User blog comment:Videogamep/The Next Big Three/@comment-5601098-20140606091025

We've talked about this thing many times in chat but I'd never seen a blog about it, you should start coming on chat too. \'o'/

So, since Naruto and Bleach are in the final arcs, and Hunter x Hunter will have gone back to hiatus before they end, The big 3 for Weekly Shounen Jump alone will totally not be a series that hasn't been lanced yet, which limits us to around 18 manga that are ongoing on Jump right now. out of those, I think One Piece, Toriko and Kuroko no Basuke get the most publicity with Kuroko especially getting SnK-level hype. Judging by the sales, Assassination Classroom can easily pass Toriko by the time Bleach ends but considering the manga's timeline, I think it will end on 2-3 years max.

But as for manga in general, I think that One Piece, SnK and Nanatsu no Taizai will be the big 3 in the years to come. Actually, I haven't read SnK yet so I'm not sure if it has a long way to go, but if it does, it surely will be there. As for Nanatsu, it's undeniably the biggest hit of 2013, having released over 3 Million copies within a year, which is a huge thing. Also, it's almost 80 chapters atm and the author said he wants to at least make it to 400, so it has a loooong way to go.

And yeah, SAO doesn't get too much hype, it's just an average shonen light novel adaptation. I'm not even sure if the Novel ended, I dropped it before finishing even the first season.