Grade-schooler Shouta’s beetle turns into a humanoid being, the titular Moriking, who must participate in a battle to become the ruler of all insects. “Moriking” by Tomohiro Hasegawa is another comedy manga. This one took a while to establish a direction. Which then makes the powerful ones go evil. In this setting, most vampires are relatively harmless, but humans don’t make a distinction between them and the evil ones, so persecute those they find. “Our Blood Oath” by Kazu Kakazu is about blood brothers (one of whom is a vampire) dealing with vampires who want to kill or enslave humans. Nice art, but the male lead comes across as kind of whiny. “Phantom Seer” Art by Togo Goto, Story by Kento Matsuura, has a young man who can summon a shadow demon team up with a young woman who attracts monsters to hunt monsters. The most notable thing about this one is that it reads left to right like an American comic book. “Ghost Reaper Girl” by Akissa Saike (Rosario + Vampire) is about an aspiring actress who discovers that she has a talent for merging with spirits, including a scythe and a catboy, and is trying to make a living reaping evil supernatural beings. (The “bully” character is actually a swell guy.) I like it, but I know the humor style is a miss for many people. There’s a lot of referential humor, including the central cast looking a lot like that of Doraemon but with their character types twisted. The central gag is that Roboco is nothing like the cute, demure and obedient robot maids common to their near future society. “Me & Roboco” by Shuhei Miyazaki (who did the Jump character drawing above) is about an elementary school boy and his robot maid. Let’s take a look at what’s new this year! One Piece is still the longest-running feature, and is closing in on 1000 chapters! There was a shock ending when the author of Act-age was fired for assaulting women and the series was canceled mid-arc a particular blow to the artist as she was not involved but still was out of a job. It’s the eighth anniversary of this blog, and time once again to look at the online version of Weekly Shounen Jump! There haven’t been any major changes to the format since last year.
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