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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)

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

I mean UD is peak, why wouldn’t it have an official account

 

[SharkBait]

New batch YT views

I still believe in Kinato's Magic.

 

[Lord Anubis]

I feel like Kinato might just survive an extra batch, at best.

 

[Satuuuuuuurn]

New batch YT views

There’s a comment on the Kinato video saying they saw it as an ad and I believe youtube counts ads for views which is probably where the high count comes from. It does seem like the views only started going up this week though so maybe Jump really wants to advertise it or something

I would love for it to stay I’m a fan of the whole batch

 

[Nuesmoker]

Issue 22-23 2026:

1. Nue's Exorcist: ABSOLUTELY INSANE SEQUENCE. The way Gekka and Gakuro move in sync, from the Zenoblade/Dark to the sword swings is fantastically conveied, especially while Kota never fails to remind us that Gakuro is way behind Gekka in spite of it all. For most of this chapter he genuinely can't do anything against Kasha. I mentioned Gekka having a light saber, but holy shit it actually IS one, Darth Maul's to booth! The way it enhances the already amazing flow of the fight is great. And speaking of Kasha earlier, I wanna point out how he has been moving since a few chapters ago- barely! It's a constant of minimal motion, rotations, and switching his hold on the blade, which now he actually uses as such. He was NOT kidding when he said he was holding back, his whole body language since the start of the fight has been telling us that. He held control over the fight, even Gekka's strike from behind was rendered null by him just- shifting away from it. He says it in such a casual manner too. The whole sequence of Gekka locking in was brilliantly executed, the Bad Apple- esque aesthetic is SO GOOD!! Anyways, as I predicted, Gekka's boasting was a red herring, and therefore, Gakuro's trust of Squad 6 was foreshadowing. They'll need ALL hands on deck for this one. Not to mention, he says he's short on time too... This fusion has considerable drawbacks, I am SURE of it. I'll end this review by saying that Kasha... REALLY looks like Kars lol. 11/10, I can't wait to see what Kasha's offer to Gekka will be!

2. Someone Hertz: See, this is what I wanna see more of from this series. Mimei having to realize his own worth in the lives of these people, how he acrually has fans that recognize him, how big the audience for Mon Mid is, and so on. He is always struggling to actually seriously seeing himself as Eel Potato's comedic rival and putting himself behind her, that he ironically puts himself down. His own self disappointment, stemming from his perfectionist atritude at school, is holding him from realizing that he DOES matter. All that topped off with more and more buildup of these two meeting The Long Hopes? Hell yeah, more of THIS please. Also also I am betting my ass that one of those two characters at the end is Battle Chimney, but we'll see.

3. Roku's House Of Oddities: I have been pleasantly surprised by this series these past few chapters. The way Sachiko's curse was demonstrated with her whole personality changing and even outer look becoming brighter the moment she came to the school. The art is simple, but effective, and Sachiko herself is really cute. And yes, discussing a series with a fellow big fan is GREAT!

4. Kagurabachi: Really cool fight.

5. Drawn To The Fire: Very simple premise here, but it works. I really like Keiki and Natsu's dynamic, and the way they are seen by others. Keiki's but a shrimp, someone holding Natsu back from greatness and should just quit for his own sake. Natsu is perfect, talented, tall, and doesn't need anyone to hold him back from nationals. But it is both of them together to prove that notion wrong even against a strong team like this.

6. Ichi The Witch: I'll trust that there is one more traitor in Mantinel because revealing the only one like this would be quite lame in my opinion. Still, I like the way Fujimine's been characterized as a complete monster under every possible viewpoint. Human, Witch or Majik. As always I hope that she ends up more interesting rather than just being evil and obsessed. And, in spite of what I said at first, I VERY much appreciate the story moving along quickly. Fine chapter.

7. Under Doctor: A decent climax to a very underwhelming battle.

8. Alien Headbutt: Little Mei's design is kinda cute, but it also feels like the series has very much jumped the shark at this point.

9. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz: ...Ok, so. This is the chapter people described when talking about chapter 1. It is almost JUST toilet humor this time around, and to be honest that 4th grader joke did not get me. Even the toilet humor last chapter was funnier I feel. Wow what a fall from grace.

10. Kinato's Magic:
[Intro]
Shizukesa ga shimikomu yo de iki o tometa gozen goji
Hijo kaidan de tsume o kamu asu wa docchi da?
The day has come

[Verse 1]
Keshite akenai yoru mo furitsuzukete yamanai ame mo
Kono rokudemo nai sekai ni wa aru nda yo
Sukoshi mo hen de wa nai no madoromi ni ashi o torareteru
Anata o semete iru wake ja nai nda yo
[Pre-Chorus]
Hitori kuso ni asobu
Soko de omoiegaita koto made hajiru no kai?

[Chorus]
Karamiau meikyu meikyu soredemo yuku to iu no?
Chisaki tabibito ga kanaderu hajimari no kane no ne
Yuku ate mo don't know, don't know
Honto wa kowain ja nai no?
Fumidasu sono ippo ippo ga kaete yukeru sa
The day has come

[Verse 2]
Wakariaenai yatsu mo wakatta yo na furi shita yatsu mo
Kono rokudemonai sekai niwa irunda yo
Koko wa jigoku janakute mashite tengoku no hazu mo naku
Chodo sono mishinme no you na basho nanda

[Pre-Chorus]
Asu o uranau kaado kaze ga
Makiageta imi nara shitteru daro

[Chorus]
Karamiau meikyu meikyu soredemo yuku to iu no?
Chisaki tabibito ga kanaderu hajimari no kane no ne
Yuku ate mo don't know, don't know
Honto wa kowain ja nai no?
Fumidasu sono ippo ippo ga kaete yukeru sa
The day has come

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Sono me de mita mono dake shinjiteitai keredo kage ni obiete wa
Warui yokan ga honto ni bakeru cry on, cry on

[Chorus]
Hateshinai Real Survivor ashi o hippariau
Ikinokotta mono ga shosha de "Fair" nado wa gensou
Shinobiyoru Secret Hunter kataru nowa tenkakokka
Hijoukaidan de tsume o togu asu wa docchi da?
The day has come

 

[Shockzz1234]

BOOOO to batch releases btw. But at least we finally got a reveal date for the OP remake lol.

(Also yeah those 4 Naruto remake eps might as well be bloody lost media at this point lmao)

 

[Dongus]

10. Kinato's Magic:
[Intro]
Shizukesa ga shimikomu yo de iki o tometa gozen goji
Hijo kaidan de tsume o kamu asu wa docchi da?
The day has come

[Verse 1]
Keshite akenai yoru mo furitsuzukete yamanai ame mo
Kono rokudemo nai sekai ni wa aru nda yo
Sukoshi mo hen de wa nai no madoromi ni ashi o torareteru
Anata o semete iru wake ja nai nda yo
[Pre-Chorus]
Hitori kuso ni asobu
Soko de omoiegaita koto made hajiru no kai?

[Chorus]
Karamiau meikyu meikyu soredemo yuku to iu no?
Chisaki tabibito ga kanaderu hajimari no kane no ne
Yuku ate mo don't know, don't know
Honto wa kowain ja nai no?
Fumidasu sono ippo ippo ga kaete yukeru sa
The day has come

[Verse 2]
Wakariaenai yatsu mo wakatta yo na furi shita yatsu mo
Kono rokudemonai sekai niwa irunda yo
Koko wa jigoku janakute mashite tengoku no hazu mo naku
Chodo sono mishinme no you na basho nanda

[Pre-Chorus]
Asu o uranau kaado kaze ga
Makiageta imi nara shitteru daro

[Chorus]
Karamiau meikyu meikyu soredemo yuku to iu no?
Chisaki tabibito ga kanaderu hajimari no kane no ne
Yuku ate mo don't know, don't know
Honto wa kowain ja nai no?
Fumidasu sono ippo ippo ga kaete yukeru sa
The day has come

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Sono me de mita mono dake shinjiteitai keredo kage ni obiete wa
Warui yokan ga honto ni bakeru cry on, cry on

[Chorus]
Hateshinai Real Survivor ashi o hippariau
Ikinokotta mono ga shosha de "Fair" nado wa gensou
Shinobiyoru Secret Hunter kataru nowa tenkakokka
Hijoukaidan de tsume o togu asu wa docchi da?
The day has come

Huh?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I am wrecking my brain to see if there is anything that can fuck us out of the anniversary cover this time.

OP is on break.

Sakamoto can't do it like last year now.

Kagurabachi is getting it this upcoming issue.

Blue Box got one 6 issues ago with a color page in between, so no.

Witch watch got one 9 issues ago with yet another before in issue 51, so I doubt it.

Hertz hasn't had one in a bit (relatively speaking) but is getting a Giga cover already.

Akane got one 4 issues ago, so we are good on that front.

And the new batch has fully started already.

Ichi got one in issue 14... But it is Ichi so you never know.

Roboco hasn't had one since... Last year actually. Who knows if they'll give it any time soon.

Shinobi... I don't think it will get a cover outside of anniversary yet, it already got the combined issue lcp too, so I THINK we are safe on that front.

Definitely not giving it to Hima-Ten.

Kiyoshi still a few issues away from anniversary, so I think it will just wait those couple extra weeks.

So in short, the only possible dangers should be... Roboco, Ichi, or a POSSIBLE group cover.

You're clearly missing Under Doctor getting the cover for huge popularity and volume 1 cover reveal!

I don't see it going past Alabasta. WIT Studio is already in remake hell with Yaiba, now One Piece? It's a pipedream to see them fully adapting pre time skip OP. (Note: the guy directing Yaiba LOVES the shit out of Yaiba. It was his dream project. I don't see WIT dropping Yaiba in favor of OP. )

It's a One Piece remake by WIT, western freelancer animators are definitely lining up to work on that, at the time after the announcement WIT even pubicly tweeted a recruitment calling animators to work in the remake lol

Genuine question, has any non axed manga ever got denied the anniversary CP?

Unless it's on hiatus like HxH or Ruri, nope, like said anniversary color pages are a obligation, even series like Enigma or P2! had a anniversary cp only a couple of chapters before finishing.

New batch YT views

I'm actually pretty impressed by Under Doctor views lol

The funniest thing is seeing people losing their shit in the quotes over Mankichi tweet about this

BOOOO to batch releases btw. But at least we finally got a reveal date for the OP remake lol.

(Also yeah those 4 Naruto remake eps might as well be bloody lost media at this point lmao)

Sugoi already leaked the episodes are finished.

 

[Lord Anubis]

Huh?

MHA OP 1 lyrics

 

[Shockzz1234]

Sugoi already leaked the episodes are finished.

Loads of pieces of lost media are finished tbf, there's a whole finished Jojo Phantom Blood movie out there that nobody will ever see, for example.


Also I'm joking, I don't actually think the Naruto eps will be lost media....but they are taking a LONG time to come out lmao.

 

[tirakai]

Do we know why they're taking so long, if they're finished?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Do we know why they're taking so long, if they're finished?

Maybe waiting a bit more so they can rebrand it as a celebration for the 25th Anniversary of the original anime in 2027?

 

[WyldViolet]

there's a whole finished Jojo Phantom Blood movie out there that nobody will ever see, for example.

I thought it got a theatrical release, just never was put out on physical media? I still have hope it'll one day find its way out.

 

[Lord Anubis]

So...
Does anyone have the raws for the latest Jump GIGA?
Asking because it has been a while.
If so, please share them onto here.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

So...
Does anyone have the raws for the latest Jump GIGA?
Asking because it has been a while.
If so, please share them onto here.

Not available yet in raw websites

 

[Lord Anubis]

Gotcha, just been waiting for a while now since the line-up for that issue is loaded

 

[monstera11]

I don’t think Ikemoto really tries that hard to emulate Kishimoto’s art. If anything, it feels quite different, and he has his own style. To me, the one who actually tried to emulate Kishimoto was the artist behind Samurai 8.

And I’m strongly against the idea of bringing in another artist to draw Hunter x Hunter. In that sense, I’m pretty much a purist. It’s the author’s work. Even if it means long delays or even incomplete releases like back in the Chimera Ant era, I still prefer it that way. If someone later wants to start a completely different work set in the same universe, that’s fine, no problem at all. It would be a different series, not Hunter x Hunter.

Hunter x Hunter belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi.

Nah, It is the opposite. Ikemoto really tries to copy Kishi. While the Samurai 8 author has his own style that is way more distinct than whatever Ikemoto tries with Naruto.

This is why Samurai 8 got criticized a lot for the art due to lack of foreground and background separations and too soft lines. Ikemoto and Kishi would never.

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Will never ever happen of course. But if Saito wants to be funny, he can make a bottom dweller like Kinato getting a cover instead of Nue, with excuse "Cover due to popularity!"

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@Shinuki no Reborn so, basically an anniversary CP is a given, but LCP is never mandatory and there has been cases of ongoing mangas getting anni CP instead of LCP.

Is there any other previously ongoing (not axed), manga getting CP instead of LCP for anni? P2 and Enigma, I suppose get CP instead of LCP because they are nearing ending.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Nah, It is the opposite. Ikemoto really tries to copy Kishi. While the Samurai 8 author has his own style that is way more distinct than whatever Ikemoto tries with Naruto.

This is why Samurai 8 got criticized a lot for the art due to lack of foreground and background separations and too soft lines. Ikemoto and Kishi would never.

Hmm, i don't know which version of Samurai 8 you have in your memory because Ohkubo was 100% emulating Kishi art, Kishi was the one drawing the storyboard for each S8 chapter and the creator of all character designs, you can literally see Kishi's artstyle through the characters drawn by Ohkubo and even the action scenes were similar to what Kishi has done in Naruto since again, it was Kishi doing the storyboards and Ohkubo drawing from them.

The backgrounds for sure was Ohkubo and ironic enough what got most of the criticism due to being a lot poluted sometimes with too much little details and stuff going on.

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@Shinuki no Reborn so, basically an anniversary CP is a given, but LCP is never mandatory and there has been cases of ongoing mangas getting anni CP instead of LCP.

Is there any other previously ongoing (not axed), manga getting CP instead of LCP for anni? P2 and Enigma, I suppose get CP instead of LCP because they are nearing ending.

Color page is mandatory, every series will get one for each anniversary it celebrates, but either a cover or lead cp is not, it depends on what the editorial wants.

 

[Aqyurs]

Is there any other previously ongoing (not axed), manga getting CP instead of LCP for anni? P2 and Enigma, I suppose get CP instead of LCP because they are nearing ending.

Yozakura's first anniversary was only a regular color page; it didn't get an anniversary cover and lead color page until the second anniversary.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Is there any other previously ongoing (not axed), manga getting CP instead of LCP for anni? P2 and Enigma, I suppose get CP instead of LCP because they are nearing ending.

Popular series not getting a anniversary cover or lead isn't even rare, it used to happen a lot more, Kuroko no Basket took 4 years to get a cover for anniversary, same for Sket Dance, Medaka Box not even got one its entire life despite having 2 anime seasons lol Chainsaw Man didn't got either a cover or lead cp for its 1st anniversary, Yuuna & To Love-ru didn't got cover for some of the anniversaries, Nurarihyon no Mago got a cover only for the 2nd anniversary out of the 4, Psyren never got one and the list goes on

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Shoseki Top 500 (May 4)
1. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #3
2. Kagurabachi #11
3. Sakamoto Days #27
4. Blue Box #25
5. Ichi the Witch #8
7. Someone Hertz #3
11. The Elusive Samurai #25
28. Hima-Ten! #9
59. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8
64. Me & Roboco #26

Shoseki Top 500 (May 5)
1. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #3
2. Kagurabachi #11
3. Blue Box #25
4. Sakamoto Days #27
5. Ichi the Witch #8
11. Someone Hertz #3
12. The Elusive Samurai #25
57. Hima-Ten! #9
68. Me & Roboco #26
85. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8