The only manga on WSJ that I really care about at the moment is One Piece and My hero academia: vigilantes
I liked the demon slayer manga while that lasted
Sakamoto days and mashle were pretty interesting, but I don't really keep up with them
But overall, I just feel like a lot of the stuff that WSJ is publishing feels kinda lazy and uninspired. How many urban fantasy series are you going to publish about a 15 year old kid gaining magic powers and fighting demons?
Maybe its just because I started one piece when I was a teenager and now I'm older and shonen manga doesn't appeal to me as much anymore. But I feel like One Piece was unique and original, and as much as I shit on it at times, Oda is much more creative than most of the other mangaka publishing at jump. Although this isn't even the authors' faults. The editors are deliberately riding sales trends in regards to publishing choices. Basically they are publishing stories that have similar tropes to stories that were already popular.
This is why stories like Black Clover, My Hero Academia, and Jujutsu Kaisen share a lot of similarities with Naruto. The editors chose them with the hopes that these series would be the new naruto. And for what its worth, some of them are fine. But I feel like these types of stories are over-saturating the magazine.
I liked the demon slayer manga while that lasted
Sakamoto days and mashle were pretty interesting, but I don't really keep up with them
But overall, I just feel like a lot of the stuff that WSJ is publishing feels kinda lazy and uninspired. How many urban fantasy series are you going to publish about a 15 year old kid gaining magic powers and fighting demons?
Maybe its just because I started one piece when I was a teenager and now I'm older and shonen manga doesn't appeal to me as much anymore. But I feel like One Piece was unique and original, and as much as I shit on it at times, Oda is much more creative than most of the other mangaka publishing at jump. Although this isn't even the authors' faults. The editors are deliberately riding sales trends in regards to publishing choices. Basically they are publishing stories that have similar tropes to stories that were already popular.
This is why stories like Black Clover, My Hero Academia, and Jujutsu Kaisen share a lot of similarities with Naruto. The editors chose them with the hopes that these series would be the new naruto. And for what its worth, some of them are fine. But I feel like these types of stories are over-saturating the magazine.