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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)

 

[Ebrietas-]

Ichi The Witch: Yeah, no, I don't like the Magikeepers concept, or at least how it got introduced. And I especially do not like one of the allegedly strongest major witches being done in like this.

The reveal from last chapter about the anti magic tree their weapons are made from that women can't touch justifies their in universe existence nicely imo even if their introduction was a little shaky. Their weapons are made to supress witches and it was a group effort so I don't think her loss is unjustified either.

--- Double Post Merged, May 31, 2026, Original Post Date: May 31, 2026 ---

So HxH is likely coming next batch or when one of SD/Himaten/BB ends.

Blue Box and Himaten both feel like they can end in 2/3 chapters bringing the roster back to 19 again.

 

[JBC008]

I really don't like how Hima-Ten! is wrapping up.
Now I was never a Honoka supporter tbh (Kanna deserved it, but we all knew that wouldn't happen), and didn't really mind that Himari would end up winning in the end. However, I can't help but feel that Himari is putting Iemori in a position where he has to choose her. Feels kind of manipulative. Not really intentionally on her part, hell in this chapter she seems to reveal that she had given up hope. But forcing him into the public eye with her through this magazine shoot & cover, especially after the debacle that one Twitter photo caused, only results in the two of them being further linked.
Yes, he has feelings for both Himari and Honoka, however Honoka just doesn't have such assets to compete in such a way.
Just rubs me the wrong way tbh.

I can understand that, but the one thing I can agree on that it is better than Nisekoi.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Hope you’re Happy Lemon and Hima-Ten are at a very similar place in their stories right now it’s hard to not think about how much more I’m enjoying Lemon when reading Hima-Ten

Yeah the difference is that the drama in lemon actually feels believable, and it isn't drawn out. Helps when one series is actually doing its stuff well lol.

 

[WyldViolet]

I can understand that, but the one thing I can agree on that it is better than Nisekoi.

Oh god yea. Nisekoi was not very good. Some people are like "well if it wasn't streeetched out" no. A romcom where none of the characters feel real just isn't immersive.

--- Double Post Merged, May 31, 2026, Original Post Date: May 31, 2026 ---

Yeah the difference is that the drama in lemon actually feels believable, and it isn't drawn out. Helps when one series is actually doing its stuff well lol.

Well I haven't read Lemon, but tbh I wouldn't say Hima-Ten feels very stretched out. Although maybe I'm just too used to other shonen romcoms.

 

[shillin65]

Issue 27 votes
1. Hero Destroyerz
2. Himaten
3. Hertz
4. Kiyoshi
5. Blue Box

Thoughts
Welcome back, Gintoki; anyways, Sorachi was on immaculate timing this week, really felt like Gintama in a way the first few chapters didn't fully reach

To add to the Himaten discourse; I'd say that its weakest points (the comedy and side cast) were done much, much better by Nisekoi, but that's also how Nisekoi got as long as it did, so I don't blame Ono for cutting things down to a concise 100 or so chapters

Kiyoshi had a classic One Piece-style arc ending; I think this arc was a lot better than Black Parade, far less boring of a weekly read

Alien Headbutt was definitely a series; something honestly felt off about it even from chapter 1 and the rest of the series did absolutely nothing to dispel that feeling; I genuinely have a hard time understanding why people liked it so much, sure you had the whole "hype and aura farming" thing, but IMO it wasn't even good at that; the whole thing was just a boring mess, though I will say it was slightly less boring than Gonron was


New batch looks pretty decent; 22i being back is kind of shocking coming barely a year after Syd was axed but I guess Saito was that desperate for another romcom with both Blue Box and Himaten on their way out (he's only drawing it so the short gap probably doesn't matter as much), the FMC looking like Asumi is nice too since she was one of my favorites in Bokuben and didn't really have a counterpart in Syd; I skipped over GGG when it was initially running but a racing series seems like an interesting idea, no clue how the execution will be considering it's a manga (and looks to be more F1 inspired than street racing like Initial D); third one looks ok I guess, don't have much to say other than vaguely remembering the oneshot he did

 

[echo]

Nisekoi is significantly better than Himaten because Nisekoi was actually funny, entertaining to read and had way more memorable characters. Himaten seems to have completely dropped any attempt at comedy and its gotten pretty boring. Just waiting for it to end at this point like Blue Box.

 

[Kiaida]

If we're doing romance hot takes, Himaten is better than both Blue Box and Someone Hertz, but is underrated by the public because romcoms don't get that much respect unless they're gimmicky, like most of these modern Takagi-style ones, or try to look realistic. Himaten is following a classic structure, but I enjoy Ono's character writing much more than the other current offerings. I like all three series though and it's fine for different styles to exist.

Also Blue Box is dragging far worse and longer than Nisekoi did, Hertz 30 chapters in has a better secondary cast than Blue Box's 200 chapter one.

 

[Bulju]

My hot take is that I hope Himari wins because I hate how common it is for the least honest and straight-forward girl to win in these harem romcoms. I want the one who actually shoots her shot and confesses to win for once. Obviously I would've preferred Kanna based on that, but I'll settle for Himari.

 

[ItsSamu]

And to add to the domino of romance hot takes: Me & Roboco has the best in the magazine. Whenever it has shifted focus to the cute crushes between the kids and the series goes full-endearing mode, it's so stupidly charming that you can't help but love and root for all of them. And now we're actually getting realisation and one major couple confirmed already, with it likely to continue with Bondo before the series' end.


Hunter x Hunter Volume 39 is coming out in July now, by the way. We usually always get the series returning within a month of the volume, whether before or after, and as of the past few returns it tags along with a new serialisation, so I'd guess either it returns late-June/early-July once the new round is fully done, or it comes before the next round, likely in August.

This was an another good issue. Akane-Banashi Part 2 of God of Death is going to be so good. One Piece is giving my boy Brook his Part 2 flashback as well - could have been my top one of the week if it wasn't such a short chapter. Blue Box doesn't always do this sort of montage successfully, but this one kind of moved me in a way the series hasn't much since this final school year for Taiki. Me & Roboco got increasingly hilarious with the full page spreads and the references, last two were amazing. Someone Hertz had my favourite chapter of the series, I reckon. It really is at its best with these competitions, and getting to see the backstory of how these two properly were introduced was sooooo sweet. Great use of the cover chapter. WITCH WATCH's new game is a lot of fun too.

Class 2-B: The Hero Destroyerz was the first chapter where I felt confident in the near future of the series direction. No toilet humour, instead just actual humour, and more characters - Sashimi is basically Gintoki, but prettier - and now it's gone full isekai, with a nice set up of a power system and new heroes on the horizon. Basically just lots of good stuff promised that makes chapter 2-4 feel like mistakes for the early direction of the series. More of this, Gorilla. Hima-Ten! feels like it might end by chapter 100 now, but it's still going good. RuriDragon being back is always a joy. And Shinobi Undercover is establishing some important characters to get the focus, which is what the series needs after being stuck in that house with overly familiar faces from the last arc.

Alien Headbutt had a strong first chapter, but my fears that its island setting and potentially amateurishness could lead it to becoming the next Dear Anemone became true. It was flawed in how it set out its plot and was too late in bringing in the family and cool alien designs - by the time they were relevant what little audience it has was already checked out and it sped through the stuff that should have been the series' focus early on. If this was going to turn into a world-spanning fight against alien invasions (like this final chapter sets up) then this could have been something to last a good while, but poor execution made it trip over itself. In some ways I get why it would spark interest in western fans in the beginning, but the fact they were still singing its praises on Twitter as late as this very month made it hard to take their shock and outrage of its cancellation all that serious. I'll trade this one cancellation for this new three series batch any day.

Top 5 of Issue #27:
1. Akane-banashi
2. One Piece
3. Ichi the Witch
4. Blue Box
5. Me & Roboco

Spoiler: The rest for this week

Really, really good:
6. Someone Hertz
7. WITCH WATCH

Really good:
8. Class 2-B: The Hero Destroyerz
9. Kagurabachi
10. Hima-Ten!
11. RuriDragon
12. Shinobi Undercover

Good:
13. Sakamoto Days
14. Roku's House of Oddities

A little bit good:
15. Kinato’s Magic
16. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi

Not really that good:
17. Drawn to the Fire
18. Under Doctor
19. Nue's Exorcist

Not good:
20. Alien Headbutt

 

[Nuesmoker]

Despite being a much needed breather, this Nue chapter managed to be quite depressing... It's genuinely so sad to see Nue like this

 

[Aqyurs]

Drawn to the Fire does this thing every chapter where it says something that's actually smart and modern about basketball strategy that makes you think the author gets it, and then in the same chapter there's such a glaring mistake or confusing play that wouldn't really work irl that makes you wonder why they drew it that way. For this chapter, the moment Yamashiro had to assess what Mizuhara was going to do is exactly how it would go in game time, at that exact speed, and that was the epitome of "great defense, better offense" that is bound to happen in the sport.

And then Mizuhara does a pass that's just not good. The person he was passing to was really closely guarded, wasn't ready for the pass, and he still wasn't in that good a position to actually get a shot off before the clock expired. The play works because Natsu is the best player on the court by far, but this felt like Mizuhara got lucky things worked out rather than him making a really heads-up play.

As for everything else so far...it's a pretty weirdly written series. The premise of this match was that the rival team were so good supposedly, they wanted to coast and not play their starters. Kuchikusa proves they're good enough to get one starter to sub in. That's fine. The rival school thought there were only two people who were interesting on Kuchikusa, so they weren't going to force any other starter in unless Kuchikusa proved as a team they were interesting enough to do it. None of the other starters on Kuchikusa actually did anything that chapter...but the other starters get put in anyway. And then the starters, the presumably best players on the team, didn't do anything for the rest of the game, just Yamashiro and Ioda still. And Kuchikusa's other players also didn't do anything...proving the rival school's original point correct, Kuchikusa does only have two players worth thinking about. Except the rival school's starters also look like crap in comparison since they didn't do much. This match was meant to hype up the rivals, but it cooled them off if anything? In other sports series, the scrimmage match did the job of making the rival team's best player look incredible even if they lost. Sure, the MC's team won, but the rival still clearly had the best player and they outplayed everyone, so there was still reason to want to see the rematch.

After this scrimmage though, is there any reason to want the rematch? Yamashiro got outplayed by Mizuhara completely this match and most of Ioda's impressiveness got offscreened for flashbacks in the middle of the game, so was he actually that impressive? To the point where I feel like Natsu needs a runback? Not really.

The dynamic between Tachibana and Mizuhara is by far the best this series has to offer. Tachibana is a really fun character, and Mizuhara gets to show his insecure side without it being immediately under minded by the fact he's a shit talker in game. We actually can see why Mizuhara is insecure about his own talent without it feeling patronizing. So why did the author set it up so that the only time we'd actually get to see this dynamic is in limited windows during critical game moments? Why is the best supporting character the one we see every five chapters instead of any of Mizuhara's other teammates we'll see almot every single chapter?

It's a bunch of things I overlook because I love basketball, but I feel like if I didn't love basketball, I would have stopped reading the series by now. Nothing about it makes me excited to actually read what's next or think it's doing anything really good.

 

[Kiaida]

The dynamic between Tachibana and Mizuhara is by far the best this series has to offer. Tachibana is a really fun character, and Mizuhara gets to show his insecure side without it being immediately under minded by the fact he's a shit talker in game. We actually can see why Mizuhara is insecure about his own talent without it feeling patronizing. So why did the author set it up so that the only time we'd actually get to see this dynamic is in limited windows during critical game moments? Why is the best supporting character the one we see every five chapters instead of any of Mizuhara's other teammates we'll see almot every single chapter?

The weirdest aspect is how he cared to build these rival characters more than the main team, just to make them all look like overhyped scrubs that couldn't beat basically a 2 man team that started playing together a week ago. Maybe this could be interesting if they were a fake out and there was a true strong rival to look forward, but I guess he wants the other two dudes to be parallels to the main duo, ignoring how much hype he gave to that school.

Just weird. I think this won't do well.

 

[Jay_Senju]

Man that Kinato chapter is still so funny to me how the hell did Amemiya contradict his own writing? lmao.
Also suzuki is going through it right now with sakamoto days I hope he gets another break.

 

[monstera11]

My romance hot takes is that jjk is a better romance than everything else. People never consider it a romance just because they are all males. Geto x Gojo and Yuji x Megumi takes the cake and is above them all

(Let you decide if i am trolling)

 

[Newkerzy]

If we're doing romance hot takes, Himaten is better than both Blue Box and Someone Hertz, but is underrated by the public because romcoms don't get that much respect unless they're gimmicky, like most of these modern Takagi-style ones, or try to look realistic. Himaten is following a classic structure, but I enjoy Ono's character writing much more than the other current offerings. I like all three series though and it's fine for different styles to exist.

Also Blue Box is dragging far worse and longer than Nisekoi did, Hertz 30 chapters in has a better secondary cast than Blue Box's 200 chapter one.

I was going throw proverbial pie at you, but I relented once I realized you make a good point. I was definitely NOT a fan of re-treading Hina’s plotline.

As some have mentioned, I think Hima-ten will be better appreciated in hindsight later down the road.

 

[WyldViolet]

The weirdest aspect is how he cared to build these rival characters more than the main team, just to make them all look like overhyped scrubs that couldn't beat basically a 2 man team that started playing together a week ago. Maybe this could be interesting if they were a fake out and there was a true strong rival to look forward, but I guess he wants the other two dudes to be parallels to the main duo, ignoring how much hype he gave to that school.

Just weird. I think this won't do well.

Tbh Zero to Hyaku which debuted a few months before DTTF has the same exact issue. It's so weird when mana in competing mags have the same exact issue despite debuting at around the exact same time so plagiarism accusations arent really applicable at all.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Animal Signal colored preview from Tsutsui Twitter account:

 

[Hawke]

Somehow didn't hit send on my TOC comments but I'm really intrigued by this next batch announcement......a racing manga alone from Terasaka was a good sell but Tsutui as well doing what seems like a zoo thing? I'm sold! And I think I remember reading the one-shot from the last of the 3 so it's a good pick for me. Under Doctor also seems like it's surviving for a bit longer and I hope it does! It is figuring itself out well.

Good issue overall, the manga people least like her all had great chapters for me. I actually cannot fathom people here dislike Shinobi and Kiyoshi right now, these two chapters were so good. Shinobi is very charming and Kiyoshi has found a nice balance that works, like it's not exceptional but it's quite fun. But the former is really enjoyable and it's a shame you guys aren't coming around to it. 2B also seems to be finding its place in the lineup and I am once again saying let the goat cook. I gotta also comment on how happy I am reading the current One Piece flashback, the timing is bizarre but it clicks with me on personal levels and I do love Brook so it's an easy sell for me anyway.


Issue votes:

1) One Piece
2) Shinobi Undercover
3) Blue Box
4) Akane banashi
5) Roku's House of Oddities

 

[JBC008]

Somehow didn't hit send on my TOC comments but I'm really intrigued by this next batch announcement......a racing manga alone from Terasaka was a good sell but Tsutui as well doing what seems like a zoo thing? I'm sold! And I think I remember reading the one-shot from the last of the 3 so it's a good pick for me. Under Doctor also seems like it's surviving for a bit longer and I hope it does! It is figuring itself out well.

They did a couple of GFC one-shots, that being Vroom and I think their second is called Middle of Kowloon.

 

[monstera11]

Blue box really feels like Miura realize she is gonna be jobless soon and will never write anything as successful as BB again. So she is buying time