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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shockzz1234]

I have a idea that will hopefully start some fun discussions (so we can move on a bit from this scalping scandal that has lasted pages lol). I am currently caught up on 7 series in the magazine:

One Piece
Hunter x Hunter
Sakamoto Days
Akane-banashi
Kagurabachi
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
Ichi the Witch

What are you all caught up on in the magazine? Feel free, in fact, please do make a tier list if you’d like! I would make one myself but tbh I don’t really think I have any hierarchy outside of my favs being OP and HxH lol

I read all of it. In no particular order per tier, besides One Piece which is first lol:

Tier 1/S (Elite):

- One Piece
- Hunter x Hunter
- Akanebanashi

Tier 1.5/A (Great, aka I don't want to put them in Tier 2 but they're not quite Tier 1):

- Ichi the Witch
- Kagurabachi

Tier 2/B (Good):

- Shinobi Undercover
- Witch Watch
- Roku
- Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
- Someone Hertz
- Under Doctor

Tier 3/C (Ok):

- Sakamoto Days (this used to be a tier above, sigh)
- Ruri Dragon
- Blue Box
- Kinato's Magic
- Nue's Exorcist (this used to be in the tier below, hurray!)
- Me and Roboco

Tier 4/D (...meh):

- Himaten
- Class 2-B
- Drawn to the Fire


There's quite a few axed series over the years that would have been in a new Tier 5 lmao, thankfully they're not running any more.

Overall, i think the mag is in an alright spot right now. Quite a lot of new series trying to find their footing and the two biggest newer ones haven't got an anime yet.

 

[Shonenfan]

I read everything and anything that the magazine published.

GOAT and my no. 1 manga of all time: One Piece

Very Great and my no. 2 manga of all time: HxH

Great: Akane Banashi, Kiyoshi, Kagurabachi

Very Good: Ichi the witch, Shinobi

Pretty Good: Sakamoto (used to be in great but the last arc and world building has been a let down), Class 2B (I’m interested in the switch), Burn the Witch

Good: UD, Kinato, Roku (need it to start doing different things.)

Good, but sometimes I can’t follow what’s happening: Someone Hertz, Nue, Roboco

Ok: BB

Reading it just bc it’s Jump: Himaten, Drawn to Flame

Hertz and UD to me have the biggest chance to rise. 22’s series will likely not get past ok for me since RomComs and Gags don’t really top my favorite manga. The other series are wild cards

Also has anyone else been a tad disappointed in Ichi the witch? Don’t get me wrong, I like the series but was just expecting a bit more grander adventures and complex world building; it’s been a bit aimless in a goal and ambition outside of “well let’s just get stronger and beat the world hater”. I’m just really missing the 00’s big grand adventures with cool powers

Does anyone have any predictions for what the next non battle battle manga would be? I could see cooking (but more grounded than SnS).

 

[Hawke]

really hope koalafications is the official term hahahaahah

 

[cameronney618]

6/5

8 9784088850870 あかね噺　２２ 集英社 馬上鷹将 2026.06.04

13 9784088850368 ウィッチウォッチ　２６ 集英社 篠原健太 2026.06.04

21 9784088850993 鵺の陰陽師　１５ 集英社 川江康太 2026.06.04

27 9784088850863 ＵＮＤＥＲ　ＤＯＣＴＯＲ　１ 集英社 谷本今日 2026.06.04

28 9784088850887 しのびごと　８ 集英社 みたらし三大 2026.06.04

57 9784088850894 回撃のキナト　１ 集英社 雨宮ケント 2026.06.04

 

[RealityChecker]

6/5

8 9784088850870 あかね噺　２２ 集英社 馬上鷹将 2026.06.04

13 9784088850368 ウィッチウォッチ　２６ 集英社 篠原健太 2026.06.04

21 9784088850993 鵺の陰陽師　１５ 集英社 川江康太 2026.06.04

27 9784088850863 ＵＮＤＥＲ　ＤＯＣＴＯＲ　１ 集英社 谷本今日 2026.06.04

28 9784088850887 しのびごと　８ 集英社 みたらし三大 2026.06.04

57 9784088850894 回撃のキナト　１ 集英社 雨宮ケント 2026.06.04

Do you think it is really a scalping situation?

 

[Dongus]

Dunno what "koalafication" means but the FMC has a nice design

Gonna do a challenge run for this series. Gonna see if I can talk about this without mentioning horse girls even once.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Shoseki Top 500 (June 5)
8. Akane-banashi #22
13. Witch Watch #26
21. Nue's Exorcist #15
27. Under Doctor #1
28. Shinobi Undercover #8
57. Kinato's Magic #1
215. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits #2
222. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits #3
443. Gonron Egg #3
461. The Mage Next Door #2
462. Gonron Egg #2
473. The Mage Next Door #3

That's actualy a prety good hold for Under Doctor considering is supposed to be out of stock, Nue's Exorcist had almost the same drop, 11 places while UD had 19 and still above Shinobi so it feels like a natural drop after a frontloaded 1st day, also not that bad drop for Kinato either.

 

[Lord Anubis]

I really don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but there seems to be a scalping issue with Gonron and Kinato too

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I hate scalpers so fucking much

Bruh, how are these stories gonna become iconic series that everyone would want to read if everyone is buying it without even intending to read it?

 

[Wookitake]

Gonna see if I can talk about this without mentioning horse girls even once.

What about horsemen?

 

[Jay_Senju]

Okay I gotta ask why the fuck is Under Doctor volume 1 being scalped? Legit have never seen this happen with a jump manga before

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I think people are being a bit too volatile, in 24 hours it went from "Under Doctor is a hit and Kinato is going to finish Kiyoshi" to "Scalpers, scalpers, scalpers!", like, obviously the scalper stuff with UD is a thing but is just one part of it, do anyone actually believe scalpers went to every store in Japan and bought like 90% of UD copies which means no one is actually buying the series? Obviously not, btw, the scalpers thing on Mercari has always existed, is just that it became a focus now due to the whole Logan Paul thing, even in Japan, and about negativity on Twitter, who cares lol

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 6, 2026, Original Post Date: Jun 6, 2026 ---

The thing is flying from stores lol

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 6, 2026 ---

Apparently store opened and a hour later Under Doctor was already sold out:

 

[Broseph]

I think people are being a bit too volatile, in 24 hours it went from "Under Doctor is a hit and Kinato is going to finish Kiyoshi" to "Scalpers, scalpers, scalpers!", like, obviously the scalper stuff with UD is a thing but is just one part of it, do anyone actually believe scalpers went to every store in Japan and bought like 90% of UD copies which means no one is actually buying the series? Obviously not, btw, the scalpers thing on Mercari has always existed, is just that it became a focus now due to the whole Logan Paul thing, even in Japan, and about negativity on Twitter, who cares lol

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 6, 2026, Original Post Date: Jun 6, 2026 ---

The thing is flying from stores lol

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 6, 2026 ---

Apparently store opened and a hour later Under Doctor was already sold out:

That's what I've been saying. The easy answer is usually the right one. Under Doctor probably has a genuine fanbase

 

[Kiaida]

Obviously not

Why obviously? You're downplaying it like I said.

No, it isn't normal to have more than 500 copies of a manga's first volume being resold for extremely high prices on a single site literal hours after it was released, this number alone would be enough to show the scale of the scalping. Either you believe in the TOC or you don't, this manga was bottom 3 almost every week for the last two months. The video that pushed this was out just a while ago, it's not rocket science to understand why they're scalping something promoted on the Hero Academia account if they don't follow the magazine.

By the way, this super mega popular manga's account isn't even at 3k followers after it trended the whole day. And most tweets were japanese people wondering why anyone would care to scalp Under Doctor.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Why obviously?

No, it isn't normal to have more than 500 copies of a manga's first volume being resold for extremely high prices literal hours after it was released. Either you believe in the TOC or you don't, this manga was bottom 3 almost every week for the last two months. The video that pushed this was out just a while ago, it's not rocket science to understand why they're scalping something promoted on the Hero Academia account if they don't follow the magazine.

By the way, this super mega popular manga's account isn't even at 3k followers after it trended the whole day. And most tweets were japanese people wondering why anyone would care to scalp Under Doctor.

So you really believe scalpers went to all stores in Japan and bought like 90% of UD print copies in less than 24 hours so no genuine reader is actually buying it? LOL

Of course scalpers are doing it because MHA obi and stuff, that still doesn't mean the majority of sales comes from scalpers at all, not to mention these reseling copies are actually being sold kkkk, even in the 2nd day of Shoseki the manga had a pretty good hold for a series being out of stock, people are buying it too, the whole scalper thing going viral online is pretty much a big free advertisement for the series which more than likely is driving up the interest/curiosity about the series from jp readers, that's pretty much how intentional shortage works, to drive curiosity, if this will result in better toc placements and stuff, we will see in the future, don't expect anything from literally next issue btw.

Btw, Astro Royale is still stuck on 10k followers after 2 years, a account for a series from Tokyo Revengers author that sold 30k copies in a month, let's not act like followers from these accounts really dictate something

 

[Kiaida]

So you really believe scalpers went to all stores in Japan and bought like 90% of UD print copies in less than 24 hours so no genuine reader is actually buying it? LOL

500 copies alone is 5% of what Kiyoshi sells a month and that's within literal few hours on a single site, some people may be hoarding to sell later or selling on other sites. Scalping in Japan is big enough it's not strange to imagine that if they shipped 10k copies or something, a significant % of the sales were from scalpers. And I don't mean that no one was going to buy it, but it selling out in a single day with tons of resales and pictures of people buying dozens of copies make it hard to say how much it was actually going to sell to real consumers.

I wouldn't celebrate scalpers though, they ruin everything, so I hope the magazine actually is aware about this.

And again, I don't know why we're acting like the magazine was treating it as a sure hit when it was placed on bottom almost every week. lol

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

500 copies alone is 5% of what Kiyoshi sells a month and that's within literal few hours on a single site, some people may be hoarding to sell later or selling on other sites. Scalping in Japan is big enough it's not strange to imagine that if they shipped 10k copies or something, a significant % of the sales were from scalpers. And I don't mean that no one was going to buy it, but it selling out in a single day with tons of resales and pictures of people buying dozens of copies make it hard to say how much it was actually going to sell to real consumers.

I wouldn't celebrate scalpers though, they ruin everything, so I hope the magazine actually is aware about this.

You know this happens with every manga right? I just posted a single person buying 60 copies of Nue vol 15, we have pictures of people buying literal boxes with hundreds of copies of a single volume from series like Jujutsu Kaisen, that's pretty normal thing and Shueisha really don't care

Btw, same thing happened with One Piece Chopper, scalpers buying god knows how many copies because of the special OP card included, still no one cared about it lol

 

[tirakai]

All the series sell significantly higher than what we see on Shoseki, there's a whole bunch of bookshop chains and websites which aren't counted on their list (we can see that whenever they reveal circulation numbers).

500 copies isn't 5% of Kiyoshi's total sales, it'll realistically be more like 2%, or less.

 

[Kiaida]

You know this happens with every manga right?

No, it doesn't happen with volume 1 like this. And the whole point of the conversation is that you're saying it's no big deal and a common thing as if Under Doctor is a massive hit bigger than Shinobi Undercover already and this had no influence on these numbers. It's 500 copies in a single site in a few hours, I don't know why it's hard to acknowledge it. Fans buying multiple volumes to vote for a poll of a manga they like and already has an established fanbase is different from dudes trying to hoard a ton of the first volume of a brand new series before consumers can get a chance to read it. How is it the same? It may be even a bad thing for the manga as some people buy volumes that catch their attention while they're casually walking through.

Btw, same thing happened with One Piece Chopper, scalpers buying god knows how many copies because of the special OP card included, still no one cared about it lol

A ton of people talked about this and complained about the scalping because they wanted to buy the volume or get the card. This is why they quickly announced the reprint on their twitter account.

Scalping is super hated in japanese SNS.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

No, it doesn't happen with volume 1 like this. And the whole point of the conversation is that you're saying it's no big deal and a common thing as if Under Doctor is a massive hit bigger than Shinobi Undercover already and this had no influence on these numbers. It's 500 copies in a single site in a few hours, I don't know why it's hard to acknowledge it. Fans buying multiple volumes to vote for a poll of a manga they like and already has an established fanbase is different from dudes trying to hoard a ton of the first volume of a brand new series before consumers can get a chance to read it. How is it the same?



A ton of people talked about this and complained about the scalping because they wanted to buy the volume or get the card. This is why they quickly announced the reprint on their twitter account.

My point is not if happens or not with vol 1, you're acting like people (not really scalpers) buying multiple copies makes it hard to know what are real costumers but this happens with every manga, people buy multiple, dozen or even hundreds of copies of the same volume, doesn't that means that the number you see on Oricon are probably inflated by a lot of the same people buying dozen of copies? so that mean the sales aren't genuine? in the end it doesn't matter for the publisher because it still copies sold, the money will still go to Shueisha and they will have to print more copies which will go to the author pocket, everybody is happy.

About Chopper my point is that no one used the scalper situation which is definitely 100x worse than a unknown series and pointed out to doubt about the real popularity or whatever.

Reality is that the only ones caring about if this or that percentage comes from scalpers or "genuine people" are the few ones in Forums and social media that talk about ToC and sales, Shueisha do not care and it's very likely that we will see Under Doctor jumping in the ToC soon in few weeks due to more people being into the manga and voting and surviving for at least another round.

 

[Kiaida]

Reality is that the only ones caring about if this or that percentage comes from scalpers or "genuine people" are the few ones in Forums and social media that talk about ToC and sales, Shueisha do not care and it's very likely that we will see Under Doctor jumping in the ToC soon in few weeks.

If they want to reward scalping, then probably Kiyoshi will be gone in a few batches because it at least has 10k actual consumers, but won't be enough to beat scalpers buying thousands of copies in a week of every somewhat notable new series. These people won't watch anime or buy products at all though.