Shonen Jump puts 6 global manga finalists to public vote

Joshawott

Joshawott

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Earlier this year, it was announced in&nbsp;<em>Weekly Shonen Jump</em>&nbsp;that Shuiesha was holding a global manga competition - where entrants from around the world can have their work&nbsp;chosen by&nbsp;<em>JUMP&nbsp;</em>editors in Japan, North America, China and Taiwan to be placed for a final public vote, with the most popular entrant in each of the three different audiences&nbsp;(English, Chinese and Japanese)&nbsp;receiving 500,000 yen (&pound;2,950) and publication in either&nbsp;<em>JUMP,&nbsp;</em>one of its special issues or one of its international issues, with the overall grand prize winner earning another 500,000 yen on top!

Shonen Jump have now revealed the six contenders for the grand prize, which you can read online (in English, Japanese or Chinese) and vote for. The six finalists are:

<ul>
<li><em>BOOM</em> by Docurro (China - originally submitted in Chinese)</li>
<li><em>El Viento Del Norte</em> by Niu Zai (Taiwan - Originally submitted in Chinese)</li>
<li><em>Golden Rabbit</em> by Nick Kanoza (USA - Originally submitted in English)</li>
<li><em>Morning Star</em> by Aitor Holgado (Spain - Originally submitted in English)</li>
<li><em>Sweatman</em> by Fei ZiXuan (Taiwan - Originally submitted in Japanese)</li>
<li><em>The Team Before Daybreak</em>&nbsp;by Yu YanShu (China - Originally submitted in Chinese)</li>
</ul>

Voting is open to people worldwide and will close on 5th January. Comments from&nbsp;<em>JUMP</em>'s editors will be made public on 20th January with a list of semi-finalist works that didn't make the final cut being revealed sometime next month.
 
The problem with a lot of these entries, is that they all have elements from just about every shonen manga ever, so I never really felt like I was reading anything new.

Personally, I voted for El Viento Del Norte because despite the actual contents being rather recycled, the artwork and the actual narrative was really solid, unlike the others which would always lack in one area. I really liked BOOM and think that with a bit more polish and focus, it could become a truly great series, but it just isn't there yet.

The Team Before Daybreak can stay out in the sun and burn though.
 
Sweatman, Morning Star and Daybreak were broken for their own reasons; A stupid premice (One Punch Man with all the ablity gone in favour of base stupidity), Just being 'there' (and not quite sure of the S&P of jump) and being a good short story that has nowhere to go besides being a third rate Hellsing.

Golden Rabbit I liked because it has the entire gammunt of mythology to run though with the story and so this could go from Lepricans to a whole bunch of stuff (maybe all of them as rabbits, because why not)?

Boom is a Trigger anime in comic form (And that's why I voted for it)

El Viento is a solid example of the catagory.
 
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