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NEWS: Shonen Jump Magazine Launches 4 New Manga in Next 4 Weeks

Joker#941490 wrote:

And the excuses that they were sucked or bad are lame since they still had potential except for earth child which lost its movement like I tell c did which I don't mind that both were cancelled.

I repeat again - all of them have sucked both in ToC (which basically means how much traction the series get from the fan auditory that read the manga) and volume sales. They're not being in the middle of it, where all actual niche releases and series with potential remain, no - they're were all at the very bottom of the list straight from the first chapters.

So no, there was nearly zero ACTUAL potential with ALL of them - they got axed only because they actually not got their auditory hooked from the very beginning and barely had any chance to grow enough to be considered worthy of remaining.

Uraniox wrote:

Changing name into "Weekly Isekai Jump".

Ha-ha-ha, for the whole irony - Jump editorial committee has a strong policy against the isekai stories and never publishes them.

KarlFranz wrote:

That have to do more with the public generally are moving away from physical release and buy more digital version of those magazines. Almost all of the manga magazine have already began switching to digital, so the drop in physical sale is due to a portion of the readers moving to the digital platform since it's more convenient.

Well, the digital Jump sure grows, but the thing is even with numbers combined (and that is if we assume all the subscribers fully transitioned to digital and not buying physical volumes) - it's still very late 2010's numbers that very far from the prime, with fewer than 2 million active readers - and it still decreases faster than it brings more audience.

blahmoomoo wrote:

Ruri Dragon also hasn't been replaced since it went on hiatus, and it seems likely that it will be put on SJ+ instead of returning to WSJ.

Why? Hunter x Hunter is still in WSJ.

You can't exactly use HxH as example, HxH is household name that will guarantee sales and high ranking just by existing. Ruri Dragon has neither prestige or numbers, so moving it to another magazine/SJ+ won't affect the magazine all that much. Especially considering WSJ's previous history with sickly mangaka like D.Gray-man or World Trigger that got moved to another magazine. Moving it to another magazine will also lessen the burden for the mangaka since weekly schedule is really harsh.

Hunter x Hunter has ranked quite low the past two TOCs. In the current TOC its beneath mission yozakura. I'm not saying they're going to cancel it. It will probably bump up once some "goodwill" returns, but its return clearly hasn't been a massive event.

Shay Guy wrote:

blahmoomoo wrote: Ruri Dragon also hasn't been replaced since it went on hiatus, and it seems likely that it will be put on SJ+ instead of returning to WSJ. Why? Hunter x Hunter is still in WSJ.

You can't exactly use HxH as example, HxH is household name that will guarantee sales and high ranking just by existing. Ruri Dragon has neither prestige or numbers, so moving it to another magazine/SJ+ won't affect the magazine all that much. Especially considering WSJ's previous history with sickly mangaka like D.Gray-man or World Trigger that got moved to another magazine. Moving it to another magazine will also lessen the burden for the mangaka since weekly schedule is really harsh.