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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Exlipse]

Saito is confusing, never thought there would be an EiC worse than Nakano, but he's proving me wrong. Atleast with Nakano, there was atleast 1 hit per year, and sometimes even a mega-hit, but with Saito there's nothing at all.

 

[LogicoftheVI]

Drawn to the Fire - the first chapter was just okay, nothing special. I honestly feel that Embers had a stronger first chapter which gives me pause for this series making it past 19 to 21 chapters. There were multiple panels that were just trash especially the ones where the illustrator just left out the 2nd eyeball for no reason. I have low expectations for this series, we'll see if it can clear the bar.

 

[Dippy Fresh]

Yeah I'm just tired of WSJ. Things I like are axed, things I don't care about staying. Kinato's early stuff at least felt much better than Under Doctor to me but obviously just a skew in my taste to JP tastes

I'm stepping aside, not reading enough here to follow closely and I don't care about Jumps future at this point so I'm gonna follow other magazines instead for now. I'll come back sometime prob but take care in the meantime guys

 

[WyldViolet]

Saito is confusing, never thought there would be an EiC worse than Nakano, but he's proving me wrong. Atleast with Nakano, there was atleast 1 hit per year, and sometimes even a mega-hit, but with Saito there's nothing at all.

Y'know, I was a big Nak hater back in the day, but looking back I honestly think he was a pretty memorable EiC. So many great series under his belt.
Saito meanwhile... It's very hard to imagine I'll find much to praise about him in retrospect.

 

[Jay_Senju]

Under Doctor having a chance to be the only survivor of it's batch is something I did not expect ngl.

 

[Dongus]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #21 (2026)
00. Class 2-B: Brave Destroyers (New Series by Hideaki Sorachi, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. One Piece
02. Ichi the Witch
03. Sakamoto Days
00. Drawn to the Fire (Color Page)
04. Witch Watch
05. Shinobi Undercover
00. Someone Hertz (Color Page)
00. Roku's House of Oddities (Not Ranked)
06. Akane-banashi
00. Blue Box (Color Page)
07. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
08. Under Doctor
09. Kagurabachi
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Hima-Ten!
12. Me & Roboco
13. Kinato's Magic
14. Alien Headbutt

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #21-22 (2026) - Information!
Sakamoto Days (Lead Color Pages)
Class 2-B: Brave Destroyers (Color Page)
Hima-Ten! (Color Page)
One Shot (Color Page)

Gonna have to start my Under Doctor slander at this rate, huh? It's certainly not at a level to be ranking over Kagurabachi or Nue's Exorcist. What does Kiada like to say? Sanitized shonen bias or something?

 

[Broseph]

Yeah I'm just tired of WSJ. Things I like are axed, things I don't care about staying. Kinato's early stuff at least felt much better than Under Doctor to me but obviously just a skew in my taste to JP tastes

I'm stepping aside, not reading enough here to follow closely and I don't care about Jumps future at this point so I'm gonna follow other magazines instead for now. I'll come back sometime prob but take care in the meantime guys

I’ve been like this for a while tbh. I still follow the ToC because the Jump rise and falls are very fun to follow but recent years are probably the least I’ve personally been attached to Jump. There’s only a handful I read right now compared to 6 years ago when I think I was ready most of the magazine

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Yeah I'm just tired of WSJ. Things I like are axed, things I don't care about staying. Kinato's early stuff at least felt much better than Under Doctor to me but obviously just a skew in my taste to JP tastes

I'm stepping aside, not reading enough here to follow closely and I don't care about Jumps future at this point so I'm gonna follow other magazines instead for now. I'll come back sometime prob but take care in the meantime guys

But yeah, it sucks seeing a new series like Kinato in that placement, so much potential, we talk too much about Saito but it's the japanese readers that are simply not liking anything, i don't know what's the deal with them recently, since Syd Craft seems like they don't like anything, so many decent series with potential just canceled, and the new round is already showing cracks, Roku had pretty abysmal J+ views, Drawn to the Flame is already showing mixed reception, it's complicated...

 

[cameronney618]

If Under Doctor can be in the bottom 3 last week and rise outside the bottom in this week, i will still keep the hope for Kinato!

I won't count it. The second half of Kinato is where people started finding issues with the series.
- Kaminagi being straight
- FGO ripoff
- Story curveball and Deku ripoff

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I won't count it. The second half of Kinato is where people started finding issues with the series.
- Kaminagi being straight
- FGO ripoff
- Story curveball and Deku ripoff

And people already found issues with Under Doctor by chapter 3, and the manga doing fine, so that could work with the opposite

 

[himarizz]

I'm happy that Himaten is finally getting a color page, but I wonder if it will survive until the 2nd anniversary. I hope so.

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By the way, is Under Doctor mangaka sick or something? I remember he said that he fell sick before the serialization started. But then last week he also said that he'd want to recover. I noticed that he hasn't drawn double spread actions except this scene in chapter 1.

I want to like Under Doctor, but the action is kinda underwhelming... The art looks clean, but the action is so sterile and unmemorable. I wonder if he's pacing himself because he doesn't feel well.

 

[cameronney618]

It's just so weird to me because Kinato just felt like a hit. Good humor, positive online reception, creative solutions to problems using the main character's unique ability, good art...usually when a new series comes on you can kind of read their fate at the start especially with Shinkui's hard work at monitoring the JP forums and so the Kinato seeming miss was pretty shocking (really the whole batch, but I expected UD and Headbutt to flounder),

I completely disagree about it being a sure hit series. Kinato's Magic has a major character design problem where every character looks EXTREMELY GENERIC.
Last chapter is full proof of that sentiments where Kinato introduced probably the LAMEST set of Character Designs to the Gotei 13 equivalent of the series. I knew this manga was over after looking at that.

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And people already found issues with Under Doctor by chapter 3, and the manga doing fine, so that could work with the opposite

There's been more positive reception to UD since the mute kid join the group. I dont think it will survive long but it does enough to consider keeping this over AH and Kinato.

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I'm happy that Himaten is finally getting a color page, but I wonder if it will survive until the 2nd anniversary. I hope so.

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By the way, is Under Doctor mangaka sick or something? I remember he said that he fell sick before the serialization started. But then last week he also said that he'd want to recover. I noticed that he hasn't drawn double spread actions except this scene in chapter 1.

I want to like Under Doctor, but the action is kinda underwhelming... The art looks clean, but the action is so sterile and unmemorable. I wonder if he's pacing himself because he doesn't feel well.

It's less noticeable than Kaedegami but Tanimoto is not good at drawing fight scenes. If you look up his oneshots, he deliberately avoids drawing them.

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I'm very curious how long this current kgb arc is going to be. At first, i thought it was going to be as short as the kakashi gaiden arc but with the way the story is going, it might just be a 40 chapter arc or so. It's surprising but welcoming.

 

[Pietro]

What are they doing LMAO? I think with AH, UD and Kinato they are playing games, with ups and down... till something finishes (like Sakamoto, Blue box etc...)
Or at least, I hope... Anyway, I expected AH to fall but not also Kinato, the series is SOOO good. I don't know...

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

A new One Shot Festival will start on Shonen Jump from Issue #22-23 to #27 with 5 one shots:

#22/23: Tensai Harai Gakusha Raro Papuru no Hatsukoi by Yuta Kato
#24: Shangai Ryujin by Takahata Yuu
#25: Blood Marriage by Mori Tomohiro
#26: New Year Day no Kaibutsu by Miya Ayumu
#27: Tamura-ka Hyaku Monogatari by Amakaya Yumihiko



So there you have JK Hero space being filled, i guess HxH will maybe return on #28 or we will for real get a 20 chapters batch this time lol

 

[kiyoshibro]

We already know that the new manga by the mangaka of gintama is starting on issue 21 so it will get the covver.

I made a mistake on writing the numbers, sorry... but yeah
22/23: Sakamoto
24: Kagurabachi
etc...

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Btw...

Happy to see Under Doctor above top10 again, i already know that chapter 5 votes was a lil flops (last ToC) because the "un-voicing" of Shuli wasn't so much appreciated overall (on how Tanimoto and his supervisor explain it)

So... this ToC and next one i'm sure that it will be a good results

 

[JBC008]

But yeah, it sucks seeing a new series like Kinato in that placement, so much potential, we talk too much about Saito but it's the japanese readers that are simply not liking anything, i don't know what's the deal with them recently, since Syd Craft seems like they don't like anything, so many decent series with potential just canceled, and the new arc is already showing cracks, Roku had pretty abysmal J+ views, Drawn to the Flame is already showing mixed reception, it's complicated...

Can you give some more details about the mindset about what’s going on in Japan from their social media (not individual accounts, just more the overall consensus if anything is affecting them)? Also what has been each series response from Syd Craft to now, in terms of what people in Japan said critically?

 

[FantasticFootno]

A new One Shot Festival will start on Shonen Jump from Issue #22-23 to #27 with 5 one shots:

#22/23: Tensai Harai Gakusha Raro Papuru no Hatsukoi by Yuta Kato
#24: Shangai Ryujin by Takahata Yuu
#25: Blood Marriage by Mori Tomohiro
#26: New Year Day no Kaibutsu by Miya Ayumu
#27: Tamura-ka Hyaku Monogatari by Amakaya Yumihiko



So there you have JK Hero space being filled, i guess HxH will maybe return on #28 or we will for real get a 20 chapters batch this time lol

i doubt it returns in June unfortunately. If they did plan on it returning so soon, then they would’ve included it in the press

 

[Broseph]

I think social media can give you a certain idea but in the end those sites all have their own bias as well. They are never going to be an accurate reflection of the general audience reading Jump

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Can you give some more details about the mindset about what’s going on in Japan from their social media (not individual accounts, just more the overall consensus if anything is affecting them)? Also what has been each series response from Syd Craft to now, in terms of what people in Japan said critically?

There's nothing particular going on online, the magazine readers that are just not liking anything, sometimes even the online reception is very disconnected with the actual magazine readers reaction like with Ping Pong Peril.

From what i remember the jp conversation was:

-Syd Craft: There was nothing particularly negative that i remember, in fact many actually liked, it was just not at WNL level
-Embers: Boring, the coach was the most interesting character and disappeared from after ch1
-Star of Beethoven: I don't remember exactly what was the criticism going on, most of what i remember that was talked/joked is how the main girl breasts were gigantic and kept growing lol
-Nice Prison: Simply terrible and unfunny
-Otr of the Flame: Cliche but decent first chapter, what killed it was Kawaguchi yet again with the slow pace in the first 10 chapter, mc going right into a training arc after letting the village.
-Harukaze Mound: Too normal which made it boring
-Kaedegami: Generic and bad action scenes, also Chiyo fanservice being heavily reduced after ch1
-Ekiden Bros: Terrible, readers couldn't stand the constant MC open mouth panels
-Ping Pong Peril: It was overall enjoyed and etc, what everybody already knows but there was criticism even among the fans towards the art that according to them was bad and outdated
-Gonron Egg: Terrible
-The Mage Next Door: Just boring
-Hero Girl & Demon Lord: It was fine but not suitable for Jump, felt more like a Shonen Champion series, and there was also some criticism towards the art.

 

[JBC008]

I think social media can give you a certain idea but in the end those sites all have their own bias as well. They are never going to be an accurate reflection of the general audience reading Jump

I mean yeah, I figured, but it was the thought that counts. I agree that it can be problematic when certain sites are biased, but you need to get in touch with people at ground zero in certain locations to get a better understanding of the situation and the people.

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There's nothing particular going on online, the magazine readers that are just not liking anything, sometimes even the online reception is very disconnected with the actual magazine readers reaction like with Ping Pong Peril.

From what i remember the jp conversation was:

-Syd Craft: There was nothing particularly negative that i remember, in fact many actually liked, it was just not at WNL level
-Embers: Boring, the coach was the most interesting character and disappeared from after ch1
-Star of Beethoven: I don't remember exactly what was the criticism going on, most of what i remember that was talked/joked is how the main girl breasts were gigantic and kept growing lol
-Nice Prison: Simply terrible and unfunny
-Otr of the Flame: Cliche but decent first chapter, what killed it was Kawaguchi yet again with the slow pace in the first 10 chapter, mc going right into a training arc after letting the village.
-Harukaze Mound: Too normal which made it boring
-Kaedegami: Generic and bad action scenes, also Chiyo fanservice being heavily reduced after ch1
-Ekiden Bros: Terrible, readers couldn't stand the constant MC open mouth panels
-Ping Pong Peril: It was overall enjoyed and etc, what everybody already knows but there was criticism even among the fans towards the art that according to them was bad and outdated
-Gonron Egg: Terrible
-The Mage Next Door: Just boring
-Hero Girl & Demon Lord: It was fine but not suitable for Jump, felt more like a Shonen Champion series, and there was also some criticism towards the art.

Thank you. Helps me out a lot, but really HG&DL for Champion? I cannot imagine that. Maybe Sunday or Jump+ but I can never imagine Champion.

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To be fair, I would have agreed to a lot of these criticisms for some of the series, but there are diamonds in the rough that I would vouch for to get a second chance cause I did see something in them.