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)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Signature Updated!

We say goodbye to Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, Gonron Egg, The Mage Next Door & Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits and say welcome to Roku's House of Oddities, Drawn to the Fire & Class 2-B: Brave Destroyerz! Good luck to the 3 new series

Also Under Doctor already reached 2nd tier, that was fast!

 

[monstera11]

Nah Saito is just doing what the "Kill Blue" title implies. Fujimaki should have just called it "Alive Blue"

 

[WyldViolet]

Lol, I love how out of context, the sig makes Roku look like a battle manga.

 

[nemu asahi]

Is funny to see people call Kill Blue a succes when the "sells" are a few hunders copies, is like when some say a series deserved to be in the magazine over other just because it sell like 100 copies more the other and both series sell like 2k copies that make them a huge lost for the editorial (you need to sell between 10 and 15k to break even),
If you see this is the first anime of that studio and for sure they got with a producer to get a "huge series" in that moment and it was the same time that Kill Blue started so I will guess the series got the anime by being in the right moment and time. Maybe Shueisha didn't put any money into the production so they don't really care about the series and that is way they didn't push to keep publishing it for more vols into the anime because it doesn't change much for them.
At the end of the day is bussiness and the series behind it doesn't really matters.

Manga are just entertainement products created to make money to them.

They are always baffled when the gaikokujin tell them they see manga as "works of art" or more, like "works of art made by an artist".

The moment I understood that, all of these decisions made sense. Making not enough money with no perspective of making money? YOU GET AXED!

Axing early to just keep the best runners. I did that when I was doing a little stock market. No emotion needed.

Mangaka are just freelancers who are not artists in publishers' minds, they are "story designers". They design the story to the likings of the editors or henshuubu, they make as many changes as needed to please them and they SHUT THE F... UP! It's especially true for Jump, less for other henshubu. And we all know who is making money the most, so we can't say (from a business POV), that they are making a mistake.

People buy their shit, they buy less of other people's shit. In part thanks to all the branding they have done until now, for sure, but they could built this brand because they got numerous successes.

I think they are making a mistake on one point now, though: thinking that their brand is enough to promote new manga in a world where people don't go find the info. Thanks to their brand, a lot of people relay their info, like the title, the genre, the pitch, one or 2 pictures, but if the title is not talked about by its readers on the net, every week to appeal to more readers, then it dies. More or less slowly.

But they don't want to do marketing, because they want strong titles that get on their feet and sell by themselves from the start. Less friction, so less money to spend to promote it, so more ROI in the end when all the stronger spaghetti stay on the wall and the weaker ones are on the floor. (That's how the French know that the spaghetti are well cooked. )

 

[monstera11]

I still think KB's early success may be partly due to editorial bias. Why else it tank the moment the EiC change? Same as how Shinobi got shilled to hell

 

[BelTL]

tbh, regardless of KB's performance, I still think axing a manga with anime plan on the way is awful move.

It's basically a slap on those working on the anime, and we saw how they do care about the work

 

[cameronney618]

Honestly the biggest mistake in regards to Kill Blue is green lighting an anime in the first place. It probably deserved to be canceled, but it's really not a good decision to cancel a series with an anime in production. They should've waited to see if it would continue to decline before green lighting the anime, and it honestly should've been canceled sooner.

Truer words have never been said.

The team doing KB should have been doing Sakamoto. It's crazy that Jump just did their, former second in command, dirty like that.

I don't know what this studio expected from KB. Probably just returning the favor for Kuroko's success with IG.

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No one wants to bring it up but the top comments to hero destroyerz are pretty negative.

 

[FantasticFootno]

No one wants to bring it up but the top comments to hero destroyerz are pretty negative.

Where is this? I feel like most of the negativity I’ve seen has been more in the “will people still like this kind of humor in this day and age”.

 

[Aqyurs]

Because that is most of the negativity. Scrolling through some of the Jump+ comments right now and all the negative comments are things like "I thought it was funny so I was shocked to see people in the comments saying its too wordy" or "I thought it was great, but I'm not sure how a person who isn't a Gintama fan is going to react" or people saying "I'm not sure if people are going to read all these words these days"

Which...there isn't much to discuss about with it yet. We don't know if that's going to be a real barrier or if voters will get over it being wordy. We have to see how the reception evolves over the next chapters.

Also, it's worth noting that the top comments on Jump+ are still praising the chapter or people happy that Sorachi is back and meeting their expectations. There's also way more positive comments then negative, so I don't know where this "top comments are pretty negative" idea is coming from.

 

[monstera11]

Truer words have never been said.

The team doing KB should have been doing Sakamoto. It's crazy that Jump just did their, former second in command, dirty like that.

I don't know what this studio expected from KB. Probably just returning the favor for Kuroko's success with IG.

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No one wants to bring it up but the top comments to hero destroyerz are pretty negative.

Honestly all this stuff about x is more deserving than y is dumb.

I am not even a Kill Blue fan, but just let Kill Blue fans enjoy their flowers with good anime (I have not watched it though, but ppl seems to imply it is good?).

They already suffered enough with seeing their fav manga got rushed etc. Let them be happy without raining on their parade please.

 

[BelTL]

Truer words have never been said.

The team doing KB should have been doing Sakamoto. It's crazy that Jump just did their, former second in command, dirty like that.

I don't know what this studio expected from KB. Probably just returning the favor for Kuroko's success with IG.

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No one wants to bring it up but the top comments to hero destroyerz are pretty negative.

what if KB team didn't have enough interest for Sakamoto, which actually was the case?

 

[Mitsuki Rein]

what if KB team didn't have enough interest for Sakamoto, which actually was the case?

Studio Cue was established in 2023, TMS have definitely taken Sakamoto before that.

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Because that is most of the negativity. Scrolling through some of the Jump+ comments right now and all the negative comments are things like "I thought it was funny so I was shocked to see people in the comments saying its too wordy" or "I thought it was great, but I'm not sure how a person who isn't a Gintama fan is going to react" or people saying "I'm not sure if people are going to read all these words these days"

Which...there isn't much to discuss about with it yet. We don't know if that's going to be a real barrier or if voters will get over it being wordy. We have to see how the reception evolves over the next chapters.

Also, it's worth noting that the top comments on Jump+ are still praising the chapter or people happy that Sorachi is back and meeting their expectations. There's also way more positive comments then negative, so I don't know where this "top comments are pretty negative" idea is coming from.

People just be yapping at this point. Roboco is WAYYYY more wordier than this.

 

[cameronney618]

People just be yapping at this point. Roboco is WAYYYY more wordier than this.

No one likes roboco

 

[RealityChecker]

No one l


No one likes roboco

If no one liked Roboco, it wouldn't get an anime and movie so early on.

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Studio Cue was established in 2023, TMS have definitely taken Sakamoto before that.

To be extremely fair, the only really good anime adaptations from WSJ from this decade would be The Elusive Samurai from Cloverworks and Undead Unluck from DavidPro. I don't know if Kagurabachi from CyPic is gonna be really good or not, it may be a gamble on that. On the other hand, RuriDragon is going to be the best adaptation aince it is being done by Kyoto Animation, so it is gonna be oustanding.

 

[Discomusic]

No one likes roboco

I do! It depends on the week actually.
And Roboco is less wordy than Sorachi. Witch Watch comedy chapters are way more wordy than Sorachi.

 

[Stivie]

Honestly all this stuff about x is more deserving than y is dumb.

I am not even a Kill Blue fan, but just let Kill Blue fans enjoy their flowers with good anime (I have not watched it though, but ppl seems to imply it is good?).

They already suffered enough with seeing their fav manga got rushed etc. Let them be happy without raining on their parade please.

I think that, the moment the Kill Blue anime was announced, there's no longer any reason to complain about cancellation or blame the publisher.

The anime arrived and is a success, so enjoy it.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I still think KB's early success may be partly due to editorial bias. Why else it tank the moment the EiC change? Same as how Shinobi got shilled to hell

Saito is the editor that launched Kuroko no Basket in 2009 and it's his first hit series, if anyone would have any bias about Fujimaki is exactly Saito.

There's no mystery to Kill Blue successful 1st year, it ranked well, it sold 25k+ copies for it's first 6 volumes, it got a 2nd cover which is normal for popular series (minus Nue lol), got a good number of color pages and a anniversary cover, that's it, nothing unnusual about it the series was never even pushed as future flagship or something.

 

[Pietro]

No one likes roboco

I agree ... it's such a pain to read. Sometimes, rarely, has good issues. But very rarely

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Lol, I love how out of context, the sig makes Roku look like a battle manga.

Kinato, Roku and Keiki all close to each other really highlights the Midoriya impact

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi Volume 8

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