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It ’s no secret thatOne Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisenare the biggest manga inWeekly Shōnen Jump , if not the earth . All three are presently the longest - running manga in the magazine , and their manga and anime adaptations are consistently pop among fan and critics alike , usually to a degree that far surpasses their competitors .
The current landscape ofWeekly Shōnen Jumpessentially revolves aroundOne Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisen , and that ’s create a self-aggrandising problem for the magazine . One Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisenare all set to end within the next few years , with the latter two end sometime in 2024 , and with no other manga having their level of popularity , Weekly Shōnen Jumpis break down to struggle to maintain readership and relevancy when they end .
It ’s been decades since anything like this happened , and it ’s heavy to see how thing could better .
Nothing In Shōnen Jump’s Current Lineup Lives Up To Its Biggest Hits
Most of Shōnen Jump’s current lineup has yet to take off
As antecedently discussed , One Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisen ’s imminent end place a problem forWeekly Shōnen Jumpbecause of how much the eternal rest of the powder store ’s current lineup fails to live up to them . While backbone likeUndead Unluck , Sakamoto Days , andAkane - banashiare all pretty democratic , no other shonen manga is as popular asOne Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisen , as demonstrate by those three being the onlyShōnen Jumpmanga among thebest - selling manga of 2023 . As such , it ’s hard to see any of them being able to support the magazine in a few years .
Even the newer manga ca n’t be trust upon to leadWeekly Shōnen Jumpin a few years . Yoshihiko Hayashi’sMamaYuyuandNue ’s Exorcisthave both struggled to make waves , andwhileKill BlueandKagurabachihave both become popular fairly speedily , it ’s still toilsome to tell if their popularity will last , so they ca n’t be relied upon , either . No matter how one looks at it , there ’s nothing inWeekly Shonen Jump ’s current lineup that quantify up toOne Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisen , and that ’s unlikely to change as things stand .
Kagurabachi is one of the big Shonen Jump manga of late years , and its unprecedented physical release schedule run right along with that .
Shōnen Jump’s Current Situation Is a Repeat Of the 1990s
Shōnen Jump has had this problem before
What makes the current office withWeekly Shōnen Jumpespecially forged is that they already confront a exchangeable situation in the 1990s . During the 90s , Dragon BallandSlam Dunkwere the most democratic manga in the mag , andwhenDragon BallandSlam Dunkended , Weekly Shōnen Jump ’s circulation steadily dropped from 6.53 million copies to 4.15 million . One Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisen ’s at hand ending putsWeekly Shōnen Jumpin a interchangeable situation , so the people in mission on the face of it doing nothing to prevent it makes it even worse .
The direction thing turned around forWeekly Shōnen Jumpin the 90s also indicate why they ’re in difficulty now . While circulation never fully regain , Weekly Shōnen Jumpin the 1990s was doubtlessly saved by popular manga likeYu - Gi - Oh!,Naruto , and , of track , One Piece , and as such , there ’s an obvious problem withOne Piecenow lawfully being on the sceptre of cease . One Piece , as popular as it is , only helped stabilise circulation to a certain extent , but when it , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisenend , things will in all likelihood be even risky than they were in the 90s .
Shōnen Jump’s Rigid Cancellation Practices Have Come Back To Hurt Them
The magazine has slowly become its own worst enemy in how it handles the longevity of new series
There are a variety show of factors that have contributed toWeekly Shōnen Jump ’s current state , and one of the biggest is probably their rigid cancelation pattern . Weekly Shōnen Jumpis infamous for being nimble to cancel a manga if it is n’t even moderately successful ahead of time on , and that ’s made it almost unacceptable for any manga to take off in the magazine . Granted , there were plenty of manga that deserved to be cancel , but it ’s too hard for Modern manga to take their time developing their account , thus create the current site of the cartridge feature too little to support itself .
While One Piece is one of Shonen Jump ’s flagship manga series , one canceled story picture why the magazine will never have a serial like it again .
Manga From Other Publications Are Slowly Overtaking Weekly Shōnen Jump
Shōnen Jump is no longer the king of manga
Another chip in cistron toWeekly Shōnen Jump ’s current situation is the fact that other magazines are slowly overtaking it in popularity . WhileWeekly Shōnen Jumphas always produced the big anime and manga in the world , over the years , other magazines have bring out kit and boodle that have become just as popular asShōnen Jump ’s , if not more . In 2023 , alone , two of the well - sell manga in the world — Tokyo RevengersandBlue Lock — were fromWeekly Shōnen Magazine , withBlue Lockeven being the best - sell manga of the twelvemonth , so it ’s clear thatShōnen Jumpno longer has a monopoly on sale .
Granted , Shōnen Jumpstill eclipse the sales charts in 2023 , but the specific of that only exacerbate the job . While most of the best - sell manga of 2023 wereShōnen Jumpmanga , One Piece , My Hero Academia , Slam Dunk , andJujutsu Kaisenwere the only bestsellers fromWeekly Shōnen Jump , specifically , asevery other best - sellingShōnen Jumpmanga was only from aWeekly Shōnen Jumpaffiliate likeWeekly Young JumporShōnen Jump+ . The manga landscape painting is tardily sprain aside fromWeekly Shōnen Jump , specifically , and that will only get worse when its biggest hits end in a few years .
Weekly Shōnen Jump’s Lack Of Variety Is Starting To Hurt It
Despite remaining popular for housing several iconic series, the magazine has become too one note
If there ’s anything that ’s truly hurtingWeekly Shōnen Jump , however , it ’s how little diversity there is in the clip . Weekly Shōnen Jumpis know for its action and comedy tale , and those are the majority of stories that are publish in the magazine , butafter so many 10 ofWeekly Shōnen Jumppublishing the same eccentric of stories , most of which hardly even leave behind an wallop , the magazine is steady beginning to be unappealing to people . Other publication have been known to try out with the manga they publish , but regrettably , Weekly Shōnen Jumpdoesn’t have as long a story of doing that , themselves .
Adding to that is how too manyWeekly Shōnen Jumpmanga are derivative of other deeds . Many of their activity - risky venture manga follow the same pulse asOne Piece , there are a mess of stories of underdog protagonists in A-one - powered mount likeMy Hero Academia , and in response toJujutsu KaisenandDemon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba , many novel manga have revolved around citizenry fight some variation of fiend . In short , far too manyShonen Jumpmanga fail to offer anything that is n’t put up from the pre - established hit , so it arrive at sensation why they ’ve started to recede popularity .
That is n’t to say thatWeekly Shōnen Jumpnever experiments , even now . Manga likeSakamoto Days , Blue Box , andAkane - banashiare some of the most popular floor inWeekly Shōnen Jumpright now , withSakamoto Daysredefining battle manga with its imaginative fight scene andBlue BoxandAkane - banashiwinning over fans and critic likewise with their enceinte writing , despite both of them being different forms of slash - of - life manga , so the magazine is n’t without its variety . However , manga like that , especially successful ones , are still too rare , and this is the worst time for the magazine to not change that .
What The Next Few Years Will Mean For Weekly Shōnen Jump & Manga, In General
How manga might change forever
There are a lot of factor that have conduce toWeekly Shōnen Jump ’s current res publica , and it paint a big film of what might happen because of that within the next few class . One Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisenall terminate within the next few years mean thatWeekly Shōnen Jumpwill be devoid of any major ongoing serial publication , and despite sustain some bright newcomer , none of them look like they can become a flagship series at the moment . Because of that , circulation will likely decline until fresh manga start to take off , arrogate that even happen .
The current spot has much wide implications for the entire manga industry , however . Over the years , manga publications have step by step turn back pushing for stories to run for years and years without any star sign of stopping , with one of the self-aggrandizing representative beingDemon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaibaending after only four years at the absolute height of its popularity . With that in mind , One Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisen ’s respective endings could be the ending of recollective - form weekly manga , as there will be very few noted weekly manga with years of serialisation behind them left at that pointedness .
While there ’s good deal of datum and other hard evidence that paints a negative word-painting of things , at the terminal of the day , it ’s impossible to really know what will happen . The manga diligence is incredibly irregular , so it might not be long untilShōnen Jumphas another flagship serial in their ranks , whether it ’s something they have already issue or a new work , entirely . Things will in all likelihood get unfit before they get better onceOne Piece , My Hero Academia , andJujutsu Kaisenend , but it ’s far too premature to see this as the end ofWeekly Shōnen Jump , as a whole .
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