Imagine that you are a recognized mangaka and you see the wasted potential that Samurai 8 was, so you decide to reboot the story, you get permission from Masashi Kishimoto and the shonen jump to do it...
What changes would you make to the story? What elements would you keep and what would you discard?
>Glasses MC has a lifelong disability which is cured in chapter 1
Squid 8 never had a chance from the start
Kishi would have been better off pulling a Mashima and going full force into One Piece in Space
Fuck off faggot
Who even makes these threads? Some nigger is out there posting this twice a week
>wasted potential
What potential? The concept was trash from the very start.
Is this a sequel to samurai 7?
Not entirely... I mean, the question would be how you execute things and Kishimoto obviously didn't do it at all well, but who says that someone else (who knows writing) wouldn't have done a better job
Explain Edens Zeros success then
>Story
The art gives me physical pain from reading through chapter 1 so I can't even comment on story
Mashima is fully aware of how much of a hack he is and has a good working relationship with his staff, whereas Kishi is an established author who has let his Naruto fame go to his head and none of his editors had the balls to tell him that his story premise was fucking retarded
It's not rocket science
I would discard the idea of "Samurais from space" and exchange it for "Samurais Cyberpunk"
Boobs
Never Let Kishi explored his idea anymore, let the editor think about the idea just likes Naruto
and asses
It's concept wasn't trash and had a good presentation. See how that works?
>MC is permanently disabled
>kills himself in chapter one
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So is this the biggest Shonen flop of all time
In terms of marketing investment vs payout it might be.
Yes
It's even more embarrassing considering the insane amount of shilling WSJ did for it before the first chapter even released
Sales were mediocre from the get go and kept going down, and it still got 40 chapters when WSJ usually axes by 20 at the latest
What went wrong?
Mashima is a better writer than Kishimoto
Fanservice
What success? It sells like dogshit
Tits, ass and, most importantly, hips.
And Hermits child-bearing hips.
and feet
There are some series that had even lower sales but keep going. iirc it had some 20k sales on average towards the end, whereas Mitama doesn't even get 10k (I think around 5k was the first volume) yet isn't axed.
I think a bigger factor to it getting axed is really just the amount of ad money WSJ threw at it without making any substantial profit from it compared to Naruto.
Mitama got lucky because it kept having things in front of it that got swifty axed instead
Why is it that WSJ has so many shit series in it nowadays? I don't even look at axebowl threads but it seems like there's a few there that should have been axed long ago
Jump is a gag magazine now.