One of the Shonen Jump comics that created a “”””phenomenon”””” in a different sense.

Approximately one year from 2000 to 2001

Serialized in Shonen Jump, Japan’s largest boys’ manga magazine.

“Normandy Psycho Club (Normandy Secret Club)”

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A youth academy comedy manga drawn by Mikio Ito.

During its serialization, this cartoon was so-called

“Norman phenomenon”

They created an internet slang term called

This cartoon was among the Jump serials at the time.

Even though it was seriously boring

Strangely, the series was forced to stop,

That means it wasn’t shipped.

At that time, on the Japanese Internet

The reason such boring comics are not being shipped is because

Author Mikio Ito

Assistant to Rurouni Kenshin author Nobuhiro Watsuki,

In other words, there was an opinion that it was because it was the Watsuki division.

In fact, Shaman King author Hiroyuki Takei is a member of the Watsuki division.

Because it was famous for One Piece author Eiichiro Oda, etc.

However, even while serial works from the same period among writers from the Watsuki division were being released,

The Normandy Psycho Club continues to be serialized.

Of course, after one year of serialization, it was released in 5 volumes.

It was evaluated that this one year/5 volumes lasted a very long time compared to the level of the work.

From the start of this work to the end of its serialization

This is because 7 works were shipped on Jump.

Afterwards, people analyzed why this comic was not shipped.

It was vaguely unpopular. They shipped a comic that was even less popular than this one.

This work always made the cut and continued to be serialized. That thing

So some people say that comic is not being shipped.

They say the quality of the jumps has decreased.

Among the works newly serialized at the time were:

Black Cat / Beep, Jaguar / Bobobo, etc.

Jump was also putting a lot of effort into discovering new works.

At the time, “It’s boring, but it’s not being released because other serials aren’t more popular.”

A new term, “Norman phenomenon,” was coined in this ambiguous category.