Yeah. There are other magazines that aim their comics at different demographics and along genre- women, adults and so on, but Weekly Shonen Jump is the one that consistently sells well because it has the longest history and biggest market with the broadest appeal (girls will buy it for, say a sports story like Haikyuu!! with a lot of hot teenage anime guys in it) so it attracts the best authors which reinforces it's market dominance etc.
Capitalism breeds innovation. :deeper-sadness:
The reason we're getting more high quality stories like Demon Slayer, Jujetsu Kaisen, Spy x Family and CSM now is because of 2 things: 1) WSJ expanded into web publishing and the online format has given authors more freedom than maybe some of the more stricter print only stuff allows for- I know SpyxFamily and CSM were beneficiaries of this new format and 2) Editorial has had a change in direction and they aren't trying to chase another Big 3 endless ongoing story like One Piece or Naruto anymore- they're not afraid to just end a series even if it's doing record numbers, for example Demon Slayer ended a while back, which has done wonders for the storytelling.
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Yeah. There are other magazines that aim their comics at different demographics and along genre- women, adults and so on, but Weekly Shonen Jump is the one that consistently sells well because it has the longest history and biggest market with the broadest appeal (girls will buy it for, say a sports story like Haikyuu!! with a lot of hot teenage anime guys in it) so it attracts the best authors which reinforces it's market dominance etc.
Capitalism breeds innovation. :deeper-sadness:
The reason we're getting more high quality stories like Demon Slayer, Jujetsu Kaisen, Spy x Family and CSM now is because of 2 things: 1) WSJ expanded into web publishing and the online format has given authors more freedom than maybe some of the more stricter print only stuff allows for- I know SpyxFamily and CSM were beneficiaries of this new format and 2) Editorial has had a change in direction and they aren't trying to chase another Big 3 endless ongoing story like One Piece or Naruto anymore- they're not afraid to just end a series even if it's doing record numbers, for example Demon Slayer ended a while back, which has done wonders for the storytelling.