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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)

 

[Newkerzy]

Is any one shot actually popular in the west lol? It's already hard enough to get people to read the Jump series that aren't the most popular on Mangaplus that I find it hard to believe that any one shot is popular beyond the vocal minority of a vocal minority of readers (and at that point, who really cares if it was popular with that group, that genuinely might be like only 500 people).

Like, the only one shot I can think of that was genuinely popular in the west from the Jump family in recent memory was Blue Box, and I don't know how much of that was people actually reading it vs people reading that it was extremely popular in Japan so that must mean it's good therefore popular.

Speaking of which, it’s baffling that they don’t even try translating the oneshots that apeear in the main magazine. I mean, that seems like valuable data/references they’re missing out on.

 

[tirakai]

That has always been odd to me ever since Manga+ started putting out all the oneshots in English. I know they use AI translations for that, but you'd think the WSJ oneshots would be a bigger deal.

Maybe it's a weird licensing thing with Viz? Like how they clearly didn't want to translate Ayakashi Triangle but were seemingly obligated to do so, then when it switched to Jump+ they immediately were able to give it up and Manga+ brought in someone else.

 

[monstera11]

Performative rage western fandom strikes again. Now there are dramas in X and reddit over Naoya being in the merch instead of Maki. Which is very nothingburger because:

It is based on execution arc, and it is always consist of only 5 characters : Yuji Yuta Megumi Choso Naoya

Naoya will not get a merch anymore once cour 2 starts. Plus Maki has been getting merch since season 1 and in S3 cour 2 plus S4 the amount of her merch will explode

This is the same fandom that worship and simp sukuna, who objectively did much worse shit than Naoya.

And it is bonkers how Naoya gets more hate & vitriol than Kenjaku (who canonically SA a woman at least 9 times plus other atrocious shit that makes Mengele looks like Florence Nightingale in comparison). Kenjaku got merch and promotions since s1 and yet noone complains.

This is the problem with western fandom who often cannot distinguish fiction and real life, and impose their activism inappropriately and makes mountain out of molehill.

If anyone complains, again see my point on kenjaku (ESPECIALLY Kenjaku) and sukuna

The same fandom who claims to attacks and hate on Naoya due to "feminism", are also ATTACKING and BULLYING real life Naoya fans, who are most of the time women. What an irony bullying real life women for their fictional activism. They often attacks Naoya fans claiming people who like naoya are misogynistic pig (even calling them naz*). Which is very stupid. By this logic, do people who simp sukuna condone mass murders and emotionally abusing teenage boys to near suicide?

To be clear, I am NOT naoya fans. I don't give a shit about that guy. I am just sick of the fandom hypocrisy

 

[redon]

2nd One Piece World Popularity Poll announced too!!

Details for the 2nd World Top 100 ONE PIECE Character Popularity Poll have been revealed:

Online votes are worth 1 point, while postcard votes are worth 10 points!

Special Announcement 1:
Top-ranking characters will receive brand-new illustrations personally drawn by Eiichiro Oda!

Special Announcement 2:
The voting results will be announced during ONE PIECE DAY 2026 scheduled for August 2026.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Good god, we reached the clickbait news pages that post a quote and an image. These are usually trashy tabloid tier pages that shouldn't be used as an indicator of anything... But a five chapter series with potential of being axed would never catch their radars. To me, it means breaching containment and leaking to places it shouldn't go.

There's good controversy and bad controversy. A good controversy is the type that has a 50/50 split in opinion where people either agree or disagree with the events. A bad type has no defenders. For the latter, we can use Time Paradox Ghostwriter as a reference.

Regardless of opinion, I think Kinato's Magic landed itself on good controversy. Like or dislike the voices, there's as many people who are fine with this development as there are those who dislike it. And because those who dislike it vocalize their disapproval, the backlash against that fights back just as loud. It creates a perpetually self-sustaining machine that keeps the topic fresh and the arguments turn into an advertisement.

If 2000 people hate it, and 2000 people like it, that's still 4000 people looking at it when they wouldn't have paid attention to it. Nabbing an audience isn't a zero sum game, every reader you gain gets a momentum going that overrides the ones you lose. Eventually the loss of 2000 becomes superfluous to what you gain from winning over the other 2000.

My opinion on Kaminagi? Why would you want a straight male's opinion on a topic concerning plausible sapphic undertones? I am quite literally the opposite of a lesbian female. My opinion is worth pennies here.

I don't think it'll have much affect on the series' overall performance over in Japan, of which it's trending positively with readers there. I DO think it's interesting to see what kind of effect it could potentially have. Kagurabachi had news outlets talking about it as "The manga Westerners like for some reason." as it geared up to explode. Kinato is closer to "The manga that Westerners hate for some reason." which is still a very attractive point. That's if things continue at this trajectory till it reaches Japanese ears. Who knows.

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Sonuvabitch, this fucking cuck? Sorry, I have a very poor opinion on this fellow but I also understand that he has good reach and an audience. A manga within 5 chapters just COULDN'T get this type of coverage. And the overall results of controversial shitflinging is ultimately positive the more it spreads.

The thing that is really bothering me is that the "Daily Dose of Anime" page put the "After" before the "Before"

Anyway, like i said in my post before about the jp reactions over the chapter, there's zero controversy going on there, and they are aware of the thing going on Twitter but not even making a big deal just (at least when i checked on Sunday) some criticizing western fans, that's it, this is going to have no impact at all in the japanese reaction.

Btw, something that i wanted to say, all of this is so silly in the end of the day because it's a battle shounen manga, not a romance, drama or slice of life, so the character being hetero, bi or gay will have zero importance in the story, next chapter we already moving away from putting the focus on Kaminagi and at best we will get Kaminagi with some princess or knight jokes here and there when she appears, so it's like in just a few chapters none will even remember this anymore lol

 

[Papalymo]

I've kinda away this past month, and just started to get into the new series, Kinato's Magic was so fun, really liked it, hope the axe goes away.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Performative rage western fandom strikes again. Now there are dramas in X and reddit over Naoya being in the merch instead of Maki. Which is very nothingburger because:

It is based on execution arc, and it is always consist of only 5 characters : Yuji Yuta Megumi Choso Naoya

Naoya will not get a merch anymore once cour 2 starts. Plus Maki has been getting merch since season 1 and in S3 cour 2 plus S4 the amount of her merch will explode

This is the same fandom that worship and simp sukuna, who objectively did much worse shit than Naoya.

And it is bonkers how Naoya gets more hate & vitriol than Kenjaku (who canonically SA a woman at least 9 times plus other atrocious shit that makes Mengele looks like Florence Nightingale in comparison). Kenjaku got merch and promotions since s1 and yet noone complains.

This is the problem with western fandom who often cannot distinguish fiction and real life, and impose their activism inappropriately and makes mountain out of molehill.

If anyone complains, again see my point on kenjaku (ESPECIALLY Kenjaku) and sukuna

The same fandom who claims to attacks and hate on Naoya due to "feminism", are also ATTACKING and BULLYING real life Naoya fans, who are most of the time women. What an irony bullying real life women for their fictional activism. They often attacks Naoya fans claiming people who like naoya are misogynistic pig (even calling them naz*). Which is very stupid. By this logic, do people who simp sukuna condone mass murders and emotionally abusing teenage boys to near suicide?

To be clear, I am NOT naoya fans. I don't give a shit about that guy. I am just sick of the fandom hypocrisy

God, i don't even want to touch the Naoya thing, let's just say the way i look at western JJK fans and a portion of western manga & anime fans in general worsened considerably after the fiasco of the Maki episode, the level of misinformation about Jp fans criticism about the episode (that had nothing to do with Maki beating Naoya), which lead to the level of racism & xenophobia towards Japan and tweets directly to japanese fans on Twitter in those weeks from people that supposedly love their culture was just dreadful, i know it's not the majority but it was so loud it actually made me put the anime on hold before watching the episode because i knew i wouldn't judge it fairly due to the damage done by these people

 

[Phantom RPG]

As a fellow theorizer/overthinker this isn't me being critical but more wanting your thoughts process.

- Why do you feel like Yuu Odoriba is likely to return? Don't get me wrong, we're in an era where authors can disappear to suddenly just serialize (literally Alien Headbutt authors last oneshot I think was in 2021 or 2022) but what gives you the impression they're about to come back?
- Outside of Daiki Nono and Hajime Koumoto, I can't think of any author recently who serialized from just Giga oneshots. Any analysis or is it more vibes?
- I'd be down if they serialized. Like the art and it was a popular oneshot in the West. I personally wanna see them more do another one shot but fine either way
- I also would be fine with them. Time to start getting those GFC winners serialized especially if this year holds another one
- Agreed, their art can be so pretty and unique. Neru's biggest flaw to me (it's been a while) was just being a tad boring. With TES gone, a historical action series could be quite interesting. Less factual than TES, but with like a feudal backdrop

For Yuu Odoriba is mostly because I have, for some dumb reason, noticed a rather bizarre pattern that involves right back to 2021, where there were a round of five one shots back to back and the names of these authors should make you understand why i think its kinda likely that if this pattern is followed we might be getting him sooner than some think, of course this is more of a conspiricy theory at best but hey its fun either way.

To put a little more of context in the oneshot round:

#21/22 Peko Peko no Yamai by Watanabe Shinpei (Ginka and Gluka)
#23 Dai Tokyo Oniyome-den by Nakama Tadaichi (Tokyo Demon Bride)
#24 NoONEKnows by Kataoka Motoharu (Ping Pong Peril)
#25 BadTripper by Yu Odoriba
#26 Roku to Yuki by Midorimizu Tou

See the pattern? I think it's likely to happen again this year.

As for Shinosuke Toujo, it's mostly because of how consistent he was during the end of autumn in 2024, all the way to the end of 2025, with three one-shots during that period. So in my mind its quite a possibility to occur.

Let me have a turn at complaining about western readers: but Zookey is such a boring unimaginative oneshot that I know it would easily become one of these manga that people instantly push as the next big thing because of aura, while Jump voters ignore it because there's really nothing else to it. It's pretty much a Sakamoto clone without the amazing choreography and art.

For Yufoo Gakuji, the more conspiratorial reason I have for this one is that, since Modulo is ending, I would imagine the editors would genuinely be that desperate to have a former assistant of Gege make an official debut just to appeal to the JJK fanbase.

If not Yufoo, then it's more likely Reiya Machida, as he is already quite familiar with the magazine, and most of the one-shots he made were interesting overall.

For Kuji Tabigoro, I think he is pretty much set, I think it's just waiting for his debut anytime now.

As for HIraya, well, someone already mentioned that he has launched a Twitter account of some kind, which is usually a sign of his return in some way. That, or they just are not posting anything at all.

As for my personal wildcard, I'm going for two in particular:

Kongon, simply because I think the author can do something really fun and very interesting as a battle shonen since his artstyle is unique and somewhat reminiscent of Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man fame, and Shou Fukamori, who I do think has a lot of potential if Zanki the vampire slayer is anything to go by.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Sōichirō Yamamoto (Teasing Master Takagi-san, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Mane Mane Nichi Nichi) drew Mizuo and gave a recommendation for the volume 2 obi for Someone Hertz. 200,000 copies in circulation through 2 volumes too.

Lmao! Of course he would recommend Someone Hertz, it's possibly the most obvious recommendation ever!

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Now, for the other most obvious recommendation ever Saito-san, maybe one for Nue's Exorcist from all these acclaimed light novel writers, right?! R-right? No? Oh, okay...

 

[CastletonSnob]

Is it OK that I'm trying to catch up on One Piece partially because I want to be able to join the rest of the world with the ending?

Seeing the end of a cultural phenomenon like One Piece is a once in a lifetime experience, and I already missed out on Naruto and Bleach.

 

[Papalymo]

Ok for real I'm really impressed with Kinato, Underdoctor and the Alien manga... Promissing...

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Is it OK that I'm trying to catch up on One Piece partially because I want to be able to join the rest of the world with the ending?

Seeing the end of a cultural phenomenon like One Piece is a once in a lifetime experience, and I already missed out on Naruto and Bleach.

If you skip 5-6 arcs from the post timeskip you wont be missing much tbh, and also its a great idea since a lot of them are terrible

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has anyone posted this yet? Pretty excited to this live action

 

[monstera11]

God, i don't even want to touch the Naoya thing, let's just say the way i look at western JJK fans and a portion of western manga & anime fans in general worsened considerably after the fiasco of the Maki episode, the level of misinformation about Jp fans criticism about the episode (that had nothing to do with Maki beating Naoya), which lead to the level of racism & xenophobia towards Japan and tweets directly to japanese fans on Twitter in those weeks from people that supposedly love their culture was just dreadful, i know it's not the majority but it was so loud it actually made me put the anime on hold before watching the episode because i knew i wouldn't judge it fairly due to the damage done by these people

And that whole fiasco of racism and bullying intensified my dislike towards those perfomative fictional characters "activists". Maki really has the WORST fans. It is not just Naoya, anyone who shows any shred of liking towards the zenin family are also subject to abuse. There are a lot of zenin family fanarts from JP fans that got destroyed by AI edits by those western fans. E.g. i remember a fanart of Ranta and the rest of kukuru unit in heaven, which got edited by AI to show them tortured in hell instead. It is extremely disrespectful and hurtful to ruin someone's fanarts. Seriously, those zenin family fans are really no different that those western sukuna simps.

This is why, having the kinato "controversy" this early may be a good thing, because I hope it at least chase away all those "activists" from the Kinato fandom before the infection take root and grow worse. They are welcome to leave and stop reading if they think the manga doesn't cater to them. Don't try to impose their own idea of activism and headcanon into the manga, especially for something that the author never intend to begin with.

 

[tirakai]

I really wonder how the volume recommendations are decided, some of them come totally out of nowhere while Nue's had a bunch of praise from big authors but no official recommendations. I don't think it matters too much (maybe Oda helped get Kiyoshi off the ground, but that's the only notable one) but it'd still be nice to see it get something.

Also not related to anything but I'll likely be gone from here for the rest of March and at least the first week of April since I'm going on a 1200km pilgrimmage tomorrow after work (specifically Shikoku Henro if anyone's curious). I'll still check in from time to time on my phone but I won't be posting anything.

I hope there's not too much interesting drama until I get back!

 

[redon]

Promotional video to celebrate One Piece 600 million copies sold worldwide, where Eiichiro Oda wrote what is the One Piece in a paper and then they sealed that paper in a chest and sent it to the bottom of the sea until One Piece finishes in the future.

 

[pennycryman]

Ruri Dragon has reached 1.380.000 copies in circulation

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Despite all the doomposting with the sales decline, circulation/volume went up slightly (271K to 276K).

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

So dramatic lol I hope Oda doesn't pull the "One Piece was the journey we all made" bullshit

And that whole fiasco of racism and bullying intensified my dislike towards those perfomative fictional characters "activists". Maki really has the WORST fans. It is not just Naoya, anyone who shows any shred of liking towards the zenin family are also subject to abuse. There are a lot of zenin family fanarts from JP fans that got destroyed by AI edits by those western fans. E.g. i remember a fanart of Ranta and the rest of kukuru unit in heaven, which got edited by AI to show them tortured in hell instead. It is extremely disrespectful and hurtful to ruin someone's fanarts. Seriously, those zenin family fans are really no different that those western sukuna simps.

This is why, having the kinato "controversy" this early may be a good thing, because I hope it at least chase away all those "activists" from the Kinato fandom before the infection take root and grow worse. They are welcome to leave and stop reading if they think the manga doesn't cater to them. Don't try to impose their own idea of activism and headcanon into the manga, especially for something that the author never intend to begin with.

lol i quickly checked "Naoya merch" and ugh, these people are still going at it, imagine whining because Naoya is in a advertisement and Maki is not while the advertisement is about only male JJK characters

I really wonder how the volume recommendations are decided, some of them come totally out of nowhere while Nue's had a bunch of praise from big authors but no official recommendations. I don't think it matters too much (maybe Oda helped get Kiyoshi off the ground, but that's the only notable one) but it'd still be nice to see it get something.

Also not related to anything but I'll likely be gone from here for the rest of March and at least the first week of April since I'm going on a 1200km pilgrimmage tomorrow after work (specifically Shikoku Henro if anyone's curious). I'll still check in from time to time on my phone but I won't be posting anything.

I hope there's not too much interesting drama until I get back!

Well, you will just miss a whole new batch announcement this month (Or even this week if starts on issue #16)

But good pilgrimmage

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Despite all the doomposting with the sales decline, circulation/volume went up slightly (271K to 276K).

Hmm i think this is because the Ufotable anime announcement actually caused a mini boost in the series putting all volumes back on Shoseki for a few days

 

[Magister Xehanort]

The ONE PIECE 'WORLD TOP 100' 2nd Popularity Poll has already started, you can vote now! Here is the link.

The 2nd Global ONE PIECE Character Popularity Contest

The 2nd Global Popularity Poll is open, where fans around the world choose their No.1 from a total of 1,567 characters!!!

onepiecewt100-2026.com

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I don't think it matters too much (maybe Oda helped get Kiyoshi off the ground, but that's the only notable one).

For Kiyoshi It's explained, Kiyoshi author went to Oda and asked if he could give a obi recommendation and Oda said yes.

 

[SharkBait]

The ONE PIECE 'WORLD TOP 100' 2nd Popularity Poll has already started, you can vote now! Here is the link.

The 2nd Global ONE PIECE Character Popularity Contest

The 2nd Global Popularity Poll is open, where fans around the world choose their No.1 from a total of 1,567 characters!!!

onepiecewt100-2026.com

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