“The First Thirty-Some Volumes Were Great and Everything, But…”

According to a story picked up by the Anime News Network site that originated in a hard to find location from this site, Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga suddenly ended in the Japan's Shonen Jump magazine, and the publication of the final volume of the collections has been delayed. According to the article, Shueisha is asking for 50,000 people to participate in a petition -- sign-ups can be in English if real information is provided -- before restarting its distribution of the long-running serial.

Shaman King is one of the features in the American version of Shonen Jump, and the animated version currently plays in the U.S. on Fox.

I've always heard that manga publishers are capable of making really tough bottom-line decisions, although something this near the end might indicate some other unreported problem or maybe even a clap-your-hands support ploy common near the end of manga serials of which I'm completely unaware. Still: weird.

I think that picture's from Shaman King.

 
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