Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump (2026) - News and Discussion!

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[tirakai]

Green Green Greens could've done well elsewhere for sure, honestly even on Jump+ I think it would've stuck around. That sort of introspective character study (especially one centered around a sport) isn't a good fit for WSJ where you need something big an exciting every week to get the votes.

Two on Ice as well I think would've survived in a different magazine. Honestly I think it could work in any of the other 3 weekly shounen publications with some minor changes to suit their styles.

 

[BelTL]

Even holding hands are lewd

yeah, enough to make babies

 

[Kiaida]

Is there any recent axed series or mangaka that you want to see to see in a different magazine (or think the series would have been far more successful in a different magazine)?

Harukawa. She likes twisted themes, morally grey protagonists and sensuality, I don't think she will be allowed to draw what she's the best at with Jump's current editorial and rules. She pretty much said Kou wasn't even the type of hero she wanted to write about. Same goes for Jump+.

She should try to go for Magazine, where they're pretty much free to do whatever they want. Even if she fails there, at least it'll be her art and not heavily changed by editors.

Two on Ice as well I think would've survived in a different magazine. Honestly I think it could work in any of the other 3 weekly shounen publications with some minor changes to suit their styles.

It has strong Sunday vibes.

 

[NeeNeen]

Not impressed with the comedy this week. Shinobi was great though.

The one-shots look pretty cool too, but the obsession with exorcists is getting a bit tiresome.

Votes:
1) Shinobi
2) UD
3) WW
4) Kiyoshi
5) Alien

Shinobi: I was gonna say Yodaka's argument was unexpected, but then a whole lot more surprises happened. Hard to believe he went down so easily. I hope dude still makes it out. (That last line is odd though. He means "I'll go with you if you leave him alone", right?)

UD: Cute.

WW: Nice 'do. I'd like to see him in an iceskating competition. Not sure if this is over for good, but it could be.

Kiyoshi: This feels very Goku vs Freeza. Still cool though.

Alien: "We took care of the hostage situation offscreen. We'll be dealing with the clean-up now. Here's your fast pass to the endboss." I appreciate them trying to wrap things up, at least. Still annoyed Gonron Egg and The Mage Next Door couldn't be bothered.

Nue

Drawn: Mission accomplished! Good thing the enemy coach doesn't give two sh*ts. (Though according to M+ comments, page 16 was an illegal move, so that's not good.)

Akane

Ichi: He only joined 3 months ago? Not what I was expecting (and the other guy was narrating that out loud?). Glad we got confirmation on bullet girl, but I thought the fight choreography was a little hard to follow.

BB: And we're back to being a faux sports manga, where the matches are impossible to follow because everybody is talking over them. It's not bad, but I hope we'll be getting another tense rally like last time.

Kinato: Kudos on the chef for being the only adult in the room.

Roku: That one science club guy reminds me of the doctor in the first chapter of UD. It's probably the eyebrows. Too bad his personality is the complete opposite. I don't find bullying funny, so this didn't work for me.

Destroyerz: Guess we're having an isekai in WSJ after all.

Question:

What do you all its a manga that truly stuck to you the most growing up? You can choose one.

Am gonna surprise some folks and say the likes of outside one piece, the manga I was following to the best of my abilities while growing up as a teen was the likes of Assassination Classroom.

I thought the whole premise was so absurd at first until I actually got to read it for the very first time and it kinda made me the sort that really appreciates the weird stories that writers can come up with and how they evolve their premises as a whole.

Mine was Dragon Ball. It was one of the first manga that got translated in my country, in little half volumes you could buy in the supermarket for a couple bucks. I loved how it created a whole new world so effortlessly without needing any explaining.

But before that, what got me into the style was Elfquest. It's not manga, but it's very heavily influenced and very different from other Western comics (at the time). I liked that look much more, so when I learned where it came from, I went to check out actual manga and was immediately sold.

 

[Discomusic]

Only 17 series this week and yet, I wasn't able to complete the ranking until Wednesday. I hope it doesn't become a trend.

1. Akane-banashi: A true masterpiece, both in and out of universe. Her God of Death had a lot of personality, and she was able to create it out of her own experiences and talk to it as if it was part of her life experience. Next week, the audience reacts to what they just witnessed, I would be at loss for words in their shoes.
2. Witch Watch: And so goes away one of the best characters, too underutilized. It's a shame that his last enemy was so minor, but it also means that for the first time the thought that this may be the last arc of the series crossed my mind.
3. Shinobi Undercover: Very nice chapter. Yoichi learned a life lesson but the chapter didn't show it just with words; it setups immediately another fight where he can demonstrate what he learned right away. Hopefully not at the cost of his life.
4. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi: We have already seen something similar...in Dragonball, more than 30 yrears ago. Kiyoshi pays homage to those ancient tropes and so much time later they feel new again, and mixed with the style of this series they actually work.
5. Me & Roboco: Multiverse chapters are always among the best of the series (I still have to see the movie!). I think Miyazaki loves Showa era gags and wanted to pay homage here, and it was very fun expecially when they tried multiple times to escape from homework. Is every multiverse Gorilla revived now?
6. Drawn to the fire: I keep liking this series a lot, expecially the pacing. Having said that, it went too fast with reaching their goal of drawing out all the titulars of the opposite team. That's fine for now, since the series is still fighting to survive and the pace must be high.
7. Ichi the Witch: A chapter of exposition for the mentor, who gets both a (short term) backstory and a moment of awesome fighting on par with a skilled enemy. The action was nice, but there isn't much substance in this chapter.
8. Roku's house of oddities: And the featured curse of the week is...wait, no featuring? It was more like a recap episode, very strange for a chapter 6. But it was a funny chapter nonetheless so I didn't mind too much.
9. Under Doctor: The new trend is slice of life with a focus on one member of the supporting cast at a time. This week I liked it more, I found it more focused and aware of the medical theme that should permeate the series. The switch between medical chapters like this and action chapters like the previous arc is good to keep everyone happy.
10. Blue Box: It's like the final showdown of a battle series, everyone is showing up for cutting the last check. There was a philosophical discussion between two mentors in the middle that felt out of place, and the fact that the badminton is fun was mentioned in the chapter title and in the very end, but the rest of the chapter didn't seem to go that way. Still, the match is fun and has gravitas.
11. Sakamoto Days: The best fighter of the new batch accepts his defeat gracefully, and we move to another fight...that I didn't know of. I guess we were already introduced to it in some previous chapter, but how can they be so unremarkable that they went completely unnoticed?
12. Alien Headbutt:

Idk man. I love me a Jump MC with alien tentacle powers and his qt goat girl pet sidekick.
Like another user said, Nei should have been introduced at like chapter 2-3.

The problem it not what it is now, that can also be enjoyable in itself: the problem is that the actual premise of the series has been thrown away. If the setup was a guy fighting island monsters with superior tentacular powers, then the current development would be felt as natural, and you could even have introduced the genetically modified goat at chapter 2. But if the setup is fighting monsters with mild healing powers and wrestling moves, then you have to stick with the wrestling moves.
13. Nue's Exorcist: I have the impression that Gekka ovewrshadowed all the other female warriors, her arc is over but she seems the only one who can fight on par with Gakuro. I would lile to see Nue fighting a real battle with a worthy opponent at least once, with some Deus ex-machina plot device that allows her to do it.
14. Kinato's magic: A training arc, the standard attempt at making a falling series rise up the ranks. While the humour remains good, the story of the hero with supporting powers that wants to fight front line lost any interest pretty quickly, if it ever got one. That, and the arc being set in Temu Amazon Lily.
15. Class 2-B: Hero destroyerz: I'm trying to not make any review of this series a comparison with Gintama, but it's hard. Gorilla was able to create a sense of epicness for fights that would have been ridiculous everywhere else, and with scenarios that changed everytime. Here, the running theme is getting stale already. Put him out of the toilet for next chapter.
16. Someone Hertz: I read the chapter distracted, but I got the idea that they went on yet another awkward date with a spring theme and sunflowers. Glad that they are having fun, but can we focus on the Rookie Round, please?
17. Hima-Ten!: While Kanai is unfortunately giving up, Himari is playing all of her cards, including breaking the non-competition clause that she promised to Kanai herself. It's a situation where only the end goal matters, and not a good way to make us like the future official couple. Then again, I wouldn't know how to rush the series to conclusion in any other way.

 

[SharkBait]

If they are not announcing Kinato 1 & 2 releasing at same time, maybe there are hope

Believe. There is hope for us!

 

[Jay_Senju]

Amazon pre-orders don't really determine anything but I'm pretty sure Kinato is doing better than Under Doctor when it comes to that. Maybe if volume 1 does well it might survive but who honestly knows since it does pretty poorly when it comes to reader surveys.

 

[redon]

Do you remember the last Jump magazine cover dedicated to the Football World Cup? Or dedicated to Japan National Team (aka SAMURAI BLUE)?

 

[FantasticFootno]

Do you remember the last Jump magazine cover dedicated to the Football World Cup? Or dedicated to Japan National Team (aka SAMURAI BLUE)?

Are we getting another group cover for the next issue? If so, I'm glad, because stuff like Alien Headbutt and Kinato were going to miss out.

 

[Phantom RPG]

Its toc prediction time:

Top five: Someone Hertz, Ichi the witch, Kagurabachi, Nue Exocist and Sakamoto Days

Middle: Me and Roboco, Witch Watch, Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Shinobi Undercover and Akane Banashi.

bottom: Himaten, Alien Headbutt, Kinato Magic and Under doctor.

For the next issue:

Lead cover page: Ultimate Exocist Kiyoshi-Kun second anniversary.

Color Pages: One shot, Roku House of Oddities(Am a sucker for new series getting color pages so sue me) and Akane Banashi.

 

[monstera11]

If Kinato got cancelled it would have survive somewhere else.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Do you remember the last Jump magazine cover dedicated to the Football World Cup? Or dedicated to Japan National Team (aka SAMURAI BLUE)?

You actually made me think for a moment and realise we never had a group cover for the World Cup not even in 2002 when it was in Japan, and unless i'm really missing a cover and i searched, the only Jump cover celebrating the World Cup and cheering for Japan National Team is the issue #21 of 2002, it was a Whistle cover for the start of the anime broadcast but the cover illustration is cheering for the Japan team.

The text in the cover: "Go Japan!!! We're rooting for you!!!! Let's do this!!!!!"

 

[Jay_Senju]

Next issue has to be Kiyoshi cover.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

My predictions:

-Ichi the Witch or Someone Hertz will get the cover & lead color pages since it's been a while for both

-Color Pages will be: Shinobi Undercover for vol 8 cover reveal, Under Doctor for vol 1 cover reveal and the last one shot from the festival

-Top 5 will be: Ichi the Witch, Someone Hertz, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days and Witch Watch

-Bottom 5 will be: Alien Headbutt, Kinato's Magic, Me & Roboco, Hima-Ten! and Nue's Exorcist

 

[Lord Anubis]

I feel like we might get Shinobi on the cover, mainly because we haven't got a color page in a while...

 

[Shonenfan]

What was the last sports manga for each sport in WSJ and what do you think is next due? As far as I can tell:

Basketball: drawn to fire (what was even the last one before this excluding blue box? Kuroko?)
Baseball: Harukaze Mound
Futbol: Embers
Football: ES21
Tennis: PoT
Ping Pong: PPP
Golf: GGG
Martial Arts: MMAsumi
Volleyball: haikyuu
Rugby: beast children
Track: ekiden bros
Badminton: blue box
Hockey, lacrosse, handball and girls sports have not been done

Really makes that multi year gap of sports manga stick out like a sore thumb

 

[Lord Anubis]

An Ice Hockey manga would be cool to see in Weekly Jump, but we have Dogsred, right now.
I wouldn't mind a Team Bowling manga, either. I don't think we've ever had one in Weekly Jump before, it could make it popular with Japanese youths in a similar way that Slam Dunk, Hikaru no Go & Haikyu! did with basketball, go & volleyball respectively.

 

[WyldViolet]

What was the last sports manga for each sport in WSJ and what do you think is next due? As far as I can tell:

Basketball: drawn to fire (what was even the last one before this excluding blue box? Kuroko?)
Baseball: Harukaze Mound
Futbol: Embers
Football: ES21
Tennis: PoT
Ping Pong: PPP
Golf: GGG
Martial Arts: MMAsumi
Volleyball: haikyuu
Rugby: beast children
Track: ekiden bros
Badminton: blue box
Hockey, lacrosse, handball and girls sports have not been done

Really makes that multi year gap of sports manga stick out like a sore thumb

Lacrosse has been done. Cross Manage. Was really good too. Lasted nearly a year.

 

[Pietro]

I would love to see a Successful Footbal manga in Weekly shonen Jump. It's impossible that we had Holly and Benji and Whistle! But apart from that nothing else 🥲🥲

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Seems like its another one of these weeks, there was no magazine in the store to get, so no ToC today and since Ryo didnt posted too is clear he gets from the same store so he doesnt have too lol

The cover as usual will appear in 4 ~ 6 hours.