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NEWS: Viz to Preview Almost All New Shonen Jump Series from Japan

Cetais wrote:

shadowsythe13 wrote: Please a new battle shonen manga series like similar to naruto, bleach, buso renkin, psyren but not like dbz, toriko, one piece. A series can be interesting Did you checked World Trigger? It's like Naruto and Bleach, since it feel a bit bland with cool characters and a story line a bit boring. Seriously, it's not that bad, it's actually quite decent. Naruto Bleach and One Piece are currently monopolizing places for a battle manga, since Toriko's rating is quietly dropping and World Trigger isn't doing well. There's World Trigger's anime airing this fall, which may help to boost WT a bit.

Look I'm not into world trigger, I like reading a manga that has male/female protagonist with interesting personality, love intrest, best friend, cool character, and likable support characters and cool villains, awesome story arcs, maybe get popular enough to get anime 100 episodes with movies and games just hoping like that?

shadowsythe13 wrote:

Cetais wrote: shadowsythe13 wrote: Please a new battle shonen manga series like similar to naruto, bleach, buso renkin, psyren but not like dbz, toriko, one piece. A series can be interesting Did you checked World Trigger? It's like Naruto and Bleach, since it feel a bit bland with cool characters and a story line a bit boring. Seriously, it's not that bad, it's actually quite decent. Naruto Bleach and One Piece are currently monopolizing places for a battle manga, since Toriko's rating is quietly dropping and World Trigger isn't doing well. There's World Trigger's anime airing this fall, which may help to boost WT a bit. Look I'm not into world trigger, I like reading a manga that has male/female protagonist with interesting personality, love intrest, best friend, cool character, and likable support characters and cool villains, awesome story arcs, maybe get popular enough to get anime 100 episodes with movies and games just hoping like that?

Generic shonen 101.

I don't know how I feel about this. It is good that we'll get more say on what makes it into the magazine in terms of brand new series but at the same time, we'll see so many series start & then get nothing more. Given how rarely they add new series to the magazine the chance of these series continuing in the magazine is going to be minuscule & only get less and less with each series that makes it in.

I just feel they could have used these translating resources to increase the amount of regular series in the magazine instead of this weird start then stop initiative.

configspace wrote:

Almost all new titles? Going by Shokugeki no Soma I think I have a good idea of what will be excluded

Most probably , only sport or really weird titles will be excluded.

medama_oyaji wrote:

Awesome! This must be in response to the issue we've been seeing where it's hard to predict what new series will stick, and by the time one becomes clearly popular in Japan, it's too far behind to put in the English version. Too bad that we missed that recent sumo series. It seems like it may be doing well in the polls, and I'd like to read it! It would be great if the English-speaking fans had some say in what new series stick around, but even if not, this will be cool!

agree with this. If Subscribers don't have any say on which series to stay in US Shonen jump, getting only the first 3 chapters are meaningless to me.

Okay so the podcast answered some questions about the Jump Start initiative: there's going to be a variety of factors determining which series stay. The ones they listed were Facebook, Twitter, the reaction in Japan, and the surveys. Also they're going to try to preview every series that starts in Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump though there may be exceptions.

I'm just going to repost what I put on the VizManga site (with a bit added):

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Okay so the podcast answered some questions about the Jump Start initiative: there's going to be a variety of factors determining which series stay. The ones they listed were Facebook, Twitter, the reaction in Japan, and the surveys. Also they're going to try to preview every series that starts in Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump though there may be exceptions.

So in other words, they're going to be seeing the reaction over here as well as the reaction in Japan when deciding which previewed series stay. Does that answer some people's question?