Saw this on instagram and the entire comment section was beggin horikoshi to replace ikemoto. And i admit naruto looks hella cute in his style.
It looks like the current mangaka are drawing the manga that most inspired them to become a mangaka. One Piece/Dragonball, My Hero Academy/Naruto (not Boruto), Black Clover/Yu Yu Hakusho, Haikyuu/Horse(?).
Or they are showing off some of their biggest manga that ever came out of shounen jump; including that comic that went on for forty years, and bleach.
I don't recognize the two girls on the top right.
Also announcing a Slam Dunk X Dragonball crossover.
Celebrating 50 years of the magazine?
I don't see Boruto anywhere on this cover...feeling of WSJ about their big sequel revealed? Well, at least thoughts of Ikemoto as the artist is clear from Instagram.
Well, he's only doing the actual original series, not the trash of a spin-off. I bet even though Horikoshi-sensei loved the franchise, deep down, when looking at the spin-off, he probably thought, "What were you THINKING?!"
Didn't he like an image where a fan made Gravity Girls parents have Naruto and Sakura's markings? Before he had to take it down.
Most people in Japan from what we have heard over the years didn't even think there was a competition of who the end pairing would be because NS happening was already assumed to be the ending. To the point when it didn't happen; it came as a shock to even those around Kishimoto why he would do it? Horikoshi has been working at shounen jump since right before Naruto ended. So he saw the final moments of Naruto's glory as well as its rapid fall from grace, and one of his idols kishimoto being reduce to the editor of the sequel to help keep it afloat while not being able to leave to work on his new manga; and he saw it all happen from inside shounen jump. He knows a lot more of what going on then we do, and I doubt he has been impressed by the sequel that one of his favorite manga that inspired him to become a mangaka was sacrificed for.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 12 July 2018 - 01:30 PM.