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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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)

 

[Baes]

Lol I can definitely see SakaDays ending by the next batch already

KGB will never beat the JJK fandom fishing alegations. Chihiro is dying for the second time just like Yuji did

 

[FantasticFootno]

Sakamoto Days "started" its final battle in the way many series have. We still have fights such as Nagumo vs Oki, Shin vs Guitar guy, the electric guy, the remaining twin, and then another random mob character that was introduced but hasn't formally shown up yet. So I'd imagine we cut back to some of those, to wrap up that stuff, while the final battle stretches for over the course of the year.

 

[Franz]

Modulo literally has ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ in its title. You know what he’s referring to

So he should called them Modulo

 

[Kiaida]

Sakamoto Days "started" its final battle in the way many series have. We still have fights such as Nagumo vs Oki, Shin vs Guitar guy, the electric guy, the remaining twin, and then another random mob character that was introduced but hasn't formally shown up yet. So I'd imagine we cut back to some of those, to wrap up that stuff, while the final battle stretches for over the course of the year.

I don't think these side battles will take too much time if he already started Sakamoto vs Uzuki. Wouldn't be surprised if it ends in 20 chapters.

Hilarious how the leakers had that weird overreaction to Hima-ten and didn't say much about Sakamoto speeding up. lol

 

[LogicoftheVI]

Issue #8:
1. One Piece #1171
2. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #76
3. Kagurabachi #108
4. Ichi the witch #66
5. Harukaze Mound #29
6. The Mage Next Door #10
7. Someone Hertz #17
8. Shinobi Undercover #65
9. Gonron Egg #11
10. Otr the Flames #34
11. The Hero Girl and The Demon Lord #9

 

[Wookitake]

So he should called them Modulo

I called it right, modulo modulo

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

475. Sakamoto Days 500 - 475 = 25 (400位31650/500位27300) 31,650 - 27,300 = 4,350 4,350 ÷ 100 = 43,5 43,5 x 25 = 1,087 1,087 + 27,300 = 23,387 475. Sakamoto Days (23,387)

oh makes sense, i was subtracting by 100 not 500 lmao

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otr ending was beautiful, i really really hope he has lucky next time

 

[Baes]

Gonron Egg..... I don't even have words anymore

 

[Wookitake]

I'm kind of an extremist sometimes. I really think Gonron should have been axed -- even with fewer than 12 chapters -- instead of Otr (or Harukaze, which will end next week for sure). There's absolutely NOTHING they can do about it. They could have allowed for a longer final fight for Otr, 1 epilogue chapter in the magazine, etc.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

I don't think hima-ten is reaching any type of climax... it seems like a start of a new arc instead of a climax to the story

 

[Reverseshin]

MHA Merch Drop:

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Spoiler: Weekly Jump No 8 Cover (HQ)

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Spoiler: Weekly Jump Issue No 8 TOC Image

 

[Broseph]

So he should called them Modulo

What difference does it make when we all know what he’s talking about?

 

[Serinox]

I'm kind of an extremist sometimes. I really think Gonron should have been axed -- even with fewer than 12 chapters -- instead of Otr (or Harukaze, which will end next week for sure). There's absolutely NOTHING they can do about it. They could have allowed for a longer final fight for Otr, 1 epilogue chapter in the magazine, etc.

Maybe they'll pull a bait-and-switch by axing Gonron instead of having EluSam ending for the third series.

 

[Baes]

I'm kind of an extremist sometimes. I really think Gonron should have been axed -- even with fewer than 12 chapters -- instead of Otr (or Harukaze, which will end next week for sure). There's absolutely NOTHING they can do about it. They could have allowed for a longer final fight for Otr, 1 epilogue chapter in the magazine, etc.

Yes!!!!
Don't if I'm being to harsh (don't think so) but Gonron right now its just a waist of time, space of the mag, paper etc

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Really great chapter for Nue's Exorcist, how come this battle shounen author can write romance better than most popular romcom authors?

The way the dialogue between Natsuki & Gakuro and the resolution of Gakuro asking to get to know Machida better to understand his own feelings, is such a "sane" and realistic sort of development and dialogue about romance & feelings, it's kinda surreal you're seeing this in a exorcist battle shounen while in the actual romance/romcom series everything is made in order to not be sane or realistic because you need to stretch things or the series would always end with less than 50 chapters lmao! Kawae is also really good in making the girls become instantly super likeable, not that Machida wasn't already cute and etc, but she was right behind all the other girls in the harem, and with 1 chapters she already skyrocketed to my top 2 at least

And btw:

 

[FantasticFootno]

I don't think these side battles will take too much time if he already started Sakamoto vs Uzuki. Wouldn't be surprised if it ends in 20 chapters.

Hilarious how the leakers had that weird overreaction to Hima-ten and didn't say much about Sakamoto speeding up. lol

Yeah I agree. My point is more that there’s not just the final battle left, so it’s not going to end in a volume. It’ll defo be closer to 3-4 volumes. Fall 2026 as opposed to spring.

 

[Hawke]

Good issue back, lots of strong chapters and I quite liked the Otr finale even if it was messy and vague. I think it has finally clicked for Kawaguchi, or at least I want to believe it has. Kinda curious and hopeful a 3rd chance is a successful one.

Votes for this week, I'm too exhausted to write anything in detail but I'll say this— very plausible the high Jump turnover comes soon. I really hope editorial has this sortied because idk what happens then..........................

1. Kagurabachi
2. Elusive Samurai
3. Otr
4. Blue Box
5. Someone Hertz

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

very plausible the high Jump turnover comes soon. I really hope editorial has this sortied because idk what happens then..........................

1. Kagurabachi
2. Elusive Samurai
3. Otr
4. Blue Box
5. Someone Hertz

They don't, they don't have a way to prepare for a bunch of veterans to end since they have no control of what will succeed or not, the only thing they can do is try to serialize the best stuff they have in hands.

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oh makes sense, i was subtracting by 100 not 500 lmao

lol my bad, this was on me, i forgot to add that after the 100th place you subtract with 200th, with series placed between 200th and 300th you subtract with 300th, 300th with 4000th and 400th with 500th

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I'll just say I'm glad someone asked because I've been wondering how to do the shoseki sales math for like two years now

Really? I thought you knew how to do

Just finished PPPPPP. I loved the piano competition vibes, but wow, that ending cut off out of nowhere. Honestly, 'abrupt' describes the whole second half for me. Sadame Hino was my favorite, so seeing his backstory rushed without a proper conclusion was a huge letdown. Plus, the stuff with the mom and Lucky disappearing for 6 chapters felt really disjointed. It’s frustrating that JUMP can't seem to lock down a long-running music manga on the level of Blue Giant.

Well, that's the downside of Jump system heavily leaning on survey votes, PPPPPP was selling pretty fine even with the ToC rankings falling apart but Jump still axed the series:

PPPPPP #1 (14,110)
PPPPPP #2 (18,296)
PPPPPP #3 (26,505)
PPPPPP #4 (34,686)
PPPPPP #5 (30,046)
PPPPPP #6 (29,027)
PPPPPP #7 (22,582) - Released after the axe
PPPPPP #8 (22,128)

Really sad we got robbed of a anime adaptation.

I wonder what happened to poor Blue Box #5.

Simply sold less than 55k, it was very likely on 501th place

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Question that's been bugging me for a hot minute:

How often to newcomers go from just making one shots in places like jump giga or jump plus and somehow debut a full on series instead of a one shot in weekly shonen jump?
i think Yuto Suzuki is the only one how has done this, with Inui Ozora being the first person to go from just an assistant to making a full on debut series without any one shots.

That's kinda bold for Ozora, no?Either the editors have faith in what he has managed to do or they found the story unique or different enough that it could be truly interesting.

I know Shinuki said this author is an assistant of the author in centuria but i cannot help but think this author also had a hand in something like terra formas because the charcter design made me remind of that series for a hot minute.

His name is Inui Akira, not Ozora, this was a mistake. He much probably changed his pen name like Tanimoto Kyou

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Nue's Exorcist Volume 13

Spoiler

Blue Box Volume 24

Spoiler

 

[FantasticFootno]

Dang, with the breaks in Jan, it almost feels wrong to be getting Febuary volumes rn. It feels like they should be farther out.