{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-13T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T04:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2007\/08\/13\/looking-forward-to-jump-square\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T04:28:40","slug":"looking-forward-to-jump-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2007\/08\/13\/looking-forward-to-jump-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward to Jump Square!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s highlight for me, other than receiving some great mangas from a friend (and my Touch OST! ;w;) is looking at the line up of Jump Square<\/a>. To be honest, as much as I owe a lot of my fandom to Shounen Jump, recently, the titles in the magazine has gone quite stale. Maybe I just grew up. Young Jump is fine, but can be a little brutal on my end. Could Jump Square be just the right amount of adventure, humor, and maturity that I’m looking for?<\/p>\n

The manga has quite a lot of things to look forward to. First would be 3nen Zgumi Ginpachi-sensei<\/strong>! After giving my heart and spleen to Gintama (and I think half my brain), this crazy spinoff of the series is definitely something to look forward to! 3nen Zgumi Ginpachi-sensei takes the characters of Gintama and puts them in a classroom setting. Gintoki is now Ginpachi-sensei and he usually leads the class in insane homeroom activities. It has been published as a novel, but I’m not so sure if this means that the novel will extend into a manga series now in jump square or it probably means that it will have some stories written like short novelettes for the series. I’m betting on the latter one since Sorachi is a lazy monkey. XDD So yeah, this is one reason to read Jump Square.<\/p>\n

Next would be Gag Manga Biyori<\/strong>. Another genius of a manga short is making a comeback. The humor and crazy puns in this series is gold. Again, it’s old man’s humor and may involve some cultural studies, but its a great way in looking to what a gag manga is like in Japan. <3<\/p>\n

The other mangas are still rather questionable as I really haven’t read them before (but they do look nice). Nobuhiro Watsuki will have his story, Another Tale of Frankenstein, continued here. I wonder if it will rise to Rurouni Kenshin. Takeshi Obata will be drawing again, but this time with Masanori Morita. I don’t know if this will be good or what but if a mangaka works with another mangaka (and without corporate intervention!) maybe… just maybe… Obata will definitely bring to life his New Hope award from the Tezukas. A new popular anime, Claymore, will also be in this magazine and might be the magazine’s carrying story. Yoko Kamio of Hana Yori Dango fame will be writing for the magazine as well. There is a ‘Tales of’ story released in the magazine too… so… it could be fun. Could be.<\/p>\n

In short, Jump Square is trying to show that Shueisha’s line of shounen mangas is more than just Shounen Jump. The inclusion of Yoko Kamio might be there to even appeal to some mature female readers out there, perhaps in the same way that Yoshinaga Fumi writes for Morning. Could this be Shueisha’s answer to the popular Morning or Afternoon? Well, we’ll see on November 2 if they match up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s highlight for me, other than receiving some great mangas from a friend (and my Touch OST! ;w;) is 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