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Shonen Jump's cancellation policies prevent it from having another series like One Piece, as shown by Ginka & Glüna's cancelation earlier this year. Ginka & Glüna shared many similarities with One Piece, including a slow reveal of the world and future revelations, but it suffered the same fate due to the magazine's current environment. The cancelation of Ginka & Glüna deprived readers of the masterful slow buildup of mysteries and plot threads, indicating that Shonen Jump's policies hinder the growth of series with slow-burn narrative techniques.

Although One Piece has been one of Shonen Jump's most iconic series for over 25 years, one recently canceled series proves that the magazine will never have another series like it. This is a shame, given how incredible One Piece is, but given Shonen Jump's current cancelation policies, the magazine just can't support a series like Eiichiro Oda's pirate saga. Unless something changes soon, it never will.

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 26!

One Shonen Jump series is using flashbacks to defeat its ultimate villain in a genius way. That series is Ginka & Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe, which has put an innovative spin on a variety of classic Shonen tropes over its short time in serialization. Most recently, it has introduced Shonen Jump's ultimate antagonist Magaraka, who is too powerful to defeat through ordinary means.

In chapter 26, translated by Casey Loe, Glüna is finally taking the battle into her own hands. Since more typical magic has failed to affect Magaraka, she decides to use a dangerous forbidden magic to do the job. This magic enables her to use her happy memories as attacks at the price of forgetting them afterward. This works, forcing Magaraka to flee, but it also leaves Glüna a hollow shell, having forgotten all the happiness that Ginka brought into her life. It's...

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 29!Yet another Shonen Jump manga has been canceled prematurely, but despite this it is still worth reading. Shonen Jump has become notorious for canceling many of its newer series before they get a chance to come into their own and this causes many of them to be unsatisfactory reads after they end. But Ginka & Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe bucks this trend by having as satisfying an ending as it can given the circumstances.

Chapter 29 ends the series on an open-ended but optimistic note. After losing her memories in order to defeat the series' incredibly powerful ultimate Shonen Jump antagonist Magaraka, Glüna still suffers from amnesia. While her friends desperately try to restore her memories, nothing is working. Ginka, although initially distancing himself from Glüna due to intense guilt, eventually realizes he is being selfish and joins their efforts. But even his magical expertise isn't enough.

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 24!The Shonen Jump manga Ginka & Glüna just revealed what seems to be its ultimate antagonist, and he may be the strongest of all its villains. This is a bold claim given the extreme power levels of some of the magazine’s other strongest villains like Jujutsu Kaisen’s Sukuna or My Hero Academia’s Shigaraki, but over the course of just one chapter, he has already shown himself to be more than a match for them. Although this is a very worrying sign for both Ginka & Glüna’s protagonists and the series itself.

In chapter 24, the evil wizard Nosferatu resurrects the legendary mage Magaraka, who single-handedly destroyed the ancient empire of Verokia after trying to devour their magical moon. Upon emerging from Nosferatu’s body, Ginka immediately beheads him attempting to kill him in a move many other Shonen Jump heroes would disapprove of,...

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 20!Luffy from One Piece is well known for his direct nature, which often causes him to charge into dangerous situations to save his friends, regardless of the consequences. While this is generally seen as one of Luffy's biggest strengths, one new Shonen Jump manga Ginka & Glüna is showing its major flaw. This series has previously borrowed various elements from One Piece at face value, so it is refreshing to see it start to critique some of the pirate manga's more unrealistic aspects.

In Chapter 20 of Ginka & Glüna, Ginka and the young boy he is helping storm a castle to try and defeat an evil magician. Instead of taking the time to infiltrate the fortress through stealth, Ginka decides to take the quicker path perform a frontal assault, loudly busting through the front doors. However, instead of giving him the advantage of surprise, this leads to his easy capture,...

Warning! Spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 16!Many manga have copied aspects of the iconic series Naruto in their own stories, but one new Shonen Jump series is putting a unique spin on the Shadow Clone Jutsu. That manga is Ginka & Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe and it is one of Shonen Jump's most promising new series. While it has more often borrowed concepts from Naruto's Big Three compatriot One Piece, its main story is arguably more dependent on the idea of doppelgangers that Naruto focused so heavily on. This is reflected most clearly in a fight from the manga’s latest chapter.

In chapter 16 Ginka is fighting the disturbing villain Scheherezade, who is the most dangerous threat he and Glüna have faced so far. With her reality manipulation powers Scheherezade can easily destroy Ginka’s body when he attacks her, but given Ginka is a snowman who can separate himself into miniature copies,...

Warning! Spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen's Shibuya Incident Arc and Ginka & Glüna Chapter 14!Fans of the Jujutsu Kaisen villain Mahito need to check out the new Shonen Jump manga Ginka & Glüna, which features a new antagonist that greatly resembles the grotesque curse. That series, by Shinpei Watanabi, has more closely resembled One Piece than Jujutsu Kaisen in its initial chapters. Its latest villain thus may indicate a potential shift in tone for the so-far optimistic manga.

In chapter 14 of Ginka & Glüna, a new character named Scheherezade wreaks havoc on the magical library that Glüna and her friends are exploring. When some librarians rush in to quiet things down, she transforms them into twisted blobs of flesh that resemble the mutated humans that Jujutsu Kaisen's Mahito was so fond of making. In addition, Anemone, one of Glüna's friends who has encountered Scheherezade in the past, notes that she has a very childlike personality,...

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 12!

Ginka & Glüna is a new Shonen Jump series that has been brilliantly following in One Piece's footsteps so far, but its latest chapter took this a step further by replicating one of that manga's best and most iconic moments. Eiichiro Oda's masterwork has had many powerful scenes, but one of its most satisfying is when Luffy punches a celestial dragon. While Ginka & Glüna don't copy this scene exactly, the manga captures the spirit of this moment very well.

Ginka & Glüna is a manga by Shinpei Watanabe following a young magician named Glüna and her living snowman companion-cum-mentor Ginka. Their main goal has been to track down other versions of Ginka to hopefully reunite them and turn him back into a human. Along the way, they have slowly acquired allies to help them, much like Luffy acquired his Straw Hat crew. Their two companions,...

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 10!While One Piece's Luffy is one of the best manga protagonists of all time, one new Shonen Jump hero just outshone him in an unexpected but delightful way. Given how iconic and unique Luffy is, this is quite a feat as most protagonists similar to him often feel like pale imitations of the original. But Glüna from Ginka & Glüna is breaking this trend.

Ginka & Glüna is a new manga by Shinpei Watanabe that follows the young witch Glüna as she travels the world with her snowman companion Ginka. The manga's general focus on the joy of exploration makes it feel much like the early chapters of One Piece. But instead of following that series' formula of traveling from place to place and fighting the injustices that they find there, Ginka & Glüna is mainly having its characters travel around searching for pieces of...

Warning! Contains spoilers for Ginka & Glüna Chapter 8!The manga magazine Shonen Jump has a reputation for mercilessly canceling new series before they have the chance to make a name for themselves, but one new title is attempting to avoid this in a brilliant way. That manga series, Ginka & Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe, is one of Shonen Jump's newest series with only 8 chapters out so far. But given how quickly Shonen Jump has been canceling series recently, it is good that it is taking precautions early.

The frequency with which Shonen Jump has been canceling manga has led to the concept of the "Under 19 Club," which is a group of manga that didn't even get the chance to reach 19 chapters of serialization. And while many new manga canceled this year have been allowed to run for over 19 chapters, Shonen Jump has still been mercilessly cutting series before they get the chance to reach their stride.