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

Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #48 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • Me & Roboco 302

  • Sakamoto Days 280

  • Witch Watch 267

  • Akane-banashi 227

  • Nue's Exorcist 166

  • Kagurabachi 136

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 113

  • Ichi the Witch 103

  • Shinobi Undercover 102

  • Someone Hertz 54

  • Under Doctor 37

  • Roku's House of Oddities 27

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 25

  • Animal Signal 19

  • Hal Formula 18

  • Cannon Master 17

  • The Ura Files 8

  • Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 7


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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #49 (2026)
00. Ichi the Witch (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Sakamoto Days
02. One Piece
00. Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
03. Akane-banashi
04. Someone Hertz
05. Shinobi Undercover
00. Superpower Battle Fantasy Club (One Shot by Tatara Kyo, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #6)
06. Me & Roboco
00. Under Doctor (Color Page)
07. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica
08. Witch Watch
09. The Ura Files
10. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
11. Animal Signal
12. Nue's Exorcist
13. Hal Formula
14. Cannon Master
15. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
16. Kagurabachi

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #50 (2026) - Information!
Akane-banashi (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
Me & Roboco (Color Page)
Shishikabane (One Shot by Maki Gyujirou, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #7)
 

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I doubt season 1 will go as far as Iori's introduction
I’ve always maintained the perfect endpoint for a 24-5 episode season 1 would be the chapter Chihiro wakes up from “dying”, so I agree that Iori would be early season 2 material at best in that case.

And wow, I’ll be real curious to see what the final monthly looks like for Under Doctor. It seems like we’re trending towards a lot of these newer series juggling interesting ideas with educational/cultural value of some kind, I wonder if that’s becoming Saito’s go-to (between Someone Hertz, Under Doctor, and now Animal Signal, if not a few others as well)
 

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I’ve always maintained the perfect endpoint for a 24-5 episode season 1 would be the chapter Chihiro wakes up from “dying”, so I agree that Iori would be early season 2 material at best in that case.

And wow, I’ll be real curious to see what the final monthly looks like for Under Doctor. It seems like we’re trending towards a lot of these newer series juggling interesting ideas with educational/cultural value of some kind, I wonder if that’s becoming Saito’s go-to (between Someone Hertz, Under Doctor, and now Animal Signal, if not a few others as well)
Yeah. The whole arc of meeting iori really feels like start of season 2
 

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I find Under Doctor so boring I already dropped it. Dropped Hertz as well. At this rate the magazine is gonna be full of manga I don’t like lol.

Maybe Kinato can sneak its way to 30 chapters or something.

Enjoying both Animal Signal and HAL so far. Maybe there is still hope…
 

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Seen a few fans starting to post UD fanarts. Still far from what the sales indicates. Did the medical consultant, Yasuhiko Tomita, bought all the copies for his university students? Maybe UD has become one of the school textbooks there.
I had thought of a mildly racist joke, that it's all just parents buying up the copies in the desperate hopes it'll finally convince their kids to finally want to become doctors.
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Yeah Until Doctor is the real deal. The scalper argument never clicked to me. The easy answer is usually the correct one
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Waiting for it to get cancelled on ch 35 alongside the reveal of 500k in circulation and an anime announcement.
You know, as much as these good sales don't change the fact that if survey still terrible it's going to eventually get axed, i do think the current moment is definitely "different" from when Phantom Seer pulled 20k in a month in 2020, Jump was still pretty much full of hits at the time with a whole new generation of Jump series getting estabilished in the magazine so PS just kinda didn't had much of a chance with the bad rankings, meanwhile Under Doctor is happening in the best moment possible to pull this sort of crazy sales, specially with another 2/3 successful series about to end very soon, Under Doctor will have to really fumble this opportunity in order to get axed in 30-ish chapters like Phantom Seer.
 

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I find Under Doctor so boring I already dropped it. Dropped Hertz as well. At this rate the magazine is gonna be full of manga I don’t like lol.

Maybe Kinato can sneak its way to 30 chapters or something.

Enjoying both Animal Signal and HAL so far. Maybe there is still hope…
Uh oh... if all the magazine successes are stuff that you do not like. Then you liking HAL and Animal Signal does not bode well for their survival.....

Please un-like them immediately

(/jk)
 

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Uh oh... if all the magazine successes are stuff that you do not like. Then you liking HAL and Animal Signal does not bode well for their survival.....

Please un-like them immediately

(/jk)
My 3 favorite 2025 series were Kaedegami, Ping Pong Peril and Hero Girl…

Granted almost everything from 2025 got axed but none of those lived a single round ;-;
 

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idk i do think UD is popular, but usually amazon also reflects this popularity. So far UD's volume 1 has 18 reviews and Kinato's has 14. If we're comparing, around this time for Someone Hertz volume 1 it had like 200+ reviews. Something about this just feels very odd unless UD's audience is HEAVILY skewed towards either super young or super old audiences
 

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idk i do think UD is popular, but usually amazon also reflects this popularity. So far UD's volume 1 has 18 reviews and Kinato's has 14. If we're comparing, around this time for Someone Hertz volume 1 it had like 200+ reviews. Something about this just feels very odd unless UD's audience is HEAVILY skewed towards either super young or super old audiences
The UD author drove around Japan and bought thousands of copies to avoid being cancelled.
 

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The UD author drove around Japan and bought thousands of copies to avoid being cancelled.
Self Scalper Doctor???
 

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The UD author drove around Japan and bought thousands of copies to avoid being cancelled.
It’s ingenious; the author is even bragging about the fraudulent act with the recent development of a fake under doctor.
 

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Issue 29 rankings:

Tier 1 (Great):

1 - One Piece (I continue to like this flashback a lot. I'll always love a SH flashback)
2 - Ichi the Witch (Death for Death triggered, knew she was gonna do it at some point. Also seems the theories about Fujimine and the water witch were right!)
3 - Someone Hertz (haha she hid her ears at the end, cute)
4 - Roku (unexpectedly emotional, huh. Like I said last week, i'm glad this series is not just pure comedy)
5 - Hal Formula (Yeah this was VERY good. Like wow. First of all the art is clean of course, get the obvious out the way first. Secondly, it's quite hard to do fast movement in manga form, but I felt it very well here. I actually got pumped at several pages. I was basically like announcer guy who got too excited and leaned forward before realising lol. And thirdly, the dynamic between the brothers is amazing. The younger brother, Haruka, isn't annoying like a lot of child characters are in media and him being so supportive of his older brother is very cute. The older brother, Miharu, has a very relatable feeling of trying to go after his dream but being too scared to do so, and in his case, part of the reason for his fear is that he may legit die. Also he's scared to let him down, and I believe everyone can relate to that feeling especially of not wanting to let down someone you deeply care about. Together they form a really really good duo that I'm already invrsted in and I'm not gonna lie, i even teared up at some parts. Great start! Bearing in mind I'm not even a racing/F1 fan either)

Tier 2 (Good):

- Witch Watch (the panel of Ban and Kanshi flying was cool, also it's funny the teams ended up being what Moi was trying to get them to do from the start!)
- Akanebanashi (so it seems like Kaisei will most definitely, or maybe lol, have the son sacrifice himself for his dad in his story. Make it much more of a tragedy...but first he needs to get their guards down with some good ol' fashioned comedy!)
- Kiyoshi (nice little wind down chapter)
- Kagurabachi ("Yeah well why don't you go and take down the Mikaboshi if you don't like what's happening to your sister" and Akemura remembered that)
- Under Doctor (nice chapter, and an imposter!)
- Shinobi Undercover (Yodaka well done, your logic mode lasted long enough to get you to the finish line lol, also I hope we get more focus on Aoi as a character now)
- Blue Box (Yesss, Taiki won! Seems like we're approaching the end!)
- Ruri Dragon (we battle shounen now? lol, I mean obviously not, at least not full on, but nice)
- Class 2-B (Hey, the powers to open stuff easily and the power to not get hurt when your stub your toe are decent powers! Anyway, I actually enjoyed this chapter! I like the powers of the series so far and the final page was actually pretty funny and actually made me laugh, so +1, best chapter so far imo....the series is actually much funnier when not focused on poop jokes every two panels)

Tier 3 (Ok):

- Me and Roboco
- Himaten (I hope Honoka fans are prepared for the next chapter lmao)
- Kinato's Magic (felt a bit rushed, but it was still fun)
- Nue's Exorcist (Idk how much of an influence Bleach/Kubo has on the author and this series but it's pretty similar sometimes. Right now we're in the stage where Ichigo, or uh Gakuro, loses his Shinigami/Hollow powers and is learning to unlock his own power from within, his Fullbring powers)
- Sakamoto Days (Gaku is alive....I guess? Don't really know what else he has to do in the plot, so uhhh...)
- Drawn to the Fire (a bit rushed like Kinato's chapter, but I thought this was better than previous chapters. More focus on his teammates, or recruiting said teammates, is better than immediately going into a match vs rivals imo)
- Animal Signal (the very serious face Kokone made several times this chapter was hilarious. Anyway yeah, this series continues to be ok for me. I can definitely see it growing on me more but for now it's just mostly the fun facts I'm enjoying more than anything else)



The quality of new series in 2026 is far better than the quality of those in 2025 so far imo.
 
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Kagurabachi will be on Hiatus.
They finally killed him /jk.

In all seriousness, judging from the tweet, it seems like they had a thorough discussion about this. Given how important the author and the series are to Jump, it makes sense that they’re prioritizing his health right now.
 

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Based on what the tweet says does that mean we still have a chapter for issue 30? (Since it says the hiatus starts on issue 31)
 
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