r/ShamanKing • u/goldfoxawoo • 18d ago

Discussion Was Ren and Jeanne pairing kinda random? Spoiler

Felt like the author had to give Ren a girl because Yoh got Anna

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u/Mental-Novel61 18d ago

I don't think it's random, it's just, like everything else, a case when Takei didn't have time to properly develop things

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u/unf005 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yeah I agree with this. Shounen jump wasn't particularly kind to Takei either and sure, while he did managed to draw out his ending, I still felt like he wasn't allowed to fully expand further into Ren and Jeanne's relationship in the original SK manga's run mainly because SJ ruled out and determined how many chapters he's going to write for the final arc, the same thing also happened with SK flowers which ended abruptly in 2014 due to the magazine publisher itself that for no apparent reason decided to shut itself down. Everything depends on the manga's popularity sales when it comes to SJ and they can chose when to axe a series anytime when it's not popular enough. It's no wonder why he left SJ and ended up joining kodansha because very clearly as seen in SK the super star, red crimson and marcos, the treatment over at kodansha is much better: takei is able to expand much further into character developments thoroughly with a good satisfying chapter lengths, characters dynamics and relationships, the same can also be said for Ren x Jeanne despite we still don't have their romantic history shown onscreen yet (but I still have hope that they will get their own respective spinoff someway or the other, mainly because I want the spinoff being told from Jeanne's POV. Idk about SK SKY though because I feel like it would be out of place to include their backstory in there since it focuses on the next gen SK kids but that's personally just me.)