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Hmm, it's actually completely different: Shohoku vs Sannoh is part of the main team's goal of conquering the Nationals, and also has extremely strong undertones of "underdogs vs champions".

Haikyuu's last match happens several years after the rest of the story, and it's not about the main team, but about a bunch of strong players from various teams who chose to make volleyball their career. The main tie between this match and the rest of the series is that the two main characters, whose combination plays were the backbone of the main team during the series, are finally opponents.

Oh cool! Sorry if I misunderstood, I just read "long, beautiful match with little build up where every chapter is awesome". Heck, that match has my favorite chapter ever read in any manga (chapter 269)

To me, after reading it last summer, Slam Dunk quickly supplanted One Punch Man as my second favorite manga (couldn't beat One Piece, tough )

Edited by fishysaur on Jul 9th 2020 at 2:37:17 AM

Slam Dunk is probably still my favorite manga, so I understand that. The whole Shohoku/Sannoh match is wonderful from every point of view.

Haikyuu's last match is good, but rather than a climax it's more of a very long "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.

When Haikyuu ends (next week or so), it will be the first time since 1968 that there wasn't a sport manga running in Jump. Helpful image to see how the chain has been going

Edited by AbrahamOmosun on Jul 9th 2020 at 3:05:44 AM

I should get around to reading Slam Dunk. I'm not really big on sports but it's the one big Takehiko Inoue manga I haven't touched yet.

I think before the database crashed there was someone talking about Saga and Christ shiptease in Agravity Boys and yeah I see it. Id totally like it if it happens.

I think that was me.

And yeah, it's gotten very blatant. You can tell that the author has gotten better at this yaoi tease thing, because before they generally just teased people being into Chris, but now there's specific tease for why several of the different guy pairs would do well together (Geralt/Baba or Arash, Grislow/Luo, and especially Saga/Chris have gotten highlighted lately.)

The site crash deleted comments? Dang, that stings. I practically wrote a dissertation on why what Agravity Boys has been doing with Saiga and Chris is the correct path, but the author has likely realized this too late for it to change things when there's already so much gag manga competition at the moment.

Edited by BrainBlowX on Jul 10th 2020 at 3:06:11 AM

There is a lot of new gag manga. Prolly cause Jump believes they filled in most of the action niches and figured its a good idea to now find series that perfectly aligns with the comedy niches.

Makes me assume we'll soon get a surge of new sports manga to replace Haikyu.

@Draghinazzo: Definitely go check it out. Slam Dunk is still my favorite Shonen of all time.

Come to think of it, this entire office politics context helps to explain the way it ended, right after such a badass climax match. Maybe.

The sports niche being left empty seems sort of convenient to the speculation I've heard of a possible Slam Dunk anime remake. Remakes of old series (and their manga reprints) are popular right now.

I actually think it was naturally supposed to ended like this, in a realistic way. Plus Shohoku vs Sannoh was the definitive match, and I doubt another one could have topped it.

Speaking of sports manga, I am actually watching Haikyu. Just finished the second season & damn what a finisher.

Moving on to the 3rd season & wow its 10 episodes comprising of a single match, Goddamn I didn't know you can do that.

Also I've been watching the English dub on Netflix but it doesn't have the 3rd season. Where's the 3rd season dub streaming?

Slam Dunk actually got a new edition in 2018 and it got in the top 5 of best-selling manga series of that year with that alone. That's how big it is.

x3: You're most probably right; it's just that it felt like such a Mood Whiplash and a kick in the nuts that, at the time, I thought there had been some Executive Meddling involved. And no, still haven't gotten over it and am willing to cling to any excuse to deny that this was the intended way.

Crunchyroll, HIDIVE, and VRV. Pro tip, because.moe is invaluable for finding where anime's streaming.

I'm pretty sad Mashle doesn't have discussion thread yet, its best thing in the magazine right now ;p

(well okay Spy x Family is great too)

Edited by SpookyMask on Jul 12th 2020 at 12:48:37 PM

Spy x Family is in a different Jump magazine

You know, with Demon Slayer and Promised Neverland over, and One Piece and My Hero Academia on break this week, Haikyuu is literally the only heavy hitter left in this issue.

Edited by Druplesnubb on Jul 12th 2020 at 12:19:16 PM

I'm honestly confused about what is in which magazine

Technically, Spy X Family is not even on a magazine. It's a digital release exclusive.

The app is viewed by the company as Shonen Jump+ for any app only titles.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jul 12th 2020 at 4:14:06 AM

If Haikyuu ends this week then it would be quite the exit what with there being no other heavyhitters in the magazine.

No, it's apparently ending next week.

Magu chan was great this week too.

Issue 32 \o7

Front color: Haikyuu!! (penultimate chapter)
Center color: Boku to Roboco (chapter 2), Dr. Stone, Shinrin Ouja Moriking
Random placement: Ayakashi Triangle (chapter 5), Hakaishin Magu-chan (chapter 4), Shakunetsu no Niraikanai (chapter 3)
Absent: One Piece, Boku no Hero Academia

1. Jujutsu Kaisen
2. Mashle
3. Chainsawman
4. Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen
5. Undead Unluck
6. Act-age
7. Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai
8. Black Clover
9. Time Paradox Ghostwriter
10. Agravity Boys
11. Bone Collection
12. Mitama Security

Mashle and, of course, Haikyuu!! will get color pages next week.

Then we got some Oricon numbers for the first 3 days of sales of the new volumes:

• Agravity Boys 2: 5500 copies
• Act-age 12: 67,180
• Black Clover 25: 80,788
• Dr. Stone 16: 89,044
• Neverland 19: 247,671
• Heroaca 27: 253,473
• Kimetsu 21: 1,191,086 + 850,091 (special edition) > 2,041,177

All aforementioned series had a noticeable increase in sales, especially Dr. Stone (+20k compared to the previous volume's launch).