Chō-Jun! Chōjō-senpai Anime PV: The Manga That Got Axed, Then Won an Award
『超巡！超条先輩』メインPVに日本のファンが感涙—「打ち切られた後に大賞を取ってアニメ化した漫画」
“The manga that somehow got axed, then won the next big manga award and got an anime.”
何故か打ち切られた後に次に来るマンガ大賞を受賞しアニメ化する漫画
On the first main PV for the TV anime "Chō-Jun! Chōjō-senpai" (from Samon the Summoner mangaka Shun Numa, airing October 2026), Japanese fans turned the comments into a full vindication party. The most-liked reply summed the whole arc up — a manga that got cancelled, then won a major manga award and got animated anyway — and from there fans waded into nostalgia for the Samon days, relief that Numa is finally being rewarded, genuine surprise that the art looks great, and a chorus begging for Samon the Summoner to get its own anime next. They even clocked the lead voice as the guy you hear on every Nintendo Switch ad. The closing mood: people quietly admitting they were trying very hard not to cry over this.
Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 409)
So unlike Demon Slayer, which was clearly speed-running its way to an ending, this one got straight-up cancelled and THEN got recognized and animated.
完結へ速足になってた鬼滅の刃よりもハッキリと打ち切りした後に評価されてアニメ化されたマンガなのか
— @SuperHenntaiShichowshar25 likesNen that grows stronger after death.
死後強まる念
— @野手虎66 likesI've been waiting since the Samon the Summoner days for a Shun Numa anime. Right now I'm watching the continuation of a dream I missed back in the Heisei era.
左門くんの頃から待っていた 沼駿先生の漫画のアニメ化 俺は今平成に見そびれた夢の続きを見ている
— @山口位862 likesAgreed! The times finally caught up!! When you imagine the readers from back then growing up and becoming the people now making this, it really hits you.
同意！ ようやく時代が追いついた！！ 当時の読者が大人になったとなり制作側になったパターンと考えると感慨深い！
— @のほほん愛媛県29 likesSo this is what the Heisei era was preheating us for…!
これが平成の予熱…！
— @qqqpqqp52 likesI've been a fan since the Samon days. I'm tearing up here…
さもサモからのオタクです。涙ちょちょぎれる…
— @よもぎ-j5j182 likesI'm just happy Numa-sensei is finally getting his due.
沼俊先生が報われてくれて嬉しいよ
— @生禄-t5e554 likesI'm happy. Genuinely happy. I've loved this since it first ran, so I was crushed when it got cancelled — but seeing it animated now means more to me than anything.
嬉しい、本当に嬉しい。初めて連載された時からずっと好きな作品だったから、打ち切られた時は絶望したけど今こうしてアニメ化した映像を見れていることが何より嬉しいよ
— @グルーガン-l6p5 likesIt's so good you genuinely can't figure out why it ended. Numa-sensei's way with words is something you'll be laughing at for life.
ほんと何で終わったのか分からんくらい面白いよね 沼駿先生のワードセンスまじで一生笑えるもん
— @scp198945 likesWhy on earth did they cut this? It was even nominated for Kono Manga ga Sugoi and the anime was already in the works. I've got nothing but distrust for the current Jump editorial team.
何でこの作品切ったんだろうなぁこのマンガがすごい！にもノミネートされててアニメ化も決まってたのにさ、現行ジャンプ編集部には不信感しかないわ
— @笹がきゴボウ6 likesWait… the art is way better than I expected…!? Just plain happy about that.
あれ・・・思いのほか作画が良い・・・！？ シンプルに嬉しい
— @ナニカツクルちゃんねる321 likesJun… this PV is seriously good…
巡.....PVすごくいいぞ.....
— @hdragon-rt7lo117 likesThe little perv kid has a surprisingly decent voice and it's hilarious.
エロガキがわりといい声でおもろい
— @丸ンゴ135 likesShocked that Hossan actually sounds exactly like Hossan.
ホッさんからホッさんの声しててびっくりした
— @完全燃焼-o4h233 likesChōjō's voice is like 6 times more wholesome-sounding than I imagined, lol.
超巡の声が想像の6倍爽やかで草
— @3L5CaBiRmg4h3Cb22 likesThat voice you know from every Nintendo Switch ad.
ニンテンドースイッチでお馴染みの声
— @VenmenYayy523 likesIt's probably Yuichi Nakamura — the Switch ad guy — in that opening 'there was a washed-up psychic in some backstreet' line.
@ベタ-o2k-r8s おそらく最初場末の超能力者がいたっていう部分がSwitchでおなじみの中村悠一さんだと思います。
— @ちぇい-n1t13 likesWait, this is Yuichi Nakamura…? The vibe's so different I had no idea. Thanks!
@ちぇい-n1tえっこれ中村悠一さん…？雰囲気違すぎて全然分かりませんでした、ありがとうございます！
— @ベタ-o2k-r8s2 likesIt's wild how Miyata from Kis-My-Ft2 is just casually in the cast like it's nothing.
もう当然のようにキスマイ宮田くんcvしててすごいな
— @nususi_5344 likesMaria Naganawa pulling off a powerful male voice is a rare treat. No choice but to watch.
長縄まりあさんの力強い男ボイスは貴重だ 見るしかない
— @領域展開グレイファントム59 likes???: 'Now THIS is exciting!'
？？？「唆るぜ、これは！」
— @ドブカス-g2x29 likesFrom Taiju to Senku, at 0:21.
大樹から千空へ 0:21
— @名無コタロー57 likesNever in a million years did I think this would get animated before Samon the Summoner.
まさか左門くんよりこっちがアニメ化するとは思わなかった
— @Pokem83379 likesAnd Samon seemed like the more popular one, too. But if this anime succeeds, then surely Samon will follow…!!
左門くんの方が評判良さげなのにね このアニメ化が成功すれば左門くんもきっと...!!
— @H.カブトムシ55 likesHonestly, just bring back the serialization already. For real.
@H.カブトムシ 再度連載してくれって感じだ。マジで。
— @ああ-h4y4e28 likesSamon actually makes a guest appearance in this series, you know.
左門くん この作品に ゲスト出演したよ
— @坪井野理緒16 likesCancelled and then animated anyway — that's so absurd it's funny lol. Now please give Samon the Summoner an anime too.
打ち切りからのアニメ化とかすごすぎて草 ぜひ『左門くん』のアニメ化もしてくれ
— @アワビさん38 likesYes it got cancelled — but please, let this be the chance for a sequel in Jump SQ or Jump+!
どうか打ち切りになりましたがこれを機にSQかジャンプラで続編を！
— @アカウミ-q4i217 likesThe current editors have no taste. They ended this and then just spam-launch trash new series hoping something sticks.
今の編集部センスないよな これ終わらせてゴミみたいな新連載を数打ちゃ当たるでバンバンやらせて
— @はちはちはち-a856 likesI genuinely won't forgive them for ending this and handing the gag slot to that prison series — which also got cancelled, by the way. If an anime was already greenlit you'd normally keep it running…
マジでこれ終わらせて次のギャグ枠をあのプリズンにしたのホンマに許してない 普通にあれも打ち切られたし まじでアニメ化決まってたら普通まだ残すだろ…
— @ポン-h9t36 likesIt looks like it's turning out great and I couldn't be happier. Now somebody do something for Samon too.
出来良さそうでうれしすぎる 左門くんもなんとかなってくれ
— @マッチョ-o1u19 likesMake each episode about 5 minutes long and just drown me in a flood of gags.
1話5分くらいの尺にしてギャグの洪水を浴びたい
— @うたたね-h7p17 likesNuma-sensei's stuff is that rare kind of work that gets funnier with voices added, so the anime makes me genuinely happy…
沼駿先生の作品は声つけると面白さがアップする稀有な作品じゃけえ、アニメ化は本当に嬉しいんじゃ……
— @CA0MBAA1 likesHold on, I'm so happy. Happy enough to cry — but I refuse to be the guy who cries over Chōjō, so I'm holding it back. Waiting on the idol episode.
待ってほんと嬉しい 涙出そうなくらい嬉しいけど超巡で泣いてたまるかという気持ちで泣くのを止めてる アイドル回待ってます
— @scp19898 likes
Steel Ball Run's New Ending Song Has Japanese Fans Roasting It Nonstop
“I'm the one who lost it laughing at an overseas fan's comment: "Today's boss, cause of death: the ending theme was too lame."”
Read this roundupOther write-ups where the talk was about craft and music
How we classify this (rankings) →More from Japan
2,693 likesAnimeYouTubeRe:Zero Break Time Episode 85: Shaula's Painful 400-Year Goodbye to Flugel
Re:Zero's official "Break Time" mini-anime Episode 85, "The Scorpion's Fairy Tale," flashes back roughly 400 years to the moment Flugel actually leaves Shaula behind — and Japanese fans spent the comment section picking apart every tiny detail of how hard he made that goodbye land. Across 1,013 comments on the official channel's upload, the recurring theme was how a two-and-a-half-minute comedy-adjacent short managed to hit as hard as a main-episode gut-punch, with plenty of fans saying it recontextualizes Shaula's devotion from the current season. The thread's funniest comment also doubles as its saddest: someone resigned themselves to waiting another 400 years, just for Season 5.
1013 comments
55 likesAnimeYouTubeSummer 2026 Anime Fan Poll: Jaadugar Wins No. 1, Record Votes
A Japanese anime review channel's season-ending fan poll for Summer 2026 has crowned Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia the season's top show, with Draw This, Then Die! taking second and Though I Am an Inept Villainess placing third. The vote drew over 600 participants, the channel's largest turnout ever, and the comment section spent far more time reacting to the results than arguing with them. Across 269 comments, several viewers who initially doubted Jaadugar because of its art style say they came around after actually watching it, and one comment even notes that the show's own creator showed up to react to the results. The discussion also digs into what made the rest of the top five stand out, from Draw This, Then Die!'s scrappy charm to Though I Am an Inept Villainess's small on-screen touches for foreign viewers trying to keep character names straight. By the end, even commenters who disagreed with parts of the ranking admit it was one of the deepest seasons in recent memory.
269 comments
217 likesAnimeYouTubeOne Piece SBS: Oda's Flight-Fruit Answer Backfires on Fans
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda answered a reader's question in the manga's SBS Q&A column about which flight-granting Devil Fruits the character Pell knows about — and instead of naming them, he replied that Pell doesn't know about every flight-type fruit in existence, dodging the actual question. On a Japanese reaction video collecting comments on the exchange, readers are calling the answer defensive and evasive rather than funny. Across 245 comments, the most-liked one (217 likes) jokes that a reply this touchy over a simple question must mean something's up. Others go further: one highly liked comment (123 likes) says Oda seems to have mistaken ordinary criticism for an attack, while another with 84 likes breaks down exactly why the answer doesn't logically respond to what was asked in the first place. Not every comment is pure mockery, though — some end up somewhere more wistful, comparing this answer to how playfully Oda used to handle SBS questions in the manga's earlier years.
245 comments- ColumnAnimer/anime（朝日新聞の鈴木敏夫インタビューをAUTOMATON WESTが英訳した記事のスレッド）
Ghibli's Producer Waited Out the Ghibli-Style AI Trend. What Slop Sounds Like in Japanese.
Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki turned down every interview request during the Ghibli-style AI image boom, because he figured people would get bored of it on their own. He said so in an interview with Asahi Shimbun, AUTOMATON WEST put it into English, and it landed on r/anime. I opened that thread expecting a fight, since I read these comment sections every night for a living. Almost nobody was fighting. Here is what that thread actually said, what happens to the word slop when I carry it into Japanese, and why the Miyazaki line about an insult to life itself keeps getting attached to the wrong thing.