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Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #50 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • One Piece 1198

  • Me & Roboco 304

  • Sakamoto Days 282

  • Witch Watch 269

  • Akane-banashi 229

  • Nue's Exorcist 168

  • Kagurabachi 138

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 115

  • Ichi the Witch 105

  • Shinobi Undercover 104

  • Someone Hertz 56

  • Under Doctor 39

  • Roku's House of Oddities 29

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 27

  • Animal Signal 21

  • Hal Formula 20

  • Cannon Master 19

  • The Ura Files 10

  • Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 9


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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #50 (2026)
00. Akane-banashi (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Sakamoto Days
02. One Piece
00. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
03. Someone Hertz
04. Ichi the Witch
05. Roku's House of Oddities
00. Shishikabane (One Shot by Maki Gyujirou, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #7)
06. Shinobi Undercover
07. The Ura Files
08. Witch Watch
09. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica
00. Me & Roboco (Color Page)
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Under Doctor
12. Animal Signal
13. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
14. Hal Formula
15. Kagurabachi
16. Cannon Master

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 (2026) - Information!
Jean is in Danger! (New Series by Nakama Ryo, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Witch Watch (Color Page, End)
Graykeith: Translator Daemonica (Color Page)
Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
 

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Otr may actually survive next round somehow
my entire IP range got blocked for some reason...
Nah, Otr is going out, he will start fighting the Ice King in this issue chapter and there's only 4/5 chapters left to finish vol 4 counting with this issue chapter which also is pretty in sync with more or less the issue we expect the new round to start after Someone Hertz and a couple of anniversaries get the cover.
 

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Don't think so, everyone is aware the first round doesn't "count". Otr wasn't controversial because of timing, but for surviving over series that sold more and Kaedegami before the volume was out (where it outsold Otr).
Yeah Otr definitely survived an extra round beyond the default. I was just saying I don’t think Gonron is gonna save Otr this next batch since it’s not eligible for chopping (not to mention Otr’s story clearly wrapping up).

It also occurred to me with Shinobi, Yodaka has purple hair, and purple is a mix of blue and RED… so it makes perfect sense that Saito is propping him up an abnormal amount.
 

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With gonron, mage next door jk hero and harukaze way on the back we might have another big surprise for otr of the flame, surviving another round lol
The Mage Next Door actually rise this issue, is in a pretty decent placement.
 

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...Gonna avoid reigniting the discourse. I like the kimonos! Really wanna see the separate illustrations
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The Mage Next Door actually rise this issue, is in a pretty decent placement.
Remember when Kaedegami rose with its second rank? Remember how it ended up?
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #6-7 (2026)
Shinobi Undercover (Lead Color Pages)
Ichi the Witch
One Piece
Witch Watch
Someone Hertz (Color Page)
The Elusive Samurai
Sakamoto Days
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
Iikagen Kizuke (One Shot by Komi Naoshi, Color Page)
Akane-banashi
Blue Box
The Mage Next Door
Kagurabachi
Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo (Color Page)
Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits
Hima-Ten!
Me & Roboco
Nue's Exorcist
Otr of the Flame
Harukaze Mound
Gonron Egg

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #8 (2006) - Information
Someone Hertz (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Ichi the Witch (Color Page)
Akane-banashi (Color Page)
Me & Roboco (Color Page)
Hero Girl is likely dead from here. Not that I didn't expect it, but it does make me sad...
 

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So Shinuki was very right that I jumped the gun on the placements in the preview lol.
A: usual 4
B: Shinobi, Modulo, Hertz, WW, EluSam, Akane (a little extra emphasis on first 3 for color pages)
C: Roboco, Nue, Kiyoshi, Hima
D: Newbies

This is more sensible for sure, though the gap in emphasis between B and C here is jarring, especially with Shinobi there (obvious statement is obvious), and Hertz continues it’s shocking rise.
 

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I’m glad mage is still in the running, it hasn’t dropped to the bottom yet like gonron. Also Kiyoshi jump is greatly appreciated, glad to see actual feedback that the new arc is well received (besides color pages ig)
 

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So Shinuki was very right that I jumped the gun on the placements in the preview lol.
A: usual 4
B: Shinobi, Modulo, Hertz, WW, EluSam, Akane (a little extra emphasis on first 3 for color pages)
C: Roboco, Nue, Kiyoshi, Hima
D: Newbies

This is more sensible for sure, though the gap in emphasis between B and C here is jarring, especially with Shinobi there (obvious statement is obvious), and Hertz continues it’s shocking rise.
Your interpretation of the placements makes a lot more sense, looking at it again.
 

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The Mage Next Door actually rise this issue, is in a pretty decent placement.
I know that, i said based on the placements of the series in the cover

but j know just because the three of them are new
 

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Shinobi was placed as LCP for this Group Cover-issue; there was no way it would be relegated to a row behind that one. It is not receiving the full cover, so it needs an extra boost and be more highlighted than some others.
 

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Since, it's starting to be about that time...
What are your predictions on the first batch of the year?
I'll go first, since I feel as though we might have 3 new series enter the magazine from issues #9-11 with one of them being by an axed vet & 2 of them being done by rookies.
 

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The Elusive Samurai is pratically guaranteed to get the issue #9 cover for its 5th anniversary, probably with Witch Watch on issue #10 for 5th anniversary, so i bet on issue #11, would also be in sync with Otr completing vol 4.
 

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Utterly fascinating ToC drop. I'm confident in the Hero Girl and Mage comeback, but the inevitable balance of power discussion to highlight Nue being so small in the back will be a disaster I can feel it.......

Great group though outside of the placements, I'm also convinced it's done with ToC weighting more than actual popularity after the front 2 rows anyway because that aligns with placement pretty well but you could also flip the script on me and say that placement is what translates to ToC like a chicken/egg situation
 

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I'm just wondering why y'all kept making excuses for Kiyoshi all of last year like there was nothing fishy going on ("must be popular with the kids/sell well digitally/do well in surveys/etc.") but the second Shinobi gets a couple good placements there is NO WAY anyone's actually voting for it and it MUST be editorial meddling that's causing this. No one in this forum even had anything bad to say about the series until, like, last month so what happened exactly?
 

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I'm just wondering why y'all kept making excuses for Kiyoshi all of last year like there was nothing fishy going on ("must be popular with the kids/sell well digitally/do well in surveys/etc.") but the second Shinobi gets a couple good placements there is NO WAY anyone's actually voting for it and it MUST be editorial meddling that's causing this. No one in this forum even had anything bad to say about the series until, like, last month so what happened exactly?
I think you're mixing users, the one who question Shinobi not getting support through survey and etc is Kiaida who btw also used to do the same thing with Kiyoshi in many discussions with me, personally i never questioned Shinobi getting good survey results, is pretty obvious it gets or it wouldn't be placing well, what i question is the level of pushing/favoritism Shinobi is getting in the group covers and advertising which isnt in line with the current level of sales and etc, and about Kiyoshi, there's no "excuse", the manga clearly gets support through the magazine readers, it's almost 2 years and isnt in any danger yet, but it also never got the level of pushing by the magazine that Shinobi is getting, so one is questioned about its ToC placements and the other is questioned about the level of push and advertisement by the editorial.
 

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Just saw this, a 50 person lottery with clean illustrations of each series' magazine cover this year.

...This feels TAILOR MADE to piss me off.

 

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Just saw this, a 50 person lottery with clean illustrations of each series' magazine cover this year.

...This feels TAILOR MADE to piss me off.

lol i just posted about this 2 pages ago kkkk

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That awkward moment when Jump start doing a promotion for all their current popular series using their magazine covers of 2025 as source for special posters but since Nue's Exorcist is the only series that didn't got a magazine cover in 2025 they had to use the 2nd anniversary color page...


 

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Didn't see that lol.

God, I am so livid today, I won't lie.
I'm fine, it's more embarrassing for the magazine and Saito than anything else.
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lol i forgot that i have the ToC page and can translate Kawae comment:

"I saw a rare drink being sold at the vending machine, so I thought I'd buy it."
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Komi Naoshi comes back to the magazine in years just to comment about Y-san lol

"The first thing I wanted to say once I got back to the magazine. Y-san, thank you for Marika's birthday present every year!"
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Matsui comment is a bit ambiguous, the translation doesn't make it perfectly clear if he's literally talking about having little time to draw or that there's just a little time left for The Elusive Samurai:

"Happy New Year. There's only a little time left, but I'll do my best to draw!"
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Gonron Egg drops to bottom 1 and the author comment already sound like he got the axe notice:

"I want to go to a hot spring. Ginzan Onsen, for example. I'm researching and daydreaming about my trip."

Not that it means ending literally in this next round of course.
 
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Is Kawae gonna start vending machine drink saga next after being told to stop the choco egg saga? Lol 😂😂
 
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