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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)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

14 actually, 13 should be Suzaku 100%

And you got it right

 

[icrawfish]

Nue's Exorcist Volume 13

Spoiler

Suzaku goin’ in for the omega dap is very funny (genuinely a pretty cover though)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Genki Ono: Names the new chapter "New Year, New Start"

Readers: OH MY GOD IS ENDING NEXT ROUND!!!



Seriously, to me this didn't feel at all like a chapter leading to the end of the series, simply a necessary change of status quo since Himari has been left eating dust in the manga for a while, the whole point of the chapter is about how her relationship with Tenichi has hit a wall and is stuck there so something has to change.

 

[Minsel]

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

But he doesn't.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

But he doesn't.

He absolutely does, there's no dragging bullshit for hundreds of chapters just to someone hold a hand or say they have feelings, no violent tsundere bullshit, all the girls are equally interesting and likeable, and has real potential/chances with the protagonist different than every romcom where everybody knows the other girls are just there to lose for the main girl in the final chapter, Gakuro already kissed more than pretty much every romcom protagonist together in Jump history and the list goes on.

To be fair isn't like the bar for romance writing is really high in shounen magazines so just now following the typical tropes already puts you above most lol

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

YOUR FAVORITE VOLUME COVERS OF JANUARY 2026 - VOTING RESULTS

1. Akane-banashi Volume 20 (16 Votes)
2. Kagurabachi Volume 10 (15 Votes)
3. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Volume 1 (10 Votes)
4. Someone Hertz Volume 1 (10 Votes)
5. Hima-Ten! Volume 7 (9 Votes)
6. Shinobi Undercover Volume 6 (7 Votes)
7. Harukaze Mound Volume 2 (4 Votes)
8. Ping Pong Peril Volume 2 (4 Votes)
9. Ekiden Bros Volume 2 (0 Votes)

Note: 32 Members Voted

Source:

Spoiler

 

[Franz]

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

That people might get confused and think that Jujutsu Kaisen is still going on

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Shoseki Top 500 (January 16)
11. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #1
22. Kagurabachi #10
40. Someone Hertz #1
103. Akane-banashi #20
261. Shinobi Undercover #6
283. Hima-Ten! #7

Shoseki Top 500 (January 17)
7. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #1
18. Kagurabachi #10
29. Someone Hertz #1
75. Akane-banashi #20
234. Shinobi Undercover #6
377. Hima-Ten! #7

Shoseki Top 500 (January 18)
6. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #1
12. Kagurabachi #10
28. Someone Hertz #1
79. Akane-banashi #20
213. Shinobi Undercover #6
389. Hima-Ten! #7

Obs: 2nd week is finished, Someone Hertz is a hit for real lol

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Interesting comparison between Someone Hertz, Ichi the Witch & Kagurabachi volume 1 performances in the daily Shoseki, of course each series had its circunstances around it at the time:

Someone Hertz

6th > 8th > 13th > 29th > 51th > 47th > 69th > 91th > 117th > 60th > 34th > 40th > 29th > 28th

Ichi the Witch

6th > 15th > 26th > 49th > 88th > 107th > 130th > 81th > 107th > 233th > 20th > 18th > 9th > 28th

Kagurabachi

4th > 17th > 54th > 4th > 24th > 58th > 129th > 167th > 242th > 230th > 321th > 251th > 354th > 244th

 

[Minsel]

He absolutely does, there's no dragging bullshit for hundreds of chapters just to someone hold a hand or say they have feelings, no violent tsundere bullshit, all the girls are equally interesting and likeable, and has real potential/chances with the protagonist different than every romcom where everybody knows the other girls are just there to lose for the main girl in the final chapter, Gakuro already kissed more than pretty much every romcom protagonist together in Jump history and the list goes on.

To be fair isn't like the bar for romance writing is really high in shounen magazines so just now following the typical tropes already puts you above most lol

if ur way of rating romance is whether they jump on the mc then sure. Gakuro is literally swimming in girls for sure, but that doesn't make it a good romance imo.

 

[tirakai]

All the panicking over Himaten 'ending' when the chapter's literally titled "New Year, New Start" was really silly. I think this week was pretty good all around.


Also we finally got a source for a characters' power in Kiyoshi, so far they've been very vague aside from the one character being contracted to an angel. We still don't really know any details (like if it's a contract or something with this Maki creature, how can Gaga copy it?) but the series has been doing perfectly fine up to now without needing to Togashi all the powers so I suppose it doesn't really matter.

 

[WyldViolet]

Issue #8 Rankings/Votes
1. Someone Hertz
2. Nue's Exorcist
3. Kagurabachi
4. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
5. Akane Banashi

6. Hima-ten!
7. Sakamoto Days
8. Harukaze Mound
9. Ichi the Witch
10. Shinobi Undercover
11. Hero Girl & Demon King Call It Quits
12. The Mage Next Door
13. Otr of the Flame
14. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
15. Gonron Egg

 

[Reverseshin]

Spoiler: New Netflix One Piece character poster.

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I’m Downloading this Weeks Issue as we Speak.

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So the Color Pages are Coming, So please Stand By.

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Spoiler: Weekly Jump Color Pages (HQ)

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Since I guess Imgur decided to malfunction:

Spoiler: Other Pages

 

[Kiaida]

This week's twitter posts.

 

[Reverseshin]

Spoiler: Other Pages 2

 

[SharkBait]

Just saw it pop on on Crunchyroll, but since when was Kagurabachi able to get a GEM figure, like there is no anime airing!

 

[KrenKren]

Just saw it pop on on Crunchyroll, but since when was Kagurabachi able to get a GEM figure, like there is no anime airing!

It was announced a few months ago! I noticed preorders opened up the other day too and kind of just apologetically glanced at my student finance for the term

I can't wait for the anime so we get proper figures of Kyora, Samura, Uruha, etc...

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

if ur way of rating romance is whether they jump on the mc then sure. Gakuro is literally swimming in girls for sure, but that doesn't make it a good romance imo.

You're being quite dishonest with this comment because you just ignored all the points i listed and turned into "The girls jump on the mc" as if is what i said it makes better romance writing, if it was this case i would listen something like To Love-ru as the best romance ever lol, and pretty much every romcom is build around the "girls jump on mc" trope.

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This week's twitter posts.

Nue highest trending series like said, Machida power

And Otr final time showing up in the Twitter rankings...

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

And Otr final time showing up in the Twitter rankings

took him out of my "series i'm rooting for"...

 

[Minsel]

You're being quite dishonest with this comment because you just ignored all the points i listed and turned into "The girls jump on the mc" as if is what i said it makes better romance writing, if it was this case i would listen something like To Love-ru as the best romance ever lol, and pretty much every romcom is build around the "girls jump on mc" trope.

Okay lets go through your statement then

"He absolutely does, there's no dragging bullshit for hundreds of chapters just to someone hold a hand or say they have feelings,"

Let's make a comparison, Blue box, the other romcom, Taiki acknowledged his feelings very early on, and Chinatsu seems interested, but she's not even sure, which is more akin to a real relationship. Gakuro is nervous and anxious because he has a harem of options, but every girl is gung-ho practically about him VERY quickly. Their nervousness at most is with their clan problems. Namely Shiroha. Honestly. Also you have two routes you can choose to go on, either the confession comes early, or the confession later. You can see romcoms doing more early confessions nowadays like You and I are Polar Opposites, but there are both.

"no violent tsundere bullshit, all the girls are equally interesting and likeable"

I wouldn't say equally interesting, sure not violent tsundere, but Natsuki is a tsundere. However the girls like Mio, Karasu, Yozora, and maybe even Kathy all fall under the bratty teasing tsundere trope. Outside of Shiroha, Nue, Shitotsu, Kazusa, and maybe Ishu they're not that unique from one another or that interesting

"and has real potential/chances with the protagonist different than every romcom where everybody knows the other girls are just there to lose for the main girl in the final chapter."

Sure, because he's always portrayed as a knight in shining armor thats aligned with every girls interests. His conversations always boil down to awkward conversation and niceities and then he saves them or says the exact magical thing thats needed for them and suddenly they swoon, practically every girl falls for him this way. Gakuro already kissed more than pretty much every romcom protagonist together in Jump history, and the list goes on. It's not even played for comedic effect like the 100 girlfriends series, they just all fall in love with him for his knight in shining armorness and that's all. He goes from unconfident to confident, but even before that, every girl gets flustered and starts to feel something because of harem humour. So many of the girls just instantly fall into Gakuro's arms, and it doesn't even have a relationship built outside of something he says that connects to them, and suddenly he's saved them and won their heart and they'll die for him.

If it is a harem ending, what is the deal with comparing them to a regular romcom. It just sounds like you want every romcom to have a harem ending because you're mad some girls won't get with the MC as if their getting together is winning a prize. The MC is not a prize; it's objectification if you're viewing it like that and I just find that ridiculous.

I know you like Nue a lot, but I just can't take you seriously when you're trying to state its better than romcoms because it feeds your dopamine version of what romance should look like where everybody falls head over heels in no time flat for the MC.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Okay lets go through your statement then

"He absolutely does, there's no dragging bullshit for hundreds of chapters just to someone hold a hand or say they have feelings,"

Let's make a comparison, Blue box, the other romcom, Taiki acknowledged his feelings very early on, and Chinatsu seems interested, but she's not even sure, which is more akin to a real relationship. Gakuro is nervous and anxious because he has a harem of options, but every girl is gung-ho practically about him VERY quickly. Their nervousness at most is with their clan problems. Namely Shiroha. Honestly

lol Blue Box is literally the "It takes a hundred chapters for something big like holding hands to happen" i said, it's such a slow romance manga and very unrealistic for a time like the 2020's, a manga where the main characters may date but it takes literally dozen/hundred of chapters to something like a kiss in the mouth to happen and is treated the peak of the series.

"no violent tsundere bullshit, all the girls are equally interesting and likeable"

I wouldn't say equally interesting, sure not violent tsundere, but Natsuki is a tsundere. However the girls like Mio, Karasu, Yozora, and maybe even Kathy all fall under the bratty teasing tsundere trope.

I wouldn't call Natsuki a tsundere, she's pretty open about her feelings too, she isn't violent and etc.

The other girls you mentioned aren't really part of Gakuro harem.

"and has real potential/chances with the protagonist different than every romcom where everybody knows the other girls are just there to lose for the main girl in the final chapter."

Sure, because he's always portrayed as a knight in shining armor thats aligned with every girls interests. His conversations always boil down to awkward conversation and niceities and then he saves them or says the exact magical thing thats needed for them and suddenly they swoon, practically every girl falls for him this way. Gakuro already kissed more than pretty much every romcom protagonist together in Jump history, and the list goes on. It's not even played for comedic effect like the 100 girlfriends series, they just all fall in love with him for his knight in shining armorness and that's all. He goes from unconfident to confident, but even before that, every girl gets flustered and starts to feel something because of harem humour. So many of the girls just instantly fall into Gakuro's arm,s and it doesn't even have a relationship built outside of something he says that connects to them, and suddenly he's saved them and won their heart and they'll die for him.

You're trying to simplify everything into "they like him because he's the mc, he saves them and they like him", but isn't this simple, all the main girls in the harem have clear and well developed reasons to like Gakuro, they don't like him just because he's portrayed as a knight in shining armor or fall in love with him because "yes", it all happens in a pretty nice developed way through the arcs and conflicts, it feels very well earned because you can see their bonds being developed through the arcs and conflicts, Gakuro build up confidence through the series is one of the best things of the manga and the girls assertive personalities are a breath of fresh air.

Now, if you're talking about the other minor girls that are there for more of comical/harem shenanigans, sure, but the thing is that all the readers know these minor girls aren't never going to have any relevance anyway.

Also, everything you're describing is literally what you see in every romcom series, the girls just fall in love with the mc for no reason or for the most cliche reasons, so when you act like Nue's Exorcist romance writing isn't better, you're not really showing me why it's not because everything you're describing it's what happens in all the other romcom series, so why they're better?

If it is a harem ending, what is the deal with comparing them to a regular romcom. It just sounds like you want every romcom to have a harem ending because you're mad some girls won't get with the MC as if their getting together is winning a prize. The MC is not a prize; it's objectification if you're viewing it like that and I just find that ridiculous.

I know you like Nue a lot, but I just can't take you seriously when you're trying to state its better than romcoms because it feeds your dopamine version of what romance should look like where everybody falls head over heels in no time flat forthe MC.

Why are you making a bunch of assumptions about what i like or want? kkkk Also, all these romcoms are harem, so a harem ending is technically always in the cards for these series, so why wouldn't be comparable?

Again, every romcom is about a bunch of girls falling head over hells in no time for the flat mc, so i'm really not understanding where Nue is supposed to not be better than these romcom kkkk