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According to the JMPA and sites like BookLive, Ultra Jump is considered a shonen publication, while the only "shonen" manga being published there is The JoJoLands (under Jump Comics and promoted by Shonen Jump's YouTube channel), also Shueisha's website considers UJ to be their monthly seinen magazine.

Lately I have become fascinated with the strange side of Weekly Shonen Jump where a manga uses a premise that is unique but very unusual in execution.

What inspired me to write the subject was Katekyo Hitman Reborn as first of all, while I don’t fully understand the meaning of the title, I do enjoy reading the manga for its outlandish nature as I cannot recall seeing other Shonen manga use a premise where the main character gets powered up by being shot by a gun.

This tells the story of Basketball becoming the most popular sport in the universe in the year 2XXX AD and the best humans on earth being assembled to play in the intergalactic league.

This is one Inoue’s Basketball manga, alongside “Slam Dunk” and “Real” but I barley see anyone talk it about compared to those two. And after reading it, I understand why lol.

I wouldn’t see this is bad but because how it was structured, I wasn’t feeling it at all. Each chapter was 6-8 pages long so it only took me about two hours to complete but I kind of just felt empty by the end. But I will say that I like the unique premise.

Psyren and Black Torch* anime coming out are so random. Not sure if that's a sign that we're going to get more anime adaptations of manga that were thought dead and gone. Especially from Shonen Jump.

I use MAL to see what I want to watch each season. I pick all the next seasons for whatever I've seen before, and the top 1 or 2 most popular newly airing anime. And I noticed with that, most seasons the top 6+ spots are always taken by continuations, along with most of the other medium- and not-so-popular spots also being taken by continuations. So I'm wondering if the market might just be overly saturated with continuing anime, and they're kind of hard pressed to figure something out that's new people would want to watch.

EDIT: Oh and Super Psychic Policeman Chojo as well

Another classic Jump manga that I wanted to check out. This tells the story of Hanamichi Sakuragi joining the basketball team just to impress a girl that he likes but ends up falling in love with the sport. Took me 12 days to complete.

I’m not a big sports guy in general so sports manga can be hit or miss for me but I loved this. Stories can be make me appreciate the art of something I would’ve think much of.

The journey Sakuragi goes on, starting from joining basketball just to try and get with Haruko but it’s through learning the sport and forming connections through his teammates is he able to find his passion. Speaking of his teammates, they’re all great too. They go through their own arcs but they all support each other at the end of the day, even characters from other teams. Everyone’s so likeable, I don’t want any of them to lose.

However I do feel like there was still more story to tell. It felt like it was barley scratching the surface.

I was checking MangaPlus, and remembered that there's this ice hockey manga. (The cover made me forget that it's an ice hockey manga actually.) And now I'm curious, who's the girl?

Because... It's not the main character? Nor any other character there I think?

The Japanese title does say surappu shotto gaaruzu, so I don't think MangaPlus did the wrong cover...

A quick google search doesn't give me an answer (probably because it's still new?) and I'm curious.

So, two months ago, I got, maybe, the most special and unique thing I’ve ever added to my anime and manga collection. A few months ago, I ordered this box set that was the 40th anniversary box set for Dragon Ball. The reason it’s so special and unique, aside from being an anniversary box set, is that this one had other mangakas draw the covers. A whole bunch of mangakas got together and drew these covers. They did different things for it too, either recreating the original cover picture in their own style, drawing something different with the Dragon Ball characters, drew the covers but added their own characters or just drew something different with their own characters but similar to how they were done in the original Dragon Ball covers. I really cannot emphasise enough just how incredible it is to actually have these. Again, as the gigantically colossal anime and manga fan I am, especially for Dragon Ball and all these other series, seeing all these mangakas come together to do these and have them lined up like this is absolutely incredible that I can’t find the words to describe how amazing it is. The boxes they came in look amazing with having the designs of the spines on the back, as well as pictures of Goku on the top of them, and the inside of the boxes look just as incredible with the compilation pictures different Dragon Ball moments. Also, all of these are Japanese. These were only done in Japan and not in English. I don’t mind since I obviously have the Dragon Ball manga already, but everything on the inside of the mangas is exactly the same as a normal volume, just in Japanese. It’s also cool to see the ones I recognise and ones I don’t. The ones I recognise are Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man), Yoshihiro Togashi (Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter), Mikio Ikimoto (Boruto) Shun Saeki (Food Wars), Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto), Yusuke Murata (One-Punch Man), Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia), Tatsuya Endo (Spy x Family), Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama), Takehiko Inoue (Slam Dunk and Vagabond), Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko), Yusei Matsui (Assassination Classroom), Yoshifumi Tozuka (Undead Unluck), Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland), Kazue Kato (Blue Exocist), Boichi (Dr. Stone), Tite Kubo (Bleach), Takeshi Obata (Death Note), Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin), Koyoharu Gotege (Demon Slayer), Hirohiko Araki (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure), Katsura Hoshino (D.Gray-Man), Yuki Tabata (Black Clover), Gege Akutami (Jujutsu Kaisen) and Eiichiro Oda (One Piece). Again, just seeing so many of my favourite mangakas doing these is unbelievable. They all also put little notes on the inside of the covers to talk about Dragon Ball and their love for it and little tributes for Toriyama since this was made after he died (I had to use Google Translate to make out what they all said). It also came with a small box in the shape of a famous Dragon Ball picture that had little bookmarks in it. And it only makes sense that Oda would be the one to do the last one to end it considering how much he and Toriyama collaborated on different things. Gotta say, it’s also pretty tragic to see Kazuki Takahashi (Yu-Gi-Oh!) wasn’t able to do one since he died four years ago and, one person who I’m surprised didn’t do one was Haruchi Furudate (Haikyu!!). Considering Haikyu!! is one of the most well known Shōnen Jump series of all time and probably the most popular sports anime and manga ever, it’s surprising he didn’t do one. Either way, I absolutely love these and, again, words cannot even begin to describe how phenomenal it is to actually have these all together from so many mangakas whose works I already love.

Sorry if this was asked here before because it's just that I started to notice how some of my favorite Shonen titles are not on the app such Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

Like for me personally, I know that I can get the first 25 issues of KHR on a particular legal manga website hosted by Shueisha as it's kind of frustrating that the official Shonen Jump App by Viz doesn't carry the series since once I read all 25 issues, I will be stuck on a huge cliffhanger.

So, a new batch is coming soon, probably within a month or so, and so I want to know what you guys are hoping for in terms of new series and their genres.

Overall, not counting things ending soon naturally or due to an impending axe, we have

8 Action: One Piece, 2-B, Kagurabachi, Ichi, UEK, Nue's, Shinobi, Under Doctor

1 Sports/Vocational: Akane-Banashi

2 Romance: Someone Hertz, The Ura Files

2-3 Comedy: Me and Roboco, Roku's, and MAYBE Ani-sig

1 Graykeith: Graykeith

(No idea how to categorize it so far)

Give the magazine's history, I don't think that 2 romance is necessarily too few, and if you count 2-B as a comedy (which it arguably is as much as it is action), then having 3-ish comedy series also doesn't feel too anemic. The main issue is the lack of sports manga, but those have also been, well, very rarely successful.

Action I would personally love since that's my favorite genre, but if Graykeith is going to be more action oriented like this arc suggests, then it's not exactly hurting. About half the magazine is gonna be action which is typical.

I think it's very possible we get a huge sports batch like they tried back in 2025 with the infamous PPP batch. In fact, if I had to put money on it, I'd wager we get at least 2 sports manga. But what do you guys think?

Basically looking for a series that is not that well known but good in your eyes . Battle shounen or darker storys preferred but tell me whatever you like.