That is good news! Hopefully its anime is handled well and bring even more people in.
I don't think the samurai subject matter is the issue, it's the terrible writing and completely unrelatable and lazily done characters. I honestly read it out of habit, but I can't find myself actually caring about what happens next or caring about any of the characters. They're all just so meh
I'm enjoying Agravity, so that makes sense.
That, and Jump hasn't had a new successful series in a little bit, so good timing as well.
Yeah, it's wrapped up and literally no new characters of note came from it nor were there any exciting fights really. I guess Daruga's was alright when he turned into adult Naruto? What's baffling is that you'd think only having to focus on the writing would mean significantly better writing, but it's actually gotten worse. Other mangaka...I imagine if Togashi actually relegated art to someone else and how amazing that could be. Kishi has proven that isn't always the case somehow
Well one thing I can tell right here just from the pictures I have seen
Unless you want to hate read or you're just curious, there are other better things to spend your time reading
To be fair, you don't really see that type of arc until a manga hits its stride, because of the large number of chapters it needs to span. You keep it in monster of the week mode or short character introduction/building arcs until then. But really, he should have saved it until the manga hit that point.
Although, let's be honest, Burn the Witch was better than Samurai 8 has been so far, as sad as that is
Even The Zombie Hinomaru Zumou sold way more than that per volume and there were always questions about it's ongoing survival. I liked that manga but it certainly wasn't performing well if it sells 9,500 that's deader than dead territory.
That attitude basically completely disappears after the first chapter, lol. The protagonist is presented as friendly to people from other cultures and makes a point of knowing several languages.
Wouldn't say way more, but Zumo was at least ranking well in the ToC and doing well with magazine readers.
By that I mean it was at consistent around double 9.5k. It's normal range was in the 20-30k.
It won't send any message. Bog standard action manga and bog standard sports shounens have been failing in Jump for decades. it's jump's normal state of being due to Jumps high burn rate. The magazine has always thrown anything at a wall and almost anythin that's not an immediate success gets killed quickly. As long as they occasionally get a KnY and MHA the numbers game they've been playing will continue.
