This Week's Issue 03/02/15

Obscure 90's fighting game character and SJ Editor Urian Brown reviews this week's issue. 

By Urian Brown March 02, 2015

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art by Yusuke Utsumi

We've gone JUMP START crazy! Yet another new title for you to sample! And this one's for fans of fighting manga. Like, real tough-guy fighting manga. It's called Ultra Battle Satellite, and as you can tell by this cover, this manga has some pretty intense characters...that like to yell! 

Ultra Battle Satellite 
by Yusuke Utsumi

Bad boy Jin Matsuriya's got a problem—he can't seem to fight fair in tournaments. His animal side takes over, and he can't follow the rules. But when he gets invited to an underground fighting club, his dirty play just might come in handy! Folks, it's no secret I love fighting manga. In fact, that's usually my favorite kind to read. I love action! Tough guys and/or girls duking it out to save the day, or in this case, because they just love fighting!

Battle Sat

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
story by Yuto Tsukuda, art by Shun Saeki

Stagiaire Week is winding down! Soma has some ideas on how to fix the Mitamura's Western Cuisine, but will they listen? Meanwhile, Erina and Tadokoro are having a totally different experience at their restaurant. Looks like a lot of lessons will be learned and not just by the students!

One Piece
Eiichiro Oda

Excuse me while I sit in the corner and foam at the mouth over how FREAKING AMAZING this chapter was! I'm pretty sure Zolo is a universally loved character in One Piece, but he doesn't always get a lot of screen time. But when he does have a moment, like in this chapter, it's always "the coolest thing in the entire universe, ever." EVER!

One Piece

Nisekoi
by Naoshi Komi

This manga has taken a very serious turn lately. Looks like wacky romantic hijinks are on hold for some good old-fashioned drama. Very serious drama at that! Chitoge thought she managed to find a way to stay in Japan, but at the last moment her whole plan gets turned upside down! Looks like she may not get her wish to live with Raku after all! 

Bleach 
by Tite Kubo

Major bomb dropped in the last chapter—Aizen is back! Well, coming back! Who the heck would have guessed that was gonna happen?! Looks like Tite Kubo's pulling out all the stops to make this a fight to remember! 

Bleach

Black Clover
by Yuki Tabata

Black Clover has quickly become one of the all time favorite JUMP STARTS around the office. There's just something about this manga that seems to make everyone like it. It's almost...magical. 

My Hero Academia
by Kohei Horikoshi

It's time for the one-on-one battles, and Midoriya's feeling a little less than heroic about the next match! Looks like it's time for a pep talk by All Might! His next foe has powers that are so strange, it's freaking people out! Just what is this power and how can Midoria counter it?!

My Hero

Cyborg Roggy
by Yu Miki

Roggy and his new friend "Dog" get a new client! A little kid who has lost his beloved big sister. But there's more to this case than meets the eye (like always), and Roggy finds himself embroiled in a specialized club that caters to rich kids with an augmentation addiction! Can he find the kid's sister, and what's her connection to the place?

World Trigger
by Daisuke Ashihara

Yuma suffers his first major defeat in the Rank Wars! Since he's pretty much won every fight he's ever been in, how will he take this new loss? Plus, new teams are introduced! Looks like these wars are just getting started!   

World Trigger

Toriko
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro

After training by getting their millions of cells to work together, it's finally time to really give the Monkey King what he wants—a dance off! Toriko and crew think they can dance, but does the Monkey King think so? Meanwhile, what's happening to Komatsu? In the last chapter he melted! I gotta say, I have a few laugh out loud moments in every issue of Shonen Jump, but this chapter alone had me giggling like a school girl. Funny stuff! 

Toriko

Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment
story by Nobuaki Enoki, art by Takeshi Obata

The case of Picasso and Da Vinci's Visual Art Copyright Suit is now in session! Inugami's got his work cut out for him, because he's going up against an attorney who's never lost a case! And he's a ninja! But when the case starts and his esteemed legal ninja colleague can't seem to pronounce simple words, everybody's at a loss. How can this bumbling fool have a perfect track record? How indeed!

One-Punch Man
story by ONE, art by Yusuke Murata

I've read a lot of manga and a ton of superhero comics, and I still can't get over the art in One-Punch Man. These super-powered battles are simply way beyond almost anyone working in the medium. Period. My eyes eat every page up and I'm impressed again and again. I wouldn't be surprised if American comic book artists read One-Punch Man and take a lot of notes. This is how you draw superheroes fighting! 

One Punch

Boys Over Flowers Season 2
by Yoko Kamio

If you don't know, we're running the first three chapters of Boys Over Flowers Season 2 as a JUMP START. After that, you can read it for free in English on VIZManga.com! It's the sequel to the legendary Boys Over Flowers manga, which is one of the best-selling shojo manga of all time! Although it's been over 10 years from the original, it looks like mangaka Yoko Kamio hasn't lost her touch one bit! This sequel is already off to a dramatic start! 

Extras: Nihongo Lesson, Author Comments. 

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by Urian Brown