The latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump that was released November 7 (the forty-ninth issue this year) has announced three new manga series that are about to begin running in the magazine, debuting across subsequent weeks for the rest of November.
The first series to debut will be Ayashimon, a manga by Hell's Paradise creator Yuji Kaku. Hell's Paradise, which ran for three years, was a dark fantasy series set in the Edo period of Japan's history, which followed a captured ninja set to be executed, but offered a mission to retrieve an elixir of immortality in exchange for a pardon. Ayashimon is said to be an action series following a war in the underbelly of society, and appears to take place in a roughly modern world, in contrast to Kaku's previous work with its historical setting. Ayashimon is set to start off with a bang, gracing the cover of next week's Shonen Jump and opening with a 50+ page first chapter.
In the issue scheduled for November 22, 2021, the schoolyard comedy series Mamore! Shugomaru will also begin its run. The series will be written and drawn by Daiki Ihara, best known for the One Piece spinoff gag comic "One Piece in Love" which saw release in 2018. Ihara also wrote the brief, three-chapter series Yukimi Daifuku, which was another romantic comedy series. As a relative newcomer, Mamore! Shugomaru seems right in Ihara's wheelhouse. The series' plot is described as revolving around a weird guard who begins working at the school.
Finally, the November 29, 2021 issue of Shonen Jump will introduce Doron Dororon, a fantasy series centered on battling against demons. Doron Dororon was first teased several months ago; the character designs shown seem to suggest that this series will be set in the modern era as well, although little has actually been revealed. The series is attributed to Oosuka Gen, a mangaka best known for creating the series Golem Hearts, which ran for 15 chapters in 2017 and 2018.
While new series begin running in Shonen Jump on a fairly regular basis, it's uncommon to see so many new series starting in the same month. The Jujutsu Kaisen reportedly nearing their ends, it seems Shonen Jump is eager and ready to begin shopping around potential replacements for these pillar series. Although some of the three mangaka behind these series have had mixed results in the past, that's not necessarily a sign of low quality; sometimes a work just isn't a good match for the time it was released or the other series running in the magazine. Manga fans won't have long to wait to find out if one of these series is their new favorite, at least, and hopefully they will get the chance to really shine in Weekly Shonen Jump moving forward.
