Titan publisher Shueisha is revamping its top-tier manga line when Shonen dance performed the second major overhaul to the selection of titles in the last half year.
In an article dated March 6, 2023, comic news site Comic Natalie reported that over the next month, Shueisha will introduce four new titles for its Weekly Shonen Jump manga introduction. A day later, Shonen Jump’s Twitter corroborated the news with a tweet on its official account announcing the name of the first of the new titles to be released, Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Tenmaku Cinema. According to the article, the three other titles added include Tadatoshi Fujimaki’s Kiruao, which will premiere on April 17, Jun Kirarazaka’s Dori Tri, which will premiere on May 8, and Kawae Kouta’s Nue no Onmyoji. on May 15.
Four new Shonen Jump titles arrive at the expense of fan favorites
While Shonen Jump updates its titles throughout the year, this is the second most title change since late last year. That first change brought new series like Fabricant 100, The Deadly Sins of the Ichinose Family, and Crypto Academy. Unfortunately, these new titles don’t come without sacrifice, as Shonen Jump recently canceled two fan-favorite series, PPPPPP and High School Family.
Shonen Jump’s new manga is in the hands of experienced people
While the new titles that Shonen Jump brings to the table are often authored by newer artists, thus giving them a chance to break into the notoriously competitive manga industry, the series is primarily created by veteran authors who have had one or more successful series under them. belt. For instance, Tenmaku Cinema’s Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki are the creative team behind Food Wars, the popular food-focused manga series released between 2015 and 2020. Additionally, Kiruao’s Tadatoshi Fujimaki has previously worked on a food-centric manga series. is the creator of the sports manga titles Kuroko’s Basketball and Robot x LaserBeam. Kuroko’s Basketball, which ran from 2008 to 2014, is widely acclaimed not only as one of the best sports stories ever published, but also one of the best-selling manga series of all time.
Giving titles from experienced authors or giving authors of previous titles a second chance seems to be a new Shonen Jump trend. Dori Tri’s Jun Kirarazaka is the creator of the April-August 2020 short story title Bone Collection, and just a few weeks ago, Shonen Jump added Gokurakugai, a “new” manga that has enjoyed success in many months and became famous for many years in JumpSQ, one of Shueisha’s other Jump publications. Whether Shonen Jump has grown tired of giving opportunities to new artists or the trend is just a new marketing strategy remains to be seen, but experience in such a tough business is certainly unlikely. compromise a game’s chances of success.
According to Tenmanku Cinema’s Twitter account, the story will revolve around a filmmaker who spends time watching movies in a movie theater and meets a genius screenwriter who, according to the photo in the post, appears to be a ghost soul. However, outside of the names and dates of the other new titles, Shonen dance did not provide any information at this time about the content of their story.
Source: Comic Natalie, @shonenjump, @TenmakuCinema
