Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump (2026) - News and Discussion!

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Jay_Senju]

Welp that was Gonron Egg easily one of the worst new jump manga published in 2025. I think it's worse than Nice Prison I'm not even joking.

 

[Lord Anubis]

1. Kagurabachi #116
2. Ichi the Witch #76
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #86
4. Shinobi Undercover #75
5. Alien Headbutt #8

 

[Baes]

Alien Headbutt title drop lets goooooooooooooooooo

 

[shillin65]

Chojo anime account is teasing more info for April 1st
No clue if it'll be a cast/trailer reveal or a joke considering the date

 

[Kiaida]

Many japanese companies actually announce stuff April 1st because their fiscal year ends in March.

 

[Aqyurs]

I'm not going to say it's 100% because it's Jump at the end of the day where the impossible becomes possible, but I think this chapter pretty much confirmed that Hero Girl is the one that got an extra batch to wrap up (if any of them). If the doomsday situation is itself a gag then it can wrap up in 2 chapters, but I just can't see it ending in two weeks if we're playing the situation remotely straight.

Aside from that, some neat allusions to previous chapters here:

• the hero grants EXP if they got complimented. Asumi probably teased the hell out of the previous hero, so that would probably explain why he's "weak", especially compared to her
• if the mom is collecting magic tools, that probably means she also was looking for ways to end the Hero vs Demon Lord cycle like the dad and grandfather were

Hope this last stretch knocks it out the park. The series continues to excel with its characters and humor, now I just want to see how the author handles ending a series.

 

[Wookitake]

There are 3 new series, and HxH is coming back for some chapters, I highly doubt HG will continue.

Akane was great as always, Ichi with a very emotional chapter (seems to be the routine after the large battles concluding each arc).

KGB's past arc has been great, and we got some nice answers about Chihiro's origins. The Soga's neighbourhood led to 4 huge linchpins from the war, lol.

WW has been great too.

Kinato is speed rushing lots of tropes, now we'll get a council of advernturers lmao.

 

[RealityChecker]

There are 3 new series, and HxH is coming back for some chapters, I highly doubt HG will continue.

I don't think HxH is coming back anytime soon. I think they are letting it reach 20 chapters and then release a batch of that many chapters. But I also don't think Hero Girl is gonna survive, so I don't know what it is going to happen.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

Hero Girl to me always felt like the most competent of the batch so don't mind it lasting longer. That and it gives the possibility of Kinato and UD surviving together if we get HG, AH, and MAYBE Blue Box ending but could also be a round of 2

 

[Phantom RPG]

Hero Girl to me always felt like the most competent of the batch so don't mind it lasting longer. That and it gives the possibility of Kinato and UD surviving together if we get HG, AH, and MAYBE Blue Box ending but could also be a round of 2

Oh it’s highly likely two batch,because we have had three batches of three so I could imagine some return for a two batch which I think it’s fair. But you never know since some big names are ending so it’s always a mystery in that regard.

 

[WyldViolet]

Is this the very first Nue chapter where Kota drew feet with human toes? Typically, he draws this funky blob shape with some blobs popping out of it lol.

 

[echo]

Hero Girl is almost certainly ending and I guess the magazine will just be short a series for a while again. I’d prefer Hero Girl gets some bonus chapters until the next round though. Its one of the few series in the magazine right now I still enjoy reading weekly.

 

[Kiaida]

I'm not sure, I can see the mom being introduced to extend the series until the next batch, when it can be axed. It could also end in 2 chapters, but Hunter x Hunter doesn't seem to be coming back and running a series short for so many months would be weird.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

All 3 new series has a color PV.

We getting all kinds of Dekus.

Summer and Fireflies look better than the one shot version, allso like the colors and Class 2-B looks pretty good, love Sorachi coloring here, it's nice to see something that looks like analog coloring even if maybe it's not and good to see the other is a girl, i thought Sorachi was going with the sausage fest.

Now, i gotta say, i don't like the coloring in Roku, what happened with Atsushi coloring? the colors look so lifeless...

But you're the biased about this always. lol You omit that Kaedegami was axed before the first volume was out, so it already had a massive debuff before that volume came out, and even then it outsold Otr, that was getting color page and some editorial push for absolutely no reason at all. Just proves the point how that wasn't a fair move and part of Saito's usual bias for the mainstream and/or western friendly battle series he loves so much.

As you can see now, Kinato is very likely more popular than Under Doctor, but he's already giving signs he picked the second one to support. Isn't it curious how he always boosts the same type of manga?

Funniest part is that he literally used the wrong numbers.

Kaedegami 1 - 3,015
Kaedegami 2 - 2,149

Otr of the Flame 1 - 2,529
Otr of the Flame 2 - 2,947
Otr of the Flame 3 - 1,826
Otr of the Flame 4 - 2,084

Also worth noting that Kaedegami 1 and Otr 2 released in the same month and had the same days, and Otr still did worse despite Kaedegami being axed.

Honestly, I'd wait a week or 2 before saying Saito isn't supporting Kinato. Sometimes the timing for color pages doesn't line up, Kinato is still in the window for an early color page. If by chapter 13 Kinato hasn't received a color page, then conclusions can be made.

lol yeah i picked the wrong number by mistake because i quickly picked from WSJ_manga, my bad on that but what changed? you got a few hundreds of copies more in estimative with 2 extra days, and vol 1 sold sold 68 copies more than vol 2 which everyone knew that it would more than likely not grow at all? The "Kaedegami was already axed so it would definitely have sold way more if wasnt the case" type of argument doesn't work only in favor of Kaedegami, in the end we still can't point who was definitely more popular than the other

All of this is just the "Homeless guy calls other homeless guy broke" meme, one technically sold just few more copies in volume but flopped hard in the survey and got axed in 17 chapters while the other technically sold just few less copies but it did enough in the surveys to survive for 34ch, there are other metrics that definitely shows there was more interest in Otr from the japanese readers than with Kaedegami but whatever, Kiaida will never be objective when it comes to Otr, so there's no point lol

 

[CastletonSnob]

Hero Girl is almost certainly ending and I guess the magazine will just be short a series for a while again. I’d prefer Hero Girl gets some bonus chapters until the next round though. Its one of the few series in the magazine right now I still enjoy reading weekly.

I'd be fine with that. Getting tired of reading 11 series every week.

 

[Aqyurs]

I'd be fine with that. Getting tired of reading 11 series every week.

You can just not read 11 series a week then? Nothing actually forces to read the entire magazine or series you don't like.

 

[Phantom RPG]

Overall, I liked the issue; some banger chapters from a fan-favorite series and some interesting developments.

Also, yeah, after this chapter, Blue Box is for sure the next one to end after the ending of Elusive Samurai. I almost think it'll be when the summer batch is released.

Now, I'm really curious about the newest one-shot, Elrock's notebook, mostly because I like the author's previous one-shot, and Shinuki's comments on his art style being more reminiscent of Fujimoto make me even more curious.

Summer and Fireflies look better than the one shot version, allso like the colors and Class 2-B looks pretty good, love Sorachi coloring here, it's nice to see something that looks like analog coloring even if maybe it's not and good to see the other is a girl, i thought Sorachi was going with the sausage fest.

Now, i gotta say, i don't like the coloring in Roku, what happened with Atsushi coloring? the colors look so lifeless...

For Roku, maybe Nakamura is using a different coloring method? At least that is what I am guessing is the case here, since the coloring does seem a tad different from the Agravity boys in my eyes.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

For Roku, maybe Nakamura is using a different coloring method? At least that is what I am guessing is the case here, since the coloring does seem a tad different from the Agravity boys in my eyes.

The colors looks super muted

 

[Kiaida]

All of this is just the "Homeless guy calls other homeless guy broke" meme, one technically sold just few more copies in volume but flopped hard in the survey and got axed in 17 chapters while the other technically sold just few less copies but it did enough in the surveys to survive for 34ch, there are other metrics that definitely shows there was more interest in Otr from the japanese readers than with Kaedegami but whatever, Kiaida will never be objective when it comes to Otr, so there's no point lol

My whole point is that Saito's TOC is unreliable and more biased than usual. He overly protects and pushes a specific style of mainstream battle shonen and is overly harsh to anything that has a fanservice scene every 20 chapters (kept Kiyoshi over Kill Blue and Chojo, saved 2k seller Otr for a long time, treats Shinobi as a pillar and Nue and Hima as bottom dwellers, etc). I'm being objective, axed Kaedegami sold more than Otr, lol

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

My whole point is that Saito's TOC is unreliable and more biased than usual. He overly protects and pushes a specific style of mainstream battle shonen and is overly harsh to anything that has a fanservice scene every 20 chapters (kept Kiyoshi over Kill Blue and Chojo, saved 2k seller Otr for a long time, treats Shinobi as a pillar and Nue and Hima as bottom dwellers, etc). I'm being objective, axed Kaedegami sold more than Otr, lol

You're holding into estimative of less than 500 copies to state who was more popular or not, Ichinose Family was axed while selling around 30k copies, was it more "popular" than some of the other series selling less in the magazine at the time? (Including Nue)