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

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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So far what we know about the new series is:

Battle series envolving medics/surgeons from a (apparent) former Hori assistant

A maybe battle series from Kento Amemiya, who we all know and love, but after a period working as an assistant on Sakamoto Days

A series that may be from a former Centuria assistant and has "alien" on the title
 

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So far what we know about the new series is:

Battle series envolving medics/surgeons from a (apparent) former Hori assistant

A maybe battle series from Kento Amemiya, who we all know and love, but after a period working as an assistant on Sakamoto Days

A series that may be from a former Centuria assistant and has "alien" on the title
To answer the second one, I heard the translation means Counterattacking Kinato. So an educated guess maybe a combat sports series.
 

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I cam understand mage... has become soo boring. Interesting plot, but totally wasted it.
The new series looks very promising but totally looking forward for under doctors... I woild love it. They have already taken Hungry Joker from me, so a battle science series would be TOP
Her girl is doing nice, I am appreciating it.
Kiyoshi high, good

About hima ten, I believe it will be a natural ending more than an axe
 

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Are we sure Under Doctor isn't a glorified exorcist manga? Those cross glasses looks very exorcist.
This is my guess/sort of worry too. Crosses indicate exorcism a lot of the time in manga lol. He's holding a scalpel too. My guess? It's an exorcist series where the main character is a doctor who either cuts open and examines demons (for noble reasons, either personal or otherwise) or helps save and heal them. Or both. Both would be more intriguing.

It could still be interesting mind you, but every time i see an exorcist (or exorcist adjacent) series, my personal interest in them plummets.
 
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Beast King & Medicinal Herb on Ura Sunday has one of the two MC's as a doctor, and it's a huge part of the story. Asashi Sakano (Guardian of the Witch) does the art. Really great series, and shame it seems the scan is either on hold or dropped.
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Lol, forgot you can't say Edited Manga here anymore. Fun remnant from the days the site was trying to Crunchyroll itself I assume lol.
 

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I completely forgot Shadow Eliminators existed.
 

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Are we sure Under Doctor isn't a glorified exorcist manga? Those cross glasses looks very exorcist.
You may be on to something, but crosses are very used as medicinal symbols aswell
 

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Well, commenting in the things i wasnt able to do before:

Otr of the Flame: This definitely caught me by surprise, it was obviously going to end this round but this fast? the fight against the big boss literally starts this chapter but it already ends, wtf?! I'm definitely thinking there'll be a epilogue chapter on Plus or something, it feels so suddenly for a manga that reached 34 chapters, poor Kawaguchi but he definitely improved a LOT with Otr, so i am looking forward to see he trying the 3rd time, hopefully he can pull a Hori but for the love of god, please, fix the slow pace writing in the first arc, it's his biggest sin.

Hima-Ten!: Yeah i'm not buying this idea of the series ending, it makes zero sense, the manga is selling fine, literally less than 2k behind the almighty Shinobi Undercover and the ToC rankings aren't even axe worth, also is the only traditional romcom that Jump has, so why would they suddenly rush the manga to end? I agree that the spoilers feels much more about being a shake up in the status quo of the series which is necessary considering the last developments with Kanna & Honoka, Himari is just left eating dust right now.

About the ToC:

The Elusive Samurai: Now a curious case, there's no way it's going to end without a spread color page at the very least but not even celebrating its 5th anniversary? that's weird, maybe they're actually hold it just a couple of weeks and have TES getting a anniversary cover on #12 and end on #13?

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi: Nice to see Kiyoshi back to the upper half of the ToC, and to imagine there were some real doom posting about the series because of a feel lower placements kkkk

Nue's Exorcist: Finally Nue's Exorcist leaving the bottom for real, and looking at the chapter supposedly ranked, the start of the sport festival, yeah it was a great one.

JK Yuusha: being able to escape the bottom 5 from a 2nd week should be promising but to be very honest i just don't have much confidence in this batch, and seeing how neither JK Yuusha or Osoegawa hasn't gotten any color page so far, yeah, things aren't looking bright...

Harukaze Mound: putting the manga in that placement one week from getting axed is kinda cruel to the fans lmao!

The Mage Next Door: Sucks to see in the bottom 3 but i gotta be honest, chapter 3 was one of the weakest chapters, if wasn't for the introduction of the main heroine it would be just a forgettable filler chapter so i'm not really surprised, if it keeps in the bottom 3 with the next much better chapters, it's done...


Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #8 Cover: Someone Hertz
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Nice cute cover, excited to see the lead cp

Unless some new manga gets a boost from an anime, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be One Piece. Maybe Frieren would have had a chance if it wasn’t on hiatus since I could see it getting a boost this season but no new volumes after the most recent one
Yomi no Tsugai from Arakawa, it already sells more than Kagurabachi, and with 2 consecutive cour anime by Bones, would be a surprise if it doesn't turn into a massive hit.

I think Kawaguchi actually does have most of what he needs to succeed, but he's godawful at actually getting started.
Yep, totally agree, he knows how to do a pretty good first chapter but after that? he sucks at the critical moment that is the arc after the first 2/3 chapters, this is what killed Otr, if only he had writen the first arc of the series with the same quality he did from the Wind spirits arc i'm sure Otr would be right now at least a Kiyoshi level of success.

Wave Listen to Me
lol this is such a random choice after One Piece and considering the author works
 

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MANGAHELPERS "SHONEN JUMP" AWARDS 2025


Welcome to the "Mangahelpers Shonen Jump Awards 2025" where you nominate your personal favorites of the year!

Like last year award, the rules are pretty basic, you simply vote in each category based in your personal preferences, of course respecting the eligible series, is also very important to notice, this isn't a "election vote" where in the end we will count votes and have winners based in who got most votes, this is a personal voting, each member will nominate their favorites of the year, so it doesn't matter if you read/watched the entire WSJ line up or only 3/5 series, vote based in what you liked and followed through the year of 2025, nothing more.

The manga series eligible for voting that were published on Shonen Jump from Issue #1 to Issue #52 of 2025, based in the fiscal year, are:

One Piece
Hunter x Hunter
Black Clover
Mission: Yozakura Family
Undead Unluck
Me & Roboco
Sakamoto Days
The Elusive Samurai
Witch Watch
Blue Box
Akane Banashi
Ruri Dragon
Kill Blue
Nue's Exorcist
Kagurabachi
Super Psychic Policeman Chojo
Astro Royale
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
Hima-Ten!
Ichi the Witch
Shinobi Undercover
Hakutaku
Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery
Embers
Star of Beethoven
Nice Prison
Otr of the Flame
Harukaze Mound
Kaedegami
Ekiden Bros
Ping Pong Peril
Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
Someone Hertz
Gonron Egg
The Mage Next Door
Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits



Obs: Just in case if anyone has doubt of how to vote, you can simply copy or quote my comment with the categories and fill each one with your votes. You're also not obligated to vote in each categories, feel free to vote only in the ones you're interested.

Let's go:

MAGAZINE CATEGORY

In the magazine category, the option to vote in the best cover, color pages and etc is from issue #1 to #52:




Best magazine cover (from Issue #1 to #52):
Best lead color page (from Issue #1 to #52):
Manga with the best color pages (from Issue #1 to #52):
Best group cover (from Issue #1 to #52):
Best new series:
Best canceled manga:
Worst canceled manga:
Best one shot:
Manga with the best volume covers:
Manga with the worst volume covers:



MANGA CATEGORY

In the manga category, the eligible series are the same of the list in the beginning and the eligible content is from the 1st chapters published on issue #1 to the last one on #52, the list of series and their chapters:
One Piece (Chapter 1132 to 1166)
Hunter x Hunter (Chapter 409 & 410)
Black Clover (Chapter 377 to 386)
Mission: Yozakura Family (Chapter 253 to 258)
Undead Unluck (Chapter 233 to 239)
Me & Roboco (Chapter 212 to 259)
Sakamoto Days (Chapter 192 to 238)
The Elusive Samurai (Chapter 183 to 228)
Witch Watch (Chapter 181 to 226)
Blue Box (Chapter 175 to 220)
Akane Banashi (Chapter 137 to 184)
Ruri Dragon (Chapter 25 to 41)
Kill Blue (Chapter 80 to 115)
Nue's Exorcist (Chapter 77 to 123)
Kagurabachi (Chapter 59 to 102)
Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (Chapter 41 to 65)
Astro Royale (Chapter 32 to 50)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Chapter 23 to 70)
Hima-Ten! (Chapter 21 to 68)
Ichi the Witch (Chapter 13 to 60)
Shinobi Undercover (Chapter 12 to 59)
Hakutaku (Chapter 11 to 18)
Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery (Chapter 3 to 28)
Embers (Chapter 1 to 20)
Star of Beethoven (Chapter 1 to 20)
Nice Prison (Chapter 1 to 19)
Otr of the Flame (Chapter 1 to 28)
Harukaze Mound (Chapter 1 to 23)
Kaedegami (Chapter 1 to 17)
Ekiden Bros (Chapter 1 to 17)
Ping Pong Peril (Chapter 1 to 17)
Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo (Chapter 1 to 12)
Someone Hertz (Chapter 1 to 11)
Gonron Egg (Chapter 1 to 5)
The Mage Next Door (Chapter 1 to 4)
Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits (Chapter 1 to 3)

Best manga:
Best battle shounen or action manga:
Best comedy or gag manga:
Best sport series:
Best romcom:
Best hybrid manga (series that are a mixed of genres outside the typical battle, comedy & sport):
Best main character:
Best heroine:
Best 2nd main character:
Best villain:
Best master or sensei:
Best boy:
Best girl:
Most funny character
Most annoying character:
Best fight:
Best arc:
Best chapter:
Best or most surprising development:
Best couple (official or bound to happen):
Funniest chapter or moment:
Most emotional chapter or moment:
Hottest girl:
Hottest guy:
Best pet or companion type of character:
Best group or organization:
Best power, ability or weapon:
Best art:
Best author:



ANIME CATEGORY

Any anime adaptation from a series originally published on Shonen Jump that aired from January to December 2025, for long running animes, vote with the content aired through 2025 in mind, the eligible anime adaptations:
Blue Box
Cats Eye
Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc
Demon Slayer The Movie: Infinity Castle Part 1: Akaza Returns
Dr. Stone: Science Future Part 1 & 2
Dragon Ball Daima
Gintama: Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class
Hell Teacher Nube
Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc Season 2
Me & Roboco Movie
My Hero Academia Final Season
One Piece
One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga
Rurouni Kenshin Season 2: Kyoto Disturbance
Sakamoto Days Part 1 & 2
Undead Unluck: Winter Arc
Witch Watch
Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!

Best anime:
Best movie or ova/special:
Best sequel, spinoff or remake:
Best ost:
Best voice acting:
Best opening:
Best ending:
Best animation:
Best animated fight or action sequence:
Best episode:
Best studio/staff:
Most expected Jump anime in 2026:



Obs: Please, dont quote other members votes to mock or question it in a negative way why someone is voting in X or Y series, let's respect everyone choices of votes.

There's no exact time limit to vote, so there's no rush but try to vote as soon as you can, i hope you all participate and enjoy, and remember this is just a celebration of our favorite series from Shonen Jump in 2025, so have fun voting! :kkthumbs
MAGAZINE CATEGORY

Best magazine cover (from Issue #1 to #52): #11 (Star of Beethoven)
Best lead color page (from Issue #1 to #52): #47 (Ichi the Witch 55), #18 (Witch Watch 196), #9 (The Elusive Samurai 188)
+ Honorable mention for Black Clover 384 (Jump GIGA #4)

Manga with the best color pages (from Issue #1 to #52): Ichi the Witch
Best group cover (from Issue #1 to #52): #4-5
Best new series: Kaedegami
Best canceled manga: Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery
Worst canceled manga: Nice Prison
Best one shot: -
Manga with the best volume covers: Me & Roboco
Manga with the worst volume covers: Ruri Dragon


MANGA CATEGORY

Best manga: Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
Best battle shounen or action manga: Kagurabachi, Shinobi Undercover
Best comedy or gag manga: Can I count Kiyoshi? I'm counting Kiyoshi.
Best sport series: Ping Pong Peril
Best romcom: Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits
Best hybrid manga (series that are a mixed of genres outside the typical battle, comedy & sport): Akane Banashi
Best main character: Hibaru (Astro Royale)
Best heroine: Noren (Kill Blue)
Best 2nd main character: Shin (Sakamoto Days)
Best villain: Those creepy things from One Piece
Best master or sensei: Sakaki, Desscaras, Beethoven, The teacher from Embers (I know it's a lot, but they all really deserve it)
Best boy: Kiyoshi
Best girl: Iori Samura
Most funny character: Demon Lord
Most annoying character: Roboco
Best fight: Ninja training battle (Team 9 vs Team 6)
Best arc: Cruise arc (Syd Craft), Hot spring arc (Kiyoshi), Camping trip (Shinobi)
Best chapter: KGB 69 (Iori's awakening), KGB 101 (leaving HQ)
Best or most surprising development: The warlocks broadcasting their plans (Witch Watch), Cross getting shot (JJK Modulo), Soranaki reveal (Nue)
Best couple (official or bound to happen): Yodaka x Aoi, Syd Craft x Souffle Flamberry
Funniest chapter or moment: Kiyoshi 58 (sports festival), Ichi 47 (Spica getting turned down)
Most emotional chapter or moment: KGB 85-86 (Samura finally listening), Ichi 39 (siblings reuniting)
Hottest girl: Juiz d'Arc (Unjustice)
Hottest guy: World-Hater Majik
Best pet or companion type of character: Can I count the OP voice from Shinobi Undercover?
Best group or organization: Yozakura Family
Best power, ability or weapon: Super Psychic Policeman Chojo's whatever-the-plot-demands powers
Best art: Akane Banashi
Best author: Kagurabachi


ANIME CATEGORY

Most expected Jump anime in 2026: Kagurabachi
 

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Beast King & Medicinal Herb on Ura Sunday has one of the two MC's as a doctor, and it's a huge part of the story. Asashi Sakano (Guardian of the Witch) does the art. Really great series, and shame it seems the scan is either on hold or dropped.
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Lol, forgot you can't say Edited Manga here anymore. Fun remnant from the days the site was trying to Crunchyroll itself I assume lol.
Oh, was a little curious if Sakano ever did anything after Guardian of the Witch. I never read it but I saw the volume 1 cover on Wikipedia and went “hey, that’s some pretty nice art”.
 

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And to finish the 2025 retrospective posts, the most voted series in our weekly Shonen Jump poll votings for 2025!

MANGAS WITH MOST VOTES IN 2025 (ISSUE #1 TO #52)

1. Ichi the Witch (2,521 J-points)
2. Akane-banashi (1,890 J-points)
3. Kagurabachi (1,724 J-points)
4. Nue's Exorcist (1,686 J-points)
5. Shinobi Undercover (1,474 J-points)
6. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (1,130 J-points)
7. One Piece (1,113 J-points)
8. Sakamoto Days (1,099 J-points)
9. Witch Watch (976 J-points)

10. Kill Blue (817 J-points)
11. Hima-Ten! (809 J-points)
12. Blue Box (773 J-points)
13. Kaedegami (676 J-points)
14. Otr of the Flame (541 J-points)
15. Syd Craft: Love is a Mystery (532 J-points)
16. Me & Roboco (505 J-points)
17. Harukaze Mound (470 J-points)
18. Ping Pong Peril (450 J-points)
19. The Elusive Samurai (406 J-points)
20. Someone Hertz (388 J-points)
21. Star of Beethoven (382 J-points)
22. Mission: Yozakura Family (319 J-points)
23. Astro Royale (313 J-points)
24. Embers (301 J-points)
25. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (288 J-points)
26. Ruri Dragon (247 J-points)
27. Undead Unluck (243 J-points)
28. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo (229 J-points)
29. Nice Prison (153 J-points)
30. The Mage Next Door (115 J-points)
31. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits (100 J-points)
32. Hunter x Hunter (54 J-points)

33. Ekiden Bros (47 J-points)
34. Black Clover (33 J-points)
35. Hakutaku 11 (26 J-points)

36. Gonron Egg (12 J-points)


MANGA WITH THE MOST 1ST PLACE (ISSUE #1 TO #52)

1. Ichi the Witch (28)
2. Nue's Exorcist (5)
3. Kagurabachi (4)
4. Akane-banashi (3)
5. Kaedegami (2)
6. One Piece (1)
7. Mission: Yozakura Family (1)
8. Undead Unluck (1)
9. Me & Roboco (1)
10. Kill Blue (1)
11. Embers (1)


MANGA WITH THE MOST LAST PLACE (ISSUE #1 TO #52)

1. Ekiden Bros (8)
2. Me & Roboco (7)
3. The Elusive Samurai (6)
4. Hakutaku (6)
5. Nice Prison (5)
6. Blue Box (4)
7. Embers (4)
8. Gonron Egg (3)
9. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (1)
10. Otr of the Flame (1)
11. Harukaze Mound (1)
12. Syd Craft: Love is a Mystery (1)
13. Star of Beethoven (1)


MOST VOTED 1ST CHAPTER (ISSUE #1 TO #52)

1. Embers 1 (71 J-points)
2. Kaedegami 1 (70 J-points)
3. Otr of the Flame 1 (64 J-points)
4. Harukaze Mound 1 (51 J-points)
5. The Mage Next Door 1 (49 J-points)
6. Star of Beethoven 1 (43 J-points)
7. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits 1 (40 J-points)
8. Someone Hertz 1 (34 J-points)
9. Ping Pong Peril 1 (30 J-points)
10. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo 1 (29 J-points)
11. Nice Prison 1 (17 J-points)
12. Ekiden Bros 1 (9 J-points)
13. Gonron Egg 1 (6 J-points)


MOST VOTED FINAL CHAPTER (ISSUE #1 TO #52)

1. Mission: Yozakura Family 258 (93 J-points)
2. Kaedegami 17 (60 J-points)
3. Undead Unluck 239 (59 J-points)
4. Kill Blue 115 (39 J-points)
5. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo 65 (34 J-points)
6. Syd Craft: Love is a Mystery 28 (24 J-points)
7. Ping Pong Peril 17 (21 J-points)
8. Embers 20 (17 J-points)
9. Astro Royale 50 (13 J-points)
10. Star of Beethoven 20 (13 J-points)
11. Hakutaku 18 (8 J-points)
12. Nice Prison 19 (5 J-points)
13. Ekiden Bros 17 (3 J-points)
Oh wow. I'm not surprised about Ichi winning, but that's a massive lead. It literally took more first places than all of the other series combined.

I am surprised about Embers. And about the fact that the only two survivors of the year actually started out pretty bad.


Issue #9: "Under Doctor" by Tanimoto Kyou (Medical Battle Shounen)




Issue #10: "Kaigeki no Kinato" by Kento Amemiya from Shadow Eliminators
Issue #11: "Alien Headbutt" by Inui Akira


Yeah, the first series kinda reminds me of Dark Doctor Ikuru, though the guy looks more like a priest. I also can't tell if his hair has two colours or if that's just a shadow.

The second one looks way too much like Deku for his own good.

The third one makes me think a little of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (the art style looks kind of old-fashioned to me). Delinquents seems like a safe bet.


I completely forgot Shadow Eliminators existed.
I remember the name, but I can't recall a single thing about the content. That's pretty bad for a series that has the job description in the title.
 

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Oh wow. I'm not surprised about Ichi winning, but that's a massive lead. It literally took more first places than all of the other series combined.
Its a bit ironic when you think about some members criticizing the quantity of times that Ichi gets in 1st place in the ToC but here we have our own weekly issue votes where Ichi ranks in 1st more than 50% of the time :grin
 

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Cool to see Kento Amemiya back if not just for the art.

I really enjoyed his shikigami one shot back then (Amemiya and Hokazono were the two newbies I really wanted to see debut lol) . But shadow eliminators was quite middling at best.

I will give him another chance though.

I do think it is kinda funny that this series will replace harukaze mound since he has a pretty similar art style to matsuura .


Don't really have an opinion on the other two series.

The last batch is truly just dead . I haven't really connected to any of them but at least mage and hero girl are not gonron egg.

Farewell otr , I never liked you...

Also, I do think people are overreacting about the himaten leaks.
 

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Well, commenting in the things i wasnt able to do before:

Otr of the Flame: This definitely caught me by surprise, it was obviously going to end this round but this fast? the fight against the big boss literally starts this chapter but it already ends, wtf?! I'm definitely thinking there'll be a epilogue chapter on Plus or something, it feels so suddenly for a manga that reached 34 chapters, poor Kawaguchi but he definitely improved a LOT with Otr, so i am looking forward to see he trying the 3rd time, hopefully he can pull a Hori but for the love of god, please, fix the slow pace writing in the first arc, it's his biggest sin.

Hima-Ten!: Yeah i'm not buying this idea of the series ending, it makes zero sense, the manga is selling fine, literally less than 2k behind the almighty Shinobi Undercover and the ToC rankings aren't even axe worth, also is the only traditional romcom that Jump has, so why would they suddenly rush the manga to end? I agree that the spoilers feels much more about being a shake up in the status quo of the series which is necessary considering the last developments with Kanna & Honoka, Himari is just left eating dust right now.

About the ToC:

The Elusive Samurai: Now a curious case, there's no way it's going to end without a spread color page at the very least but not even celebrating its 5th anniversary? that's weird, maybe they're actually hold it just a couple of weeks and have TES getting a anniversary cover on #12 and end on #13?

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi: Nice to see Kiyoshi back to the upper half of the ToC, and to imagine there were some real doom posting about the series because of a feel lower placements kkkk

Nue's Exorcist: Finally Nue's Exorcist leaving the bottom for real, and looking at the chapter supposedly ranked, the start of the sport festival, yeah it was a great one.

JK Yuusha: being able to escape the bottom 5 from a 2nd week should be promising but to be very honest i just don't have much confidence in this batch, and seeing how neither JK Yuusha or Osoegawa hasn't gotten any color page so far, yeah, things aren't looking bright...

Harukaze Mound: putting the manga in that placement one week from getting axed is kinda cruel to the fans lmao!

The Mage Next Door: Sucks to see in the bottom 3 but i gotta be honest, chapter 3 was one of the weakest chapters, if wasn't for the introduction of the main heroine it would be just a forgettable filler chapter so i'm not really surprised, if it keeps in the bottom 3 with the next much better chapters, it's done...
I really hope the ranking improves for mage next door and hero girl and demon lord, they are superior to gonron egg by miles.

So i do hope it rises in rankings, i think things like happened beforehand with similar popular series that started out.

Hope this is one of those times it occurs. Do not want another David on my case again. Still miffed that was axed instead of I am from Japan and that its author has yet to make a comeback after all these years.

Issue #9: "Under Doctor" by Tanimoto Kyou (Medical Battle Shounen)




Issue #10: "Kaigeki no Kinato" by Kento Amemiya from Shadow Eliminators
Issue #11: "Alien Headbutt" by Inui Akira


Okay, first batch of 2026 and the very first of the late 2020s, let's see if these three have what it takes.

Under Doctor looks interesting but i hope its nothing to do with exorcist once more nor to i want a repeat of the disaster that was sporting salt.

Kento Amemiya is a surprising return, thought he would come back with an ecchi series to be honest considering his previous one shot. Anyhow, let's see if there was actual development in writing this time around instead of just good looking art.

Alien Headbutt seems interesting enough but its hard to dictate what it could be, the genres are kinda limitless with a title like that to be honest.

Anyhow, an interesting batch to start 2026 proper.
 

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Yuki Kawaguchi final comment:

"By coincidence, I submitted the final chapter on the winter solstice. Thank you for reading...!!"

I'm sure we've gotten some idea before, but this means they submit chapters 4 weeks in advance. Although Kawaguchi seems to have no trouble keeping up art wise so maybe he submits his work on the earlier side of the due date.
 

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Looking at The Elusive Samurai volumes, the manga has actually a lot of chapters available to fill up at least 3 volumes:

Volume 23: 197 to 205 - Last volume released
Volume 24: 206 to 214
Volume 25: 215 to 223
Volume 26: 224 to 232
Volume 27: 233 to 241


Last chapter 233 literally just started vol 27, which means in theory the manga should have more 8 chapters, now, obviously we know final volumes don't need to have the standard 9 chapters but i also doubt it will have only 3 extra chapters, so maybe the manga will keep going for just some extra weeks to properly fill the final volume and actually get its anniversary cover & lead cp on issue #12 and end in the next chapter, or maybe not lol
 

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Looking at The Elusive Samurai volumes, the manga has actually a lot of chapters available to fill up at least 3 volumes:

Volume 23: 197 to 205 - Last volume released
Volume 24: 206 to 214
Volume 25: 215 to 223
Volume 26: 224 to 232
Volume 27: 233 to 241


Last chapter 233 literally just started vol 27, which means in theory the manga should have more 8 chapters, now, obviously we know final volumes don't need to have the standard 9 chapters but i also doubt it will have only 3 extra chapters, so maybe the manga will keep going for just some extra weeks to properly fill the final volume and actually get its anniversary cover & lead cp on issue #12 and end in the next chapter, or maybe not lol
This is a good theory, however, we are talking about matsui. Who is the same mangaka whose last series had 3 chapters in the final volume. If anyone could do that again, it would be him imo.
 

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This is a good theory, however, we are talking about matsui. Who is the same mangaka whose last series had 3 chapters in the final volume. If anyone could do that again, it would be him imo.
You're missing a important detail, the final volume has only the 3 final chapters of the main serialization, but it also has the 4 special sequel chapters that started being published on issue #18 to #21-22, 2 issues after the main series ended, so the final volume has actually 7 chapters of AssClass + a special one shot.
 
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