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)

 

[RealityChecker]

Again, I think people are overstating the effect of scalping here lol. Reminds me of KGB which had poor ToC rankings but its volume 1 sales were great and people got too into the speculation that it was cause Western fans were somehow buying it in bulk and juicing the numbers up. I get it though, I don't think anyone expected UD to do this good but the easier answer is probably the right one

We should wait until volume 2, I guess. But I truly don't think Under Doctor is the promised hit like Kagurabachi. There are lots of other metrics that don't corroborate to that.

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The only sad thing is that regardless of what is happening, whenever it is brought upon, it may end up being labeled as hating a series or something like that.

 

[Broseph]

We should wait until volume 2, I guess. But I truly don't think Under Doctor is the promised hit like Kagurabachi. There are lots of other metrics that don't corroborate to that.

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The only sad thing is that regardless of what is happening, whenever it is brought upon, it may end up being labeled as hating a series or something like that.

We'll def see but I think people who are expecting it to tank will be surprised. Even scalping is usually driven by actual demand

 

[RealityChecker]

We'll def see but I think people who are expecting it to tank will be surprised. Even scalping is usually driven by actual demand

Jump really needs to adress and access this Scaping situation or it will be unbearable to read New Series.

 

[tirakai]

I don't think they need to address it. Jump prints new copies for their series quite often (especially when a series sells out), give it a week or so and there'll be plenty of copies again. The people actually buying the resold copies are complete and utter morons.

This isn't like Amiibos or Pokemon cards where the deliberate scarcity is what allows them to charge a lot of money and make a big deal of the releases, manga is cheap as hell and everywhere.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

lol Kiaida just went MIA since yesterday, i was looking forward to his reaction about UD & Kinato placements

 

[cameronney618]

Gotta feel sorry for Tanimoto if Vol 2 sells nowhere near Vol 1 does.

Everyone in SNS is only talking about the scalping and feeling confused. Shame it hasn't translate to more fanarts or positive engagement for the series. A tweet with 10k likes is making fun of the conversion rate yet again.

I thought i would finally see some Chiwako fanarts.

 

[Kiaida]

lol Kiaida just went MIA since yesterday, i was looking forward to his reaction about UD & Kinato placements

Because we all can see the reselling going on, so I have no idea how many of these are actual consumer sales. Did you want me to say this so you could reply back? If Jump is fine with this, then Kiyoshi should be worried.

 

[RealityChecker]

Gotta feel sorry for Tanimoto if Vol 2 sells nowhere near Vol 1 does.

Everyone in SNS is only talking about the scalping and feeling confused. Shame it hasn't translate to more fanarts or positive engagement for the series. A tweet with 10k likes is making fun of the conversion rate yet again.

I thought i would finally see some Chiwako fanarts.

So the scalping is being addressed somehow. At least that is happening.

 

[BelTL]

I don't think they need to address it. Jump prints new copies for their series quite often (especially when a series sells out), give it a week or so and there'll be plenty of copies again. The people actually buying the resold copies are complete and utter morons.

This isn't like Amiibos or Pokemon cards where the deliberate scarcity is what allows them to charge a lot of money and make a big deal of the releases, manga is cheap as hell and everywhere.

Reprints don't worth as much as the very original first release, to hardcore collector at least

 

[cameronney618]

Man, this has to be the weirdest vol 1 sale since... kgb i guess.

Atleast that one can be chalk up to tiktok meme magic breaching the Japanese sphere. And there were lots of fanarts and social media engagement to backup the popularity too.

 

[RealityChecker]

Man, this has to be the weirdest vol 1 sale since... kgb i guess.
Atleast that one can be chalk up to tiktok meme magic breaching the Japanese circle.

It is because Under Doctor sales came out from nowhere.

 

[Satuuuuuuurn]

Reprints don't worth as much as the very original first release, to hardcore collector at least

That’s always been a bit strange to me, there’s literally no difference other than it says “second” or “third” instead of “first” printing on the copyright page it doesn’t really hold any real meaning or value you just pay more for the same experience other people get for far less.

It only really matters if they never did a second print which isn’t gonna happen with anything people actually want. I’m sure something like “Muteki Tekki Spin-chan” is way more scarce than even Under Doctors first print but you won’t get anything for that cause no one cares

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There are cases of popular series getting limited prints like act age but that's not something you can really plan for

 

[nemu asahi]

Less than 3000 followers on the official account. Yet.

This... situation(?)... raises awareness and it might sell some volumes that wouldn't have been sold otherwise.

But you can begin to become excited when the official account reached 10k followers (lol I lied, not for a jump series).

Compare it to other official accounts when they launched their 1st volume, do the maths.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Yeah I mean the explanation I can see for under doctor and kinato are that they’re newest volume 1 for a jump series, since people started trying to create a scalping environment + they have obis, so people are trying to scalp the first prints with the intention that they may increase in value? And now other people are getting caught up in that hype. So let’s see if the volumes 2s or even the surveys reflect popularity, or if it’s all just fomo. Because it would be pretty funny for the hype to be only about the volumes, and the magazine just never gets surveys. I’d say that’s one reason why I appreciate their survey system

 

[cameronney618]

It's straight up complete negative energy on japanese twitter right now.

 

[nemu asahi]

It's straight up complete negative energy on japanese twitter right now.

This problem of scalpers seems to be even for the mag itself (when there is a new series/special events etc.).

People buy these to speculate, especially because they know that some people make collections of it.

Readers are angry at them.

Especially because a lot of these scalpers are "foreigners" (they have no proof but there is a weird atmosphere of discrimination now in Japan...)

 

[kiyoshibro]

Can I say something?
Despite the scalper issue, I’ve been reading some tweets from Japanese readers (with "アンダードクター"), and it seems there are actually people who are actually reading the volume thanks to the hype created (by the scalpers)

So, a small (or perhaps not-so-small) portion of the community began reading the series and getting past the first chapter (since so many people stopped there both Japanese and Western)

(FUN FACT: Besides that, a few people who are mad that Samurai 8 isn't given as much credit, but I don't see the connection, haha)

 

[cameronney618]

Can I say something?
Despite the scalper issue, I’ve been reading some tweets from Japanese readers (with "アンダードクター"), and it seems there are actually people who are actually reading the volume thanks to the hype created (by the scalpers)

So, a small (or perhaps not-so-small) portion of the community began reading the series and getting past the first chapter (since so many people stopped there both Japanese and Western)

(FUN FACT: Besides that, a few people who are mad that Samurai 8 isn't given as much credit, but I don't see the connection, haha)

アンドク is what they usually used.

 

[Kiaida]

Especially because a lot of these scalpers are "foreigners" (they have no proof but there is a weird atmosphere of discrimination now in Japan...)

It's because a ton of stuff is resold overseas, like game consoles, and this makes it harder for local japanese fans to find stuff and sometimes prices go up because of that. The Switch 2 and Playstation 5 Japan only models exist because of this. Not saying I agree with what everyone says, but why this became a common talking point.

 

[nemu asahi]

It's because a ton of stuff is resold overseas, like game consoles, and this makes it harder for local japanese fans to find stuff and sometimes prices go up because of that. The Switch 2 and Playstation 5 Japan only models exist because of this. Not saying I agree with what everyone says, but why this became a common talking point.

Yep. But the atmosphere around it is REALLY different from 5 years ago. At least on SNS, in the news etc. The hate is here.