What will be Weekly-Shōnen-Jump's signature series after One-Piece ends?

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Is that series already in the magazine or has it yet to be created?

Will the series over-take One-Piece before that even ends (very, very unlikely)?
 

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2kewl4u said:
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It's trash. But it's the most popular thing right now barring One Piece.
Will it even be able to maintain its popularity until then and will it end before One-Piece?
I think it's likely. It's a collection of generic, overplayed and uncreative Shonen tropes, they'll lap it up if it continues like it has right now.
 

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As sad as it is to say, Boku no Hero Academia and Black Clover will likely be what keeps Weekly Shonen Jump afloat after it's last popular long running series ends (assuming it ends before either of these two). Considering more people are gradually waking up to those two series being awful, however, I doubt they'd be able to hold popularity for long and certainly won't surpass One Piece in sales. Only series that really has any chance of being Jump's next staple in terms of popularity, sales and quality is Hunter X Hunter, and Togashi's hiatuses makes it's publication schedule too inconsistent to bet all their hopes on.

Most likely, WSJ's popularity will collapse once OP ends. Only other alternative would be to bring the next new Dragon Ball spinoff from Shueisha's Dragon Room into their weekly lineup and milk it for all it's got. Either that or make Boruto it's cash cow.
 

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I just can't see either of those series becoming Weekly-Shōnen-Jump's flag-ship series for some reason. It just doesn't register.
 

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Whether you think those series are awful or not has nothing to do with how popular they are. We're talking about casual readership, not your anime elitist ass.
 

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Talking to me? Nah, I'm not saying because they suck (I haven't read them) but just from how it looks doesn't look like they have what it takes to become the flag-ship series in the future.
 

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I'm just talking in general, I've not watched them either, but I just find it funny that objective quality even comes up when talking about popularity and profitability.

Whatever is the most popular show when one piece ends will be the flagship.
 

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sei'taer said:
I'm just talking in general, I've not watched them either, but I just find it funny that objective quality even comes up when talking about popularity and profitability.

Whatever is the most popular show when one piece ends will be the flagship.
I don't think it's as easy as being the most popular. I would argue from the time DragonBall ended in 1995 to maybe 1997 when One-Piece started was a transitional period with no defined flag-ship series. A flag-ship series just has that extra something. Like the entire magazine promotes the series the most by putting the series mostly on the cover of the whole magazine and just in-general promoting that more. Just being the most popular doesn't make that the flag-ship.
 

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Whether you think those series are awful or not has nothing to do with how popular they are.
Whilst that is somewhat true that it isn't the decisive factor, it has been shown that a severe drop in writing quality or a stagnation in it not changing can heavily affect many of Jump's titles in terms of popularity. Just look at how Bleach practically lost all popularity in it's last arc or Toriko quickly dropping in sales after it's timeskip.

When the majority catch on to the lack of quality a series has, that leads to death in popularity, something that's already happened with BnHA's 3rd anime season being considered a disappointment even by it's die-hard fans.
 

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