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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)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Maybe this is a hint that one or both of them are returning in the next batch. We're really needing a new comedy series if roboco and witch watch are ending. It could've been chojo, but they blew it.

lol there's no way Daiki will return a 3rd time after bombing hard twice with Shugomaru & Murakami, Suganuma i could see in the future but only if its actually a 4-koma serialization

 

[FantasticFootno]

lol there's no way Daiki will return a 3rd time after bombing hard twice with Shugomaru & Murakami, Suganuma i could see in the future but only if its actually a 4-koma serialization

I mean Daiki does have a success in the form of One Piece in love. 13 volumes is nothing to scoff at. I could see them still taking the chance on him for a third return. Why else would they even let him a run a oneshot if they didn't ever want him back?

 

[icrawfish]

The return of both Daiki Ihara AND Tatsuya Suganuma in a single issue??? I doubt jump can ever reach this peak again.

Since jump likes duos so much, have them come back as a tag-team for another gag manga with 2 separate artstyles integrated together. What could possibly go wrong?

I hate to be mean but Gonron Egg is just so bad and at this point it’s just funny to see how much the art degrades each week. I feel for the mangaka because he is probably frustrated and has clearly given up.

I feel like the spread with Gonron this chapter was really telling; they let the assistants draw all the creatures that looked pretty decent quality, and then just Gonron had 0 shading and was kinda scratchy. I do think this kind of works the opposite way too where the designs for the monsters had less of that unique almost alien flair that Tanimoto gives the Drakarchs and were more just lizardy folk, so Tanimoto not being able to draw them, while resulting in cleaner drawings for those, takes away from some of the flavor Tanimoto’s designs have. But this difference overall is just telling of the state of where the series is.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I mean Daiki does have a success in the form of One Piece in love. 13 volumes is nothing to scoff at. I could see them still taking the chance on him for a third return. Why else would they even let him a run a oneshot if they didn't ever want him back?

The one shot is just to fill in Sakamoto Days space, it wasn't even featured in the preview of the issue, Suganuma was.

 

[icrawfish]

And yeah, I went to bed during the Kaminagi discourse thinking that would be the worst this week of the thread being flooded with one specific thing over the rest of the chapters, and then woke up to see all the Matsuki stuff collide into it… crazy week

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

And yeah, I went to bed during the Kaminagi discourse thinking that was the worst of the thread being flooded with one specific thing over the rest of the chapters, and then woke up to see all the Matsuki stuff collide into it… crazy week

It can still get even crazier because we might actually have a new serialization round announced for issue #16 on leak night since JJK Modulo will end this issue and Gonron very likely following on #16

 

[icrawfish]

It can still get even crazier because we might actually have a new serialization round announced for issue #16 on leak night since JJK Modulo will end this issue and Gonron very likely following on #16

Modulo ending leaks alone are probably going to ravage the internet too… I’ll be eager to see what the upcoming batch size is though, to get a gauge of how many things are about to go poof at once.

 

[shillin65]

Roboco had an amusing Kiyoshi reference this week

Spoiler

 

[Hawke]

Alright, let's see what I missed in the last 24 hours!

Oh shit, uhh...oh, this week's Someone Hertz prompt!

"This restaurant is run by a child...why!?"

The restaurant needed to cut costs and promoted the only person willing to be paid in excess happy meal stock.

You and me both! I ended up so busy I didn't even read Jump until like pretty late last night and only just got time to catch up here and post.

Actually insane news coming out of Shogakukan, just simply no notes. If I'm Shiro Usazaki I'm throwing things at someone.


Anyway, on more topic — Alien Headbutt feels like better Dear Anemone where there's a good intriguing hook but it's progressing too slowly for my liking. Under Doctor's last chapter was overreaction, all we had to do is wait a week and now we have a clear explanation for why he was mute and that this isn't a very ableist turnaround. Kinato I think people got baited too hard, I think it sucks because the skirt chaser knight archetype was way more interesting than another girl in love with mc trope count but I do want to still read her "ambiguously bi". Also really cool we're just going into Seitei straight away in Kagurabachi, like yes this is Naruto but hopefully done more interestingly.....but we'll see! I have hopes in Hokazono, but my god let's give this man a cover soon somehow! Don't have much else to say on the other manga this week, ok issue for me!


Anyway, issue votes:

1) Akane Banashi
2) One Piece
3) Nue's Exorcist
4) Hero Girl
5) Under Doctor

 

[echo]

Haven’t voted in a minute now.

Issue #13:

1. Hero Girl
2. Shinobi
3. Kinato
4. Nue
5. Witch Watch

Issue #14:

1. Hero Girl
2. Kinato
3. Witch Watch
4. Shinobi
5. Kiyoshi (rough week when Kiyoshi makes top 5)

 

[WyldViolet]

I don't think groping and taking photographs of children is something to just "move on" from after someone completes their sentence.

I'm rather mixed on whether talented artists who have committed abhorrent crimes should be allowed to continue publicly releasing art. To be honest I do still feel like there's merit to art created by such people. There's so many artists I'm a fan of that have done horrible things as a person, yet still make powerful art.
However, a major company hiring Matsuki so soon after, and then hiding his identity with the argument of "protecting the victim" just feels real icky to me. It's not protecting the victim, it's protecting the abuser.
And tbh, pedophiles don't deserve to be publicly rehabilitated and platformed.
Japan's culture regarding CSAM and how it extends to child sex abuse in general is really fucked up.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Modulo ending leaks alone are probably going to ravage the internet too… I’ll be eager to see what the upcoming batch size is though, to get a gauge of how many things are about to go poof at once.

4 at the very best if JK Hero also ends & HxH doesn't return, 2 at the very least if HxH returns

 

[Phantom RPG]

4 at the very best if JK Hero also ends & HxH doesn't return, 2 at the very least if HxH returns

My thoughts exactly, I already have in mind a few that I think could debut if you want?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

My thoughts exactly, I already have in mind a few that I think could debut if you want?

Feel free to post

 

[FantasticFootno]

I've been saying for a while that I think Hero is living another batch. I kinda wish it was Mage, but oh well.

 

[rg24]

Okay, after reading the whole article about Matsuki serialization, seems like is a vastly different situation from the case that created all this storm, i think everybody should read it because from what it explains basically there's nothing illegal or something happening, even the artist knows it was him writing the series and accepted to work, also seems like there was a extensive check on Matsuki before hiring him, even a lot of psychological exams and etc to dictate if it was fine to hire him, it wasnt just "Hey you want to write a series? sure, just comes in", so in the case of Matsuki working on Manga One is pretty much the guy trying to move with his life after completing his sentence.

Very important, i'm not trying to advocate for anything here, i'm just saying what is in the article since i'm pretty sure many if not most just saw the headline news and went "WTF?" like me, but the actual article clarify a lot about the process of hiring him:

マンガワンにおける新たな原作者起用問題と第三者委員会設置について | 小学館

弊社は、性加害、性搾取、あらゆる人権侵害を決して許しません。人権尊重は企業が社会の一員として活動するうえで最も重要なことだと認識しております。 このたび、マンガワン編集部において、作者が児童買春・ポルノ禁止法違反（製造）の罪で逮捕・略式起訴され罰金刑を受けて連載『堕天作戦』を中止したにもかかわらず、別のペンネームに変更して、新連載『常人仮面』の原作者として起用していた件について、あらためて被害に遭われた方、作画の鶴吉繪理先生、弊社各媒体でご執筆いただいている作家の皆様、読者の皆様、ならびに関係各所の皆様に深くお詫び申し上げます。...

www.shogakukan.co.jp

If this happened with others editors I can see the rehabilitation part but comming from the same editors that did all the others awfull thing is hard to see it, is like they where capturing SA like Pokemon to the point that it wouldn't be weird to see some of them reflecting in the authors.

 

[redon]

One Piece reached 600,000,000 copies worldwide!!!

 

[JBC008]

One Piece reached 600,000,000 copies worldwide!!!

Now just a little more and it will surpass Superman.

 

[redon]

2nd One Piece World Popularity Poll announced too!!

 

[SharkBait]

Now just a little more and it will surpass Superman.

Wait what? (didnt know superman was that popular in print). Can OP reach the bible, I know that sells decently still somehow.