Bessatsu Shounen Magazine has released its newest issue yesterday. Before this issue, there were 2 new series that have started, signaling the start of a wave of new serializations planned at 2 new series per issue until the August issue (to be released in July), though there were some more additions before that. This issue sees the start of 2 more new series.
Red Rule: A helot by the name of Jason gets chosen by some Spartan to join the Agoge. This issue sees it at chapter 2: new charas (Sarpedon, whom Jason ended up being with, and Keraunos, who's pretty blood-thirsty), and the start of the agoge: to run and reach the Spartan polis, where the first 30 people get to proceed. As expected, it gets bloody on the onset.
Shitsugo no Ken: 81st Successor to the Isshin-ryuu Dojo Hachiichi Soudou joins one Shizuku Yabusaki of the government's intelligence agency to find a cure for his sick friend while at the same time unravelling the mysteries of the Dark Ages, which the mysterious 61st successor seems to have a hand in. In this issue is the 2nd chapter where Hachiichi and Shizuku go through a wormhole to the Dark Ages itself. It's branded as a Japanese-style battle fantasy, so I guess that will start appearing more by next chapter...
Craters Thinks: Basically, there's a guy named Nagi who ended up being something beyond human with powers that can be cultivated through emotions. He has a friend named Hakushin, who happens to be more than what he appears; he is the leader of a community called the Country of Tomorrow (Asu no Kuni), set to protect Craters like Nagi from outside threats like SIDE, but it seems there is something deeper. It's now at Chapter 4, where- wait, what the hell was that shadowy figure...?
Tokyo Jiraiya: Think Demon Slayer but with ninjas. It's now at Chapter 6: our main guy Kouta and his brotherly (ish) mentor figure Shirou, who got him on this train, goes to the sea park to deal with Cursed Paintings connected to Binrouji's Curse, something that has afflicted Kouta's sister Eff. It ends with Kouta ending up at knife-point against a claoked foe...
Hooligan's: Victorian punks that happen to be alchemists against the King of the Homunculi. It's now at Chapter 4: a funeral, and going to a meeting for our protagonists. Meanwhile, he meeting ended up getting to fucking gunpoint leading to some hun unleashig A GIANT ICE BALL on everyone... Holy shit...
NEW: GREED PUNK: One Kaito Greed is out to look for Alibaba's 108 Instruments, of which he has Jekyll and Hyde, pairs of stealing gloves. This chapter sees him get the Gulliver Bell, a bell that was to be used in a wedding between one Bity Dog and one Princess Elly, but then, it turned out that Bity was USING HER to get to the Bell... Can't wait to see the next chapter!
NEW: Achilles: Lux used to be a slave alongside Venn and Felice, but after getting on the wrong side of royalty, his friends ended up DYING IN FRONT OF HIM... This is when he decided to take up the sword and become a gladiator, the chance given to him by some old man, to gain his freedom...
Edited by thuse on Apr 10th 2024 at 7:12:28 PM
Next up, the recent issuem Weekly Shounen Magazine. There have been some recent stuff in the magazine for a while like Dead Account, Kimura Class, and Usayama Girls High School 2-1, but Dead Account ended up moving to Pocket Magazine, and the other 2 ended so soon. Currently, these are some of the new stuff that's here:
Orion's Board: AKA Banjou no Orion. From the author behind Your Lie in April comes a story featuring shogi, a faithful encounter between our protagonist Yuuhi and a hun of the same school who she met in a bar with a faithful shogi match, and some hints of school romance. It's at Chapter 13 now, in the aftermath of the shogi match between Yuuhi and one Chiba, someone who has beaten the guy that won against Yuuhi in Chapter 1: Kuji, where Chiba won after Yuuhi's surrender. By the end, KUON ends up in the bar where Yuuhi part times with that hun (forgot her name)...
Jushin no Katana: Zodiac tribes, a Festival where they go to war with each other for supremacy, and the journey of the Princess of the Rabbit Tribe Ibusuki to find her 5 champions for the festival. So far, she has gotten Hijimaru, of the rare Lion tribe whom she met in the very first chapter, Koutari, who was formerly of the Dragon tribe but wanted to join because of interest in Hijimaru, and more recently, Yogoto of the Rabbit tribe, one that is skilled unlike the rest, and Robo of the Wolf tribe but the leader of the Nomads. We're now at Chapter 22, where Robo was convinced to join Ibusuki, and Koutari revealed that they brought a 5th and final champion along...
Brave Bell: It mainly revolves around one Soushi Sanada, son of Genshi and the 6th leader of the Takeshiro Crime Syndicate. Because of that, he was treated like how most delinquents are treated: with disdain from everyone else. As a result, Genshi would rather have him live a normal life, and Soushi ended up thinking the same. Alas, thanks to one Legal Laugh, everyone in the Takeshiro Crime Syndicate DIED. What's more, he ended up taking in Akuri, a child that Genshi took up who happens to have mysterious powers. This story mainly revolves around Soushi's revenge, but along the way, we get superhuman organizations (all of them alliterative), fights, and much more. It's now at Chapter 41, right at what seems to be the final arc, where Soushi, with the organization Brave Bell at his side + Shirokane Safety as an ally, fighting against Legal Laugh and its leader Yukinari, HIS (foster) BROTHER. It's at phase 2, with one firepower user Masaaki Kuga wrecking everyone, and the leader of Brave Bell Yuusei Ishida standing against him. Turns out this is Ishida's revenge fight against him because Kuga KILLED EVERYONE, destroyed his home, and had him go through hell...
Edited by thuse on Apr 18th 2024 at 8:40:22 PM
Updating with developments in Shounen Magazine as of the recent issue:
Jushin no Katana: Chapters 23-24 were on the fifth and final champion for the Rabbit tribe: Ao of the Rooster tribe, whom Koutari found while Ibusuki and Hijimaru were dealing with Yogoto and Robo. Let's just say he's like a mad scientist in his obsession with Hijimaru and the Calamity that is associated with him...
Orion's Board: Now at Kayamori vs Kuji, all bets in!
Brave Bell: Now at an intro to Oniniwa, who absolutely slays, and to Ishida vs Kuga, where the latter ends up aiming for Ishida's fellows.
If there's a thread for Shounen Jump, there might as well be one for Shounen Magazine!!
I hope for this to be the host for discussion on recent series from Shounen Magazine without their own threads yet. I doubt that there are much people that follow the Shounen Magazine label, so unless there's traction to make separate threads, may this serve discussion all the recent series from not just Weekly Shounen Magazine (home to Blue Lock, Edens Zero (and before that, Fairy Tail), Shangri-la Frontier, etc.), but also Bessatsu Shounen Magazine (home to Tomodachi Game, Orient (as of the time of writing, but before, it used to be under Weekly Shounen Magazine), and famously, Attack on Titan), Monthly Shounen Magazine (home to In/Spectre, Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange, and Noragami among others), and if possible, the stuff published in Pocket Magazine (the stuff that should also be in K Manga too; e.g. Wind Breaker). I will mostly focus on Weekly and Bessatsu + some stuff in Pocket Magazine (though I bet Wind Breaker's gonna get a thread soon) to get this going.
Edited by thuse on Apr 9th 2024 at 8:12:07 PM