Viz Media
's digital
Weekly Shonen Jump
magazine added
Tadatoshi Fujimaki
's
Robot × Laserbeam
and
Taishi Tsutsui
's
We Never Learn
manga as regular series beginning with this year's 20th issue on Monday.
The two manga were among six new series
Viz Media
previewed in February and March as part of its "Jump Start"
initiative
. In the initiative,
Viz Media
's digital
Weekly Shonen Jump
anthology publishes the first three chapters of a new manga simultaneously with the Japanese release. Based on reader feedback, the digital anthology sometimes adds the manga to its permanent lineup.
Viz Media
's
Shonen Jump
also
added
Riichirou Inagaki
and
Boichi
's
Dr. Stone
manga from among the new titles. The other manga were
Y?ji Kimura
's
U19
,
Hitsuji Gondaira
's
Demon Prince Poro's Diaries
, and
Ry?hei Tamura
's
Hungry Marie
.
Robot × Laserbeam
centers on a boy who is nicknamed "Robo" because he shows no emotion and acts like a machine. When his only friend tries golf and is bullied by more experienced players, Robo accepts a challenge to take up a golf club himself, and his methodical nature works to his advantage.
Fujimaki serialized his
Kuroko's Basketball
manga in
Weekly Shonen Jump
from 2008-2014.
We Never Learn
centers on Yuiga, a student who is aiming for a scholarship because he comes from a poor family. His school gives him a condition: he can have a recommendation for a scholarship if he tutors his two beautiful classmates to help them get into the schools of their choice. Ogata may be a science genius and Furuhashi a literature prodigy ? but Ogata is aiming for a liberal arts school and Furuhashi is aiming for a science school. And they're both clueless outside their fields of expertise.
Tsutsui is drawing the
Nisekoi
spinoff manga
Magical Patissier Kosaki-chan
, and also wrote the
Steins;Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Sweets Honey
spinoff manga.