This year's sixth issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine announced on Thursday that manga creator Eiji Masuda will launch a new manga in the magazine's ninth issue on January 25. The new series, Shūkan Shōnen Hachi (Weekly Shonen Hachi), will have a 61-page first chapter with a color opening page.
The manga centers on Hachi Bonjin ("Bonjin" means "mediocre"), who has always wanted to become a "protagonist." He has a new dream to attend the "Onigahama Manga Academy," even though he's not a genius.
(Always wanted to say that. Though don't take it as an order to pick it up.)
I hope it'll be good.
Hudson Wright
Im in. Loved Jitsu Wa.
Jose Flores
how many chapters Jitsu wa had? just to make sure I download a batch with all of it,
Xavier Anderson
it's been like 6 months though?
Jackson Hernandez
Translations lagged behind a bit. I think they even waited for tankobons.
Ended on 19.02.2017 and the last scanlated chapter came out on 23.11.2017. I think.
So it's a year-ish.
Dominic White
You could buy it too, if you want? (196?)
Hunter Foster
Will it feature more dinosaurs crying together with the NASA?
Tyler Jackson
Possibly?
Isaiah Taylor
I want to see him doing more creepy art
Aiden Lewis
so... seaside demon academy or semen demon academy?
Nathan Green
that's not an unreasonable wait between series?
Easton Clark
in what way? jackoff editors delay everything. watch them fuck with his artwork, again.
Adam Butler
I meant that a year sounds like a reasonable wait, between new series, I assume he had a vacation and cleared his mind a little.
Adam Cooper
should really clear some of my manga backlog
Brody Watson
HYPE
Justin Morales
Bakuman?
Ryder Lee
nice, hope someone picks it up fast
Brody Lewis
Here we go
Mason Edwards
>Jitsu wa Watashi wa Author Eiji Masuda to Launch New Manga Nah thanks mate, we are good.
Alexander Foster
I'm in. Hopefully there'll be some good cakes.
Jace Lopez
Jitsu wa was such a fun, interesting and absurd read, kinda hype for whatever new stuff EIji will do now.
Andrew Smith
I'm not hyping myself too much. Just in case. But i'll be there and i'll read it.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Why does Champion attract such fun, quirky, less generic series?
Jordan Mitchell
so is there any more imfo available or is it unclear until ch1 is released?
Tyler Parker
>buy faggot
Jace Watson
This artstyle never gets any less ugly.
Zachary Reed
Could say that same about you user
Matthew Hernandez
Can't wait to read it.
Kayden Ortiz
gimme more goofy girls
Caleb Turner
I hope Author won't go sausage fest.
Nolan Cook
Sorry, won't happen. We already committed to Bird Cafe as the next project. As much as I adore Jitsu, we were running on fumes for the last few chapters. We'd need, at minimum, a scanner, a cleaner, a proofer, a redrawer, and someone to lead the project(I can't do another weekly, it was very hard on me). It'd be better if another group ran with it.
Liam Hill
it's probably best for people not to expect too much from it until it's found its form, if it flops you'll avoid disappointment.
Connor Wood
I don't think that should be a concern. If we could do it, I'd do it in a heartbeat. We just don't have the capability to do it right now.
Look at the 'special thanks' page in the final omake/bonus to see how many people worked on Jitsu. We had a revolving door of people because again, working on a weekly series is hell.
Jack Ward
>working on a weekly series is hell Try doing a daily that publishes late night, now THIS is real hell.
James Lee
One-two pagers like Tomo?
Yeah I get that. It's a hell I don't wish on anyone.
At least with weekly you can shift things around. Daily? Miss a chapter and you're fucked.
Evan Richardson
>not horror Not sure if interested then.
Nicholas Ross
Well, it's not too bad when the staff is pretty much settled in stone or if you do it like Helvetica and leave yourself a 30 page backlog (RIP Helvetica when MouTel comes back from the dead), but yeah, if you're like that french dude doing that Nico Tanigawa manga, you're fucked (thank God for him it only updates for like 1-2 week every month instead of daily)
David Sullivan
Nobody said you absolutely have to pick this up, or even continue.
"It is time!" more refering to the hope I had previously that he would start another series again.
Jordan Cooper
why not backlog for a week a dump as a batch?
Bentley Rodriguez
Have you seen the mess that is Kaguya?
People get VERY upset if they don't get their manga RITE NAO.
Logan Walker
That's why they were not able to do a 30 page backlog?
That's why you had to work on every raw chapter of JwWw immediately instead of dropping into the occasional RAW thread when you had time.
Joseph Brooks
This is sorta paradoxal to say, but it's easier on my TLer/PR to do one page a day than 7 in a row weekly. Now you're gonna say "But why doesn't he do it daily and you just update weekly?", but why wait for a week when we can just dump it daily?
Cooper Peterson
That's the issue with any sufficiently popular series, people want shit ASAP, and why I'd rather stick to random monthlies. I see that argument, but pacing yourself with a monthly gives better quality control.
Ryan Richardson
maybe ill wait for when my local library has most of the volumes. I jsut feel swamped and like to multitask.
James Gomez
Huh? We were behind before we even got started. Don't get me wrong, Underdog does good work finding diamonds in the rough(Komi for example), but they don't really keep a consistent release schedule. We were something like 30 chapters behind when I took over, and frankly trying to do more than a chapter a week would have resulted in losing staff and the project, so we just plugged away knowing full well that we were behind and never going to catch up.
I don't know the situation behind Kaguya, but I do think it's silly having two different groups work on the same project. It's a waste of effort.
Um... you mean Jitsu or the new manga?
Angel Hill
jitsu. like compare to anime backolog(like 3) my manga backlog is big and getting bigger.
Grayson Lee
Fair enough. It's a large chunk of manga for sure.
Leo Wood
how many volumes are out so far?
Thomas Williams
>Huh? We were behind before we even got started. So? Not like it got contested by anyone else, even if there was ample space to but in.
Don't get me started on the Kaguya mess.
Gavin Ross
Officially translated? Uh... Volume 9 will be out later this month. It has 20 volumes total.
Really not sure what your argument is anymore.
Logan Murphy
>>Translations lagged behind a bit. I think they even waited for tankobons. The scan quality was notoriously bad from the first chapter, I remember when Tarage posted the raws they had to use, it was like a phone book that had been left open in the sun for six months.
Blake Foster
Honestly I couldn't imagine Jitsu attracting a scanlation war.
David Foster
>9/20 damn well i the mean time I will clear my backlog then.
Leo Hill
>>why not backlog for a week a dump as a batch? >Have you seen the mess that is Kaguya? >People get VERY upset if they don't get their manga RITE NAO.
What is my Argument? Basically not being up-to-date with chapters can work (unless Sup Forums gets impatient and just starts a scanlation binge making up the intermediate chapters), as you have inadvertedly demonstrated.
(OT: Regarding Bird Cafe did you dump ch15 on Sup Forums?)
Blake Phillips
Kaguya is easy as fuck to clean, redraw, and typeset. The only thing that takes time is translating.
Carter Russell
Ah... I understand. The thing about Jitsu though is that the backlog was there from the start. If it isn't... well... you get Kaguya.
Luis Thomas
Nigger Jitsu was never popular enough to be picked up by multiple groups, don't even compare this garbage to Kaguya.
Ian Rogers
Wow okay buddy.
I forgot to say, no I don't believe we did. I could be wrong, it's been a while. We're going to get started here in a few weeks.
Angel Lewis
If Fascans hadn't butted in, then they would have just released chapters at their pace. (I don't know if they even continue working on it.)
Most of the time I don't even know whose chapter was dumped. Nobody uses tripcodes or some other form of attribution. (But it's most likely the Fascan one).
>Jitsu was never popular enough to be picked up by multiple groups, true >don't even compare this garbage to Kaguya Just stop.
Adrian Morales
>If Fascans hadn't butted in, then they would have just released chapters at their pace. (I don't know if they even continue working on it.) If Fascans hadn't butted in, I would've sniped it with gook scans or at least done live TL but since they're fast enough there's no need.
Jordan Thomas
Will you occasionally drop in in the eventual RAW threads of his new series? Just speculating, discussing and having a good time?
Hunter Scott
If he does he better drop the trip since he's not translating it.
Jordan Cooper
They're willing to take risks, unlike a lot of others.
Isaac Garcia
Probably this. I only put the trip on to answer questions about scanlating it.
Cooper Perry
>(I don't know if they even continue working on it.) Yup. Delays happened (raws being late + christmas + tech. problems). Should be out soon.
Cooper Lewis
>not scanlating on Christmas Plebs, I bet you're normalfags and go out to parties.
Jeremiah Ward
I did scanlate on Christmas, actually, just not Kaguya.
Nathaniel Green
Never got the hype for Kaguya. can't stand that style myself...
Gavin Perez
I could say the same shit about Jintsu.
Daniel Flores
I love both, but Kaguya has definitely fallen off a good bit. Still love it and it's better than most, but early Kaguya was god tier.
Aiden Campbell
that's only a problem with kaguya because jag was a fucking troglodyte.
Isaiah Bennett
You don't actually believe jag dropped it because it got licensed right? He had already said before that even happened that he was considering dropping it since doing a weekly manga on his on the day he gets raws was tiring.
Bentley Nguyen
>on his on on his own on*
Nathaniel King
I don't care why, jag was a troglodyte and let a bunch of spoiled teens post fucking autismo garbage between literally every page instead of telling them to fuck off. now spoiled teens are waiting for their threads so they can shitpost about how ishigami is /OURGUY/
Austin Scott
Are you the OCD retard that whined about how people made replies to pages before the dump was over in the latest thread?
Tyler Lopez
Are you one of the autistic teens that can't stop posting shitty reaction images?
Hudson Ortiz
I don't even get to the threads until hours after you fucking retard. Thanks for confirming you're that OCD retard.
Cooper Fisher
Thank god another good group picked up kaguya instead of that notjagman "Sup Forumsnonymous" group. Their forced memes are just ugh.
Jackson Parker
>when MouTel comes back from the dead
What's going on with that series, is it on hiatus? I missed any discussion about it.
Henry Thompson
At least Nagisa won another bowl
Matthew Evans
>RAW
It's not an acronym.
John Jackson
>It has 20 volumes total. it has 22
Leo Cruz
What did she win? Looks like she came in second there.
Nicholas Clark
Substance > artstyle. Feel free to go back to Black Clover anytime, user.
Blake Mitchell
>implying I even go to the threads Not a chance faggot. At least I know for sure now that the threads are still full of down syndrome
Jayden Anderson
>Substance > artstyle. Too bad Jitsu wa has neither.
Kayden Ward
Is that gender bent Mikan? I'm not sure how I feel about that...
Dylan Rivera
>Girl looks EXACTLY like girl from previous/current running manga of the mangaka
STOP DOING THIS. At least I can commend him for making the MC look unique.
Hunter Morales
He looks like garbage.
Logan Richardson
I'm the kind of guy who takes 'garbage' over 'Wait isn't this the guy from the previous manga?'
Aaron Campbell
>Magic academy sounds like a playground for creepy shit, so fingers crossed
Jose Collins
user....it says manga academy not magic
so Bakuman in school
Gabriel Cooper
Sign me the fuck up. I need more actual romance in my life after being subjected to TLJ
Jaxson Bennett
>Write an Anime Plot thread turned into a real manga
Brayden James
I think it's on break for a volume, but this is Tomo-long tier.
>Their forced memes are just ugh Thanks for the opinion, reddit.
Jack Fisher
Evans is a better Kaguya
Brayden Sanchez
>We already committed to Bird Cafe as the next project.
Goddamit at last.
John Phillips
Stop being an autist. Sup Forums also thinks the new "old" group does a crappy job. They should be grateful kaguya got stolen from those hacks.