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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)

 

[Nuesmoker]

KATANAAAAAA

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Tanimoto is definitely testing approaches and he probably had a better receive from the readers from those "Slice of Life" chapters, which do fit the manga. But i don't want the story to be only about that.

Also, UD didn't even released it's second volume yet and he already has a larper

 

[MOthinus]

Nue...It only took 149 chapters...lol

 

[Wookitake]

I liked HAL's chapter but I thought he was gonna die and his brother would be the true MC. In particular because he's already 19 in 2017, and that the same age as Kimi Antonelli, who's in the 1st place of this year's F1 championship.

 

[LogicoftheVI]

Issue #28:
1. Ichi the Witch #85
2. Animal Signal #1
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #95
4. Roku's House of Oddities #9
5. Kinato's Magic #18

6. Shinobi Undercover #84

7. Someone Hertz #36
8. Under Doctor #19
9. Drawn to the Fire #8
10. Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz #7

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

omg i'm so in love with Hal Formula

It's the best thing i've read in a while

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I liked HAL's chapter but I thought he was gonna die and his brother would be the true MC. In particular because he's already 19 in 2017, and that the same age as Kimi Antonelli, who's in the 1st place of this year's F1 championship.

i mean, Antonelli is something else, but he was also scouted for Mercedes when he was pretty young, so while he had an amazing talent he also had a great support from one of the best F1 teams.

But we do have some people that enter's later than expected. Hamilton first entered F1 with 22, and he disputed F3 with 20. So it's not that different from our MC.

That other driver will probably be his coach now that he is out of the team

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And we can't forget Damon Hill too, he entered F1 with 31 years and still managed to win a championship

 

[RealityChecker]

Tanimoto is definitely testing approaches and he probably had a better receive from the readers from those "Slice of Life" chapters, which do fit the manga. But i don't want the story to be only about that.

Also, UD didn't even released it's second volume yet and he already has a larper

Meanwhile we will have battles in RuriDragon.

 

[Satuuuuuuurn]

Hal Formula’s the best debut I’ve seen in a while, would genuinely be a 10/10 one-shot I think but hopefully it can keep it up as a full series

The quality of series in 2026 already feels way higher than last year

 

[tirakai]

Hal Formula had some great art for sure but I wasn't too invested in the actual racing part until the final race which added some stakes to it. I suppose that's only natural, since the others were MC playing safe and losing.

Definitely one where I'll need to see what the supporting cast is like.

 

[monstera11]

This is so true because officially translated manga is extremely expensive in my country

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Why does HAL feel like a one shot....

 

[Jay_Senju]

Man I really could not give less of a shit about drawn to the fire’s side cast. I just don’t find them interesting at all.

 

[Thehoennhippo]

Hal Formula was fine I guess, I'll give it another chapter.

1: Akane
2: Blue Box
3: Nue
4: Roku
5: Ichi

 

[Wookitake]

I liked HAL's chapter but I thought he was gonna die and his brother would be the true MC. In particular because he's already 19 in 2017, and that the same age as Kimi Antonelli, who's in the 1st place of this year's F1 championship.

Antonelli is something else, but he was also scouted for Mercedes when he was pretty young, so while he had an amazing talent he also had a great support from one of the best F1 teams.

But we do have some people that enter's later than expected. Hamilton first entered F1 with 22, and he disputed F3 with 20. So it's not that different from our MC.

That other driver will probably be his coach now that he is out of the team
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And we can't forget Damon Hill too, he entered F1 with 31 years and still managed to win a championship

Yes it's possible. However, we should note that Hamilton entered at 22 but he was racing with McLaren for years and years in their Youth Development program. Also, that was almost 20 years ago.

Nowadays we have lots of racers on the younger side. Verstappen (a decade ago, of course) with 17, then Norris, Bearman, and Stroll debuted not that older.

It would be rather surprising to have a driver MC with 29 years old (if they do have a time skip to nowadays).

 

[cameronney618]

Hallelujah, ruri actually went full battle shonen!!

 

[Kiaida]

Issue 29:

Hal Formula
It's not the ideal first chapter because it's a bit messy. It's almost like the writer is dropping their tears on the paper while drawing and because of that, things are blurry and the pacing is erratic, but at the same time that's also the manga's strength.

What a get from this is how much passion Terasaka has for his stories and characters and he wanted to draw something that could clearly give that impression. There's a specific roughness meant to translate this feeling to the art. It's almost like the cars are burning out of all these emotions inside the driver and the author.

It's not perfect or anything, the drama came a bit too strong, but it's cool to see him back and the next few chapters should pace things more properly.

Votes:

1. Nue's Exorcist
I'm not against the trope about the protagonist being the chosen one, but depends on how it's handled. There's an interesting concept here about strength x free will that was already present in the 1st chapter when Gakuro was just doing as he was told, weak and without voice.

Nue giving strength gave him options. He chose to get stronger and that was followed up by other decisions. This whole story is about Gakuro learning to be his own person and it's doing that now by letting him go against both Takuro and Nue's wishes, even though they come from love. He can choose to be Nue's exorcist by himself and not fate.

2. Animal Signal
More wordy than the first chapter, but Kokone has charisma enough to justify it. Again,Tsutsui's expressions are more varied and fun here than in Syd Craft and that does a lot for her as a heroine, especially with the funny contrast to Tsubasa's deadpan face.

3. Ruri Dragon
This didn't go where I expected, but it's so weird to see this manga slowly opening up after we got so used to Ruri's school life. You can see how Shindo was a great battle author because the action is paced properly and is easy to read. Last page made me laugh, but it's nice how Ruri is free spirited enough to have a chapter like this.

4. Hal Formula
Nice debut, I'm glad this seems to have something to say.

5. Roku
Liked the idea of her lack of reactions coming from her status as a doll. Not exactly a new idea, but he did it in a cute enough way.

 

[RealityChecker]

Hallelujah, ruri actually went full battle shonen!!

Watch the battle ending next chapter when we know the dragon just did that because he stepped on a stone.

 

[SharkBait]

This is so true because officially translated manga is extremely expensive in my country

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Why does HAL feel like a one shot....

Do public libraries exist in Japan? People here read manga at the library and library happily take requests (and donations and have book sells. Can pick up manga for like pennies!)

Technically can even do Interlibrary loan to request manga copy by copy.

 

[nemu asahi]

Hallelujah, ruri actually went full battle shonen!!

My theory:

So, the author wanted to do that from the start (we saw it) but everybody told him no because slice of life better, so he got into depression, it doesn't seem to get better (breaks) so they finally gave him the authorization to do whatever he wants now because they see that the hype of the IP is less and less with time because of the rare updates.

Maybe they think that he'll be able to update faster if he does what he wants. That's the first sign of showing that they are giving up. Going another route. And they hope that this other route will rekindle the fire.

You're free to tell me I'm thinking wrong. (I don't care, that's my theory in my head and I have a lot of imagination )

Do public libraries exist in Japan? People here read manga at the library and library happily take requests (and donations and have book sells. Can pick up manga for like pennies!)

Technically can even do Interlibrary loan to request manga copy by copy.

You even have mangakissaten. It's cheap and you can read all the titles you want. You can take a shower and sleep there too. Great places.

 

[Ebrietas-]

Togashi is now 21 chapters ahead of released chapters. Announce the return already...

 

[Jay_Senju]

Amemiya is getting super desperate with all the fan service.