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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)

 

[Baes]

She isnt really a lesbian, just delulu about knights & princess stories lol

Yeah, but for me doesn't change the fact she is attracted to girls

 

[Dippy Fresh]

And I just wanted to bring this up again about the Roboco situation. It may have started to wrap up its subplots, but it doesn't look like it's the immediate next in line. I think we'll get at least our 300th chapter and our 6th year celebration.

I couldn't find the quote online so glad you reposted this cause this is what I was thinking of. My idea from an outside observer was something like:

Spring 2026 - Blue Box Ends
Summer 2026 - N/A
Fall 2026 - Me & Roboco Ends
Winter 2027 - Sakamoto Days Ends

I have no idea but I figure they'll be gone in a year:
Witch Watch
Hima-ten (UNLESS the author pulls something around but if they can get to 3 years that's not too bad tbh)

 

[Newkerzy]

I couldn't find the quote online so glad you reposted this cause this is what I was thinking of. My idea from an outside observer was something like:

Spring 2026 - Blue Box Ends
Summer 2026 - N/A
Fall 2026 - Me & Roboco Ends
Winter 2027 - Sakamoto Days Ends

I have no idea but I figure they'll be gone in a year:
Witch Watch
Hima-ten (UNLESS the author pulls something around but if they can get to 3 years that's not too bad tbh)

Is Sakamoto really gonna end next year? I think it’s more likely for it to end at the same time as Blue Box

 

[Dippy Fresh]

Is Sakamoto really gonna end next year? I think it’s more likely for it to end at the same time as Blue Box

Outside observer, I haven't read a single chapter of Sakamoto Days lol

I've just been hearing about how its going to end for so long now and battle manga are usually the ones that tend to drag on since nobody knows how long fights go on, people come back from the dead, etc. But truthfully, I have no idea lol. Could go in the summer too since that seems to be a theme:

2023 - Black Clover moves to Jump Giga on #38
2024 - MHA ends on #36/37; JJK ends on #44
2025 - Kill Blue ends on #40

 

[echo]

Blue Box is forever 8 chapters away from ending until JBC says otherwise.

 

[JBC008]

Blue Box is forever 8 chapters away from ending until JBC says otherwise.

I wouldn't know, not until I do a chapter count for it.

But I would like to apologize, my phone acted up so I couldn't type for a while and I could not reply.

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 22, 2026, Original Post Date: Feb 22, 2026 ---

As for Dippy's comment regarding Me & Roboco, I will hold him to it. But for me, I will be kind and let it finish to chapter 300 (which is 30 volumes).

 

[Aqyurs]

So, does the Alien Headbutt author not keep notes about their ideas and characters or something? How does the Shirokiba from chapter 1 have a backstory where he was bullied as a kid when he was able to do abdominal stretches that hurt really bad? And tiny people can't be strong and hurt people? Is that supposed to be from before he was obsessed with wrestling? Cause he was absolutely jacked at 15 when he was about to give up on his dream, so I don't see how Shirokiba could ever be bullied.

Which leads to the actual problem with this development: Shirokiba having a secret childhood friend makes no sense. The past two chapters went out of their way to establish that Shirokiba was a lone wolf, relishes in violence, type of character. Chapter 1 showed he was the abrasive type of kid, that basically wouldn't shut up or stop trying to show off how much he liked wrestling until he literally had to give up to support his family. Once he found something he loved, he kept getting more and more absorbed into it and worked his ass off to become a wrestler. He did this by choice, not because he was already socially isolated except for one random kid. Everything points to him being the Tatsuya type of person as a kid, not the one that needed to be saved himself - even if he would lose in the end. It feels just like the author trying to tell me that Shirokiba really cares about his family despite all the actual writing pointing to he doesn't really. "Show don't tell" is one thing, but the author doesn't seem to get that just because you say something, it doesn't make it automatically true. You still need to actually justify something if you want a reader to accept it.

I don't know what Shirokiba is anymore really. His gimmick is supposed to be violent for the sake of it, but his actual personality is the opposite. Except nothing in his personal life points to him being opposite his gimmick. So if his gimmick actually is his actual personality, he never should have a bullied backstory because he never would let himself be bullied. Except he was bullied and needed saving. Which would mean he's not really a lone wolf since he had friends, he was just a loser as a kid. Which means he either is violent as retribution to the world or because he liked that feeling and wanted to inflict it to others. So he isn't violent for the sake of it, he has (justifiable or not) reasons for being violent. It feels so contradictory, and not in the way "wrestling characters are complex humans" kind of way, but in the "everyone stops adding up when you lay it out" kind of way. It takes away from Shirokiba's aura of being "a badass because he is one" that I'm clearly meant to think with him. This is why you keep a reference sheet of your characters or something as you're writing a series.

I assume this was done so that Shirokiba would have an easy tag partner once we eventually get to the tag team matches (since this is still presumably wrestling based), and yeah "opposites end up being amazing tag partners" is one of the oldest wrestling tropes in the book. I know Tatsumi is a common Japanese name in general, but it could even be a reference to Tatsumi Fujinami, one of the greatest Japanese wrestlers of all time (and he even wrestles today in his 70s! As a tag wrestler). But Shirokiba isn't the kind of character that needs a connection with his partner in order to team with him. His gimmick makes it seem like he'd team with anyone as long as it made victory more likely and his actual personality he's shown so far to Tatsumi and his brother seems like he would gel with anyone, no matter how familiar he is with them. He didn't need someone he was already friends with to work alongside him. It probably would have been even more interesting if it was someone he didn't know and had a larger than life personality too, see how they mesh together.

And this might just be me, but if you were the type of kid that didn't like bullying and protected kids that couldn't stand up for themselves, I don't know why you would grow up to be a hunter? Aren't you effectively just doing the same thing to animals except they actually end up dying instead of only hurt? I don't know, maybe that's just bias because I really love animals, but that feels off to me. Nothing about Tatsumi really makes sense either.

Also, as someone who's seen a lot of Japanese wrestling over the years, a part of me feels like just headbutting the alien still would have done more than stabbing the knife into it. Katsuyori Shibata became immortal by doing a flying headbutt that was closer to killing someone than that knife probably could.

Let's see, other things...I don't really like the art outside action scenes. Whenever the author has drawn kids, they've all looked awful. When he's drawn facial expressions zoomed out to save time, you can tell it's to save time and doesn't get anywhere near the same amount of refinement the action scenes get. The series gets adrenaline and high off action right, but he can't really convey any other emotion with the art really (I didn't get any sense of relief or happiness for Tatsuya when he's hugging his brother or anger when he's yelling at Shirokiba). The ending line was pretty cool (but another case of adding more than you need. Just say "I already reached the top". You don't need to say why you came back).

 

[Hawke]

Meh issue for me. Not a ton I felt strongly about but I didn't really hate it either. Not much to say from me this week except liking the newbies and the color pages, especially the Witch Watch one. They really are a treat and this is very likely one of the last covers, if not last cover entirely

Votes:

1) Ichi the Witch
2) Witch Watch
3) Kinato's Magic
4)Alien Headbutt
5) Blue Box

 

[Phantom RPG]

Am going to be very blunt here.

Under Doctor is likely getting the axe out of the three the earliest. Why to I say this? Simple really, too much telling and far less showing. Not a good thing to do for a series set for a while. I mean I like it and all but even I am starting to get tired by this way of doing stories.

Meanwhile, Kinato's Magic is honestly doing pretty good for itself right now and I can't help myself and admit Kento has his redemption here and could not be any more happy for him. Won't be surprised if and when it becomes a mainstay.

Alien headbutt to me needs more time for me to fully see, because Aqyurs made a solid argument towards it and can't help myself and agree with it, kinda dislike the adding a best friend from childhood right from the get go as well as the overall way the scenes played out. Am willing to be more patient with this one than with under doctor mostly because the author does know how to deliver on the action and the overall feel of the series.

 

[Bulju]

Alien Headbutt is the definition of trying too hard. Style over substance, all bark and no bite, etc. Every other page it feels like the author is screaming in my face going "THIS IS A VERY MANLY MANGA FOR MEN WITH A VERY COOL AND BADASS PROTAGONIST WHO IS VERY VERY MANLY". Yawn.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

As for Dippy's comment regarding Me & Roboco, I will hold him to it. But for me, I will be kind and let it finish to chapter 300 (which is 30 volumes).

Well, my comment on it ending in the fall would have it at 300 chapters, 30 volumes. It already has enough out rn to fill up to volume 27 so it needs about 30 more chapters which would be 299, so it would end around Issue #45 so second to last or last round of the year

Edit: This issue #13 is #270 for Roboco. So, 30 more chapters plus two double spreads is Issue #45, which is a fall issue

 

[Vizard]

Spoiler: Sakamto Days #26

 

[tirakai]

This is some weird progression from Modulo, it felt like it just skipped a chapter. I suppose original Jujutsu also wasn't good at concluding things.

All 3 of last time's batch seem to be setting up a potential ending now, Gonron's heading towards the final battle, Osoegawa's established a main villain, and JK Hero has a route to be Demon Lord into a human. Gonron's still the only one that feels immediate but I could see the other two rushing an ending next round if need be.

Not sure what to think of the new three, I like them more than last batch for sure but I don't think any are quite hitting it out of the park so far.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

As expected this is the best well received chapter of Kinato in the Japanese Forums

Really don't want to get ahead of myself since i went throught this situation countless times, @Newkerzy even more (lmao!) but i'm starting to feel really confident about Kinato's survival chances, right now it feels like definitely the winner of the batch.

Under Doctor still feels like it could go both ways, be decently/well received (at least for the first few chapters) or be a flop, reactions aren't anything extreme.

Alien Headbutt while not being "bad" at all and like i said days ago ch3 was better than ch2, i don't know, i just don't have confidence in the series, it doesn't feel like something it will survive on Jump, at this point i'm starting to feel like my early impression of what the series would be based in the first description would be quite more interesting, which was basically a bunch of professional wrestlers being send to a desert island to have some sort of "illegal deathmatch" style of wrestling fights, that in my opinion sounds more interesting than what the manga has done so far because the series it's missing some other interesting main characters besides only Shirokiba being hot headed all the time, also the enemies being only alien/monsters that don't show any emotion and etc will get old soon.

 

[FantasticFootno]

I feel like people online love to bring up the "jump is too trigger happy" argument a lot nowadays, whenever a new series is dying, but this has now lead to me seeing lots of people mourning Gonron Egg? The way they're talking about it is seems like a case where they've never actually read it and they want to strawman how jump treats new series, but Gonron is a clear case of their methodology working. Its always wild to see like people just exaggerate how dire the state of jump is for series to get canned within 20 chapters for not ranking well. Like do people really want gonron to last half a year? 15 chapters have already been too much. Should hakutaku have lived? Shadow Eliminators? Nice Prison? Feels like people complain just to complain nowadays, if we're getting complaints about gonron egg dying too soon

 

[tirakai]

15 chapters is very fast, a U19 cancellation means by the time a series is done properly introduce the characters and world, it has to start heading for the end. Mid-20s by comparison means a series can at least get into its first proper non-intro arc and show off more of what it can do before concluding.

Jump wouldn't be Jump without the immediate cancellation however.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Why you always lying...

But anyway, i give 3 chapters since Modulo is (expected) to end in 2 chapters on issue #15, so Gonron ends on #16 with 19 chapters which is pretty much the standard, and like tirakai said above both Osoegawa & JK Hero are giving signs of cancelation too, specially Osoegawa, JK Hero still can be something perfectly extendable but Osoegawa is definily going to, so we will have at the very least 3 endings which might be 2 new series + HxH return or 3 series if HxH doesn't return OR 3 new series if JK Hero also ends + HxH return or 4 new series if HxH doesn't return.

And the new round starting on #16 after Modulo ends which might sound pretty early but it's when Under Doctor will complete 8 chapters which is also the standard for Jump.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Yeah unfortunately I'm starting to doubt the HxH return, which is a bummer. Togashi has finished the next 9 chapters, and you'd assume that means it is returning, as his last return happened when only 5 chapters were finished. But as of now, jump has not published a date for volume 39, and all of the april volumes have been revealed. There's a chance its added to the list in the next day or so, but if its not, then the next time for it could only be in may, which would point to something like an april return. Bummer

 

[Ebrietas-]

Yeah unfortunately I'm starting to doubt the HxH return, which is a bummer. Togashi has finished the next 9 chapters, and you'd assume that means it is returning, as his last return happened when only 5 chapters were finished. But as of now, jump has not published a date for volume 39, and all of the april volumes have been revealed. There's a chance its added to the list in the next day or so, but if its not, then the next time for it could only be in may, which would point to something like an april return. Bummer

HxH volumes are almost always never there at the schedule before the return announcement. It will get added to April if its announced in the next days

 

[FantasticFootno]

HxH volumes are almost always never there at the schedule before the return announcement. It will get added to April if its announced in the next days

Well yeah that’s my point, but as of now we’re only 3 weeks away from that potential return, and there’s just been radio silence. Going off the recent returns I feel that it should have been announced by now. It’s usually a month or so ahead, not 2.5 weeks.