort of curse that makes everyone who touches her directly struck with unluck, so at the start of the series she wants to kill herself. But then she meets with a guy who cannot die and who thinks that maybe the girl's "power" can fix that.

Edited by Lyendith on Feb 2nd 2020 at 2:41:12 PM

While all of this is happening a secret organization is trying to either lock them away or kill them because people with their type of powers (negators) are considered dangerous. So of course their current plan is to join the organization as part of the 10 negators who hunt their kind and have immunity from being targets. Just need to clear up the seats

Backstory is that she hugged her parents goodbye before they got on a plane, and then the plane exploded shortly after takeoff.

Out of all the new series, Undead Unluck is at least the most original. Zipman placing at number 10 is a little concerning. Even manga that got the axe quickly at least had decent placement in the ratings at first.

Welp, the first 18 spots of this week's Oricon top are 100% occupied by KNY volumes. Move along, nothing to see here.

This week, Yozakura Family has a big twist that could easily segue into "final arc" if it needs to.

Mashle's big moment is slightly lessened by our knowledge of his no-sell ability, but is still a good character moment. And surprise engagement!

Undead Unluck continues to be fun but skeevy.

Agreed on all three. Well, two since I don't read Mashle.

Issue 11!

Front color: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Center color: Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai, Guardian of the Witch (chapter 2)
Random placement: Undead Unluck (chapter 4), Mashle (chapter 3)
Absent: One Piece, Haikyuu!!

1. Dr. Stone
2. Boku no Hero Academia
3. Yakusoku no Neverland
4. Chainsawman
5. Jujutsu Kaisen
6. Act-age
7. Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san
8. Black Clover
9. Agravity Boys (chapter 8)
10. Mitama Security
11. Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen
12. Samurai 8
13. Zipman!!

Next week, the cover will be for Act-age while Black Clover will be absent.

Apparently Yozakura and Mitama's first volumes both had decent sales (relatively), though the former sold a bit more.

Edited by Lyendith on Feb 10th 2020 at 12:29:12 PM

Possible good news for Yozakura, but "yikes" for Zipman.

I feel like Zipman has some potentially good ideas and characters behind it, but it's kind of jumped into this big fighting gauntlet arc before it's really had a chance to find its footing and explore those, and that's making it feel rather rushed. I hope they can fix this going forward, because I think it has potential.

Yeah in the case of Zipman I feel like its too early for such an extended constrained arc. I can understand the reasoning, get straight into fight after fight but trapping yourself in a gauntlet scenario can make the setting feel too limited there.

Also newbie Agravity Boys (I'm not reading it) finally gets a ranking & its in the lower half. So that's another new series that appears to have not made a mark either.

I could tell from the first chapter Agravity Boys didn't stand a chance. It's a grossly inferior replacement for Astra Lost in Space.

Edited by mythbuster on Feb 9th 2020 at 5:35:00 AM

If Mashle gets a high ranking I'll lose all faith in Japan's ability to have good taste cause Zipman and Samurai 8 are 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% better than the shit fiesta that is Mashle.

Edited by Silentedge89 on Feb 10th 2020 at 5:12:41 AM

I can't imagine Mashle will actually last.

Its clearly trying to ape One-Punch Man & Mob Psycho but the entire concept is a bit too niche for Jump.

Like One-Punch started as a webcomic before getting a more "official" looking manga adaptation while Mob was serialized in Shonen Sunday Web Comics which is most likely less chop block happy than Shonen Guillotine Jump.

I don't think the same concept will actually work here.

Edited by slimcoder on Feb 10th 2020 at 3:30:18 AM

I've read the first two chapters of Guardian of the Witch. It has really good art, and the premise and writing aren't bad, but a few scenes in the second chapter reminded me a bit too much of Attack on Titan, even if only visually (the main character biting his wrist, the three jumping over the wall...). Hope the series manages to carve its own identity and to survive, it's already halfway there IMO.

It's pretty ironic when you know that the Jump rejected AOT back then.

And if the details I heard of that story are true, it was a pretty standard case of "snubbing the chubby girl in fifth grade".

I'm still not sold on Witch's Guardian (the witch is a problem because she'll turn into a monster if not killed soon? Better specify she be captured alive!) but I have to respect that line about an empty head having more room for dreams for being the most shonen thing ever put to paper.

It's pretty clear that the fate of witches is kept on a strict need-to-know basis. I highly doubt that the people would take it well to learn that their civilization is based on sacrificing thousands of children on a regular basis.

Edited by mythbuster on Feb 12th 2020 at 3:26:46 AM

Okay then, she's just a dangerous criminal with army-killing superpowers. If you tell people "dead or alive" on that shit, like with the other dangerous criminals she ran off with, most people are gonna pick option A and then the problem's solved.

In other news, volume 19 of Kimetsu no Yaiba sold 1.3M copies in its first week. 1,378,361 to be exact. The kind of launch numbers only One Piece normally pulls off.

Dr. Stone 14 is (finally?) seeing a little boost with 93k copies, while Act-age 10 is stable around 80k copies. Yuuna-san's sales continues to fall off a cliff with only 40k copies for its 20th volume.

Right now, I'm imagining Gotoge using money as paper fan

I think she gonna use that money to buy a cat.

More?

@rikalous, And how do you propose bounty hunters go about killing a criminal who can wipe out armies?*

Sniping seems like the safest move. Get arrows in her and her companions from hiding, retrieve the bodies after they bleed out. How do you expect them to take her alive?

Like, presumably the people putting out wanted posters consider it feasible that someone they're disseminated to can take down the target. Otherwise the bits about whether they should be brought in dead or alive are a waste of ink. And capturing anyone is generally harder than killing them, especially if they're good at killing you.

Edited by rikalous on Feb 14th 2020 at 5:18:07 AM