Shuukan Shounen Hachi

[wootsman]

we have ten chapters left at-least.

 

[Siquall]

It probably lack harem for japan tastes, and ecchi.

It's really sad, it was one of my fav ongoing manga, the story was just really starting.

 

[saph]

Seems like a real sus source. Anyone got anything besides that one article?

 

[aa9000]

F

 

[Lyendith]

@saph Nope. We'll only know for sure when the next chap comes out.

 

[saph]

@Lyendith alright, thanks for the info!

 

[Enderzone]

Wait, google translate says "Weekly Shonen Hachi" Next issue Final round". Doesn't that just mean it's the chapter with the results of the final round of the competition Hachi's entered in?

 

[Lyendith]

@Enderzone The Japanese text says "saishuukai", which means "last chapter" in this context. It's just a blog post though, not an official announcement. But even so, I prefer not to get my hopes up.

Well, chapter 41 will most likely be about the contest's results, if the preview at the end of this chap is anything to go by, so you're right about that.

 

[TheWanderer567]

Bleh, Inohara was the far more interesting girl. Its always so painful to watch the better girl never hooking up with the male mc but so damn common in mangas these days.

 

[dethduck]

Ok, let me get this straight. So far, the ONLY mention of this being cancelled was a vaguely worded twitter from a rumor-mill blog? And it's accepted as fact?

 

[Isekaijin]

They're wrapping up the romantic tension too unnaturally, of course it's getting axed. We already know how this guy writes.

 

[maffa]

even without knowing of twitter nor blogs whatsoever, this speed in the relationshiop wrapup was too fast, and looked like it was runing away from Axe-kun. Even the cameos of the series looked like a desperate maneuvre to spike popularity. Unfortunately the manga is quite modest IMO.

 

[Chuggoth]

22nd on the rankings
Axe is real

 

[Lyendith]

@Chuggoth That was last week's table of contents, nothing new. And it's not a ranking by the way.

 

[LyingLyre]

@lyendith
Don't they put their most popular series on the front? It's a ranking that way. Or at least that's what Bakuman taught me...

 

[Lyendith]

@LyingLyre Yeah, that's a common practice, just like being published near the end is usually not the sign of a stellar popularity. What I mean is that it's not an exact "ranking", just a general indicator of which series the editors choose to promote.

Now I'm not sure how different the Jump is from other magazines in that regard, as they seem to have a ranking system that's unique to them (if that 50th anniversary documentary was anything to go by). Jump's ToC seems to reflect the rankings more closely.

Speaking of which, it's a bit ironic that one of the series that's often with Hachi near the bottom of the ToC is Mound no Taiyou, a baseball series…

 

[TheGTF]

@Lyendith In general most sources I have read imply ( as vaguely as they can without risking publishers getting mad at them) Weekly Shounen Jump is the most ruthless about their cancellations and tying the rankings into that and their relative positions in the magazine. WSJ is seemingly infamous for purging people in the back of the list without much of a window to attempt to bring up interest but they also seem to be more of an oddity than the norm in that regard- supposedly not even Shueisha's other publications operate like WSJ does. That being said, this is a Champion series, not any flavor of Jump- so we're not even looking at the same publisher. Everybody in this venue, just like back on Batoto, projects WSJ onto every other publication, which is hilarious when I see them screaming about imagined imminent cancellations in monthly publications, which apparently are much more relaxed about what they cancel. Not saying as a rejection of the claim this series was cancelled mind you- putting that aside, Jitsu wa Watashi wa is the only really long series Matsuda accomplished that I can find in his serial history. Sakura Discord ended up being only 44 chapters. So far it seems like Jitsu was lightning in a bottle for him and he's yet to find it again.

 

[Lyendith]

@TheGTF Masuda was very gradual with his publications − first a short, 3 chapter series (Shirou Rabbit, which is now unfindable), then a 1 volume series (Toumei Ningen no Tsukurikata), then a 5 volume series (Sakura Discord), and finally a long series with Jitsu wa.

Hachi is the first series he didn't manage to finish. Though… honestly, chapter 41 is so meta I'm starting to wonder if that was his plan all along. >.> But probably not.

So yeah, it's confirmed, chapter 42 will be the last.

 

[PageofSpace]

The meta-commentary makes the ending extra sad. I'll miss this series.

 

[geroshabu]

Sad about the cancellation, it really started to pick up and the characters were mostly as good as ever. Still, I'm wondering why, why, why, why oh why, the author decided to make his first big arc about something as vague as a "like-battle", and having the antagonist for said arc be an uncharismatic tired guy with a hoodie whose main motivation was pettiness. In a shounen manga about making manga, with an author otherwise excelling at good character design, that's just suicidal. Undoubtedly he wanted to make a point about integrity and failure, but doing that early doors instead of staying on the topic of drawing manga is bound to make people lose interest.
Hope Masuda bounces back with something new soon, he's always a fun read.