The flagship magazine of the Shueisha house concluded a year full of revolutions for Weekly Shonen Jump in 2021 and is already bringing new series.

We saw the return of famous authors like Yusei Matsui and Kenta Shinohara in the first round of serializations of 2021. Weekly Shonen Jump brought four new series to readers between January and February this beginning of the year, but it certainly didn’t stop here. In fact, like about every quarter that happens The magazine is preparing future serializations.

There will be two new series on Weekly Shonen Jump resulting from the first leaks of the magazine, which will be officially released in Japan on Monday April 5th. The titles will be Ao no Hako and Ame no Furu, both by authors little known to the Western public.

Ao no Hako, translatable in Blue Boxis the serialization of the OneShot of the same name, which received a lot of recognition at Weekly Shonen Jump in 2020. The author is Koji Miura, who in addition to the self-contained chapter of Ao no Hako previously published Parasol Alliance, Aozora Rubber, and Sensei Suki Desu. The manga, if similar to the pilot chapter, will focus on both sports and romance.

The The second title to make its debut is Ame nu Furu, written by Takegushi Ippon and drawn by Mitarashi Santa. Little and nothing is known about the synopsis of the manga and about the writer Ippon. Mitarashi Santa has already devoted himself to a few self-contained chapters in recent years, such as Deiken no Yusha no Goei, Disaster Girl and Cinnamon Nanmon, all of which have been published in Shueisha’s various newspapers and non-printed magazines.

To make room for these two series, the has already been announced Cancellation by Phantom Seerthat was closed in 30 chapters, while in the next issue we know what the other manga will be canceled.


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