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Dr Stone officially ends today:
- 5 year serialization
- 26 volumes
- 12 million copies in circulation
- 3 anime seasons
Congrats Boichi and Inagaki on a successful run in Shonen Jump!!
Since they need breaks in advance to make their covers, Horikoshi maybe but I’m not really sure.
My bet is that newer series like Yoza, Blue Box, Sakamoto Days will be replacing Dr Stone spot.
The reality is the more healthy the mangaka is, it will get more CP's and covers.
Dr Stone is ending and in 2021 it had:
- 5 covers
- 6 color spreads
- 6 color pages
Jump now has to fill that spot with other series and the questions is which series will be occupying that spot. Gege and Tabata obviously are not in their best shape(+)
Noelle drawn by different mangakas
1st pic - Shun Saeki (Food Wars)
2nd Pic - Taishi Tsutsui (We never learn)
3rd Pic - Kentarou Yabuki (To Love Ru)
Knowing some big series will end in the next 1-2 years the magazine will stay like this for a while.
You can say that this era is weaker and it's kinda true but it's the reality. Jump can't cancel current series because there's no reason to axed them with the state they are in.
Will the magazine stay forever like this?
No I don't think so, if the magazine gets the lineup stacked again with hit after hit it will be back to the 2010s where it will have high standards for new series and it will be harder for current series to survive.
It sounds crazy but today's era is the easiest way to get into Jump due to the lack of hits, if you sell less than 5k then you will get axed obviously.
So series like Dr Stone and Black Clover that sell above 150k each volume are more than safe in the magazine.
If Magico was running in the magazine today maybe it could've survived and if UU was in the magazine back then it probably won't but we will never know. But now you guys have an idea of how the magazine worked back then when talking about new series.
It reached a peak of 50k with volume 4 which is great and then after having some declines and returning back to the 30k sales it got axed at with volume 8.