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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Moderator Notice:

WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP THREAD RULES​

#1. No fights or personal insults.
#2. No bait or troll comments with the intention of being annoying or starting serious heated discussions, if i notice it's a continuous behavior, i will warn the user or delete the comment.
#3. No toxic attitude towards series, no one is obligated to enjoy any series and it's totally fine to criticize what you don't like, just avoid posting gratuitous hateful or toxic comments about X or Y series, if i notice this behavior, comments will be deleted.
#4. Don't bring politics or off-topic stuff to the thread, this is about Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and mangas, so keep any conversation about topics that aren't related about anime & manga outside the thread.
#5. Don't post news about series from other magazine or publishers in the WSJ thread, post in the series own thread, but it's fine if you're mentioning other series or magazine to express a opinion or reflection about Shonen Jump.
#6. Any tweet, specially japanese, about news, update or some interesting thing about the magazine or series has to come with a text of what that tweet means and also be on topic, if not it's going to be either deleted or i will edit the post.
#7. Refrain from self advertising or advertising Youtubers videos in the comments.
#8. Constant fanart posts just for the sake of praising a favorite series is prohibited, this rule doesn't apply for official art by Jump artists posted on social media, they're fine to post.
#9. Don't discuss or hype chapter spoilers before Sunday release, only comment if is related to a series surviving status and do it only inside the spoiler tag.
#10. Regarding rule #9, an exception will be made for when we have new series, in this case, spoilers will be allowed only for the first 3 chapters of a new series for the users who are interested in knowing informations and details about the new series, these spoilers will obviously be kept under tags to protect anyone that doesn't want to be spoiled, so don't worry about it.
~ Shinuki

I hope everyone reads the rules and use it as a guide to behave well in the thread, thanks!

 

[FantasticFootno]

Very funny lineup lol (this means nothing, Kill Blue was on the previous lineup)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I'm aware I could simply be lacking knowledge: Has there/when was the last time an author noted they were returning to WSJ with an editor search?

There are many times a WSJ editor did these searches for assistants to work with a WSJ series but didnt specify if was a ongoing series or future.

Precisely about a upcoming new series there's this from Muraoka in November 2022:



There's also one that i remember from years ago that even described that the new series was a "fantasy series in a magic school" and a while after that Mashle started.

 

[icrawfish]

Issue 18 Votes/Thoughts:

1. Akane-banashi - I kinda saw how things were gonna resolve the second Zensho started yapping but it was still great to watch it play out. Akane going first is a nice mix-up, and gives me confidence that both of these performances are going to be a real treat.

2. Ichi the Witch - It’s a humble chapter but I just love their interactions, watching Dess slowly learn to let her defenses down despite the crude exterior and Ichi understanding how family works and how they support each other. Them being a scattered mess at the end of the chapter was a nice little whimsical touch too.

3. One Piece - This was a constant back-and-forth of expectations, closing off with a crazy development that may well change a ton of things in the next few chapters depending on where Oda takes Imu. More a set-up chapter than anything, but this could be the start of something crazy.

4. Blue Box - Title drop already before the final arc? I suppose this is the last downtime before the “final battle”, so it makes sense to make the most of this. I’ll be curious to see how fast the final matches go based on this title drop being placed here, cuz I assumed it’ll at least be multiple matches, making it longer than one of Chinatsu’s basketball matches. Definitely over by the end of the year though.

5. Hima-Ten! - Most of this chapter was really great and hard-hitting, I could genuinely feel the pain in Iemori’s expression knowing that he has to hurt someone that he really cares about despite all her efforts. They played it off well and maturely for now, which is nice, but it did feel like they really blew past the matter near the end of the chapter with their civil departures. It feels wrong to say I wanted to see Kanna bawl her eyes out more, but I think the tone changed a little too fast. I look forward to what happens from here, how Kanna’s role in the story changes (cuz she’s definitely not going away).

6. Witch Watch - Really great full-circle (or full-crescent hehe) moment for Keigo/Wolf here. Part of me does hope he still has to revert to normal Keigo at some point in the battle if only to showcase the results of his training, and/or to get a necessary “girl I love” moment while Nemu’s right there. I look forward to this.

7. Kagurabachi - Not where I expected to get some extra romcom fix but I’ll gladly take it. Chiaki really passed that “mouth hanging agape” trait down to Chihiro, though with her its more embarrassment here and for him it’s usually dumbfoundedness. Clearly a little time will need to pass in this flashback since Akemura’s a relatively little guy (so about a year or two I think), and that is making me really start to consider that this arc could be a good bit longer than I thought it initially would be—perhaps even up to two chapters.

8. Kinato’s Magic - Rather quick way to tie things up (pun not intended) but there was some nice meat here. Normalize hugging people as a response to positive wholesome interactions. A few tropey things (rival declaration, meeting of powerful people), and some reasonable scaling with Kinato’s powers being external. I’m reminded of the Canvas Town scene from Gachiakuta with the fireworks.

9. Nue’s Exorcist - Not actually a whole ton to say (I’m sure the Nue-bros will cover for me here with their multi-paragraph analysis) for being “rusty” Gekka sure is cleaning house. I suppose we’ll get some kind of farewell with good Soranaki here, certainly for Gekka’s sake; I wonder if he’ll have something to say for Nue as well, given the history and his crude behavior previously in the arc, and also if he has any wisdom to pass onto Gakuro directly in anticipation of the coming Hyo (I say as if Gashadokuro hasn’t been walking around chillin’ for a hot second already).

10. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi - I see the villains only get more and more wild, haha. First we had Roth who was just a freak for powerful guys for the purpose of getting a great fight, and now we have Bobo here who is a superfan of powerful guys because he wants to find really powerful people to kill and put in a trophy box. Usui is good at taking these psychologically distorted individuals and milking them for maximum comedy amidst the most serious moments of the arc, borderline shattering the tension. Nonetheless the battle presses on, and it seems like it won’t quickly end based on how people are moving and scaling Bobo thus far.

11. Me & Roboco - Not a big gut-buster, but I do really like these Madoka characters where her personality just morphs in 5 different directions. Good to have Bondo here through all of this for him to fully understand the girl he loves before he gets serious (wait, why am I analyzing this from a serious rom-com perspective? I guess Gorilla and Akane got me on some different motion after their maneuvers).

12. Sakamoto Days - Shoutouts to the pedestrians who really just be doing the funniest thing possible to keep the fight going and escalating. Poor Shishiba should not have to put up with more of this but he is and we love him for it.

13. Alien Headbutt - Huh. Good tactic, but don’t you think that’s a little early to be name-dropping…? I suppose this could be a recurring tactic so I won’t critique it too much, but with this being the least successful of the new batch so far this doesn’t spell kind things to me for the series’ survival.

14. Shinobi Undercover - I will say, was not expecting Hibari’s punch to carry that much impact into this chapter when coupled with Kasasagi’s good ability matchup. That seems to have become fruitless though now that the actual boss spawned in, and I can only wonder what the heck happened to Yodaka that isn’t being turned into human paste that resulted in Yoichi fully escaping the basement through a well.

15. Someome Hertz - The usual cute stuff. This chapter if anything feels more a reaffirmation of the slow and steady pace, with them having a very normal and casual house interaction, followed by him not catching up to, but keeping pace with her in the jokes. At this rate the series could go for at least another 150 chapters and I’m fine with that

16. Under Doctor - Interesting way to try and integrate the doctoring and fighting, I’ll be curious if this leads to any situations along the lines of him actively fighting while operating on a patient which would be pretty insane.

17. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits - The mom is a funny addition, not to mention trauma-induced Demon Lord. I would not be surprised if the author is putting some of herself into her vibe.

18. Gonron Egg - Minimal credit where due, this chapter gave us some insight into some of the more complex ideas Tanizaki seemed to be cooking up regarding some of the character dynamic/intrigue with Agito, the sister, and whatnot. Overall though this truly is one of the adventure continues of all times, and I’m not sure how motivated I feel to read any bonus chapters that might come out if they need to pad for the last volume.

19. Mage Next Door - Dad’s magic was neat but that was about the only thing I properly remembered from this chapter. Again, I suspect Nabe upon catching onto the cancellation decided to stop pouring his creative juices into coming up with fun new powers and just went the optimal route towards wrapping the story up, so this is the outcome of that.

 

[Pietro]

i can name a few of the recent series that were as bad or worst.
Start of Beethoven, Ping Pong Peril, Nice Prison, and Ekiden Bros.

Ping pong peril WAS definitely much better. I loved it... but series like Devilyman, Pakki, High school family, build king, moriking, do retry, yokai buster murakami.. they were definitely worse. I can recall more of them but i will not list them

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Ping pong peril WAS definitely much better. I loved it... but series like Devilyman, Pakki, High school family, build king, moriking, do retry, yokai buster murakami.. they were definitely worse. I can recall more of them but i will not list them

99% of what you're listing are Gag series, feels like you just have something against the genre because HSF was not worse than Gonron, same for Moriking too, Pakki doesn't even have a single chapter translated so i doubt you even read that lol

 

[Pietro]

99% of what you're listing are Gag series, feels like you just have something against the genre because HSF was not worse than Gonron, same for Moriking too, Pakki doesn't even have a single chapter translated so i doubt you even read that lol

Yeah i hate that genre... most of gag series are simply horrible to see

 

[Serinox]

I would say the last manga as bad or worse than Gonron was Hakutaku, and that wasn't that long ago. Or Ekiden Bros

 

[Dippy Fresh]

There are many times a WSJ editor did these searches for assistants to work with a WSJ series but didnt specify if was a ongoing series or future.

Precisely about a upcoming new series there's this from Muraoka in November 2022:



There's also one that i remember from years ago that even described that the new series was a "fantasy series in a magic school" and a while after that Mashle started.

But that's not the author/naming an author directly such as with Matsui

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

But that's not the author/naming an author directly such as with Matsui

Almost all the times with J+ series is also the editors who put a advertising looking for assistants, not the authors, so Matsui case is not the usual for either cases.

--- Double Post Merged, Apr 1, 2026, Original Post Date: Apr 1, 2026 ---

When thinking about worse stuff, i'm counting the fact that Tanizaki was barely able to keep with the weekly serialization struggling with pretty bad drawing and even reducing page numbers in the final chapters, something that is really rare to see it happening, it doesn't matter how bad the story is, virtually every former flop author was still able to keep it up with the schedule just fine and improving the art, Tanizaki was a very rare opposite case of getting worse by the time, so just that alone already puts it, at least for me, in a special "bad" level, the story writing was pretty bad but nothing that i havent seen worse, but when looking at the whole package was truly a disaster, and it sucks because i know Tanizaki can do waaay better than this based in his one shots, but this just went beyond the usual bad when it comes to Jump terrible series.

 

[Hawke]

interesting, trainee contracts for 99 potential future jump writers

 

[Wookitake]

The Manga+ T Shirt rankings are interesting. KGB the only WSJ in the top 5 from February. Only OP and Modulo have pages/t-shirts as well.

I wish we could check the data from each country. Maybe there are some international orders there in the rankings, as this KGB obsession might suggest.

 

[KrenKren]

If we could see international rankings for the shirt sales I'd definitely be doing some lifting for bachi... I just wish they didn't take so long to ship

 

[Nuesmoker]

Well I finished Gonron Egg...

Truly a series of all time.

 

[RealityChecker]

The Manga+ T Shirt rankings are interesting. KGB the only WSJ in the top 5 from February. Only OP and Modulo have pages/t-shirts as well.

I wish we could check the data from each country. Maybe there are some international orders there in the rankings, as this KGB obsession might suggest.

Shueisha is clearly downplaying the series by not announcing its anime already.

 

[Wookitake]

The authors have input during the anime, right? Hokazono can't keep up with the weekly schedule already, if they announce the anime and start production it will affect the manga.

Do any of you know in which JJK was then the anime started?

 

[RealityChecker]

The authors have input during the anime, right? Hokazono can't keep up with the weekly schedule already, if they announce the anime and start production it will affect the manga.

Do any of you know in which JJK was then the anime started?

I don't think they have any issue during the course of the anime. When an anime airs, it hardly needs any author's input. And from what I saw, there were no problems regarding the manga after it was announced. Gege took only 2 pauses during 70 chapters after the announcement.

 

[Wookitake]

I don't think they have any issue during the course of the anime. When an anime airs, it hardly needs any author's input. And from what I saw, there were no problems regarding the manga after it was announced. Gege took only 2 pauses during 70 chapters after the announcement.

Yeah but the art was subpar in many chapters. I just don't remember if before or after the anime.

KGB had some stickmen over the years already, that's why I worry. Love it, though, and I hope the anime is great.

 

[RealityChecker]

Yeah but the art was subpar in many chapters. I just don't remember if before or after the anime.

KGB had some stickmen over the years already, that's why I worry. Love it, though, and I hope the anime is great.

It was after the anime, and after many chapters. Regarding Kagurabachi anime, I think only on the 3rd anniversary on September. Let us just hope for the better if it is really Cygames that is animating.

 

[KrenKren]

Hokazono probably wont complain about the studio getting to draw all the merch and promo, lol.

 

[Kiaida]

Hokazono probably wont complain about the studio getting to draw all the merch and promo, lol.

That's the usual. Some people often bring this up when asking for some anime as they can now get more merch and stop reusing manga art all the time.