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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)

 

[BelTL]

We be getting everything but a Kagurabachi anime. Really strange.

Kagurabachi LA before Kagurabachi anime

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I mean, I am not saying it should be airing this year (although it should), but they have not announced it when they should have like on chapter 50th or something. Most likely Nue will be announced before it and it shows how much WSJ undermines it.

There is also a time limit between accepting to release. Can big names like Ufotable or Mappa or Cloverworks or even A-1 release it within next 2 years? (Bones and Triggers, maybe)
KGB is a very successful manga that no doubt studios are fighting for it. But would WSJ risk giving it to a questionable studio like it just did with Sakamoto?
You are acting as if KGB is oppressed by some evil force among WSJ executives. But the fact that it's getting so much promotions means they simply want to be extra careful for the current rare hit they have

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

KGB is a very successful manga that no doubt studios are fighting for it. But would WSJ risk giving it to a questionable studio like it just did with Sakamoto?

TMS isn't a questionable studio, is one of the most classic and well known animation studios in Japan, is just that people "expected" too much from a Sakamoto anime due to its art and fight coreography, overall the anime production is perfectly fine.

 

[BelTL]

TMS isn't a questionable studio, is one of the most classic and well known animation studios in Japan, is just that people "expected" too much from a Sakamoto anime due to its art and fight coreography, overall the anime production is perfectly fine.

Just because it lives with conan doesnt mean it's not questionable. DGM Hallow was extremely questionable and it was a WSJ manga
And just by being questionable in this hype age can already kill a lot of hype

 

[Thehoennhippo]

Just because it lives with conan doesnt mean it's not questionable. DGM Hallow was extremely questionable and it was a WSJ manga
And just by being questionable in this hype age can already kill a lot of hype

TMS also does Dr Stone and Blue Box which are well recieved Jump adaptations.

 

[BelTL]

TMS also does Dr Stone and Blue Box which are well recieved Jump adaptations.

are those action-packed series?

 

[Thehoennhippo]

are those action-packed series?

No. Your claim of it being a "questionable" studio in contrast with what you called a big name studio implied a more general argument to me. Sure, TMS isn't known for big action, but they consistently put out hit shows so that's where the confusion comes in. They're a big name studio, with Jump titles included, but sure they're not an "action" studio.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

Sakamoto Days is a perfectly fine adaptation
If Kagurabachi has the same level of quality fans and general audiences are going to be upset

Both of these things can be true

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Just because it lives with conan doesnt mean it's not questionable. DGM Hallow was extremely questionable and it was a WSJ manga

TMS is far from being known just for Conan, they produced a lot of popular and classic franchises, you mentioned DGM Hallow but they're the ones who did the original D.Gray-Man anime too lol

You can check all TMS anime productions: https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/73/TMS_Entertainment?q=tms&cat=company

And just by being questionable in this hype age can already kill a lot of hype

That's on western anime fans since they only care about aura farm.

 

[Hawke]

new kagurabachi figures!

 

[RealityChecker]

Kagurabachi LA before Kagurabachi anime

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There is also a time limit between accepting to release. Can big names like Ufotable or Mappa or Cloverworks or even A-1 release it within next 2 years? (Bones and Triggers, maybe)
KGB is a very successful manga that no doubt studios are fighting for it. But would WSJ risk giving it to a questionable studio like it just did with Sakamoto?

Are you sure this is the case? We got RuriDragon by KyoAni very early on its publication.

 

[BelTL]

Are you sure this is the case? We got RuriDragon by KyoAni very early on its publication.

Ruri is pure KyoAni material to the point the only question back then was simply "Would KyoAni adapt a WSJ manga"

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TMS is far from being known just for Conan, they produced a lot of popular and classic franchises, you mentioned DGM Hallow but they're the ones who did the original D.Gray-Man anime too lol

I know that. DGM was one of the few WSJ manga I went crazy for you know. I didn't mention it simply because it's too much to ask for top notch quality from a long running anime

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Kinato's Magic: Before the actual review, the difference of opinions from when i leaked the magazine cover to the official release is actually pretty crazy, it's like night and day, even some members and some Twitter Accounts that i totally expected to be at the very least mixed about it actually praised the chapter, so not gonna lie, i'm kinda blown away by the complete turn in opinion about the series once it got released, but of course happy because i was the one who checked the chapter first than everybody and posted some information/spoilers about the content (i posted more in the Forum than on Twitter) so i knew what to expect and said that i thought it was definitely better than, at least, Shadow Eliminators, so seeing most people agree with it is quite satisfying kkkk.

But talking about what i thought of the chapter, i had two impressions, the one when i checked the chapter raw without knowing every detail about the story and dialogues, only the overall details, and when i read the translation, so i pretty much liked when i saw the raw and the translation was just the confirmation of that opinion. First of all, let's get rid of one thing, yeah, it's technically just a standard shounen fantasy about magic with the MC getting in a Guild and starting a adventure, simple, that's it, but what already makes it better than many other "standard" shounen series is that Kinato's Magic clearly doesn't try to be more than what it is, there's no pretension, it doesn't take itself too seriously, so it's a "light" read, it's fun, but of course it's not just what makes it a good chapter in my opinion, the whole package it's what make it good, Amemiya Kento art is great here, he was already really good during Shadow Eliminators but here it's even better his art feels more refined, more round or soft looking if makes sense, the character designs are also pretty good which the Shonen Jump magazine cover did ZERO justice, they look sooo much better in the chapter, yeah Kinato still looks like "Magic Midoriya" but to be completely honest it didn't bother me at all during the chapter, i like his clothes, overall he has that classic main character design from fantasy series, it's competent. Linae it's the one that definitely confused me and others since she has basically a school uniform but in a fantasy world, but i guess it works? The most important thing is that she's cute (and hot), seems like she's already pretty popular with Japanese readers and we have Jien... (Part 1/2)

Jien design is definitely the best of the bunch, his visual and clothes are a instant eyecatch, and i really think it works alongside the more soft design of the main character, it's a good contrast between hard and soft and i would say it works specially for the fujoshi audience, which can be a golden ticket, so you have Linae for the male audience and Jien for the female audience, and moving to personality, the contrast between Kinato kind and soft personality & Jien playful and badass works just fine and you have Linae having a funny and witty personality instead of being just a pretty face, so it's a trio that works. The last thing i will talk is the sense of humor, isn't like Shadow Eliminators didn't have any humor but it wasn't good like in Kinato's, it just fits the whole "light" vibe of the chapter, it's obviously a serious manga with a serious plot and etc, but you have that nice humor between the characters in their interactions and i have to say that the humor and funny facial expressions are very "Fairy Tail", so i wouldn't be surprised if Amemiya Kento took some inspirations from Mashima because i can definitely spot the similarities in the chapter, which despite Fairy Tail being a pretty flawed series to say the least, i don't think is something bad at all, it actually feels nostalgic.

So yeah, pretty good 1st chapter, i will not compare with Under Doctor, they're both totally different series, according to preview the 2nd chapter will be Kinato facing a trial to get his licence which gives me more Fairy Tail vibes, i have some doubts about Linae and Jien, i don't know if she's going to be just a receptionist of the Iron Fangs, i'm 50/50 on that because she's cute (and hot) but she doesn't seem to have magic powers so i fear she would become just the "girl that has to be saved" and with Jien because he's the captain of the guild, usually the captain wouldn't become a pair with the newbie guy, so i wonder if we're actually going to get another male and female main characters introduced to form a trio of adventurers with Kinato, but that's something only time will tell, from now i will just praise the 1st chapter and pray Amemiya Kento knows what he's doing! (Part 2/2)

Score: 8 / 10


Under Doctor: I thought it was a pretty good chapter, yeah it's a typical 2nd chapter which honestly at this point is like a curse on Shonen Jump but i thought this one was pretty competent, the point was more to introduce the heroine of the series, Chiwako Oshimori, Haiji's manager which despite the explanations still kinda confusing what she's in fact, i guess this will become a lot more clear in future chapters but the author already teased that she's a important character from a pretty important underworld "clan", so there you have some hype for readers, overall i think she's a cool character, pretty & cute too but intimidating at the same time, her design is pretty obvious influenced by both Busou Renkin and Rurouni Kenshin, both Watsuki works as everybody obviously know, her design is basically Tokiko but the scar is a mix of her scar with the X of Kenshin, pretty curious and interesting to see Busou Renkin of all works being a influence on a modern Jump work but i like Busou Renkin so it's good to me kkkk.

I disagree about the "wall text" comments and i am someone that in general dislike wall of texts in mangas, yeah it is dialogue heavy but i never got tired of reading this chapter so i will just disagree with the notion that is a wall text chapter and we had a bit of cool action with Haiji, so for me nothing wrong with the chapter, let's see what the author prepared for the 3rd chapter!

Score: 7.5 / 10

 

[Dippy Fresh]

As a non-reader of Hima-ten! does anybody think it'll wrap up either this year or next year? Like I said, I don't read it but some things I noticed:

- It hasn't gotten a color page at all since Issue #48 last year (unless Ono is overworked, usually that's not the best sign)
- Blue Box is leaving soon but Hertz has already established itself far beyond as the true torch bearer with Naoshi Komi resurfacing in the background
- Isn't it the lowest seller of the "established series" outside of maybe Me & Roboco?
- From reading some synopsis online, it feels like rejecting one girl and removing the entire original premise of "housecleaner and client" is fast-tracking towards confronting feelings

I'd be interested to see if it gets an Anni cover since outside of Nue (and ecchi series), not getting one is like a death sentence (Kill Blue, Chojo, Magu, PPPPPP, etc.)

 

[Malak]

As a non-reader of Hima-ten! does anybody think it'll wrap up either this year or next year? Like I said, I don't read it but some things I noticed:

- It hasn't gotten a color page at all since Issue #48 last year (unless Ono is overworked, usually that's not the best sign)
- Blue Box is leaving soon but Hertz has already established itself far beyond as the true torch bearer with Naoshi Komi resurfacing in the background
- Isn't it the lowest seller of the "established series" outside of maybe Me & Roboco?
- From reading some synopsis online, it feels like rejecting one girl and removing the entire original premise of "housecleaner and client" is fast-tracking towards confronting feelings

I'd be interested to see if it gets an Anni cover since outside of Nue (and ecchi series), not getting one is like a death sentence (Kill Blue, Chojo, Magu, PPPPPP, etc.)

Doubt it, it just transitioned into a new phase, where Himari becomes more serious about pursuing Tenichi. And he hasn't even resolved stuff yet with Kanna and Honoka, so yeah. Plenty of stuff to deal with. So not this year, but I can't say for the next. Putting it as a 'maybe' for now.

 

[Aqyurs]

Blue Box is leaving soon but Hertz has already established itself far beyond as the true torch bearer with Naoshi Komi resurfacing in the background

If we can have fifty billion battle manga doomed to be U19'd and keep spamming sports series despite the fact they're clearly doomed to fail at this point, we can have two romance series (that aren't even that similar) running at the same time. Since Naoshi Komi did a one shot this year, if it's popular enough to get a full series, I wouldn't expect it until next year at the earliest and it'll probably take longer if he has to come up with something else from scratch.

- Isn't it the lowest seller of the "established series" outside of maybe Me & Roboco?

It sells more than Kiyoshi and Roboco and it's 2-3k off Shinobi, and like 4-5k off Nue. It's not doing bad enough sales wise to justify axing it for that reason. And there's also the fact Elusive Samurai and Blue Box are definitely ending this year, and Witch Watch and Sakamoto are probably ending this year, plus Modulo being a mini series. 5 of the series that sell more than it are going to disappear quicker than people realize (and I heavily doubt they find 5+ 20k sellers in quick succession).

From reading some synopsis online, it feels like rejecting one girl and removing the entire original premise of "housecleaner and client" is fast-tracking towards confronting feelings

It's clearly meant to be a shakeup to make Himari's progress closer to Kanna (who hasn't been rejected yet. She denied Iemori's denial, so he still actually has to reject her.) and Honoka's decisions to be more aggressive, since Himari is usually the least commited one of the three and makes up the most excuses to keep the status quo despite wanting to change things. Hell, there's a decent chance she does something that causes her to back off and hire him again anyway because she's too scared to commit to progress. If we want a Nisekoi equivalent, this is probably the same as the moment Chitoge accepts she actually likes Raku and isn't just going along with the lie after the play. That's volume 6 out of 25

The color page thing is really the only thing that suggests it might be ending soonish, and I think 2025 and this year has shown that maybe the issue is simply just Saito sucks at distributing color pages fairly. It's probably the new Yuuna where they do fuck all to promote it after the first anniversary, but it'll probably get everything (anime, full run, color page to celebrate the ending, etc.) still and be treated as a success.

 

[FantasticFootno]

I think the truth is just a good chunk of the roster are unable to consistently create color pages. Witch Watch, Elusam, Kagurabachi, One Piece, and Sakamoto Days to a point, those series all either skip out on color pages, or their quality suffers whenever they do get them. This could easily be a scenario where the author of himaten is just deciding to not take on that extra stress.
However I do agree, their spread is wack, and some series with clearly capable authors should be getting more color pages, instead of dumping them all on shinobi.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

If we can have fifty billion battle manga doomed to be U19'd and keep spamming sports series despite the fact they're clearly doomed to fail at this point, we can have two romance series (that aren't even that similar) running at the same time. Since Naoshi Komi did a one shot this year, if it's popular enough to get a full series, I wouldn't expect it until next year at the earliest and it'll probably take longer if he has to come up with something else from scratch.

I wasn't suggesting there couldn't be two romance series at the same time, more that if Jump was trying to fill the Blue Box shaped hole they're going to have soon, Someone Hertz fits that far more. And yeah, wasn't suggesting Komi comes back this year. He could, could be part of the last round of the year for example, but didn't mean that either. More so saying, the jump "romance" genre isn't necessarily lacking good material seemingly.

It sells more than Kiyoshi and Roboco and it's 2-3k off Shinobi, and like 4-5k off Nue. It's not doing bad enough sales wise to justify axing it for that reason. And there's also the fact Elusive Samurai and Blue Box are definitely ending this year, and Witch Watch and Sakamoto are probably ending this year, plus Modulo being a mini series. 5 of the series that sell more than it are going to disappear quicker than people realize (and I heavily doubt they find 5+ 20k sellers in quick succession).

That's more what I was confused about. Wasn't sure if it sold more or less than Kyoshi. To me, and I think fairly, they kind of all are just about the same in my book. How Saito and Jump promotes them aside, their sales make them feel like the same level of success.

The color page thing is really the only thing that suggests it might be ending soonish, and I think 2025 and this year has shown that maybe the issue is simply just Saito sucks at distributing color pages fairly. It's probably the new Yuuna where they do fuck all to promote it after the first anniversary, but it'll probably get everything (anime, full run, color page to celebrate the ending, etc.) still and be treated as a success.

Honestly, I thought Nue was the new Yuuna lol. Yuuna got color pages if I remember and so does Nue, but gets little promotion, covers, etc. I think outside of the fact that Witch Watch, Blue Box, and Sakamoto Days will all be gone potentially next year (along with Modulo which we knew about), I was more curious if 2026 is far more successful than 2025 was, if Hima-ten! loses a lot of the buffers it has in place. Kinda premature to be thinking of that but then again, Kill Blue and Chojo felt so sudden that I really don't know with Jump tbh

 

[Aqyurs]

Honestly, I thought Nue was the new Yuuna lol. Yuuna got color pages if I remember and so does Nue, but gets little promotion, covers, etc. I think outside of the fact that Witch Watch, Blue Box, and Sakamoto Days will all be gone potentially next year (along with Modulo which we knew about), I was more curious if 2026 is far more successful than 2025 was, if Hima-ten! loses a lot of the buffers it has in place. Kinda premature to be thinking of that but then again, Kill Blue and Chojo felt so sudden that I really don't know with Jump tbh

I'd say Nue's still a little better off than Yuuna was after the first anniversary (it still wins or does really well on online award things, gets merch and collabs, it got that visual novel thing, I think it still gets a PV every volume, it has a big fanart scene, everyone under the sun recommends it. I think Yuuna really only got a Vita game around the time the anime was announced if I remember right, in addition to color pages). Nue's more the new Hinomaru Sumo that started off really strong and clearly the editorial saw something in it, but then they kind of just gave up after some point, IMO (granted, it took them longer to give up on Sumo).

I think part of what caused Chojo and Kill Blue to die like they did was because 2024 didn't really deviate from the average Jump year; it was still producing series that could manage 10k+ sales at a good rate. So they were probably reasonably assuming that they could replace the 2023/24 10k sellers with 2025 10k sellers just fine at the very least (if not find outright better sellers). But after 2025 dropped the ball pretty hard, save for one specific batch, I don't think they're working under the assumption they can just find 10k sellers easily anymore and are going to be way less trigger happy with what established series they're axing.

 

[cameronney618]

High School Family live-action movie? What the hell?

Good to know an actual good comedy manga is getting the recognition it deserves.


Next, Sachi's records LA & Anime Adaptation.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Nue's more the new Hinomaru Sumo that started off really strong and clearly the editorial saw something in it, but then they kind of just gave up after some point, IMO (granted, it took them longer to give up on Sumo).

That's a weird comparison because they never "gave up" on Zumo lol the manga got a a ton of color pages its entire run and 7 magazine covers (should be 8 but 4th anniversary got only the lead cp with OP in the cover), and it got all of this while being consistently the "least selling" estabilished manga in the whole magazine, so the series got premium treatment at the time, Nue's Exorcist is, funny enough, technically more in line with Yuuna and We Never Learn in terms of sales for the current times.

The series that it's literally the new Hinomaru Zumo is Kiyoshi, least selling estabilished series, good placements, tons of color pages and anniversary cover.