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NEWS: Gen Oosuka's Doron Dororon Manga Ends in Shonen Jump


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ab2143



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:28 am Reply with quote
Glad I didn’t bother starting the series
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:16 pm Reply with quote
Honestly, five volumes ain't too bad for an axe.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:22 pm Reply with quote
Ran around 15 chapters longer than it deserved, because it got lucky with the lack of series to replace it.
One of the most unremakable manga I've read in a while, aside from how inept it was at building tension.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:40 pm Reply with quote
So ends a thoroughly non-offensive story.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 2:45 pm Reply with quote
Of all the manga I've read, this was one of them.
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I feel bad about this series, but it managed a not-bad run.
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Nice! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:31 am Reply with quote
Kenfra wrote:
Honestly, five volumes ain't too bad for an axe.

Any idea why a number of the various "Shounen Jump" titles that stated in the last decade are getting axed? I know that there are popularity polls that can influence on whether or not a series gets continued.
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Fedora-san



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:04 am Reply with quote
I felt this one had a bit of potential myself. Oh well. At least it had a decent run.

Kadmos1 wrote:
Any idea why a number of the various "Shounen Jump" titles that stated in the last decade are getting axed? I know that there are popularity polls that can influence on whether or not a series gets continued.


It's just a really cutthroat magazine. You have to bring the success if you want to stick around. Most titles will get canceleld after a few volumes if they just aren't bringing in the numbers. Usually they have less than a year to prove themselves.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:09 am Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
Kenfra wrote:
Honestly, five volumes ain't too bad for an axe.

Any idea why a number of the various "Shounen Jump" titles that stated in the last decade are getting axed? I know that there are popularity polls that can influence on whether or not a series gets continued.


This isn't anything new. Shonen Jump is easily the most cutthroat of these kinds of manga magazines, and if you look at this list of literally every single manga to ever have run in Weekly Shonen Jump you will find that pretty much every single decade from at least the 80s on (& even the 70s, though that decade was still big on purposefully short-run series) have a ton of series that got cut short early on. Jump is just the harshest of them all, though one can argue that the end result is that the stuff that does manage to stay around for a while are generally the strongest.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:10 am Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
Kenfra wrote:
Honestly, five volumes ain't too bad for an axe.

Any idea why a number of the various "Shounen Jump" titles that stated in the last decade are getting axed? I know that there are popularity polls that can influence on whether or not a series gets continued.


This is how the magazine's operated for decades. Series are added, and they have a few months to grab enough attention to either stick around or they're shown the door. If anything the last couple years have given series more time on average than they used to get.

As for Doron itself, the writing was on the wall a while ago. It performed just as poorly as the other two series it debuted with (Ayashimon and Protect Me, Shugomaru!) and the only reason it stuck around longer is that more established series ended or went on hiatus right when it would have normally been cancelled.

And I can totally see why it did poorly. There just wasn't much unique or interesting about it, and despite having a duo of main characters, the central pair were basically the same personality stacked on top of itself. Combined with being yet another yokai-hunting series and it just didn't have any identity or charm to call its own.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:38 am Reply with quote
The rule of thumb for Jump is, out of every 12 series that debut there, three will make it to their one-year anniversary, and two of those will make it to their two-year anniversary. Been like that as far back as I've looked.

I'm actually not sure how that compares to Magazine or Sunday or Champion.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:58 am Reply with quote
The reason why the amount of axing appears to be frequent is that as of a few years ago, all WSJ series are being officially translated to English from the beginning. In the past, Viz and the like would pick and choose based on what they thought would be popular and stick around. So, there was a language barrier in the way of noticing that WSJ cuts a lot of series short. This would also lead to the occasional long running series getting a late start overseas, and a few that have never been released.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:31 pm Reply with quote
lossthief wrote:

And I can totally see why it did poorly. There just wasn't much unique or interesting about it, and despite having a duo of main characters, the central pair were basically the same personality stacked on top of itself. Combined with being yet another yokai-hunting series and it just didn't have any identity or charm to call its own.


Author also kicked the third character, the girl with :> face, to the curb quite quickly, from what I've heard because her design was unappealing to Japanese readers, reintroducing her only in like last two chapters. That resulted in emerging main trio being reduced again to initial duo, until new characters were introduced. That couldn't have helped either, banter between MCs and stuff like that should't be left to two straightforward and goody-two-shoes characters. I agree with sentiment that author should be able to trust in their characters, instead of letting polls dictate their fate.
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Shay Guy



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:09 pm Reply with quote
blahmoomoo wrote:
The reason why the amount of axing appears to be frequent is that as of a few years ago, all WSJ series are being officially translated to English from the beginning. In the past, Viz and the like would pick and choose based on what they thought would be popular and stick around. So, there was a language barrier in the way of noticing that WSJ cuts a lot of series short. This would also lead to the occasional long running series getting a late start overseas, and a few that have never been released.


Mind you, even back in the day there was the occasional axed series that got a cult following even in the West. Double Arts comes to mind, back in 2008.
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