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Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #49 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • One Piece 1197

  • Me & Roboco 303

  • Sakamoto Days 281

  • Witch Watch 268

  • Akane-banashi 228

  • Nue's Exorcist 167

  • Kagurabachi 137

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 114

  • Ichi the Witch 104

  • Shinobi Undercover 103

  • Someone Hertz 55

  • RuriDragon 53

  • Under Doctor 38

  • Roku's House of Oddities 28

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 26

  • Animal Signal 20

  • Hal Formula 19

  • Cannon Master 18

  • The Ura Files 9

  • Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 8


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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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Weekly Shonen Jump Cover Issue #11 2026


all that alien blood on the jump logo looks sick. wasnt a fan of the character design at first but just like with kinato i judged way to quickly. this batch might go 3/3 for me which will make it even sadder when only one survives at most
 

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I just finished Kinato ch 1. Wow it has been a long time since I read such a fun manga! Sure it feels generic, but it is well executed. It can works well as a lighthearted fantasy stuff.

My problem is just with the female characters. Feels very... sexist? Big boobs girls whose sole purpose is to be fan service. The two girls we see so far is someone who is leeching money of the MC. And another is a bunny girl who serves as honey trap. Eeergh....

Just look at how Ichi ch 1 portray its female characters. Such a big difference. And Ichi has much more compelling and out-of-the-box characters in ch1. Ichi is not like other MCs. And none of Ichi's female characters feel like fanservice tropey females.

So, I am not sure either how long Kinato will survive. Currently it just feel like a white bread. Yes it is yummy, but also bland after a while.
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People are quick to forget that we got Alien Butt and Alien Abs in Modulo 🤤
 

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There is an interview you can read about here about Ichi the Witch

Some key interesting point

Nishi reaches out to Usazaki to draw Ichi the Witch
Nishi wants a challenge at Jump
 

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High School Family returning for just 2 pages is funny. You'd think they'd at least give it a short chapter like the early series ones, or even a new oneshot from the author like Chojo with.
 

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Well, this one-shot just blew up on Twitter
It's called "Wizard's Graduation" by Hinata Yotsugi

If this is blowing up, than its likely the author will debut the one shot as a full blown series. However its wait and see till then.

I knew I remembered this one shot, it was back in Jump Giga Spring 2025. Surprised it took this long for it do show up on Twitter.
Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #11 (2025)
Alien Headbutt (Cover & Lead Color Pages; New Series by Inui Akira)
Ichi the Witch
ONE PIECE
Someone Hertz
Kinato's Magic (Color Page; Second Chapter; 25p)
Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
UNDER DOCTOR
Hima-Ten!
Kagurabachi
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
WITCH WATCH
Me & Roboco (Color Page)
Blue Box
The Elusive Samurai
Akane-banashi
Nue's Exorcist
JK Yuusha to Inkyou Maou
Tonari no Osoegawa
Gonron Egg

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #12 (Preview)
Cover & LCP: Akane Banashi
CP: Alien Headbutt (2nd Chapter); Hima-Ten!; The Elusive Samurai (28p; End of Serialization?)
Oneshot: High School Family (Special Chapter; Color Page; 2p)
yeah, it made sense that Elusive Samurai is likely to end on the next issue. But Yusei deserves a lot of recognition from weekly shonen jump fans and overall manga industry, the dude did the impossible and had three successfully series launched in jump.

He is like Kazuhiro Fujita of Weekly Shounen Sunday, he became memorable for doing so many good series.
 
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Weekly Shonen Jump Cover Issue #11 2026


It looks sick.
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #11 (2025)
Alien Headbutt (Cover & Lead Color Pages; New Series by Inui Akira)
Ichi the Witch
ONE PIECE
Someone Hertz
Kinato's Magic (Color Page; Second Chapter; 25p)
Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
UNDER DOCTOR
Hima-Ten!
Kagurabachi
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
WITCH WATCH
Me & Roboco (Color Page)
Blue Box
The Elusive Samurai
Akane-banashi
Nue's Exorcist
JK Yuusha to Inkyou Maou
Tonari no Osoegawa
Gonron Egg

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #12 (Preview)
Cover & LCP: Akane Banashi
CP: Alien Headbutt (2nd Chapter); Hima-Ten!; The Elusive Samurai (28p; End of Serialization?)
Oneshot: High School Family (Special Chapter; Color Page; 2p)
Yep, goodbye Matsui-sensei. What a legendary author now.
And, fuck, Nue in bottom 4 again...
Happy for Hima-Ten sudden jump, top 5!! Color page next week!!
And same top 3/bottom 3, as always lmao
LMAO A 2 PAGES ONE-SHOT
 

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Just look at how Ichi ch 1 portray its female characters. Such a big difference. And Ichi has much more compelling and out-of-the-box characters in ch1. Ichi is not like other MCs. And none of Ichi's female characters feel like fanservice tropey females.
I think Ichi might be the greatest female representation I've ever seen on a manga before. Just looking at the Gokuraku arc and the Ichi's welcoming party arc where they really showed how to write good female characters with important plot points for both arcs.
 

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Am quite curious to see how the color pages turn out this issue, mostly cause i think we are in for a surprise or something.
 

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Weekly Shonen Jump Cover Issue #11 2026


Looks sick. After two vanilla nice boys for MCs, I'm in the mood for the brash asshole type.
 

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Me, who has read the likes of Witch Hat Atelier and Claymore couldn't agree more.
Why are you saying this? I think everything Descaras and Kumugi did on both arcs was amazing and great female representation. When I think of this manga, we can't forget how much great female writing they did. Besides that, the message is really beautiful.
 

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Akane in bottom 5 it is a CRIME

Maybe the chapters are a bit delayed because Moue has a new-born 😔
 

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Has anyone here read the translated interview with Usazaki and Nishi about Ichi the Witch?

 

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Why are you saying this? I think everything Descaras and Kumugi did on both arcs was amazing and great female representation. When I think of this manga, we can't forget how much great female writing they did. Besides that, the message is really beautiful.
I think you might be mistaken, I do find the female writing to be wonderful, one of the best in the magazine to be honest, that is not including Akane Banashi who does it incredibly without undermining characters and whatnot. However, to say it's the best representation of women in manga is completely wrong. There are several manga that do justice to that; you, however, have not yet bothered to find them.

If that is the case, I would recommend you read Claymore, Witch Hat Atelier, and Yona of the Dawn as good examples. Others here are going to add more, and feel free to do so.
 

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Has anyone here read the translated interview with Usazaki and Nishi about Ichi the Witch?

Yes. It might be the best piece of female representation regarding plots of manga I have ever read.
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I think you might be mistaken, I do find the female writing to be wonderful, one of the best in the magazine to be honest, that is not including Akane Banashi who does it incredibly without undermining characters and whatnot. However, to say it's the best representation of women in manga is completely wrong. There are several manga that do justice to that; you, however, have not yet bothered to find them.

If that is the case, I would recommend you read Claymore, Witch Hat Atelier, and Yona of the Dawn as good examples. Others here are going to add more, and feel free to do so.
Well, I think Descaras, Togeice, Jikishirone and Kumugi are better written than Chinatsu, Akane and all the girls from Himaten, despite less chapters.
 

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Akane in bottom 5 it is a CRIME

Maybe the chapters are a bit delayed because Moue has a new-born 😔
Oh yeah, i forgot about that. I think that makes sense why Akane Banashi has not made a cover yet this year. I believe that afterwards, Witch Watch is next in line to get the cover.
 

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You guys have no idea of how pissed i am, the ToC could have been posted like 4 hours before of what posted by Ryo but in the moment i got the ToC page and preview and started to prepare to post MY INTERNET WENT DOWN AND ONLY RETURNED RIGHT NOW IN THIS MINUTE AFTER 10 THOURS! THIS PIECE OF SHIT OF INTERNET PROVIDER ;bash:shootme
 

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Weekly Shonen Jump Cover Issue #11 2026


Alien blood is turquoise apparently. Though that looks less like wrestling and more like, er, let's call it hunting.



The art style is very distinctive. Not sure if it's gonna be my thing, but it's definitely not vanilla.

Gonron egg is so amateurish. Both in the story and the art department.

Also, the premise of the chapter just doesn't really make sense. Why would gonron not lying prove that ohma is the Prince? Gonron could have just been lied to about that.
I assumed they asked the egg some questions as well, just with Gonron's arm on the line.
 
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