To be fair Samurai 8 was a flop almost since the beginning, the only reason it lasted so long it was because Kishimoto's name, the sales numbers where horrible and it somehow lasted 40+ chapters. And even with Jump pushing it hard since the beginning. As for the manga, it basically took all the worst aspects from Naruto and built a story around it. I will take a manga about hot lesbian witches over a manga about a not-ninja boy yelling me his dreams to become the best any day of the week.

Jump realized that the only consistent stuff Kubo can create are best girls, so they decided to place the money on the ones with the biggest track of lands…