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)

 

[nemu asahi]

RIP Alien Headbutt, the series is clearly rushing to the end now. I imagine goat girl was supposed to be a core part of the series as a main duo, considering the Headbutt in the title, but it didn't have time to introduce her naturally so the author's just shoved her in here so he can show off the character before it's done.

I don't get an ending feeling from Kinato yet, so perhaps it'll stick around after all and we'll just see two new series? Since Himaten comes across as having a full story arc left with this trip, rather than ending in the next few issues.

As far as the new series go it's good to see Roku hinting at more serious content, I'd like to see it try a variety of arcs if it survives. The mention of their being 7 war curses means Kabaneji would be action for sure, so having each curse content be a different genre mix could be an interesting way to take the story.

Drawn to the Fire continues to be a fun read with good characters and cool sports moments, but it's hard to get excited for a sports manga in Jump after how long it's been since the last hit.

2B Hero Destroyerz just plain sucks, honestly. It almost did some fun content this chapter but then yet again spent most of the chapter going "toilet HAHAHA!!! poopoo HAHAHA!!! toilet HAHAHA!!!" Even Murakami had more jokes than this. It feels like Sorachi's homed in on the very worst bits of Gintama and made them the entire series.

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There is a couple good points in here (like there's definitely over-reliance on infodumps and explanations in a bunch of modern series, cue the HxH cereal meme) but most of this comes across as him just not liking anything with any sort of themes or complexity. He wants manga you can skim through in a minute just looking at the pretty pictures and enjoying the big punch at the end, and doesn't want to have to think about what he's reading.

He's saying manga are for children first, so it makes sense. He wants manga like in corocoro mag. Adults are reading shonen jump now, not children, so it's normal to have complexity and more mature themes. I'm a big child so I enjoy teenage level stuff tho.

 

[monstera11]

RIP Alien Headbutt, the series is clearly rushing to the end now. I imagine goat girl was supposed to be a core part of the series as a main duo, considering the Headbutt in the title, but it didn't have time to introduce her naturally so the author's just shoved her in here so he can show off the character before it's done.

I don't get an ending feeling from Kinato yet, so perhaps it'll stick around after all and we'll just see two new series? Since Himaten comes across as having a full story arc left with this trip, rather than ending in the next few issues.

As far as the new series go it's good to see Roku hinting at more serious content, I'd like to see it try a variety of arcs if it survives. The mention of their being 7 war curses means Kabaneji would be action for sure, so having each curse content be a different genre mix could be an interesting way to take the story.

Drawn to the Fire continues to be a fun read with good characters and cool sports moments, but it's hard to get excited for a sports manga in Jump after how long it's been since the last hit.

2B Hero Destroyerz just plain sucks, honestly. It almost did some fun content this chapter but then yet again spent most of the chapter going "toilet HAHAHA!!! poopoo HAHAHA!!! toilet HAHAHA!!!" Even Murakami had more jokes than this. It feels like Sorachi's homed in on the very worst bits of Gintama and made them the entire series.

--- Double Post Merged, May 11, 2026, Original Post Date: May 11, 2026 ---

There is a couple good points in here (like there's definitely over-reliance on infodumps and explanations in a bunch of modern series, cue the HxH cereal meme) but most of this comes across as him just not liking anything with any sort of themes or complexity. He wants manga you can skim through in a minute just looking at the pretty pictures and enjoying the big punch at the end, and doesn't want to have to think about what he's reading.

It is not about not liking things with complexity. He brought up Tezuka, and his works are FAR from being simple. Tezuka's works are simply very profound and so far ahead of its time. I am not talking about Astro boy, btw. I was thinking about series like Phoenix and Buddha etc.

What Torishima meant is using manga more as visual medium instead of "tell don't show".

This is why his comments about "manga should be about for kids" is puzzling, because i felt like a lot of themes in Tezuka's works will fly over kids' heads.

Very sure Torishima's comments are about shonen genre in general.

 

[Wookitake]

That editor was full of shit during the interview. Being blunt and honest does not make one less idiot.

Regarding the double pages, does anyone have examples from physical print DB? Just out of curiosity.

 

[WyldViolet]

He's just famous for working with toriyama and nothing else...

Wtf. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.
As an editor Dai no Daiboken, To Love Ru, Doberman Deka, Wing-Man, and Video Girl Ai were all huge series.

And he's arguably the best EiC in Jump history given Hoshin Engi, Yugioh, I's, Leader Den Takeshi, One Piece, Rookies, Whistle, Hunter x Hunter, Shaman King, Rising Impact, Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Naruto, Black Cat, and Bobobo were all under his reign.

Like, disagree with his opinions as much as you want, but don't pretend he isn't a Jump legend.
He's also been pretty damn influential in the gaming industry as well given he leant a huge hand for the original Dragon Quest as well as Chrono Trigger.

 

[tirakai]

Guaranteed if Tezuka Osamu's manga released now, he'd hate them. Too adult, too complex. He likes Tezuka because he's the original, he's where manga comes from, someone working in the manga industry not liking Tezuka would be borderline blasphemous.

 

[Smirky Bell]

I really don't understand about what kind of manga he's talking about

At first I thought "Oh, okay, he's talking about shonen manga" but in the middle I thought "Is he talking about all manga market?"

Well, anyway, I really disagree with the point about the overloaded of text, it bothers me that it's like he wants only one type of shonen manga. Come on, how would Togashi write Chimera Ant or Succession Contest arcs without overloaded of text, or how would Shinohara write Sket Dance or Witch Watch without wall of text humour?

 

[Pedroland17]

Guaranteed if Tezuka Osamu's manga released now, he'd hate them. Too adult, too complex. He likes Tezuka because he's the original, he's where manga comes from, someone working in the manga industry not liking Tezuka would be borderline blasphemous.

This is where you really nailed the point. He even brought up Tezuka as an example, saying a manga page should be read in three seconds, even though Tezuka filled pretty much ALL of his manga with tons of dialogue lol. Torishima probably never even read Tezuka properly. He’s just an old guy who did great work as an editor back in the day, but clearly has nothing meaningful left to contribute to the industry anymore.

 

[nemu asahi]

Wtf. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.
As an editor Dai no Daiboken, To Love Ru, Doberman Deka, Wing-Man, and Video Girl Ai were all huge series.

And he's arguably the best EiC in Jump history given Hoshin Engi, Yugioh, I's, Leader Den Takeshi, One Piece, Rookies, Whistle, Hunter x Hunter, Shaman King, Rising Impact, Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Naruto, Black Cat, and Bobobo were all under his reign.

Like, disagree with his opinions as much as you want, but don't pretend he isn't a Jump legend.
He's also been pretty damn influential in the gaming industry as well given he leant a huge hand for the original Dragon Quest as well as Chrono Trigger.

Thanks for the list. So, we're going to see if he gets some hits at mecha comic... Surely he can create some more hits if he's so talented...

I mean, I don't mind him bragging with all his successes, but he's really a like a tengu now.

 

[Franz]

Based Torishima, please come back to jump and axe the bottom half of the magazine.

If it were just up to him, we'd have a Jump full of stuff like Kiyoshi

 

[Broseph]

Those Torishima comments are 50% good points and 50% boomer whining

 

[Kiaida]

These Torishima comments always lead to stupid discourse all over social media because people don't actually know enough about manga history, what an editor does and they just treat them as confirmation bias to impressions they have, but can't justify. Doubt most of them can name any other editor.

Torishima is obviously one of the most important editors of all time and extremely influential to shounen manga as a whole, but he isn't "the creator of shounen manga" or the only person to play an important role in history, as the media and fans treat him. He wasn't the Editor in Chief during Jump's Golden Age, that was Goto Hiroki. The first EiC who created the TOC system and most of the structure that Jump uses to this day was Nagano Tadasu. These two names are more important than Torishima's for the Editor in Chief role.

In fact, if you want to frame things in a disingenuous way, you could say Torishima "failed" his job of bringing Jump back to Golden Age numbers. The so beloved era by westerners of the late 90's/early 00's, when he was EiC, never got back the sales they lost after the end of the Golden Age boom. One Piece, Naruto and Bleach weren't capable of bringing back the circulation numbers of the Dragon Ball, Slam Dunk and Yu Yu Hakusho era. Are they failures because of that?

Of course they aren't. This is why these discussions that ignore changing times are mostly stupid. Jump's Golden Age happened during Japan's bubble era, where people were spending more and more as economy kept growing and the manga market had less options than it has today; if you wanted shounen manga, you would buy Jump, Magazine, Sunday or Champion, even old manga were harder to access. All these magazines hit their peak circulation numbers during these years and declined gradually later when the bubble bursted and economy got worse; making obvious it isn't a matter of "just make bettter manga!!!"

I'm not dismissing everything Torishima says because that's dumb just like taking everything he says as an objective truth and that his way of making manga is the only correct one. In fact, him bringing up how pricing is a massive barrier to kids is something all manga companies have to think about more. As Japan's economy gets worse, the first thing people will cut is entertainment and physical manga doesn't have the massive advantage digital services/streaming has of cheating the perception of spending, when you go buy a Shonen Jump at a konbini, you have to go pay and see all this money you're "wasting", while auto pay for something like Amazon Prime is something most people don't think about during their days.

As for his manga comments, I agree with some things as most modern authors not paying attention enough to how they frame stuff (I literally complained about spread pages this week), but people have to remember that Torishima NEVER cared much about manga as artform. It isn't that he thinks modern manga is worse art, he sees it in a commercial way because that's how he always saw it. He got into Shueisha wanting to write about other subjects and got pushed into Jump because that's what they had, so when he was there he always treated it like a job and how to maximize his rates of success and profit. Not being a manga lover helped him make decisions at the time that appealing to kids was the key to success, while many other Jump editors were more idealistic about art.

We still don't give credit enough to these other editors though. It wasn't Torishima that pushed Kinnikuman from a mediocre gag manga to one of the pillar of battle manga, it wasn't him getting Eguchi to somehow work on Hibari-kun, etc. While he's the most famous and most important editor of his time, he also was the smartest at promoting his image. Thanks to that, he could push for massive successful ideas like V-Jump and the creation of Dragon Quest.

But as Shinuki mentioned before, the comment: "there's no good manga anymore" should make obvious to why you can't these too seriously. Torishima's opinions are way too related to shounen manga and mostly the biggest mainstream titles. I doubt he's stopping to read Harta or check out new acclaimed josei works or something like that. There's obviously a ton of good manga out here, saying everything is bad is like saying there are no good movies anymore. The number of works is so big you can't seriously believe that.

What you see is a ton of western people who have this idealized image of the early 2000s and keep posting and complaining all the time on social media about how their generalization of the whole industry, based on these three series, is wrong: "There are no 300 chapters manga anymore", "they don't sell 1M copies", "everything ends so early".

Most of these things were always big exceptions, but many weren't aware of other series or didn't have access to the full magazine to know how most series worked.

When they mean "manga was better in the past" like the 80s or 90s, they don't mean it was better because Jump had many hits like Makibao, Hareluya Boy, Outer Zone or Tar-chan, it's just the vague idea that "Dragon Ball existed there, so it was good". Same for the 2000s nostalgia, it isn't about Jaguar, Ichigo 100% or Neuro, it's mostly a few of the big series back then. So it's not that they think manga was better back then, it's always all about having one or two massive mainstream titles to talk with friends.

Just see how people dismiss almost everything now because they don't "sell well". It's like a manga can only be good if it hits sales numbers that imply it can hit some kind of mainstream zeitgeist. Nothing about it being fun or interesting. If people cared about good works, they could easily find them. I complain about current Jump all the time and I can still enjoy enough series every week here, don't need to be a weirdo and love Nue like me, but there's Akane Banashi, Ichi, Witch Watch, Kagurabachi, etc. And there are other magazines with many good shounen titles on Magazine, Sunday, Champion. Also Jump+, Magazine Pocket, Webry, etc. There's no lack of options.

Even the sales discussion is bad because it ignores how this increase of options means people won't overly centralize on a few hits as much as before. They're more conscious about how they spend their money, digital is cheaper, reading online is cheaper, etc. A lot of it influences in lower physical sales numbers. I don't even understand why circulation numbers are ignored while people pretend Oricon and Shoseki represent the whole industry when digital is already bigger than physical volumes and magazines.

tldr; Torishima good, but he isn't right about everything and people say dumb stuff.

 

[Newkerzy]

Wtf. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.
As an editor Dai no Daiboken, To Love Ru, Doberman Deka, Wing-Man, and Video Girl Ai were all huge series.

And he's arguably the best EiC in Jump history given Hoshin Engi, Yugioh, I's, Leader Den Takeshi, One Piece, Rookies, Whistle, Hunter x Hunter, Shaman King, Rising Impact, Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Naruto, Black Cat, and Bobobo were all under his reign.

Like, disagree with his opinions as much as you want, but don't pretend he isn't a Jump legend.
He's also been pretty damn influential in the gaming industry as well given he leant a huge hand for the original Dragon Quest as well as Chrono Trigger.

I’m rather ignorant of Jump’s history pre-Heishi, so thanks for the lesson.

This is where you really nailed the point. He even brought up Tezuka as an example, saying a manga page should be read in three seconds, even though Tezuka filled pretty much ALL of his manga with tons of dialogue lol. Torishima probably never even read Tezuka properly. He’s just an old guy who did great work as an editor back in the day, but clearly has nothing meaningful left to contribute to the industry anymore.

Yep, pretty much. I think all the success has gone to his head and now he acts like he knows better than everyone else.

 

[Shonenfan]

Wtf. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.
As an editor Dai no Daiboken, To Love Ru, Doberman Deka, Wing-Man, and Video Girl Ai were all huge series.

And he's arguably the best EiC in Jump history given Hoshin Engi, Yugioh, I's, Leader Den Takeshi, One Piece, Rookies, Whistle, Hunter x Hunter, Shaman King, Rising Impact, Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Naruto, Black Cat, and Bobobo were all under his reign.

Like, disagree with his opinions as much as you want, but don't pretend he isn't a Jump legend.
He's also been pretty damn influential in the gaming industry as well given he leant a huge hand for the original Dragon Quest as well as Chrono Trigger.

He doesn’t get credit for OP imo. He prevented it from getting published. He only relented when the editors under him pushed back and fought for it. That story pretty much encapsulates torishima. He has a very strict method that can and has produced hits, but likewise his ignorance and rigidness would have left him not having major hits like OP, KnY, JJK etc.

Shonen jump is Shonen. Young boys should be the main audience in mind for most titles in WSJ, however Torishima doesn’t understand that the internet generation of boys born in 00’s-20’s are completely different than the boys when he was EIC. Cliches are rebuked more. Stories and themes are expected to be complex, sophisticated, and different with extra emphasis on an authors voice and style.

There is truth though in what he says. Authors have put less emphasis on print and print design. Authors are aiming for shorter stories (which really sucks for me because I miss my long running massive fantasy action adventures). Manga has become more cluttered in design where it’s hard to tell what’s going on even in series I like (I like Nue, JJBA, Otr, and other series but this is a big problem for me in them and alot of newer series)

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He doesn’t get credit for OP imo. He prevented it from getting published. He only relented when the editors under him pushed back and fought for it. That story pretty much encapsulates torishima. He has a very strict method that can and has produced hits, but likewise his ignorance and rigidness would have left him not having major hits like OP, KnY, JJK etc.

Shonen jump is Shonen. Young boys should be the main audience in mind for most titles in WSJ, however Torishima doesn’t understand that the internet generation of boys born in 00’s-20’s are completely different than the boys when he was EIC. Cliches are rebuked more. Stories and themes are expected to be complex, sophisticated, and different with extra emphasis on an authors voice and style.

There is truth though in what he says. Authors have put less emphasis on print and print design. Authors are aiming for shorter stories (which really sucks for me because I miss my long running massive fantasy action adventures). Manga has become more cluttered in design where it’s hard to tell what’s going on even in series I like (I like Nue, JJBA, Otr, and other series but this is a big problem for me in them and alot of newer series)

Also his statement on JP only mangaka is just flat out disproven. Boichi, Dreamlands author, and Radiants author have all proven that. Now what he is right on is that a non JP author is going to struggle getting that authentic JP that manga seem to intrinsically have

 

[Lord Anubis]

You know, now that I think about it...
I would say that Torishima would basically be the Shōnen Jump equivalent of someone like Michael Eisner.
Both were once the top brass within their respective companies who managed to help get them out of their dark slump era. Their legacy may be filled with painful lows, but when they struck high, they really struck high & you can never tell me that they weren't, at the very least, passionate about the products that they helped make for them, and such ideas couldn't have come from anywhere else.

 

[LogicoftheVI]

Wow, this chapter of Kagurabachi has been pretty brutal

so was the art (brutal) this chapter. My eyes still hurt from looking at the horrid proportions.

 

[monstera11]

He doesn’t get credit for OP imo. He prevented it from getting published. He only relented when the editors under him pushed back and fought for it. That story pretty much encapsulates torishima. He has a very strict method that can and has produced hits, but likewise his ignorance and rigidness would have left him not having major hits like OP, KnY, JJK etc.

Shonen jump is Shonen. Young boys should be the main audience in mind for most titles in WSJ, however Torishima doesn’t understand that the internet generation of boys born in 00’s-20’s are completely different than the boys when he was EIC. Cliches are rebuked more. Stories and themes are expected to be complex, sophisticated, and different with extra emphasis on an authors voice and style.

There is truth though in what he says. Authors have put less emphasis on print and print design. Authors are aiming for shorter stories (which really sucks for me because I miss my long running massive fantasy action adventures). Manga has become more cluttered in design where it’s hard to tell what’s going on even in series I like (I like Nue, JJBA, Otr, and other series but this is a big problem for me in them and alot of newer series)

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Also his statement on JP only mangaka is just flat out disproven. Boichi, Dreamlands author, and Radiants author have all proven that. Now what he is right on is that a non JP author is going to struggle getting that authentic JP that manga seem to intrinsically have

"Stories and themes are expected to be complex, sophisticated"

Wrong.

Shonen fans nowadays do not give a shit about "themes and such"

They just want slanders, memes, auras, more boom and laser shoots

 

[nemu asahi]

You know, now that I think about it...
I would say that Torishima would basically be the Shōnen Jump equivalent of someone like Michael Eisner.
Both are the top brass within their respective companies who managed to help get them out of their dark slump era. Their legacy may be filled with painful lows, but when they struck high, they really struck high & you can never tell me that they weren't, at the very least, passionate about the products that they helped make for them, and such ideas couldn't have come from anywhere else.

So, we'll see.

If he can make several hits in the next 5 years while being at mecha comics as an editor, then he will prove to everybody that he's at the top even now.

Otherwise, I will say that he didn't make hits by himself but was very lucky to be at Jump and to work with talented mangaka, at that time....

Editors are like teachers: it's way easier to get excellent results when the students are excellent too and when they are in schools with a lot of funding and good working conditions.

See you in 5 years.

'nough said.

 

[Kiaida]

He doesn’t get credit for OP imo. He prevented it from getting published. He only relented when the editors under him pushed back and fought for it. That story pretty much encapsulates torishima.

Being fair, that's how Jump serialization meetings work. Editors brings oneshots for the next batch, then they read it and discuss, make cases for what they think should be published. If by the end, a series has someone pushing for it, they publish it even the EiC is against it.

Jump lets readers choose. In part, that's marketing, but they do publish all manga that have an editor pushing for them. That's why some have the impression series are sent to die, they already may be controversial even with editors. Doesn't mean they're dead, One Piece's debut was huge and it got promoted as a pillar when it wasn't even an year old.

We don't know many cases like this because other editors don't talk much openly about the specifics, but afaik it's assumed that the first manga of a batch is usually the one they're more confident about.

Take Nue's batch: Tenmaku was the first one, by the Souma duo with a premise that most expected to hit; then you had Kill Blue by Fujimaki, a hit maker with Kuroko, but just axed with RxL, so lower priority; 3rd Do Retry by Kirarazaka, who already got experience and last was Kawae's Nue, no experience and oneshots not really well known, it's easy to assume most editors probably didn't have hope for it. Jump let the readers choose and Nue outlasted them.

 

[Smirky Bell]

it's assumed that the first manga of a batch is usually the one they're more confident about.

It's strange that 2-B wasn't the first manga of the batch. Sounds nonsense and a bad strategy

 

[Pietro]

Wtf. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.
As an editor Dai no Daiboken, To Love Ru, Doberman Deka, Wing-Man, and Video Girl Ai were all huge series.

And he's arguably the best EiC in Jump history given Hoshin Engi, Yugioh, I's, Leader Den Takeshi, One Piece, Rookies, Whistle, Hunter x Hunter, Shaman King, Rising Impact, Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Naruto, Black Cat, and Bobobo were all under his reign.

Like, disagree with his opinions as much as you want, but don't pretend he isn't a Jump legend.
He's also been pretty damn influential in the gaming industry as well given he leant a huge hand for the original Dragon Quest as well as Chrono Trigger.

Lol you give those series the same importance of dragon ball? Anyway look out what you say... I didn't say anything dumb
The only dumb thing is what that editor said