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NEWS: Viz Media's Shonen Jump Alpha Adds Cross Manage Lacrosse Manga


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st_owly



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:49 pm Reply with quote
Oh right... Colour me baffled. Possibly the most unlikely choice for SJA ever. Who plays lacrosse out of an Enid Blyton novel anyway?
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maliw



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:20 pm Reply with quote
what's the fuсking point, it's gonna be cancelled in a month like everything else
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ConanSan



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:24 pm Reply with quote
Yep. All in the name of keeping the unholy trinity (Bleach, Naruto, HxH) running.
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Alan45
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:26 pm Reply with quote
@st. owly

Lacrosse was invented by native americans, they still play it. It is also played by many eastern US colleges. I know the University of Virginia has a team since it has been in the news for the last couple of years. One of their star players beat his girlfriend to death. It is not a game I would associate with Japan though.
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Sewingrose



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:24 pm Reply with quote
I guess with Barrage ending, there's pretty much a slot in Shonen Jump Alpha can be summed up as, "Low risk, brand new series".
Mildly interested in the title if it turns out to be any good.
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bleachj0j



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:31 pm Reply with quote
Conan-san wrote:
Yep. All in the name of keeping the unholy trinity (Bleach, Naruto, HxH) running.


Hunter x Hunter is not even running right now
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Dinoguy1000



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:49 pm Reply with quote
Conan-san wrote:
Yep. All in the name of keeping the unholy trinity (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece) running.


FTFY.

I'm hoping this'll last a while (at least a couple months longer than Barrage did); with any luck, it'll turn out to be a nice change of pace from the usual Shonen fare (but then, this *is* Shonen Jump; I'm not exactly holding my breath here).
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:04 pm Reply with quote
Hahaha, what do Japanese know about lacrosse! Razz

Doesn't matter. Uninterested J-readers will get it cancelled soon anyways.
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The Mad Manga Massacre



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:29 pm Reply with quote
I'm excited they're adding new series to Alpha and that it's a sports title.
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Hagaren Viper



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:34 pm Reply with quote
Aw, I don't know a thing about the manga but thats a pretty cute smile.

Has SJ been pretty bad about keeping newer series? I'm starting to hear more and more complaints of this, how many have the gone through?
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Lord Geo



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:39 pm Reply with quote
Hagaren Viper wrote:
Has SJ been pretty bad about keeping newer series? I'm starting to hear more and more complaints of this, how many have the gone through?


Every year there are a lot of titles that debut in SJ but don't make it beyond two volumes, which seems to be the usual early cut-off for Jump. On rare occasion titles end at only one volume, like Hiroyuki Takei's Jyuki Ningen Jumbor & Yoshio Sawai's Chagecha, though Jumbor has since been rebooted in Ultra Jump.
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prime_pm



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:30 am Reply with quote
I remember reading this one shot a while back. It was nice and sweet. And pretty informative on the lacrosse game. Hope people will enjoy it.
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vashthekaizoku



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:03 am Reply with quote
And meanwhile, Reborn is STILL shelved, and because Viz has all WSJ titles on lock, nobody else can even rescue the license...
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Saffire



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:27 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Hahaha, what do Japanese know about lacrosse! Razz

Doesn't matter. Uninterested J-readers will get it cancelled soon anyways.
If you'd told me someone could write a successful manga about Go, I would have laughed in your face before reading Hikaru no Go. If the series takes off, it could generate more interest in lacrosse in Japan. It's not a super popular sport, for sure, but it's not completely unknown either.
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phoenixalia



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:32 am Reply with quote
hmmm.....is it because of this that no one is scanlating this manga? I live outside america. I read the one shot and loved it. <3 But it'll be cancelled....only cliche nisekoi is lasting in JUMP...which saddens me.....I feel this series is a lot better.
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