Redhood

What would you do differently to save this manga/make it good?

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1. A different editor. The one who was in charge of it, Taguchi, was just fired.
2. More promotion from WSJ. You can see how they coddle the ones they want to succeed, like Akane-Banashi.
3. Suited to be a long epic in the time of low attention spans. One Piece wouldn't have survived in this era of Jump if it just began.
4. Jump's bias against newbies.
Hopefully Jump takes a look at all the manga Taguchi ruined and gives them a second chance.

Make a different manga.

>Taguchi, was just fired
Really? What else did he work on?

Samurai 8
Earthchild
Agravity Boys
Hell Warden Higuma
My Hero Academia

>Taguchi, was just fired
Prove it.

Make Bonkers the MC
Make the current MC a girl
Expand on the tomboy and witch girl's relationship
Get out of the forest by chapter 2 at most
No tournament arc

>different editor
Could help, but the fact is Kawaguchi was the one coming up with the ideas
>more promotion
Sure, because that worked so well for Samurai 8. Contrary to what some here might tell you, audiences aren't just mindless drones who'll buy whatever big daddy corporation tells them to. If "more promotion" was all it took to make something a hit, we would have gotten a third Emoji Movie by now.
>One Piece wouldn't have survived in this era
Everyone who says this forgets that One Piece wasn't a big sprawling epic at the beginning, it was just a simple little story about pirates in the East Blue. It succeeded because the characters were likable, and the plot wasn't that complicated (yet). It wasn't until years later when it started to become the gigantic monster it is now.
And before you go "See? See? It just needed more time!", time isn't some magic band-aid that fixes everything. If Jump kept Red Hood or Phantom Seer or Squid 8 or any of those around too long, they wouldn't magically grow a huge following and turn into the next big hit, readers would just start asking why a series nobody likes is still around.
>Jump's bias against newbies
Dafuq you talking about? Akane author is a newbie. Mashle author was a newbie. You're acting like it's impossible for a newbie to survive at all in Jump.
>hopefully Jump gives them a second chance
Highly, highly unlikely. It's happened before, but it's incredibly rare. There's this golf one that basically turned out like Morbius - it failed once, they brought it back, and it failed again.

Learn from the mistakes of the last one, then make a different manga.

Bonkers sucks, just make Grimm the MC. She's the main reason Red Hood had a following at all.

>the editor was fired

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Grimm is the most paperthin FeMC in recent memory. She was barely a character and hardly had fanservice either, so she fails on both counts.

Bonkers on the other hand was the most fleshed out and sympathetic character in the series, which is ridiculous considering he was introduced halfway though.

The editor really is gone though. They moved him from his position. It wasn't a promotion either lmao.

Reading the most recent My Hero Academia chapters, I can believe it. There's been a noticeable improvement. Not enough to make it not suck, but it is less frustrating than it has been.

Not turn it into a shitty fucking battle shonen

It was just in the wrong magazine. All of these were. They never had a chance of meeting Shonen Jump's high standards, they should have gone over to Shonen Magazine instead. Its standards are just low enough, almost anything can succeed there.

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>A different editor. The one who was in charge of it, Taguchi, was just fired.
Even a godly editor can't fix a bad author. Making manga is the job of the editor AND the author. It's unfair to blame only the editor and not the author.
>More promotion from WSJ. You can see how they coddle the ones they want to succeed, like Akane-Banashi.
What is Samurai 8? You need a good product first before you can advertise something. If advertisement work then why company bother making anything good anymore?
>Suited to be a long epic in the time of low attention spans. One Piece wouldn't have survived in this era of Jump if it just began.
People tense to forgot that all of the big 3 all have very good start and only got worse later on. More things happen in OP in 10 chapters than RH. Just because you are planning your epic adventure in the future doesn't mean you are allowed to be boring at the start.
>Jump's bias against newbies.
LoL, Jump is the most newbie-friendly magazine, it's the only place where newbie get the same treatment as veteran.
>So you saying they all suck and can't compete so it would be better to move to smaller pond.

Samurai 8 wasn't promoted enough.

That's just it, isn't it? It's never enough. Samurai 8 got all those color pages, it got a whole wall mural, but it wasn't enough promotion. It got 43 chapters, five volumes' worth of content, but it wasn't enough time.

They could have given it a cover, a crossover with Boruto, and a playable character in Jumputi Heroes, and it wouldn't be enough promotion. They could have stuck it out for 150 chapters, given it a good long run outlasting all its contemporaries, and it wouldn't be enough time. It would still be there on the bottom of the TOC, unread and unloved by all but a vocal minority that can't admit that their god Kishimoto is fallible.

The author simply wasn't skilled/smart enough. Happens all the time, why did you pick this specific manga to ask that question?

>They could have stuck it out for 150 chapters, given it a good long run outlasting all its contemporaries
If only they actually did that

To grow, a plant needs several things. It needs the right kind of soil, the right climate, the right amount of sunlight, and of course, enough water. It needs all of those things in order to grow. If all you do is just keep pouring more and more water on it, eventually someone is going to ask why you're still watering a plant that obviously isn't growing.

Yes, and this plant certainly did not have those good conditions. The gardener was neglectful and made sure only the other plants had what they needed.