>In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection, Weekly Shonen Jump is currently asking the manga authors who are serialized to write in a way that minimizes the risk of infection. As a result, it will take a lot of time to complete the manuscript, so it is unavoidable that the number of cases in which the manuscript is suspended will increase.
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Caleb Reed
>asking the manga authors who are serialized to write in a way that minimizes the risk of infection
What in the goddamn fuck is this supposed to mean?
Zachary Thompson
>Jump shuts down to make sure Kimetsu’s gravy train doesn’t end
Bold move
Angel Turner
In reality: All the axebaits will fight it out to see who has the fewest missed chapters (achieved by firing assistants if they don't want to infect the granny that lives with them at home) and the winner gets to live
Michael Moore
>change title into MONTHLY Shonen Jump
problem solved
Nathaniel Cox
to go full hikki and fire all their indentured servants and deliver their chapters even if they have to go full Togashi
Jackson King
Scan digitally and send through the interwebs?
Jeremiah Roberts
Are we entering a new age?
Logan Richardson
Some mangaka still work in pen and paper like Oda.
Ian White
fucking luddites
Hunter Wood
Corona chan dabbing on these subhuman shonen shitters
Andrew King
Basically more stay at home shit. Some authors do visit areas for references or meet face to face with editors/assistants, etc.
Dominic Johnson
No assistants, which means some manga will have to take multiple weeks to get to an acceptable art quality.
Jason Myers
Why not just email everything? We aren't in the 1900s anymore
Evan Hill
Time to make more double chapters.
Samuel Green
Mangaka like Oda still draw their manga traditionally
Camden Young
That magazine already exists user
Dominic Clark
I feel like they will have to rerun old one shots to fill the magazine.
Landon Evans
Jump should be completely shut down for months and publish absolutely nothing, it would be good for manga and Zig Forums would vastly improve
Luis Wilson
>No assistants
This is the primary thing it means.
Joshua Kelly
Sunday or magazine would see an opening and quickly set up a way to get weekly translations to the west, once jump came back they would have a whole new level of competition.
Jeremiah Nguyen
Then they should just scan what they're working on and send it over to their assitants/editors. It's not that fucking hard
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Lincoln Adams
Oda has already said that he's reduced the number of his staff to an absolute minimum. Chapters will take even longer to produce. So, either way, there's going to be a wait.
Landon Morris
Personally i thought it would take years for people who have been Consuming early leaks to get adjusted to the official release but it seems the majority has already been able to adjust. Crazy how shueisha's one move has made people abandon the speed scans(also the taking down of MS) in large numbers. Wonder if Weekly Shonen magazine or Shonen Sunday can follow suit?
Although their respective magazine popularity in the west is microscopic in comparison to wsj
Carter Collins
In fairness, switching to digital takes time and has a learning curve where their work is slower and quality is reduced. It's the sort of thing that's difficult to do while your series is actually ongoing.
Dylan Lopez
>No assistants
How? Internet exists.
Jayden Hernandez
>There is only a 99.8 percent chance that you will live if you catch COVID
bros...this is the end...
Isaiah Bennett
>stuck working from home until end of year
>everything shut except grocery stores
>banned from going to japan indefinitely
2020 sucks.
Jaxson Hughes
It's still way harder to assist over the internet
William Anderson
>>There is only a 99.8 percent chance that you will live if you catch COVID
Stop fearmongering
Jaxon Nelson
Fax? I’m sure Japan is outdated enough to still make use of fax machines
Jeremiah Reed
>thinking nips care about competing in the west
Christian Nelson
>HeroCaca will become less and less popular because of this
Best timeline
Colton Gutierrez
Traditionally a mangaka's assistants would be commuting to the mangaka's studio via public transit, where they and the mangaka would gather in a relatively small room to work on the manga for many hours a day. As the assistants finished on chapter, the mangaka would draft the next chapter, then either the editor would drop by the studio, or the mangaka would go to the publisher's office to discuss the draft.
So to "write in a way that minimizes the risk of infection" means "stop doing that". Assistants work from home if the mangaka is set up for it, or the mangaka does without assistants if they aren't. If they absolutely need assistants in studio, reduce it to the absolute minimum, or perhaps only have one of them there at a time. No more face to face meeting with editors. Videochat, or email/fax/mail drafts then talk by phone. Final manuscripts sent electronically or by mail rather than delivered in person.
Finally it means that if they aren't fully digital, and set up to have their assistants work from home, they should consider switching to full digital and their assistants being able to work from home. Even if that means being forced to work at a slower rate while mangaka and assistants get used to using the digital software.
Aiden Flores
Bros did the moechads invent this virus to kill shounen manga...?
Austin Lopez
Everyone's still sperging out over this fucking flu? Yawn. I'm so bored of this shit now.
Benjamin Perry
>WSJ
>not moe
Bentley Howard
It would be cool to see.
Landon Young
I could see some of the manga going monthly, maybe Oda since he was already taking breaks