Chō-Jun! Chōjō-senpai Anime PV: Japanese Fans React to a Redemption — "The Manga That Got Axed, Then Won a Prize and Got an Anime"
『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.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 409)
- @SuperHenntaiShichowshar👍 25
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
- @野手虎👍 66
Nen that grows stronger after death.
死後強まる念
- @山口位👍 862
I'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
- @のほほん愛媛県👍 29
Agreed! 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！
- @qqqpqqp👍 52
So this is what the Heisei era was preheating us for…!
これが平成の予熱…！
- @よもぎ-j5j👍 182
I'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…
- @生禄-t5e👍 554
I'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
- @グルーガン-l6p👍 5
I'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
- @scp1989👍 45
It'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
- @笹がきゴボウ👍 6
Why 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
- @ナニカツクルちゃんねる👍 321
Wait… 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
- @hdragon-rt7lo👍 117
Jun… this PV is seriously good…
巡.....PVすごくいいぞ.....
- @丸ンゴ👍 135
The 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
- @完全燃焼-o4h👍 233
Shocked 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
- @3L5CaBiRmg4h3Cb👍 22
Chōjō'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
- @VenmenYayy👍 523
That 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
- @ちぇい-n1t👍 13
It'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。
- @ベタ-o2k-r8s👍 2
Wait, 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！
- @nususi_53👍 44
It'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
- @領域展開グレイファントム👍 59
Maria 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
- @ドブカス-g2x👍 29
???: 'Now THIS is exciting!'
？？？「唆るぜ、これは！」
- @名無コタロー👍 57
From Taiju to Senku, at 0:21.
大樹から千空へ 0:21
- @Pokem83👍 379
Never 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
- @H.カブトムシ👍 55
And 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...!!
- @ああ-h4y4e👍 28
Honestly, 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。
- @坪井野理緒👍 16
Samon 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
- @アワビさん👍 38
Cancelled 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
- @アカウミ-q4i👍 217
Yes 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！
- @はちはちはち-a8👍 56
The 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
- @ポン-h9t👍 36
I 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…
- @マッチョ-o1u👍 19
It 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
- @うたたね-h7p👍 17
Make 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
- @CA0MBAA👍 1
Numa-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……
- @scp1989👍 8
Hold 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
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