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

[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)

 

[Nuesmoker]

Man Idk how to rank a lot of issue 19, so much stuff was just... OKAY

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Already posting my predictions:

-Obviously issue #21 will be Class 2-B: Hero Destroyers getting the cover and lead color pages!

-Color pages will be: Summer and Fireflies, Blue Box and either Kinato's Magic or Me & Roboco

-Bottom 5 will be: Hero Girl & Demon Lord (Final), Hima-Ten!, Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Witch Watch and Alien Headbutt

-Top 5 will be: Someone Hertz, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days, Ichi the Witch and Blue Box

Said that i wouldn't be surprised if Kinato drop to the bottom. with only Hero Girl and without Nue, we will be lucky if only Alien is there.

 

[SharkBait]

Already posting my predictions:

-Obviously issue #21 will be Class 2-B: Hero Destroyers getting the cover and lead color pages!

-Color pages will be: Summer and Fireflies, Blue Box and either Kinato's Magic or Me & Roboco

-Bottom 5 will be: Hero Girl & Demon Lord (Final), Hima-Ten!, Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Witch Watch and Alien Headbutt

-Top 5 will be: Someone Hertz, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days, Ichi the Witch and Blue Box

Said that i wouldn't be surprised if Kinato drop to the bottom. with only Hero Girl and without Nue, we will be lucky if only Alien is there.

Lets flippin go, Kinato color page!

 

[Phantom RPG]

Already posting my predictions:

-Obviously issue #21 will be Class 2-B: Hero Destroyers getting the cover and lead color pages!

-Color pages will be: Summer and Fireflies, Blue Box and either Kinato's Magic or Me & Roboco

-Bottom 5 will be: Hero Girl & Demon Lord (Final), Hima-Ten!, Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Witch Watch and Alien Headbutt

-Top 5 will be: Someone Hertz, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days, Ichi the Witch and Blue Box

Said that i wouldn't be surprised if Kinato drop to the bottom. with only Hero Girl and without Nue, we will be lucky if only Alien is there.

I kinda agree with the prediction for next issue.

Man, I really want Kinato to survive but we shall see how the plot develops. I don't want a green green greens scenario again. I mean, I think its save, but again its difficult to really ascertain mostly because of a lack of color page. But if it does get one next issue its a good sign.

Now I do wonder if this batch of series will finally destroy the spring curse of no series recently being up to snuff outside Kill Blue and Nue Exorcist? I think its highly likely thanks mostly to Sorachi, but its wait and see.

Also, Alien butthead is for sure getting axed in the summer batch. But who will join him is up in the air, but given how fast its going I am going to go and say its likely Blue Box. Although I do admit that Himaten is a close second, mostly because I think the overall development of the series is going a bit too quickly in my eyes, but I could be wrong.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Kiyoshi has been licensed for Germany

kiyoshi will stay for a while on this magazine, and thats really good, the only real shonen of weekly shonen jump nowadays

 

[Kiaida]

They're all shonen. lol

As for Roku, I assume it got probably overshadowed by Sorachi's return.

 

[WyldViolet]

the only real shonen of weekly shonen jump nowadays

What does that even mean?

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

What does that even mean?

It's because I think Kiyoshi looks like a shonen who came directly from the 2000s, and the only one we've had in a while. And that's why I like it so much

 

[WyldViolet]

It's because I think Kiyoshi looks like a shonen who came directly from the 2000s, and the only one we've had in a while. And that's why I like it so much

From someone who was there at the time, I feel all the battle manga in Jump right now feel like 00's battle shonen sans Alien Headbutt.
Especially Nue, Kinato, & Under Doctor.
But shonen is a demographic, not a genre.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Serinox deleted the post because Kiyoshi is actually already licensed in Germany for a while, it was just a post about the series in general, looking in their website they're on vol 3

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

From someone who was there at the time, I feel all the battle manga in Jump right now feel like 00's battle shonen sans Alien Headbutt.
Especially Nue, Kinato, & Under Doctor.
But shonen is a demographic, not a genre.

i know... it's just a figure of speech i use lol

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

@KyuKyu555 Please send your votes if you're going to do

 

[Dippy Fresh]

i think that most of the discourse is because at least in the beginning, MMYY was ranking similar to Kagurabachi, even when it was on the bottom 5, kagurabachi was also on the bottom 5

So i think they were a little shady

I think that's mostly just weird for Kagurabachi. Not to say MMYY deserved bottom 5 at the beginning either but for how well it sells, Kagura is usually like not as high as some other series is in the TOC

 

[ItsSamu]

Roku’s House of Oddities was a big chapter of disappoint. There's nothing worse than when the first chapter of a new series is the worst of the week.

Didn't laugh once (the edge of my lips dared to quiver at the Dragon Ball gag alone, though). Found the set-up to be overly long and devoid of humour. When the introduction of the cast and their schticks got focus it then just felt like we were already repeating the same jokes/sterile reactions to the point where I was already bored with the cast despite knowing them for maybe 14 pages? Not sold on any of the characters, the set up, nothing really. Such a let down considering I was looking forward to it and everything that was a negative worked for me in Agravity Boys; even when it was living a miserable life at the back of the magazine I found it charming, stupidly endearing, and there were enough characters across the cast who could be thrown together to create varied funny scenarios throughout its run. Not convinced on any of that here.

On Gonron Egg ending last week: I do agree that there's something about Gonron Egg's absolutely awfulness that made it compelling to check out week-to-week. Yes, the art downgraded horribly as it went. Yes, it was disappointing that this was the serialisation of an author who had been working for over a decade on one-shots. Yes, its writing was every bit as uninspired as the first chapter led us to believe. But-- actually, there's no real but. It's just that bad. Yet... yet... ??? I don't know. I still think Tanizaki is not cut out to be a mangaka, but... all I'm saying is I can envision a world where his effort into the craft did pull off and he could probably achieve something. I suspect that is an alternate reality to the one we exist within, however.

While I was a big fan of the first chapter of The Mage Next Door and enjoyed the early antics for what they were, I do think it lost its charm (and ability to make me laugh) along the way. I'm kind of glad this final chapter circled back to that vibe that I preferred though. Clearly it wasn't destined for success, but I'll have a little bit of a soft spot for its imperfect run. Add that that alongside Neru: The Way of the Martial Artist which also delivered a first chapter that had my hopes way higher than the rest of the series ended living up to.

Count me in the group who believes Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits will be ending next issue. If it does, there's nothing to be embarrassed about either - it's been a pleasant read, mostly a good laugh, and these final few chapters have felt emotionally conclusive in a way most cancelled titles fail at achieving. I also do hope it ends partially because I need my personal prediction of Hunter x Hunter returning on the double issue (or the issue after) to come to fruition for my sanity, because I need something that will actually challenge Akane being at the top spot every week - I'm becoming bored with myself!

Speaking of: episode 1 of Akane-banashi was very very good. First chapter remains more impactful in my mind but the series also does evolve with the level of detail given to the rakugo performances, so I hope we get a nice showcase throughout this first cour.

I somehow didn't miss the end of voting for Issue #18 as well? Damn. In that case, my ranking for the past two pretty whatever issues are:

Top 5 of Issue #18:
1. Akane-banashi
2. Ichi the Witch
3. One Piece
4. Blue Box
5. Kagurabachi

Top 5 of Issue #19:
1. Akane-banashi
2. One Piece
3. Kagurabachi
4. Ichi the Witch
5. Sakamoto Days

Spoiler: The rest for this week

Pretty good, I guess?:
6. Blue Box
7. Me & Roboco

Very readable:
8. Hima-Ten!
9. Shinobi Undercover

Just fine:
10. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits
11. Under Doctor
12. Alien Headbutt
13. Kinato's Magic
14. Someone Hertz
15. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
16. Nue's Exorcist
17. The Mage Next Door

It really sucks when the new series is the worst of the week:
18. Roku’s House of Oddities

 

[sofiahalbof]

Boost digital Kindle for nue exorcist

 

[Dippy Fresh]

My late prediction for the TOC: Another issue with no color page for Kinato or Alien but somehow both don't slip to the bottom still and we all sit here and wonder what Saito is doing...

That or they both fall, we'll see

 

[Broseph]

I'm sure Kiyoshi with the worst sales in the magazine, the worst digital performance, no internet comments, no fanart, no merch is the unbeatable survey king. They axed two anime series to keep it, there's no way to look at its rankings in an objective way, I'm sorry.

And there was even discourse recently that less kids in Japan are reading Jump (and manga in general) than ever before. I somehow doubt that these mythical children are the ones who have saved it so far

 

[BelTL]

And there was even discourse recently that less kids in Japan are reading Jump (and manga in general) than ever before. I somehow doubt that these mythical children are the ones who have saved it so far

also how magazine sale is dying too so TOC saving Kiyoshi sounds more and more strange

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

And there was even discourse recently that less kids in Japan are reading Jump (and manga in general) than ever before. I somehow doubt that these mythical children are the ones who have saved it so far

This is a japanese theory, the same was use with Yozakura constantly, quite reinforced by the first Super Stage on Jump Festa reportedly having a lot of kids attending by people who where in the event.

also how magazine sale is dying too so TOC saving Kiyoshi sounds more and more strange

lol you know that just physical alone Shonen Jump still has a 1 million copies printed per issue (at least until the last report) right? and digital was already over 700k like 3 years ago, today it's definitely higher than this, which means Shonen Jump has at the very least over 1.5 million copies circulating every week.

Also, what the amount of a magazine circulation number has to do with a series being or not able to have good surveys? Do you think only Shonen Jump has surveys? every big manga magazine has survey votes, we just had a recent controversy over Weekly Shonen Sunday with a author revealing that despite his series usually being placed lower in the magazine ToC due to his editor being incompetent, the series was actually popular with the survey votes, and this is a series from a magazine with the physical circulation under 200k per issue.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

I know the likelihood of this is pretty much impossible especially with the magazine not being overly competitive rn but I'm walking through a thought experiment:

Say the magazine WAS competitive and pretty full. We just had a new round and majority are doing quite well in survey results. Problem is, something has to give and nothing is ending soon. Does Jump axe a series that hasn't sold it's volume 1 yet and has the potential to break out or does it axe a series like Kill Blue (modest seller, okay rankings but it's hit its ceiling)?

This is presuming, of course, 1) There is no series that is legitimately wrapping up, 2) There's not enough filler/buffer to create a new round. Can't imagine Jump just washes their hands and says "We're good to have no new rounds for a bit" but is it worth serializing a, most likely new axeable series by removing a modestly popular series? I've always wondered this especially on years where we get lots of series that stick around like 2020 or 2024