Ruroni Kenshin

Submitted by QuintinDM on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 13:45
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What do you guys think about the new Ruroni Kenshin series running in SJ Alpha? personally I don't have a problem with it and will most likely read it, plus it might mean we could get more monthly series in the future (Blue Exorcist, D. Gray-Man etc) but I was kinda hoping we would get a new weekly series like Beelzebub or Gintama or Sket Dance. I mean there is still the potential of a new weekly series but still.

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Submitted by otterin on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 14:04

Rurouni Kenshin is a great series and one of my favorites but I was hoping for an actual ongoing series with new chapters every week. A reboot only really means re-done art with the same story. Sure it might gain new fans to the Rurouni Kenshin series and old fans are probably ecstatic but I was hoping for something that won't be once a month and a series that is actually currently running in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Submitted by John Bae on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 14:26

There's more to come! Just stay tuned over the next few months for more exciting news about ALPHA!

Submitted by FrankyCenaur on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 15:31

This is not good at all. It shouldn't take months to add things into the magazines.

Believe me, I'm seriously against piracy, but it is not good that whenever WSJ gets a new series, its scanulated automatically. You could literally get every series that appears in WSJ like this- the week it appears in the magazine.

Again, I don't/will never pirate, but waiting so long just to get a new series is really bad. I know you guys probably aren't at fault, and it's probably the fault of the suits at Shueisha, but please step it up :(

And if not, please release more old series as graphic novels. 2011 had only two new releases of WSJ series, and 2012 is lining up to have NO (zero) new releases of WSJ series. Something from the 90's or early 2000's perhaps?

Submitted by Inxplotch on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:42

Personally, I'm not a fan of it. I mean, RuroKen is really old, and I don't see much of a point in putting it in Alpha, whose purpose seems to be giving us more recent stuff. If anything, I feel it would have been cooler if they picked, say, a lesser known series that they already have the rights to and promoted that. (which reminds me, I wonder if Viz has the rights to Buso Renkin. to lazy to check atm)

Of course, I feel the reason they picked a finished series has to do with having to get the rights to a new series to publish and the amount of work it takes. I really would love to see Sket Dance come state-side, It's one of my personal favorite series and I still wonder why no one will pick it up.

Submitted by John Bae on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 13:45

It's new and done by the original creator. It's not the past published stuff.

Submitted by bleachnaruto5 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 07:54

I havent even read the original rurouni kenshin. Will I understand reboot??

Submitted by John Bae on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 16:50

yes you will.

Submitted by karasking4862 on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 16:28

If the new writer/artist does it right, the there should be no problem. However, there is no guarantee. I trust that the Shonen Jump Alpha team would not put something that would only confuse us, but you never know.

Submitted by Rychy on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 17:26

I personally don't like it that Kenshin was chosen over all the other series in Jump Square. It's a remake of a series most people have probably read if they care about it at all. I think it's quite frustrating that with so few series in Alpha that we're not even getting the series we're asking for.

Submitted by dUsTeAtEr on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 08:25

I completely agree with you! I would have preferred Claymore or Rosario Vampire. Maybe they should make a second online magazine for all the monthly series, aimed at an older audience.