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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)

 

[Phantom RPG]

Now for something a bit different, I will post a single one-shot from Jump Giga, and people here have to discuss the following:

• Do you think the art, panelling, and art style are solid? Or do you think it needs improvement?
• Did you find the story creative or too cliché? If "cliché" is your answer, say whether it's in a good or bad way and why.
• Would you like to see more works by this specific author?
• Finally, do you think the author needs more experience in making more one-shots or is it safe for him/her to debut a one-shot or series within the main magazine?

With that out of the way, here is said one shot, this one is from the summer issue of jump giga 2025:


Now to the answers I have for this one-shot:

• I think the art and style are wholly unique; however, I find the pannelling a bit lacking. I would say the author could use some work. So if I were him, I would seek to improve in that specific area.
• I'm going to be very honest here, cliché, and not in a good way. My reasoning is that the plot is almost too similar to Blade Kid (a GFC one-shot from around the Red Hood one-shot was made), especially the mask gimmick. It also doesn't help that it falls into the same tropes as an exorcist one-shot story and fails to establish any unique edge for me.
• I think the author has potential, sure. I would like to see more of his work, but he needs to seriously try to innovate his future stories, because that is the only way to really gather a sizable audience, as savvy as jump readers.
• I would say the author could use some work in his storytelling segments and in paneling before thinking he is ready to debut anything in the main magazine. But that is me being honest.

Those are my honest thoughts overall on this particular one shot.

If people here enjoy this kind of thing, i would be very glad to do more, if it pleases folks here.

Let me present you something called "Manga"

Man, Dippy would be confused as heck if he read something like To Love Ru or Yuuna-San.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Man, Dippy would be confused as heck if he read something like To Love Ru or Yuuna-San.

Doesnt even need to go back, we have Nue's Exorcist

 

[Phantom RPG]

Doesnt even need to go back, we have Nue's Exorcist

Nah, that's new, he needs to see the old stuff. Now that is the more interesting part.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

Now for something a bit different, I will post a single one-shot from Jump Giga, and people here have to discuss the following:

• Do you think the art, panelling, and art style are solid? Or do you think it needs improvement?
• Did you find the story creative or too cliché? If "cliché" is your answer, say whether it's in a good or bad way and why.
• Would you like to see more works by this specific author?
• Finally, do you think the author needs more experience in making more one-shots or is it safe for him/her to debut a one-shot or series within the main magazine?

With that out of the way, here is said one shot, this one is from the summer issue of jump giga 2025:


Now to the answers I have for this one-shot:

• I think the art and style are wholly unique; however, I find the pannelling a bit lacking. I would say the author could use some work. So if I were him, I would seek to improve in that specific area.
• I'm going to be very honest here, cliché, and not in a good way. My reasoning is that the plot is almost too similar to Blade Kid (a GFC one-shot from around the Red Hood one-shot was made), especially the mask gimmick. It also doesn't help that it falls into the same tropes as an exorcist one-shot story and fails to establish any unique edge for me.
• I think the author has potential, sure. I would like to see more of his work, but he needs to seriously try to innovate his future stories, because that is the only way to really gather a sizable audience, as savvy as jump readers.
• I would say the author could use some work in his storytelling segments and in paneling before thinking he is ready to debut anything in the main magazine. But that is me being honest.

Those are my honest thoughts overall on this particular one shot.

If people here enjoy this kind of thing, i would be very glad to do more, if it pleases folks here.



Man, Dippy would be confused as heck if he read something like To Love Ru or Yuuna-San.

I don't wanna start a discourse on fanservice honestly I just find weird body proportions unattractive. There's literally a panel of the main female lead (I don't read Hima) before that and she looks perfectly fine. Just looks like that one anime scene of James from Pokemon with the inflated titties.

 

[Phantom RPG]

I don't wanna start a discourse on fanservice honestly I just find weird body proportions unattractive. There's literally a panel of the main female lead (I don't read Hima) before that and she looks perfectly fine. Just looks like that one anime scene of James from Pokemon with the inflated titties.

You do know that Shinuki and I are teasing you, right?

You are free to dislike stuff and all that, no shame in that.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I don't wanna start a discourse on fanservice honestly I just find weird body proportions unattractive. There's literally a panel of the main female lead (I don't read Hima) before that and she looks perfectly fine. Just looks like that one anime scene of James from Pokemon with the inflated titties.

Like said, i'm just teasing you but in reality there's really not much to do with fanservice, even in Naruto we got Hinata which at 15/16 was probably bigger than Kanna

In that Hima-Ten page she's lay down in bad so is more about the angle and etc.

 

[Lord Anubis]

Now for something a bit different, I will post a single one-shot from Jump Giga, and people here have to discuss the following:

• Do you think the art, panelling, and art style are solid? Or do you think it needs improvement?
• Did you find the story creative or too cliché? If "cliché" is your answer, say whether it's in a good or bad way and why.
• Would you like to see more works by this specific author?
• Finally, do you think the author needs more experience in making more one-shots or is it safe for him/her to debut a one-shot or series within the main magazine?

With that out of the way, here is said one shot, this one is from the summer issue of jump giga 2025:


Now to the answers I have for this one-shot:

• I think the art and style are wholly unique; however, I find the pannelling a bit lacking. I would say the author could use some work. So if I were him, I would seek to improve in that specific area.
• I'm going to be very honest here, cliché, and not in a good way. My reasoning is that the plot is almost too similar to Blade Kid (a GFC one-shot from around the Red Hood one-shot was made), especially the mask gimmick. It also doesn't help that it falls into the same tropes as an exorcist one-shot story and fails to establish any unique edge for me.
• I think the author has potential, sure. I would like to see more of his work, but he needs to seriously try to innovate his future stories, because that is the only way to really gather a sizable audience, as savvy as jump readers.
• I would say the author could use some work in his storytelling segments and in paneling before thinking he is ready to debut anything in the main magazine. But that is me being honest.

Those are my honest thoughts overall on this particular one shot.

If people here enjoy this kind of thing, i would be very glad to do more, if it pleases folks here.

1. I like Aokigahara's art-style and found it interesting, I actually wanted to see the raws get posted on here because I thought the color preview looked kinda cool. But I do believe that they should work on solidifying their artwork and having more dynamic paneling for Aokigahara to truly come to their own.
2. Yeah, I can see the premise being cliché due to it being yet another "girl meets boy with a dark secret" set-up that most exorcism manga go with, but I'm also a sucker for a fun exorcism-style story at the end of the day, plus I found the similarities of Blade Kid to be kinda fun in a way...
3. Yes, would love to see Aokigahara improve on their writing.
4. Again, yes. If they want to do an exorcism Shōnen, they should probably think about what they want to do with their story to separate from all the other exorcism series that came from the boom of manga such as Blue Exorcist, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen & Chainsaw Man so it can have a better chance of survival not too unlike Nue & Kiyoshi, which put focus on very different aspects of their storytelling to truly set themselves apart from all their other failed spiritual contemporaries.

 

[Nuesmoker]

Interesting thing here: an account is now estimating digital downloads/sales of series on the billboard chart. They say it themselves that it is an estimate to take with salt, but still.

And here is the full top 50 (so including Nue)

 

[pennycryman]

And here is the full top 50 (so including Nue)

Don't know how this guy did the calculations, but I highly doubt Iruma, a series that consistently tops digital charts and has 19 million copies in circulation, only sold 4K digitally.

This is also probably super generous to Boruto, there's no chance it's anywhere near Medalist (it still does well enough digitally but not to that extent).

Honestly, going through the entire thing, either the dude's calculations are off or Billboard just isn't super reliable (probably number 2).

 

[Nuesmoker]

Don't know how this guy did the calculations, but I highly doubt Iruma, a series that consistently tops digital charts and has 19 million copies in circulation, only sold 4K digitally.

This is also probably super generous to Boruto, there's no chance it's anywhere near Medalist (it still does well enough digitally but not to that extent).

Honestly, going through the entire thing, either the dude's calculations are off or Billboard just isn't super reliable (probably number 2).

Iirc billboard straight up doesn't include many digital sellers like Bookwalker yeah?

 

[tirakai]

As far as Iruma goes, Akita Shoten is also a weird publisher that doesn't seem to even be included in a lot of places for whatever reason.

Like I believe we don't know the official circulation of their magazines, while most other publishers have very specific numbers.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Akane-banashi Lead Color Pages

Spoiler

The Elusive Samurai Final Chapter Color Pages

Spoiler

Alien Headbutt Color Page

Spoiler

Hima-Ten! Color Page

Spoiler

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Akane-banashi Lead Color Pages

Spoiler

The Elusive Samurai Final Chapter Color Pages

Spoiler

Alien Headbutt Color Page

Spoiler

alien headbutt color pages are awesome

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 14, 2026, Original Post Date: Feb 14, 2026 ---

Don't know how this guy did the calculations, but I highly doubt Iruma, a series that consistently tops digital charts and has 19 million copies in circulation, only sold 4K digitally.

This is also probably super generous to Boruto, there's no chance it's anywhere near Medalist (it still does well enough digitally but not to that extent).

Honestly, going through the entire thing, either the dude's calculations are off or Billboard just isn't super reliable (probably number 2).

you can trust, he's a pretty reliable source

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

you can trust, he's a pretty reliable source

It's not really a matter of being or not reliable, is just that the digital part numbers is purely personal speculation/estimative.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

It's not really a matter of being or not reliable, is just that the digital part numbers is purely personal speculation/estimative.

oh i see

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Yusei Matsui comment for The Elusive Samurai final chapter:

"Being able to complete this historical work is the pride of my life as a manga artist. Thank you so much!"

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Alien Headbutt: Hmm, don't know exactly what to think of this 2nd chapter, don't take this as a bad sign lol it's just pretty much a extension of the first chapter, with more battles and some info, only if you want to know what happens you click in the spoiler:

Spoiler

-Shirokiba has a parasite inside his body from the alien he defeated
-A boy Haruya saves him after he gets unconsious, take him to a super market, the boy turns out to be a fan of him
-Aliens came to the island inside "eggs" like 1 or 3 months ago
-Some people died, but most were taken away to somewhere
-3 aliens with the same design of the former appeears, fight start, Shirokiba is already getting more powerful due to the parasite
-More wrestling movies
-Pretty cool page of his face already turning into alien/demon form when doing a camel clutch on alien
-Chapter finishes with Haruya saying he actually knows a place where humans have been taken and it shows a final panel of what it seems to be human inside a alien egg

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 14, 2026, Original Post Date: Feb 14, 2026 ---

Kinato's Magic: Final chapter of Kinato's Magic that i give my earlier impressions, but man, Amemiya Kento is doing everything right so far, i'm impressed, he is not losing time, and this is sooo Fairy Tail, it's the most FT inspired chapter so far

@Dongus and others (like me) that want more hot girls from Amemiya, we got our wish, new hot girl, kinda Erza Scarlet style (But she's kinda weird, you guys will know why when reading lmao!)

Mini spoiler:

Spoiler

Her and the mc already form a pair for a mission!

 

[JBC008]

What about Under Doctor?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

What about Under Doctor.

I'm only doing it for the first 3 chapters, but i saw Under Doctor chapter 4, it simply follows where the last ended.

 

[JBC008]

I'm only doing it for the first 3 chapters, but i saw Under Doctor chapter 4, it simply follows where the last ended.

Right