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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

Shoseki Top 500 (April 4)
7. Akane-banashi #21
25. Nue's Exorcist #14
242. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits #1
303. Harukaze Mound #4

Obs: Pretty rough 2nd day, unnusual big drop for everybody but Akane and The Mage Next Door already dropped out, poor author.

Also no Akane backlog so far but the volumes are climbing on Amazon so i expect some volumes to appear soon.

 

[JBC008]

Hey Shinuki, I want to ask how much you follow Japan’s social media.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Hey Shinuki, I want to ask how much you follow Japan’s social media.

Used to follow a lot more but thats really not healthy at some point specially when it comes to 5ch lol Right now i follow normally, Twitter, 5ch and Matome when i want to read reactionw about certain stuff and some other Jp Forums

 

[JBC008]

Used to follow a lot more but thats really not healthy at some point specially when it comes to 5ch lol Right now i follow normally, Twitter, 5ch and Matome when i want to read reactionw about certain stuff and some other Jp Forums

Just checking cause I was talking with my friends and I wanted to know their reception at the time to get an understanding.

 

[Xanji06]

Issue #18 Votes

1. Ichi The Witch 76
Oh my god. At like chapter 20 when the whole Ichi & Desscaras family thing started it felt pretty rushed and forced but we reached a state where these two genuinely feel like family. Ichi instantly knew what to do, also nice to see his emotional intelligence that has been shown before but wasn't highlighted as much. While the first couple pages of the chapter were a bit weaker this still stands as one of my favorites of the series + cute Desscaras x Togeice moment

2. Witch Watch 242
Hell yeah. Keigo, Wolf & Nemu have always been my favorite of the series so to see their bond develop like that was very satisfying. Keigo getting a tattoo for Wolf was incredibly cute and I hope for the last bit of the series they will have a more brothership-bond rather than being rivals over Nemu. Great stuff!

3. Hima-Ten! 84
Damn.. Sooo Hima-Ten! might end this year? (unless this gets undone in the next couple of chapters lol) This was still a great chapter, I thought the last time Iemori rejected Kanna was a bit stupid this was so much better. Very nice and warming chapter seeing both open up. Even if Kanna got eliminated now I hope we get to see more of her.

4. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 86
Not much to say other than Kiyoshi vs. Helze Bobo being really cool! I am always a huge fan when Kiyoshi is fighting especially when he is pushed to his limits. His new Deucalion attack was pure aura. This chapter also gave Bobo some much needed personality so nice to see!

5. Blue Box 236
Loved Taiki's and Haryu's talk together, kinda makes me sad we didn't saw him more during this "3rd Year Saga" but it makes sense i guess. The "Our Blue Box" moment was very well executed and felt very rewarding. Also Taiki & Chinatsu were cute like always.

Gonron Egg Review
This was a rough read. I feel bad for Tanizaki while the art was very rough and bad on many pages the manga also had some incredible art when Tanizaki locked in for some reason? lol? Also idk how this works but it felt kinda rude in like chapter 4 when Gonron stood there and the background artists were trying to flex with an amazing background which doesn't fit Tanizaki's artstyle at all? It got better later so its fine.
About the cast.. this sure was a cast of all time. While Gonron and Ohma had a cute relationship and their transformation is very cool. Other than that the cast was so fucking boring. Why was that one guy on the chapter 1 lead color page lmao. Some had pretty cool designs tho I can't lie.
Overall Gonron for me is a cool setting fumbled by.. pretty much everything. 2.5/10

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I see complaining about a new manga before the first chapter is even out will never end here lol

Man I think if stivie is complaining about a series that is not even out yet and its JUST the first chapter of a brand new series just because it focused a bit on the comedy, which is something nakamura seems to like, I wonder if he would say the exact same thing for something that is already out and its horror related like say the day hikaru died.

I say give it time, like any other series. Not that hard to do. It might surprise or it might not that is what is so fun about new series. No need to be a killjoy.

Its like treating someone to a new experience but the fellow already judged it for one thing and one thing only regardless of the say of the one who does have experience.

This has happened a couple of times before but the very ironic thing is that the one i remember better was actually with Agravity Boys, if i remember well it was Rain Spectre doing it, before the chapter release we got the leaks with the whole "turning one of the guys into a girl", so he started to criticize the series before reading it claiming it would be "transphobic" and blah blah blah, it was pretty annoying at the time lol

Because chapters take like 3-5 minutes to read. Even when stretched out into anime, an individual episode is like 11 minutes when you cut out intros, outros, recaps, and previews.

It’s an extremely long series, but you can blast through it pretty quickly doing like an hour a day.

Man, i was about to say Welcome to the Forum until i saw the date of the account lol i guess Welcome back? kkkk I don't remember you by name but i guess @WyldViolet do

It's quite good, but the premise is VERY reminiscent of Kuroko's Basketball. Do you think they're going to change that, or will we just be getting Kuroko 2.0: This Time There's a Girl?

Hmm i think the girl will be in the serialized version since the premise of the serialization sounds similar to the one shot.

I have recently started looking at Tabletop rpg mostly to divert attention away from playing video games, as am currently building a small anthology of chronicles about cooking, and I had a sudden thought after looking in up one dubbed The Wildsea and Mystic Bastionland. Has there been a truly outlandish series that no one thought anyone would ever make within Weekly Shōnen Jump? For me I remember the premise of Candy Flurry and thought the overall setting was truly interesting to play around with, sucks that it had bad story full of cliches.

Some: ST&RS, Hinomaru Zumo, Sesuji wo Pin, Lady Justice, The Promised Neverland, Dr. Stone, Act-Age, Mashle (For being a clar Harry Potter parody), Ayakashi Triangle (Pretty much Yuri manga), Akane-banashi.

Happy Easter to everyone!

Are we receiving chapters today normally?

Happy Easter!

 

[Stivie]

Stivie is as Stivie does.
He's always been like this. We don't know why.
We hope he gets help soon.

I hope he keeps it up actually, Stivie's posts about comedy are somehow a breathe of fresh air compared to the exact same arguments this thread has been having about Shinobi vs Nue or whatever that has happened legit every single day for the past 3 months.

Wow, you guys talk like I'm here all the time to bother you, which isn't true.
And I can't even give a dissenting opinion, can I? I'm forced to agree with everyone.
I can criticize whatever I want, if I didn't like the author's approach then I'm going to criticize it, you guys criticize a lot of shonen manga here too.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I can criticize whatever I want, if I didn't like the author's approach then I'm going to criticize it, you guys criticize a lot of shonen manga here too.

The problem is that you didn't read the chapter, you just basing it in a single phrase by me instead of just waiting to have your own opinion about it.

 

[Stivie]

The problem is that you didn't read the chapter, you just basing it in a single phrase by me instead of just waiting to have your own opinion about it.

So you are partly responsible, you don't even have the right to judge. And I've said this myself before.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

So you are partly responsible, you don't even have the right to judge. And I've said this myself before.

So i'm responsible for you not waiting the chapter release to form your own personal opinion? Okaaay....

 

[tirakai]

If you post spoilers for a chapter before it's out, of course people are going to form an opinion based on the spoilers alone. We can't read the chapter yet so spoilers are literally the only thing he can base his opinion on.

Isn't that kind of the point of posting them to begin with? Give people who are interested something to form an early opinion on if they can't wait a couple days to read the chapter itself?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

If you post spoilers for a chapter before it's out, of course people are going to form an opinion based on the spoilers alone. Isn't that kind of the point?

We can't read the chapter yet so spoilers are literally the only thing he can base his opinion on.

He isn't talking about something that happens in the chapter, this whole thing is Stivie picking one phrase about the chapter being more comedy than horror and complaining over and over again that the the manga is already failing because a "Horror Comedy" should be scary, don't put any blame on me because someone is taking a single phrase and making a whole case around it because of a lack of understanding on how a genre works.

 

[CastletonSnob]

I only have 350 chapters to go before I'm caught up with One Piece.

 

[Stivie]

He isn't talking about something that happens in the chapter, this whole thing is Stivie picking one phrase about the chapter being more comedy than horror and complaining over and over again that the the manga is already failing because a "Horror Comedy" should be scary, don't put any blame on me because someone is taking a single phrase and making a whole case around it because of a lack of understanding on how a genre works.

It wasn't a sentence, my friend. You made your summary, and I gave my opinion that if that's the path the author takes, I wouldn't like it. And I made it very clear that I hadn't read the chapter and was going to wait to have a better opinion, but you and others keep complaining about my opinion for no reason.

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And let me correct you, Shinuke.

Because a "Horror Comedy" should be scary, TOO.

I'm not denying the comedy, but I want to see the horror, TOO.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

It wasn't a sentence, my friend. You made your summary, and I gave my opinion that if that's the path the author takes, I wouldn't like it. And I made it very clear that I hadn't read the chapter and was going to wait to have a better opinion, but you and others keep complaining about my opinion for no reason.

It was a sentence, you picked just one phrase about being more comedy than horror and made your entire complain around it, also I barely discussed with you, the other member that had discussed with you over and over, and because you're already making a whole judgement about the manga just because a comedy series has more comedy than horror which the horror is much more about the supernatural curses than having scary scenes lol

But anyway, i will not keep with this discussion, the chapters are about to be released in 1 hour and 15 minutes so you can read and finally make your own conclusions

 

[Phantom RPG]

Man, this whole discussion is like watching two kids arguing about who gets to keep a toy. My god.

Like Shinuki said, lets wait for the chapter release in a few short hours and then discuss or talk about them like usual.

 

[Pietro]

So today we will have the chapter despite it's holy easter. What a strange place...

 

[Tonix]

Man, i was about to say Welcome to the Forum until i saw the date of the account lol i guess Welcome back? kkkk I don't remember you by name but i guess @WyldViolet do

My apologies for not welcoming you when you got here.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

So today we will have the chapter despite it's holy easter. What a strange place...

Easter isn't a holiday in Japan, and Shonen Jump isn't actually released on Sunday but Monday, we get the mangas on Sunday because what is Sunday 12:00 for us is actually Monday 24:00 in Japan.

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My apologies for not welcoming you when you got here.

 

[Tonix]

I can criticize whatever I want, if I didn't like the author's approach then I'm going to criticize it, you guys criticize a lot of shonen manga here too.

If I understand what’s going on (haven’t bothered to read this whole argument) the problem is that you are making judgments about things you haven’t read. I judge that to be kind of dumb and to not really be a relevant opinion.