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[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)

 

[ItsSamu]

Been slowly reading the past two issues because lowkey they were both kind of just mediocre and while there's nothing as exciting as the concept of a good new batch, the inverse feeling I'm having right now is when said good batch doesn't really hit in the the ways you wanted it to.

Roku's House of Oddities did have its best chapter yet, I'll give it that. But I still think having a cast of five characters joining the team where only one of them can vary her facial expressions, and where only three of them say anything of substance, just isn't a good mix to establish confidence in the group banter. Humour still doesn't hit like it did in Agravity Boys, but the runaway best (and most usable) character getting focus this past week makes me think this is the best the series can get, until it figures out how this weird group can work long-term.

Drawn to the Fire is perfectly decent. I want to like it but maybe I've been burned by too many sports series failing and I'm not feeling great confidence that this is doing anything especially different to change that. I've felt more passionate for other sports titles by this point than I have with this and actually wanted them to succeed despite their odds. Right now - even though I do like the main duo's banter - I'm kind of just in a state of acceptance of what's going to happen and waiting to see if it really does something special.

Class 2-B: The Hero Destroyerz... hmmm. I trust Sorachi. It plays out with great competence in both chapters but I'm just not sure on the focus of his humour so far. I want it to work for me and I still think it might but I need him to flesh out as good of a cast as he did in Gintama to help it all click and make me actually like it as much as I want to like it.

Based on recent news, if Hima-Ten! does end soon-ish then that's only a good thing in my book. Himari's path to victory is so clearly laid out now but I do hope there's some dramatic bumps in the road before we get there. I'm still liking the series a good bit since it shifted towards this countdown of the confession and now that that feels like the final arc/stretch of the series I do feel confident it'll keep up until then. I do reckon it'll be something for later in the year and the next batch will just be Kinato's Magic and Alien Headbutt getting the cut.

Other than the usual Best Manga in The Magazine my other typical faves are still ranking in my top spots but that kind of betrays how I've been feeling about some of them. With One Piece, I'm still not totally in love with what Imu's turned out to be, much like with Kagurabachi where I'm feeling like this Seitei War arc is cool on a surface level but hasn't lived up to the expectations I had based on the hints we've got so far. I think my issue is both that the realisation of these big crucial parts of the narrative being revealed for their truth is just a bit... plain? I guess. Even though they're mixed they're still better than the rest of the magazine to me, which I think is more of an indication of how middling I'm finding current events in most series right now.

Top 5 of Issue #22/23:
1. Akane-banashi
2. Ichi the Witch
3. One Piece
4. Kagurabachi
5. Hima-Ten!

Spoiler: The rest for this week

Good-ish:
6. Blue Box
7. Sakamoto Days
8. Me & Roboco

This is fine, I guess:
9. Shinobi Undercover
10. WITCH WATCH
11. Roku’s House of Oddities
12. Drawn to the Fire
13. Someone Hertz
14. Nue's Exorcist
15. Class 2-B: The Hero Destroyerz
16. Under Doctor

Not working for me:
17. Kinato’s Magic
18. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
19. Alien Headbutt

On that note, what's everyone's favourite story arc of the current ongoing WSJ series? Specifically the 2020s generation ie excluding One Piece and HxH.

To save it from being x5 Akane-banashi picks, I've capped at one per series:

1. Arakawa School Past (Akane-banashi)
2. Cinderella (Burn the Witch)
3. Assassin Exhibition of the Century (Sakamoto Days)
4. Mimin (PPPPPPP)
5. Sword Bearer Assassination (Kagurabachi)

 

[DrLazer]

My ranking of Issue #22-23 2026

1st - Nue's Exorcist #143
2nd - Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #90
3rd - Kagurabachi #120
4th - Hima-Ten! #88
5th - Under Doctor #14
6th - Alien Headbutt #12
7th - Roku's House of Oddities #4
8th - Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz #2
9th - Someone Hertz #31
10th - Ichi the Witch #80
11th - Shinobi Undercover #79
12th - Drawn to the Fire #3
13th - Kinato's Magic #13

Sry for the late, I like to take my time when there's a break issue lol.
I love Nue & Kiyoshi so much rn! Hima-Ten is also great. I love UD & Alien. That was too fast for Ichi lol... About new series, Roku & C2B are good.

 

[FantasticFootno]

I keep seeing people mention Sword Bearer assassination as their favorite arc, and I think thats kinda funny. Back during the popularity poll last year, shueisha clarified that the arc is just the stretch from the end of the auction to iori showing up lol (which is good, but like, idk if its an all-timer lol). There's 3 arcs between the auction and the seitei war stuff now, but the fanbase refuses to actually acknowledge 2 of them, and just lumps them into a nebulous "SBA" arc. Like even the wiki straight up ignores this, which is wild. They released the website in english too, so its not even like there's some language barrier. I've seen people pretend that there's multiple arcs within an arc before (sunrise countdown, "Dark continent expedition", etc), but I've never seen like multiple arcs be grouped together into some hellish mega arc.

 

[Kiaida]

I've never seen like multiple arcs be grouped together into some hellish mega arc.

It's not that unusual. Dragon Ball official arcs have more subdivisions, but we just call them Frieza Arc, Androids Arc, etc. Bleach's Arrancar is also like three different arcs officially.

 

[FantasticFootno]

It's not that unusual. Dragon Ball official arcs have more subdivisions, but we just call them Frieza Arc, Androids Arc, etc. Bleach's Arrancar is also like three different arcs officially.

I guess thats true. Its just odd because like clearly the assassination stuff ended when the arc ended, and the later stuff has little, if anything, to do with that initial title. And people treat the other arc names like normal, so its weird to just have a random group of arcs be bunched together for convenience (especially with it only being a 60-70 chapter stretch). Like at least its generalized for all of DB's arcs, and idk yeah arrancar is close, but also 300 chapters and its own kind of mess.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I mean... the editor should be the one with the most knowledge about if the series they are in charge is going to get axed or not right?

Yeah but the point is that the Nue fanbase took a mention of "final battle" in a editor note too at face value as if the manga was speeding to fight some final boss when we literally had not a single Hyo even defeated yet at the time, and that because of their constant worry for the bottom placements, that is a bit of context missing here that a part of the japanese readers who follow and discuss ToC stuff take the rankings too at face value, to a point where is annoying because there's no nuance, so anytime a established series drop to the bottom they already start to talk about how it might "get axed next round" lol so basically Nue has been in the verge of "getting axed next round" for the last 2 years according to japanese Forums

On the flipside, we don't actually know all that much about how Jump+ functions.

With WSJ, we know generally how everything works for popularity, cancellations, etc, even if we don't have the exact details on it, but Jump+'s systems are still mostly a mystery I think.

The only thing I remember is that No Name's author mentioned it was given 2 volumes with the possibility to continue if it did well, so I guess that's fairly common? And explains why they're generally better at endings that WSJ series, if they're expected to plan it out like a short-term serialisation but with the scope to expand. However, I've no clue how it works when a series does well at first but the popularity disappears over time (after passing that initial limit).

Views, simple, if your series don't keep with a specific level of weekly viewers it will eventually get axed, the thing is that the first chapter of any series reaching 1 million views is pretty much the standard, and for a while the chapters will have hundreds of thousands views guaranteed, the challenge is to keep a good average view numbers after the novelty goes off, which is why the chapter cancelation ratio on Plus is at least over 30 chapters.

Said that, there are cases of series able to keep a long running and successful serialization with just decent/average chapter views because the sales are good, that was the case of Ron Kamonohashi which had just decent/average views in the app for most part but it sold over 20k physical copies alone, so it was a hit for Plus standards.

I want to give a reminder that even if Nue isn’t cover for #25 does not mean all hope is totally lost, they could delay it more than a week and it still get that cover on #26 or #27. (Still, the sooner the better in my opinion, at least in terms of staving off any doom/rageposting from people who think it’s a lost cause.)

I'll be fine as long as I do not see it getting a normal color page.

As long as that doesn't happen we are good.

Yeah, just as long as the series doesn't get a regular cp next issue, actually the best scenario possible would be Nue not getting anything on issue #25 because that would be 100% the confirmation it's getting a cover & lead cp lol

I find it really funny whenever ShonenSalto makes a post about the current jump lineup it always ends with people in the comments and quotes shitting on all the new series except for bachi and ichi.

Most funny was Mankichi asking why people never bring Shinobi Undercover alongside Kgb & Ichi in these "New Big 3" discussions on Twitter, and i was like:

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They literally don't even read anything that isn't something they can bandwagon. They just consider everything that sells bad (selling bad = not selling like Bleach or Jujutsu Kaisen) or isn't a battle and aura manga to be trash.

I miss that time when the people that bothered to discuss the magazine or industry at least used to read smaller, for Jump standards, hits like Beelzebub, Medaka Box, etc.

I was thinking about this like 2 days ago because i read a tweet about Black Clover fans hopping on Ichi now that is finished, i read that and thought, why? why it always has to be the "next big thing"? on Jump alone there are many cool new things to read, there's nothing wrong in wanting to read popular series but it feels like with some people it's always about just following the most popular thing instead of necessarily finding a new series to read

 

[Pedroland17]

Raws I found thanks to the help of others for some of Shoichi Usui's one-shots before Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi to celebrate volume 1's release in the states.

Enma in Love:
https://r-cbs.mangafactory.jp/c16286/c209-17287/

Sore Ike! Kakushi Command Ka!:
https://archive.org/details/mangamag_Jump_NEXT/Jump NEXT 2014 vol.01/mode/2up

Gacchanko!:
https://archive.org/details/mangamag_Jump_NEXT/Jump NEXT 2015 vol.01/mode/2up

Tsutengai SCRAP:
Galaxy's (The one with Beta-Shishido):
Magelle-chan no Otsukai:
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Pilot):

Wow!! But he was really heavily influenced by Oda. Impressive.

 

[Wookitake]

I think it's rather simple: people want to belong to a group (fans of XYZ), and, then, they want to validade their choice/preference (becoming this pain in the ass, blindly stanning their choice)

 

[tirakai]

For whatever reason, a lot of people only want to follow 2 or 3 huge series at a time. Like back when Naruto and Bleach were ongoing, a lot of people only read those two series + Fairy Tail and literally nothing else. When those ended, they jumped to Jujutsu Kaisen, MHA, and Chainsawman.

Here we're into WSJ as a concept so most of us are reading at least half the roster week to week (and many of us read everything) but some people just don't want to get deeper into the medium. They want a couple things to think and talk about each week and aren't really curious about what else is happening outside of those until they end and need something to replace them (since you're not going to be getting pages and pages of discussion about Kiyoshi or Shinobigoto anywhere except this kind of devoted Jump topic for example).

 

[WyldViolet]

I think it's rather simple: people want to belong to a group (fans of XYZ), and, then, they want to validade their choice/preference (becoming this pain in the ass, blindly stanning their choice)

People with no personality or interests of their own basically.

 

[monstera11]

I'll be fine as long as I do not see it getting a normal color page.

As long as that doesn't happen we are good.

Or worse, no color at all

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For whatever reason, a lot of people only want to follow 2 or 3 huge series at a time. Like back when Naruto and Bleach were ongoing, a lot of people only read those two series + Fairy Tail and literally nothing else. When those ended, they jumped to Jujutsu Kaisen, MHA, and Chainsawman.

Here we're into WSJ as a concept so most of us are reading at least half the roster week to week (and many of us read everything) but some people just don't want to get deeper into the medium. They want a couple things to think and talk about each week and aren't really curious about what else is happening outside of those until they end and need something to replace them (since you're not going to be getting pages and pages of discussion about Kiyoshi or Shinobigoto anywhere except this kind of devoted Jump topic for example).

Most people are not even reading jjk, mha, and csm. They engage those series from short Tiktok reels, youtube reactions, twitter comments and memes. Basically, they just want to be part of the "In" crowd. This is why fandom illiteracy are at all times low now.

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And this is why discussions and climate in those "smaller fandom" tend to be a lot more chills. Just compare the Akane Banashi discussions with the others.

Or rather, the toxicity are mostly coming from dudebros. Any fandom that has a lot of dudebros tend to be extremely toxic with lots of mudslingings and tribalism. Look at Dungeon Meshi! Frieren! Just chill

Just look at Spy x Family fandom. It is big, it is popular, but the state of the fandom is night & day compared to jjk

 

[shillin65]

Black Clover ended and I haven't read it since it moved to GIGA so I decided to catch up
Aside from all the stuff I couldn't understand due to forgetting half of what happened it was a pretty decent ending and a pretty decent series overall; probably the most 7/10 battle shonen that's ever 7/10'd

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weekly Shoseki Top 500 (4/27/26 - 5/3/26)
1. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #3
2. Kagurabachi #11
3. One Piece Chopper's #1
6. Blue Box #25
4. Sakamoto Days #27
5. Ichi the Witch #8
10. Someone Hertz #3
20. The Elusive Samurai #25
55. Hima-Ten! #9 (7,325)
95. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8 (4,725)
108. Me & Roboco #26 (4,244)

 

[Broseph]

Tbh I think some people just like the community part of manga. They want to read manga that have a decent amount of already existing fans to talk, theorize, powerscale, and even ship with it. That's my guess at least

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weekly Shoseki Top 500 (4/27/26 - 5/3/26)
1. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #3
2. Kagurabachi #11
3. One Piece Chopper's #1
6. Blue Box #25
4. Sakamoto Days #27
5. Ichi the Witch #8
10. Someone Hertz #3
20. The Elusive Samurai #25
55. Hima-Ten! #9 (7,325)
95. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8 (4,725)
108. Me & Roboco #26 (4,244)

For the ones wondering since there's a long time since a Kiyoshi volume had 3 days, it's pretty much doing usual excluding vol 4 that seemed to have a better 3 days than usual:

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #1 (4.098) - 3 Days
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #3 (4.956) - 3 Days
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #4 (6.144) - 3 Days
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8 (4.725) - 3 Days

Roboco also seems to be in line.

 

[Reyes]

I should say the rewards for ranking:

The top 15 characters will get eye catchers made for them for One Piece Episodes in 2027.

Top 30 will get illustrations from Oda, with each character in new outfits.

Top 50 will get new cards made for them for The One Piece TCG.

 

[Subarashiii]

To be fair to the western side of the animanga community a bit, it's not uncommon, now especially I feel like (but this might be anecdotal evidence here) that multiple people even in Japan only read maybe like 1 or 2 series in the magazine. I mean I wouldn't be shocked if a fair amount of people reading were doing it for One Piece and nothing else right now. Loads of people near the end of JJK's run made posts saying they were probably done with the magazine for the time being since they didn't care for most of the series running at the time. Not to say that's 1:1 with the western reason for things but it's definitely not a totally western reader phenomenon I would say to only read the big shots at the time.

 

[Kiaida]

The issue isn't only reading a few works, that's completely fine, but about making broad generalizations about the demographic, magazines, industry, etc without properly engaging with it or researching. The constant dismissal of manga they didn't read as trash based solely on sales instead of trying a few chapters is also pretty ignorant. It would be like if I suddenly started to give my opinions about current ice hockey, even though I don't follow any ice hockey league, because I watched a few games during the Olympics.

 

[WyldViolet]

The issue isn't only reading a few works, that's completely fine, but about making broad generalizations about the demographic, magazines, industry, etc without properly engaging with it or researching. The constant dismissal of manga they didn't read as trash based solely on sales instead of trying a few chapters is also pretty ignorant. It would be like if I suddenly started to give my opinions about current ice hockey, even though I don't follow any ice hockey league, because I watched a few games during the Olympics.

Or judging solely based off of something like the look of a manga, or even worse pure bandwagoning.
We see this with Nue a lot. People acting like because it has harem elements it's shit. Or just confidently saying it's shit because that's what they've heard.
Obviously Nue, isn't the only victim of this sort of thing. Just a current example of toxic bandwagoning from people who want to pretend to have an opinion.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

To be fair to the western side of the animanga community a bit, it's not uncommon, now especially I feel like (but this might be anecdotal evidence here) that multiple people even in Japan only read maybe like 1 or 2 series in the magazine. I mean I wouldn't be shocked if a fair amount of people reading were doing it for One Piece and nothing else right now. Loads of people near the end of JJK's run made posts saying they were probably done with the magazine for the time being since they didn't care for most of the series running at the time. Not to say that's 1:1 with the western reason for things but it's definitely not a totally western reader phenomenon I would say to only read the big shots at the time.

I wouldn't take these comments seriously tbh, you will read something like this in the jp forums basically every week and yet these people still buy and comment about the magazine every week lol

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Or worse, no color at all

Anniversary color page is 100% obligatory in the magazine, unless it's getting axed before lol