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)

 

[JBC008]

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.

I think when starting or joining a bandwagon comes in two different forms. There are those that you argue that want to form an opinion without merit, and then there are those that really do take the thought and critical approach when dissecting the actual material and building a strong case for or against it. The real effort of the bandwagon is when the people within the space are swayed and flock to whatever benefits them in the end.

Sure I gave some toxic criticisms and some massive hot takes, but at the same time I know I can frame it differently and I take reading these series very seriously.

--- Double Post Merged, May 5, 2026, Original Post Date: May 5, 2026 ---

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

Well at least the good thing is that the readers are exploring more of what the magazine has to offer, and it is being well versed to not rely heavily on major series after they end like JJK or MHA.

 

[BelTL]

The thing I dont like about Nue is that the author keeps shoving boobs into my face while it's those thighs that are the most delicious
Thighs in Nue are so underated, it's unacceptable

 

[Dongus]

What I don't like about Nue's Exorcist is that Kota Kawae does not share my taste in women and this makes him not my best friend and an absolute menace to society.

 

[WyldViolet]

Bro needs to learn how to draw feet. Bro's a hack.
Definitely not revealing anything about myself here.

 

[JBC008]

That’s your complaint, drawing feet? I had a whole tangent about Nue’s Exorcist 2 years ago, as it was a list of all of the series within Jump at the time. The only reason why I did that was because of galaxy-juice’s rant and decided to take it in stride.

--- Double Post Merged, May 5, 2026, Original Post Date: May 5, 2026 ---

Hey Shinuki, remember that post?

 

[monstera11]

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.

What is eye catchers?

 

[WyldViolet]

That’s your complaint, drawing feet? I had a whole tangent about Nue’s Exorcist 2 years ago, as it was a list of all of the series within Jump at the time. The only reason why I did that was because of galaxy-juice’s rant and decided to take it in stride.

Yea. There's clearly a reason Kota doesn't draw them very often. Because when he has they often look deformed. He has gotten better at drawing them though over the course of the series, but he's still a long way away from say Nighthawk Returns.
My only other possible complaint would be that I wish the girls had more chances to fight, but it is what it is. I love the series. One of my favorite Jump series in general.

Example

Spoiler

 

[monstera11]

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.

Tribalism is very common in gacha, sports and anime/manga community. Basically my faves are goat, the others are shit. And I will trash talk and spread misinformation about the "competitors"

--- Double Post Merged, May 5, 2026, Original Post Date: May 5, 2026 ---

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

I would rather take satisfying shonen like Black clover anytime rather than pretentious performative subversive shit like csm and jjk

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Thanks for your votes!

WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ISSUE #22-23 (2026) - VOTING RESULTS

1. Akane-banashi 204 (56 J-points)
2. Kagurabachi 120 (52 J-points)
3. One Piece 1181 (38 J-points)
4. Roku's House of Oddities 4 (37 J-points)
5. Nue's Exorcist 143 (36 J-points)
6. Ichi the Witch 80 (34 J-points)
7. Drawn to the Fire 3 (28 J-points)
8. Hima-Ten! 88 (27 J-points)
9. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 90 (25 J-points)
10. Class 2-B: Hero Destroyerz 2 (25 J-points)
11. Witch Watch 245 (19 J-points)
12. Kinato's Magic 13 (19 J-points)
13. Someone Hertz 31 (18 J-points)
14. Under Doctor 14 (16 J-points)
15. Blue Box 240 (15 J-points)
16. Sakamoto Days 257 (12 J-points)
17. Alien Headbutt 12 (12 J-points)
18. Shinobi Undercover 79 (9 J-points)
19. Me & Roboco 279 (5 J-points)

Notes:

-39 Users voted in the poll & 21 in the comments
-Tied placements decided by which series is older

Poll Source:

Spoiler

Comment Source:

Spoiler

Thehoennhippo

1. Someone Hertz 31
2. Akane-banashi 204
3. Class 2-B: Hero Destroyerz 2
4. Ichi the Witch 80
5. Drawn to the Fire 3

Kiaida

1. Nue's Exorcist 143
2. Someone Hertz 31
3. Hima-Ten! 88
4. Roku's House of Oddities 4
5. Class 2-B: Hero Destroyerz 2

icrawfish

1. One Piece 1181
2. Kagurabachi 120
3. Ichi the Witch 80
4. Akane-banashi 204
5. Nue’s Exorcist 143

WyldViolet

1. Nue's Exorcist 143
2. Hima-Ten! 88
3. Roku's House of Oddities 4
4. Drawn to the Flame 3
5. Akane-banashi 204

Dongus

1. Nue's Exorcist 143
2. Akane-banashi 204
3. Roku's House of Oddities 4
4. Shinobi Undercover 79
5. Class 2-B: Hero Destroyerz 2

Javieroski

1. Sakamoto Days 257
2. Drawn to the Fire 3
3. Hima-Ten! 88
4. Kinato's Magic 13
5. Me & Roboco 279

Discomusic

1. Akane-banashi 204
2. Drawn to the fire 3
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 90
4. Sakamoto Days 257
5. Witch Watch 245

Inumaru

1. Alien Headbutt 12
2. Witch Watch 245
3. Roku's House of Oddities 4
4. Me & Roboco 279
5. Ichi The Witch 80

shillin65

1. Hima-Ten! 88
2. Class 2-B: Hero Destroyerz 2
3. Roku's House of Oddities 4
4. Someone Hertz 31
5. Ichi the Witch 80

Wookitake

1. Akane-banashi 204
2. Kagurabachi 120
3. Blue Box 240
4. Witch Watch 245
5. Drawn to the Fire 3

Xanji06

1. Kagurabachi 120
2. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 90
3. Witch Watch 245
4. Ichi The Witch 80
5. Roku's House of Oddities 4

Bulju

1. Akane-banashi 204
2. Kagurabachi 120
3. Drawn to the Fire 3
4. Roku's House of Oddities 4
5. Blue Box 240

Shockzz1234

1. One Piece 1181
2. Ichi The Witch 80
3. Akane-banashi 204
4. Kagurabachi 120
5. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 90

Hawke

1. Roku's House of Oddities 4
2. Kagurabachi 120
3. Kinato's Magic 13
4. Akane-banashi 204
5. Nue's Exorcist 143

LogicoftheVI

1. One Piece 1181
2. Kagurabachi 120
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 90
4. Under Doctor 14
5. Kinato's Magic 13

NeeNeen

1. Kagurabachi 120
2. Akane-banashi 204
3. Under Doctor14
4. Shinobi Undercover 79
5. Witch Watch 245

icrawfish

1. Akane-banashi 204
2. One Piece 1181
3. Nue’s Exorcist 143
4. Kagurabachi 120
5. Under Doctor 14

KyuKyu555

1. Class 2-B: Hero Destroyerz 2
2. Blue Box 240
3. One Piece 1181
4. Ichi the Witch 80
5. Witch Watch 245

ItsSamu

1. Akane-banashi 204
2. Ichi the Witch 80
3. One Piece1181
4. Kagurabachi 120
5. Hima-Ten! 88

DrLazer

1. Nue's Exorcist 143
2. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 90
3. Kagurabachi 120
4. Hima-Ten! 88
5. Under Doctor 14

Shinuki no Reborn

1. Roku's House of Oddities 4
2. Kinato's Magic 13
3. Drawn to the Fire 3
4. Nue's Exorcist 143
5. Under Doctor 14

 

[BelTL]

Bro needs to learn how to draw feet. Bro's a hack.
Definitely not revealing anything about myself here.

If Cloverworks gets Nue, that will get covered
Too bad their waitlist is too big now

 

[JBC008]

Yea. There's clearly a reason Kota doesn't draw them very often. Because when he has they often look deformed. He has gotten better at drawing them though over the course of the series, but he's still a long way away from say Nighthawk Returns.
My only other possible complaint would be that I wish the girls had more chances to fight, but it is what it is. I love the series. One of my favorite Jump series in general.

Example

Spoiler

Yeah, I can see that. For me I just wish Gakuro’s school uniform would unbutton his collar button, due to him looking stiff. But other than that, I can agree with your arguments, but that doesn’t mean Kawae got better as time went on.

 

[Lord Anubis]

What is eye catchers?

Eyecatchers are bumpers placed in-between segments of anime episodes, mainly to indicate the start & end of a commercial break, not too unlike the "We'll Be Right Back" & "Now We're Back" bumpers from western networks.

 

[Nuesmoker]

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.

It's not even about sales, if it was you wouldn't see so much Centuria "glaze" as they say. It's like people got a list of stuff that ABSOLUTELY MUSN'T BE in a series, such as fanservice, long periods without action, a main character that isn't immediately kickass in fights, and so on.

You guys brought up Nue, and guess what? It includes all of these! So to all these bandwagoners it is like, socially unacceptable or something of the sort. How many of these people do you think actually gave the series a genuine shot? Exactly.

Bonus points if there are lots and lots of double spreads, they sure love those. Oh and bonus points if the setrings and art are gritty, many "aura" points to be earned there!

And with all this I mean to say that a disgusting amount of folks don't actually care about the stories themselves. Why do you think so many immediately jump to say "OH THIS ENDING IS TRASH THE AUTHOR IS WASHED" and stances get flipped on their head? Why do you think there is so much, as you yourselves said, "hopping"? Cause it isn't about the stories or the characters, these people just want "teams" to belong to. I've seen too many people making tweets like "if you are sad about Black Clover, join Ichi/Bachi!" like, not even one full hour after the series ended. It's shameless leeching.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Idk, I think for a lot of series with “hype” around them, it’s luck of the draw. Sometimes mediocre series get a lot of hype inexplicably, and sometimes those good series fall by the wayside. I mean even bachi got very lucky with just the random campaigning and meming it ended up having. (I still stand by the take that mamayuyu had a stronger first 2 or so volumes than it).
But then for something like nue, I’m sorry, it had an abyssmal first volume or so, many people bounced off of it for a reason. and it’s a hard sell either way. It’s similar to undead unluck in that way, where there may be good stuff later (idk about nue, not my style at all), but you gotta get through the rougher parts to get there. And many people just want the good stuff at the start, and refuse to endure slow/weak starts.
But yeah, endless campaigning for your already popular series is always insanely annoying, especially because it’s always predicated with the veneer of “our series is better than your old series anyway”. People never need to be told to hop onto a random new series, and the number of people who were only reading black clover’s quarterly chapter drops is probably in the single digits. It’s just an insane sense of self importance to try to drown out actual celebration/discussion of a series ending with “head to my party down the block guys, we’re so much better”.

 

[Chamo]

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)

Good backlogs boosts for all the hits in the magazine (except Blue Box), thanks to new volume releases, Golden Week, live-action for Sakamoto Days, anime announcement for Kagurabachi and ending for Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo:


Sakamoto Days

105. Sakamoto Days #26 (4302)
168. Sakamoto Days #1 (3074)
223. Sakamoto Days #2 (2266)
290. Sakamoto Days #3 (1730)
307. Sakamoto Days #25 (1625)
331. Sakamoto Days #4 (1541)
344. Sakamoto Days #5 (1496)
398. Sakamoto Days #24 (1307)
409. Sakamoto Days #6 (1282)
437. Sakamoto Days #10 (1226)
480. Sakamoto Days #9 (1140)
492. Sakamoto Days #23 (1116)
500. Sakamoto Days #7 (1100)

Total: 23205


Kagurabachi

98. Kagurabachi #10 (4530)
171. Kagurabachi #1 (3015)
195. Kagurabachi #9 (2547)
217. Kagurabachi #2 (2314)
246. Kagurabachi #8 (2082)
255. Kagurabachi #3 (2010)
289. Kagurabachi #7 (1738)
308. Kagurabachi #4 (1622)
310. Kagurabachi #5 (1615)
323. Kagurabachi #6 (1569)

Total: 23042


Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo

15. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #2 (9850+)
23. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #1 (9850+)

Total: 19700+


Ichi the Witch

186. Ichi the Witch #7 (2723)
297. Ichi the Witch #1 (1674)
382. Ichi the Witch #6 (1363)
419. Ichi the Witch #2 (1262)
451. Ichi the Witch #3 (1198)
461. Ichi the Witch #4 (1178)
463. Ichi the Witch #5 (1174)

Total: 10572


Someone Hertz

267. Someone Hertz #1 (1914)
277. Someone Hertz #2 (1834)

Total: 3748

 

[WyldViolet]

Idk, I think for a lot of series with “hype” around them, it’s luck of the draw. Sometimes mediocre series get a lot of hype inexplicably, and sometimes those good series fall by the wayside. I mean even bachi got very lucky with just the random campaigning and meming it ended up having. (I still stand by the take that mamayuyu had a stronger first 2 or so volumes than it).
But then for something like nue, I’m sorry, it had an abyssmal first volume or so, many people bounced off of it for a reason. and it’s a hard sell either way. It’s similar to undead unluck in that way, where there may be good stuff later (idk about nue, not my style at all), but you gotta get through the rougher parts to get there. And many people just want the good stuff at the start, and refuse to endure slow/weak starts.
But yeah, endless campaigning for your already popular series is always insanely annoying, especially because it’s always predicated with the veneer of “our series is better than your old series anyway”. People never need to be told to hop onto a random new series, and the number of people who were only reading black clover’s quarterly chapter drops is probably in the single digits. It’s just an insane sense of self importance to try to drown out actual celebration/discussion of a series ending with “head to my party down the block guys, we’re so much better”.

Personally, I've never understood the whole "Nue had a weak start" cause I loved it from ch 1. Clearly Japan didn't have a problem either.
Was it that it wasn't "baddass" from the getgo? Idk, I've noticed a lot of the complaints against Nue to be similar to the ones laid against Beelzebub back in the day.

 

[kiyoshibro]

Is that...

 

[Phantom RPG]

Is that...

Huh…. That is usually a very good sign.

 

[Nuesmoker]

Is that...

Do we know for sure it isn't a fake?

Anyways if it is true it confirms survival for at least a batch

 

[kiyoshibro]

Do we know for sure it isn't a fake?

Anyways if it is true it confirms survival for at least a batch

I have no information about it, because since it's private you can't see who created the account (in terms of country of origin).
So for now I'm reporting it to you and keeping an eye on the situation

The account that it follows can help on it? (i don't think so.. but i ask.. maybe it's shueisha account)