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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)

 

[icrawfish]

Excluding the Modulo & Hertz one, feels like seeing the entire batch of new series flopping in the bottom together became something normal

I mean yeah, since Shinobi started over a year ago the only new series we’ve gotten that has any hope of making it to 1 year is Someone Hertz. There were some with initial potential for a bit like Otr and Harukaze but their death became clearer as the weeks went on.

As much as the current line-up shows big age gaps between bundles of series (the 4 from 2020-1, Akane, Nue/Bachi, and the 4 from 2024), there were still 1-2 year series sprinkled in those cracks, but we’re looking pretty starved of something like that. It is an unusually droughtful time (though if that’s what it costed to get Someone Hertz, I can’t complain too bad).

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Me & Roboco Volume 25

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi Volume 7

Otr of the Flame Volume 3

And that's it for the leaks this week, damn i posted a lot!

 

[icrawfish]

I wouldn't say it's a hard-set rule. Not that long ago it used to be that major flops would get cancelled starting at ch 10.

I was gonna refute this but did not realize how recent Ole Golazo was, or that it’s batch mate suffered the same 12-chapter fate. A couple more 12’s and a lot of 15’s in the 2010’s, which I was not aware of. Still, Ole Golazo was over 9 years ago, which isn’t a short amount of time. I don’t think we’ve seen any instance in the 2020’s thus far of something dying before chapter 15, so I’m not exactly willing to bet on it especially when it goes against the 2 batch minimum lifespan we usually see.

Either way this conversation won’t matter too much in 3 months as Gonron will definitely be gone by then haha.

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Me & Roboco Volume 25

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi Volume 7

Otr of the Flame Volume 3

And that's it for the leaks this week, damn i posted a lot!

Love the Roboco Akane cover. This marks her first dip into 2022, with Blue Box being her most recent series reference for a while.

That means it’s only a matter of time until Roboco hits the Bachi pose on a volume cover, right?

For the others, I kinda feel like this is the 3rd time in a row we’ve seen a Kiyoshi cover where it’s a dark background with him up in front and a villain behind? I’d like something a little more varietous, at least. Otr’s I appreciate the color progression, I’m assuming the 4th cover will be a light blue for the ice or brown for forest. (also just made me realize how the series completely forgot about the iron spirit in the final parts since it only emphasized the 5 other ones as the “5 heroes” (unless it was mentioned about lesser and greater spirits at some point which I missed))

 

[Chamo]

I was gonna refute this but did not realize how recent Ole Golazo was, or that it’s batch mate suffered the same 12-chapter fate. A couple more 12’s and a lot of 15’s in the 2010’s, which I was not aware of. Still, Ole Golazo was over 9 years ago, which isn’t a short amount of time. I don’t think we’ve seen any instance in the 2020’s thus far of something dying before chapter 15, so I’m not exactly willing to bet on it especially when it goes against the 2 batch minimum lifespan we usually see.

Either way this conversation won’t matter too much in 3 months as Gonron will definitely be gone by then haha.

Time Paradox Ghostwriter started in 2020 and was axed at chapter 14.

However, it was more than 5 years ago and the plagiarism scandal hastened its death. Therefore, I think that Gonron Egg will stay until it reaches approximately 20 chapters.

 

[tirakai]

If you exclude Modulo for being a sequel and a short run, this means 2025 only has one long term success assuming Someone Hertz sticks around (which it should with those sales). It's the only series from 2025 that'll make it past 1 year, and considering Otr & Harukaze's slightly better placements were only because of their being a bunch of flops below them, Hertz is the only one that didn't immediately drop to the bottom even besides Modulo.

I think that makes it the worst year WSJ's had since 2010? Which had no hits and only one series to make it past a year.

 

[icrawfish]

If you exclude Modulo for being a sequel and a short run, this means 2025 only has one long term success assuming Someone Hertz sticks around (which it should with those sales). It's the only series from 2025 that'll make it past 1 year, and considering Otr & Harukaze's slightly better placements were only because of their being a bunch of flops below them, Hertz is the only one that didn't immediately drop to the bottom even besides Modulo.

I think that makes it the worst year WSJ's had since 2010? Which had no hits and only one series to make it past a year.

I’d say not as bad as 2010, more like in between 2010 and 2011, since 2010 was a case of no hits and one 1+ year series, 2011 was a case of 1 hit and 2 other 1+ year series, and this is a case of 1 hit and no other 1+ year series. If you grant it Modulo as a perk then it’s probably comparable to 2011.

So yeah… not amazing either way. Hopefully 2026 turns the tables in a better direction.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Special illustrations by Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto) & Akutami Gege (Jujutsu Kaisen) for the premiere of Netflix " Cosmic Princess Kaguya! " anime movie:

 

[Malak]

Holy hell Gege, what kinda creatures are those?

 

[KrenKren]

Holy hell Gege, what kinda creatures are those?

Gave them pug noses

 

[Kiaida]

It's hilarious how clear Saito makes that he dislikes both Nue and Hima-ten and would axe both if he could. Just placing always above the obvious flops, meanwhile it's an infinite flood of Kiyoshi and Shinobi good placements and color pages as if they're Ichi and Kagurabachi. If there are people still thinking he's not biased... lol

As for the new series, they look like template battle manga again. I know the west has a ton of patience for battle manga, especially if they don't commit the mortal sin of having fanservice and etc, but the battle series he's greenlighting are all extremely safe and boring. What is interesting about Osoegawa? It does nothing new, the art feels unfinished and everything is always framed in a boring way. Often when I see people saying it could survive is because it "could be Mashle 2", not because it's exceptional in any way. At least JK Hero is doing something new for the magazine.

And this is also why Harukaze is getting axed here. It's not creative, everyone already read ton of series just like this before. Not saying it needs to be baseball in space, but at least it should try some spin. If you don't have any of that, you need to write great characters, but they were all walking archetypes in this series.

There's this talk about 2025 being a terrible year for debuts and this is what I believe is hurting them and the magazine in the long term (after the current hits end): everything is too safe and sanitized. Readers have a ton of options everywhere that are more daring, more unique, with authors not afraid of being themselves. Why should they settle for "Mashle 2"? I'm not sure about the local readers, but seeing a batch of 3 battle manga that look again to be super basic makes hard to be excited for any of them, even if I'm still willing to give them a fair shot.

 

[Phantom RPG]

It's hilarious how clear Saito makes that he dislikes both Nue and Hima-ten and would axe both if he could. Just placing always above the obvious flops, meanwhile it's an infinite flood of Kiyoshi and Shinobi good placements and color pages as if they're Ichi and Kagurabachi. If there are people still thinking he's not biased... lol

As for the new series, they look like template battle manga again. I know the west has a ton of patience for battle manga, especially if they don't commit the mortal sin of having fanservice and etc, but the battle series he's greenlighting are all extremely safe and boring. What is interesting about Osoegawa? It does nothing new, the art feels unfinished and everything is always framed in a boring way. Often when I see people saying it could survive is because it "could be Mashle 2", not because it's exceptional in any way. At least JK Hero is doing something new for the magazine.

And this is also why Harukaze is getting axed here. It's not creative, everyone already read ton of series just like this before. Not saying it needs to be baseball in space, but at least it should try some spin. If you don't have any of that, you need to write great characters, but they were all walking archetypes in this series.

There's this talk about 2025 being a terrible year for debuts and this is what I believe is hurting them and the magazine in the long term (after the current hits end): everything is too safe and sanitized. Readers have a ton of options everywhere that are more daring, more unique, with authors not afraid of being themselves. Why should they settle for "Mashle 2"? I'm not sure about the local readers, but seeing a batch of 3 battle manga that look again to be super basic makes hard to be excited for any of them, even if I'm still willing to give them a fair shot.

I don't think 2025 was as much as a failure but it was a turning point, I think they did actually try and allow for more unique stories to have a chance, which by itself is good for the magazine proper.

I liked mage next door primarily cause it did try something new despite some inspirations that look similar to mashle, but to say is wholly unoriginal is kinda unfair there, same for hero girl and demon king.

Now does that make them good? Not really, but they did try something new and honestly that matters a lot more than some might think as that means they want to be original, they want to do something new and that is indeed great. Even if there are axed I want the authors back cause they have shown to have a good creative headspace and you want to see that in an author.

I already made my peace that mage next door might be axed by the next batch(Hate that am saying this but i can see the point some have made before does not mean i agree with some but i can understand others) or the other (depends mostly on whether its a batch of two or three), hero girl and demon king is somewhat up in the air for the moment. Going to wait for sales to see what is up with that one.

Also, Saito is going to have massive shoes to fill cause again playing safe is unwise, so am kinda gland he finally decided to be a it more bolder and allow for other types of series to appear.

I won't call Saito an idiot, cause I think that is unfair when we had the likes of the previous one having a near obsession with launching one gag manga each year left and right when the likes of me and roboco is good enough as is to fill the spot and does the job well for that matter.

If it was up to me, I would be trying my best to get some newcomers who made one shots in jump giga and allow them to debut series based on some of the one shots, cause some of them are worth having as full on series.

Sorry for the rambling, though I would share my personal thoughts.

 

[monstera11]

How many volumes Harukaze Mound will have again? 3 volumes?

If Harukaze has 30 chapters in 30 volumes, then probably Modulo will have 25 to 30 too. I kinda have a feeling they wanna match Modulo ends right when the 1st cour of S3 ends

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Excluding the Modulo & Hertz one, feels like seeing the entire batch of new series flopping in the bottom together became something normal

Its so over, i found hero girl to be really cute and wholesome manga… it deserves to be successful

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I love how Kiyoshi & fans will not have to worry about anything for some good time seeing the current ToC placements and how things are going on for the new series

We good!!!

 

[monstera11]

I seriously wonder if they will axe gonron next week.

I know usually they won't cancel 1st round. But maybe exception?

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Special illustrations by Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto) & Akutami Gege (Jujutsu Kaisen) for the premiere of Netflix " Cosmic Princess Kaguya! " anime movie:

Kishimoto always giving us the best illustrations… i miss him in this magazine so much

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boji’s author one is cute lol, i love that guy boji he deserves the whole world

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Me & Roboco Volume 25

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi Volume 7

Otr of the Flame Volume 3

And that's it for the leaks this week, damn i posted a lot!

DAMN THAT OTR AND KIYOSHI VOLUME ARE PEAK

 

[monstera11]

Me & Roboco Volume 25

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi Volume 7

Otr of the Flame Volume 3

And that's it for the leaks this week, damn i posted a lot!

Is Vol 3 the last OTR vol?

 

[tirakai]

Otr has enough chapters for 4 volumes, possibly 5 if the epilogue is quite long and there's a bunch of extras.

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So, do folks think Elusive Samurai will end next issue? Or will it take a little longer and end between batches like we've seen from time to time with long runners?

It'd be weird for them to have it end next issue as the last in the round when the longest series usually end first, but it could just be a scheduling thing. Like he had planned to end it last week but ended up slightly over the expected chapter count.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Just checked Under Doctor chapter (its not available anywhere btw) of course not gonna spoil the content but gotta say, visually its pretty good, the art has some heavy Spy x Family vibes which surprised me since the author is a Horikoshi assistant, it seemed more like a Endo assistant.

 

[Phantom RPG]

Just checked Under Doctor chapter (its not available anywhere btw) of course not gonna spoil the content but gotta say, visually its pretty good, the art has some heavy Spy x Family vibes which surprised me since the author is a Horikoshi assistant, it seemed more like a Endo assistant.

Is the content good at least? No need for spoiler just genuinely curious about your take.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Is the content good at least? No need for spoiler just genuinely curious about your take.

In my opinion:

Spoiler

Yeah, it looks pretty good, felt like Spy x Family but without the "family" and doctor instead of spy lol