Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump (2026) - News and Discussion!

Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #49 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • One Piece 1197

  • Me & Roboco 303

  • Sakamoto Days 281

  • Witch Watch 268

  • Akane-banashi 228

  • Nue's Exorcist 167

  • Kagurabachi 137

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 114

  • Ichi the Witch 104

  • Shinobi Undercover 103

  • Someone Hertz 55

  • RuriDragon 53

  • Under Doctor 38

  • Roku's House of Oddities 28

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 26

  • Animal Signal 20

  • Hal Formula 19

  • Cannon Master 18

  • The Ura Files 9

  • Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 8


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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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If we’re talking about a “battle shonen-like” structure, then the easiest spokon to adapt would be any of the traditional Japanese martial arts. I prefer Kendo/Kenjutsu or Karate, tbh.
I think even crochet could become a f... good spokon. I need crochet spokon. With crochet competitions and teams. Oh yeah. I'm feeling it. To be honest, I'm feeling all sorts of weird things in my body now. Must be the booze.
I even liked Chihaya, though it was poetry and shojo. The structure etc.
(The romance in Chihaya was completely irrelevant though, because everyone knew that she was frolicking with her cards all along. A modern woman this one.)
I swear that even a sport that doesn't exist IRL can do the trick.
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Probably because is too "on the nose", they will not publish a BL manga on Shonen Jump for obvious reason and a male swimming shounen manga will never succeed without trying to pander for fujos but at the same time doing it can look like a very cheap thing to do, this added with swimming just not being the most exciting type of sports for a magazine like Jump, i just don't think it will ever work or at least ever be above "very niche" in this magazine, not even Shounen Magazine has one, Shonen Sunday do has currently a swimming/water polo sport comedy series called Mizu Polo that's been running since 2023 but it's pretty niche and physical sales are almost non existent with last volume selling 1,350 in a whole week, so i think it's quite obvious it's a sport will never reach much popularity at least in manga form.
I agree that it needs to appeal to both sexes, not just fujo, like Blue Lock does with all the testo and rage scenes for the men to balance the design clearly for fujo.
There was the "Free! Iwatobi Swim Club" anime that did the job very well overall, but more for females.
Mizu Polo wants to appeal to fujoshi maybe but doesn't have the right artstyle to do so. And maybe the interactions between the characters too that are too "male oriented" but without all the "testo thing" that male readers like. It's in between all of that. I've read the first 3 chapters only. The nemu is everything for these spokon too.
"3kyuu pitch" in Jump+ is more a comedy one, right? I see it's very popular among Japanese readers. Is it spokon though? Read only the first chapter and dropped it because I didn't like the chara design and the humor. Maybe the anime will be interesting for me. Sometimes, it's better with voices and the action.
 

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Sorry for getting things off topic, but I just found out that this one-shot got scanslated a few months ago if anyone wants to give it a read:
From issue #49 of 2022.

For a moment i thought it was from Hokazono, art looks quite similar and the mc looks pretty much like a less depressed Chihiro :grin
 

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Skateboarding: Could touch a sorta "scene" crowd and its been added to the Olympics so an actual goal to aim for
Not only that but Japan won the Gold medal for Male AND Female street events in the 2024 olympics. Not only that #2, but the female gold medalist was 15 years old!! It's shonen manga age! The silver medalist was 15 too, while in the Park event, the silver medalist was 16 (japanese as well).

Having a MC winning a gold medal would be realistic!

Maybe they don't want a manga like that because real life has already given two japanese gold medalistas...but it's a possibility.
 

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Where can I find Viz translated chapters of One Piece? I refuse to pay a subscription, and Mangatoto has them, but every chapter has a couple of pages that won't load.
 

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Where can I find Viz translated chapters of One Piece? I refuse to pay a subscription, and Mangatoto has them, but every chapter has a couple of pages that won't load.
Weeb Central, they have the entire One Piece in the official VIZ version:


MangaFire too:

 

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Where can I find Viz translated chapters of One Piece? I refuse to pay a subscription, and Mangatoto has them, but every chapter has a couple of pages that won't load.
Nyaa.si is my go-to.
 
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Thanks for your votes!

WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ISSUE #4-5 (2026) - VOTING RESULTS

1. Ichi the Witch 64 (47 J-points)

2. Kagurabachi 106 (43 J-points)
3. One Piece 1169 (32 J-points)
4. Nue's Exorcist 127 (29 J-points)

5. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74 (27 J-points)
6. Shinobi Undercover 63 (22 J-points)
7. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 16 (22 J-points)
8. Akane-banashi 188 (20 J-points)
9. Witch Watch 230 (15 J-points)
10. Sakamoto Days 242 (14 J-points)
11. Hima-Ten! 72 (13 J-points)
12. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits 7 (13 J-points)
13. Blue Box 224 (12 J-points)
14. Someone Hertz 15 (12 J-points)
15. The Elusive Samurai 232 (11 J-points)
16. Otr of the Flame 32 (11 J-points)

17. Me & Roboco 263 (7 J-points)
18. Harukaze Mound 27 (6 J-points)
19. The Mage Next Door 8 (5 J-points)

20. Gonron Egg 9 (0 J-points)

Notes:

-24 Users voted in the poll & 17 in the comments
-Tied placements decided by which series is older

Poll Source:

Comment Source:
Kiaida

1. Nue's Exorcist 127
2. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 16
3. Someone Hertz 15
4. Ichi the Witch 64
5. Hima-Ten! 72

Lord Anubis

1. Kagurabachi 106
2. One Piece 1169
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74
4. Ichi the Witch 64
5. Sakamoto Days 242

Discomusic

1. The Elusive Samurai 232
2. Akane-banashi 188
3. Shinobi Undercover 63
4. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74
5. Nue's Exorcist 127

shillin65

1. Kagurabachi 106
2. Ichi the Witch 64
3. One Piece 1169
4. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits 7
5. Hima-Ten! 72

Hawke

1. Kagurabachi 106
2. The Elusive Samurai 232
3. Otr of the Flame 32
4. Ichi the Witch 64
5. Witch Watch 230

Nuesmoker

1. Nue's Exorcist 127
2. Someone Hertz 15
3. Ichi The Witch 64
4. Kagurabachi 106
5. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 16

LogicoftheVI

1. One Piece 1169
2. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74
3. Ichi the Witch 64
4. Otr of the Flame 32
5. Harukaze Mound 27

WyldViolet

1. Nue's Exorcist 127
2. Ichi the Witch 64
3. Kagurabachi 106
4. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 16
5. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits 7

Shockzz1234

1. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 16
2. Ichi the Witch 64
3. One Piece 1169
4. Kagurabachi 106
5. Shinobi Undercover 63

Inumaru

1. Me & Roboco 263
2. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74
3. Witch Watch 230
4. Ichi The Witch 64
5. Harukaze Mound 27

NeeNeen

1. Kagurabachi 106
2. One Piece 1169
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74
4. Shinobi Undercover 63
5. Nue's Exorcist 127

ItsSamu

1. One Piece 1169
2. Akane-banashi 188
3. Ichi the Witch 64
4. Kagurabachi 106
5. Sakamoto Days 242

Malak

1. Kagurabachi 106
2. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 16
3. Witch Watch 230
4. The Elusive Samurai 232
5. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits 7

echo

1. Witch Watch 230
2. Shinobi Undercover 63
3. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits 7
4. The Mage Next Door 8
5. Nue's Exorcist 127

Javieroski

1. Sakamoto Days 242
2. Hima-Ten! 72
3. Blue Box 224
4. Shinobi Undercover 63
5. Harukaze Mound 27

KyuKyu555

1. Ichi the Witch 64
2. Blue Box 224
3. Akane-banashi 188
4. Shinobi Undercover 63
5. Ultimate Exorcist Kiysohi 74

Shinuki no Reborn

1. Nue's Exorcist 127
2. Otr of the Flame 32
3. Hima-Ten! 72
4. Someone Hertz 15
5. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 74
 

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Was looking through my list of what I missed and I could have thought I had read and finished, Dorondororon...weird

Oh well had read it in full these last two days. I thought it had potential to be long running. I'm not sure where it went wrong as it was amazing the entire time. I probably would have, however, avoided having the antagonist be the tried and tired "forbidden merge magic" thing, though perhaps the writer was pressed for time.
 

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Yeah, I felt a concept like Dororon would've been cool had it not been mostly standard Battle Shōnen fare
 

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Writing the main girl out like it did was such a bizarre move. It almost certainly didn't lead to the cancellation but I doubt it helped.
 

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Read through Earthchild too...

Great concept, but the execution was a mess. The story asks you to suspend your disbelief, but then it breaks it entirely. It starts with an asteroid big enough to slow the Earth's rotation—which, scientifically is a planet-sterilizing event, not a "long day" event—and then jumps the shark completely by manifesting the Earth as a high school girl who yeets dinosaurs into orbit.

I had a soft spot for Mamoru, though
 

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29/12
67. Ruri Dragon 4
320. Ruri Dragon 3
352. Ruri Dragon 2
351. Ruri Dragon 1
30/12
63. Ruri Dragon 4
347. Ruri Dragon 3
393. Ruri Dragon 1
458. Ruri Dragon 2
31/12
50. Ruri Dragon 4
189. Ruri Dragon 3
201. Ruri Dragon 2
271. Ruri Dragon 1
 

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Naoshi Komi's comment: " There’s one thing I wanted to say most when I returned to the main magazine (Weekly Shonen Jump). Y-san, thank you for sending birthday presents to Marika every year!"

 

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Happy New Year Everyone! Hope we can have a great 2026 in the Forum! 🥂

The official New Year illustrations for Jump series:

One Piece



Naruto



Bleach



My Hero Academia



Demon Slayer



Haikyuu!!



Assassination Classroom



Katekyo Hitman Reborn!



Jigoku Sensei Nube



To Love-Ru



Kuroko no Basket



Dr. Stone



Captain Tsubasa



Midori no Makibao



Mashle


Mr. Fullswing


Mission: Yozakura Family


Ping Pong Peril


Kaedegami


Me & Roboco


Continues...
 
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2nd Part of the Jump series New Year illustrations:


Sakamoto Days




The Elusive Samurai



Blue Box



Akane-banashi



Nue's Exorcist



Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi



Shinobi Undercover



Ruri Dragon



Someone Hertz


And that's it, if i'm missing any official illustration, just say it, and again, Happy New Year!!!
 
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