My best justification for the axe is that Shonen Jump is a team sport. Everyone has important roles to play - the ace, the battle shonens, the romance, the sports manga, the ecchi, the romcom, the gag manga, etc.
Phantom Seer played the same role on this team as Jujutsu Kaisen, and had peers in adjacent positions that had a setting of Japanese ghosts and folklore as the backdrop for its world building.
On its on merits, Phantom Seer was a great manga that deserved to tell the entirety of the story that the authors wanted to tell. However, Jump manga can't always be judged on their merits. Its a goddamn team sport.
I am begrudgingly agreeable with the editors axe decision - because the six newest manga added to the Jump line up all fulfill such radically different areas that needed filling.
I am looking forward to the next works from Kento Matsura and Togo Goto. I think Goto has earned another shot writing in Jump. Matsura is among the best artists on Jump's roster and deserves as many shots as he needs to get a big hit. If he fails to get a hit it will be because Jump failed HIM.
And please Jump - give me a year moratorium on new series about precocious highschoolers with the power to see ghosts/phantoms/spirits rooted in Japanese folklore.
