That's an amazing number; most series don't touch that amount for the first week in their entire run. For reference, it took Nisekoi 6 volumes to break into 6-digit opening week sales numbers.
Not as good as Assassination Classroom's 200K opening week, but that series was a total anomaly.
edited 15th Mar '13 7:53:40 PM by burnpsy
Yeah, pretty odd how I thought both Shokugeki no Soma and Assassination Classroom would be series that seemed to have great potential, but would be cast away by the dumb mainstream masses and their poor taste, yet they seem to be doing GREAT instead!
Doesn't really seem like either of them have yet made particularly big waves with the western audience, but that's kind of to be expected, even for series that do well in the magazine.
So happy faces all around!
I'm glad that it seems I'll get to see Soma's awesomely smug face for longer than I thought.
One of those few characters that can LEGITIMATELY be called "swag" in it's original not-annoying-brat-on-facebook meaning.
I have a feeling that Souma's performance is being propelled by association with Morisaki (and, to a far lesser extent, tosh). Swap those two out for a less-known collaborator and a less-skilled artist to work with the writer (whose only other work was axed after two volumes) and it probably wouldn't have taken off.
edited 15th Mar '13 8:20:19 PM by burnpsy
Well it goes without saying that the art is clearly one of the biggest selling points of this series. Making stuff for WSJ is a "go big or go home" business.
Anime-planet account http://www.anime-planet.com/users/BrainBlowToC is a day early because tomorrow is a national holiday in Japan or something.
Issue 17:
Kuroko's Basketball (Cover, Lead Colour)
1. Assassination Classroom
2. One Piece
Shokugeki no Sōma (Center Colour)
3. Toriko
World Trigger
Sporting Salt (Center Colour, One-Shot)
4. Naruto
High Kyū!! (Center Colour)
5. Nisekoi: False Love
6. The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki
7. Gin Tama
8. SKET Dance
9. Kochikame
10. Beelzebub
11. Medaka Box
12. Koisuru Edison (Debut Ranking)
13. Cross Manage
14. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
15. Hungry Joker
Bleach (Absent)
Issue 18:
Cover, Lead Colour: One Piece (Celebration for passing 700 chapters)
Center Colour: Shokugeki no Sōma, Nisekoi: False Love, Sakuran (One-Shot, writer of Psyren)
Issue 19:
A one-shot by the magico mangaka.
Issue 20:
A one-shot by the Hokenshitsu no Shinigami mangaka.
Issue 21:
A one-shot by the mangaka behind M×0 and Harisugawa.
A one-shot by the Nura mangaka.
Double Issue 22-23:
A one-shot by the Prince of Tennis mangaka.
A one-shot by the Strawberry 100% mangaka.
English Issue 16: (they started properly numbering them now)
Toriko (Cover)
Bleach
Cross Manage
One-Punch Man
Dragon Ball (Full Colour)
World Trigger
Nisekoi: False Love
edited 27th Mar '13 12:07:22 PM by burnpsy
Issue 18:
One Piece (Cover, Lead Colour)
1. Naruto
2. Assassination Classroom
3. Beelzebub
Sakuran (Center Colour, One-Shot, writer of Psyren)
4. Kuroko's Basketball
5. Toriko
Shokugeki no Sōma (Center Colour)
6. World Trigger (Debut Ranking)
7. The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki
8. Bleach
9. High Kyū!!
Nisekoi: False Love (Center Colour)
10. SKET Dance
11. Gin Tama
12. Hungry Joker
13. Kochikame
14. Medaka Box
15. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
16. Koisuru Edison
17. Cross Manage
Nisekoi will be recieving a novel adaptation, just as was announced for High Kyū!! previously.
More information on the crossover game was announced in this issue, but I'll leave that to the gaming news sites.
Souma's one-shot will be included in its first volume.
A Saiki novel will be announced next issue. Naruto's mangaka will be running a one-shot in Jump SQ issue 6, as will the Prince of Tennis mangaka, and the same issue will also have a new series from the mangaka of Strawberry 100%.
Issue 19:
Cover, Lead Colour: Assassination Classroom
Center Colour: The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki, World Trigger, Jieda no Tsuugakuji by Naoki Iwamoto (One-Shot)
Absent: Toriko
English Issue 17:
Naruto
World Trigger
One Piece
Nisekoi: False Love
Toriko
Cross Manage
One-Punch Man
Dragon Ball (Full Colour)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (Cover, Monthly)
The English magazine will be running Sakuran next issue.
edited 27th Mar '13 12:13:06 PM by burnpsy
Issue 19:
Assassination Classroom (Cover, Lead Colour)
1. Kuroko's Basketball
2. One Piece
Jeda's School Route (Center Colour, One-Shot, writer of magico)
3. Shokugeki no Sōma
4. Beelzebub
World Trigger (Center Colour)
5. Naruto
6. Nisekoi: False Love
7. High Kyū!!
8. Bleach
The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki (Center Colour, Novel Announcement)
9. SKET Dance
10. Gin Tama
11. Kochikame
12. Hungry Joker
13. Koisuru Edison
14. Medaka Box
15. Cross Manage
16. Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
Toriko (Absent)
Bleach changed editors, apparently.
Issue 20:
Cover, Lead Colour: Toriko
Center Colour: Haikyuu!! (Character Popularity Poll Results), Kuroko's Basketball, W.C. Friends (One-Shot, writer of Hokenshitsu no Shinigami)
Jump NEXT Spring Issue:
Cover: One Piece
Lead Colour: A Boy (writer of Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar)
Center Colour: High-spec Lovers (writer of Koisome Momiji)
Side-Story Chapters: Kuroko's Basketball, Nisekoi: False Love, High Kyū!!, The Disaster of Psi Kusuo Saiki
English Issue 18:
One Piece (Cover, Lead Colour)
Sakuran (tentative) (Center Colour, One-Shot)
Toriko
Naruto
Nisekoi: False Love (Center Colour)
World Trigger
Cross Manage
Bleach
Dragon Ball (Full Colour)
One-Punch Man (Center Colour)
Some unconfirmed stuff:
Double Issue 22-23:
Final Chapter: Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
Issue 24:
A new series by Tomohiro Hasegawa
Final Chapter: Medaka Box
Issue 25:
A new series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
edited 3rd Apr '13 9:27:46 AM by burnpsy
Wait, now Medaka Box is ending? Like, legitimately this time? Wow, after the last arc's fake-out of a finale I figured it still had some life in it. Guess not.
Good to see Hungry Joker pick up the slack a bit. It's pacing could be better (it's actually too fast, believe it or not), but I personally think it's got a lot of potential.
EDIT: How do we still not have a trope page for Hungry Joker, when Taka-whogivesashit managed to scrap together one?
edited 3rd Apr '13 12:43:15 PM by Watchtower
Well, the latest arc of Medaka Box is literally nothing more than an elaborate send-off to all its characters, so I'd imagine Nisio knew it was ending soon and decided to throw in this last mini-arc to end it on his own terms. It's really no surprise to me that it's really ending, although I was open to a plot twist.
edited 3rd Apr '13 1:14:50 PM by Clarste
Takawhachamacallit appeared in an official English edition. Hungry Joker will need a brave soul to find a way to perfectly legally read the manga and build the page.
There's a youtubers whose been regularly reviewing the plots, not a troper but if you want to go legal; watching their videos to get the basics would be a start.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ForneverWorld
There's going to be a new series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata??
Sweet! I sincerely hope it is true!![]()
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And Sn S is doing well in the ratings still, I see.
edited 6th Apr '13 10:44:50 AM by brainblow
Anime-planet account http://www.anime-planet.com/users/BrainBlow![]()
Hopefully they don't crank up the sexism even more then in Bakuman.
Even if I'm not as much as an up in arms, overly dramatic asshat about it like a lot of other people can be, Even I found the sexism in that series extremely blatant and jarring.
edited 6th Apr '13 11:01:32 AM by Demongodofchaos2
Watch SymphogearI seriously don't get the sexism claims about Bakuman. Kaya stays at home, thus it's sexist? Oh freaking PLEASE. There was no sexist "submissive housewife" shit going on.
Miho was an underdeveloped, boring character, but there was nothing sexist about her either. Bakuman is far less sexist than most moetits series.
edited 6th Apr '13 1:03:31 PM by brainblow
Anime-planet account http://www.anime-planet.com/users/BrainBlowBrainblow, Shota, so as not to derail this thread, check out the "Sexism in Anime" thread, where we discussed the sexism in Bakuman rather extensively. (tldr: Yes, it's there, I was able to forgive it because of the manga business insider stories and fun supporting cast, other people weren't.)
I would certainly be interested in seeing the duo's new product.

edited 15th Mar '13 7:39:58 PM by brainblow
Anime-planet account http://www.anime-planet.com/users/BrainBlow