Muddy Author Comments – Sho Aimoto

On the Table of Contents page for every issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, the authors of the currently serialized manga series can list a small message to the readers. There is typically only enough space for a sentence or two, but it allows for a little insight into the author’s daily life.

Later in 2024, we will be creating a huge database of these author comments, as often these older comments are never republished outside of the original issues of Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan. This will be similar to the Monthly Corocoro Comic Author Comment database we’ve recently published. While we work on this even more extensive project for Weekly Shonen Jump, we will occasionally post individual articles such as this to highlight some manga series and provide some additional background information related to the comments.

The Muddy (マディ) manga was created by Sho Aimoto (藍本松) and started as a oneshot in Issue #36-37 of Weekly Shonen Jump in 2007. It later was adapted into a full series in Weekly Shonen Jump starting with Issue #3 in 2008. The series ran for only 12 chapters and concluded in Issue #16 that same year. She would later return to the magazine with the series Hokenshitsu no Shinigami (保健室の死神) in Issue #41 in 2009. This later series would run for 87 chapters and end in 2011 Issue #29.

The following is a listing of her comments from the Table of Contents page in Weekly Shonen Jump for both the oneshot and the serialization of the Muddy manga series. A rough English translation is also provided below along with some additional background information.