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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Xanji06]

I was excited to read everyones take on Bleach returning but oh my god some of you all are way to mad. acting like bleach is gonna be the only series in weekly jump meanwhile everything else will get cut and not replaced.

 

[DVL101]

To sum up my thoughts on Kubo being back, it's an amazing thing, he was clearly hungry for more, the Hell arc was clearly planned during Bleach's serialization, he's one of the greats, Bleach has 130M copies in circulation for a reason, 9th in Shueisha history and with all of Blue Box, Sakamoto and Witch Watch nearing their exit from the magazine, we need proper foundations, moreover it's clearly been planned for a while, we haven't gotten an exorcist manga in two years, they clearly didn't want cannibalization to occur.

Also we spent all of 2025 watching as rookies come and go without showing any real signs of life, liked Kaedegami, beyond that none of the action series stood out, I think it's pretty telling that the entirety of 2025 combined is outsold by a cutesie slice of life romance manga in Hertz.

And random thought, Kurumada's been working on Saint Seiya for 41 years, in '92 he started another manga in Jump, promptly got axed, 2 years later he was Kadokawa, I think we gotta respect the greats. (edit: my point is that you've got access to all-timers, I'm not saying you should give in to every single request of theirs but it's important to have that bond subsist.)

(edit's edit: this isn't me saying kubo's gonna bolt to kodansha if he doesn't the hell arc btw)

 

[Franz]

, the Hell arc was clearly planned during Bleach's serialization

Ahaha

Please XD

 

[nemu asahi]

(Please somebody insert the twitter post?)

The number of people wanting to become mangaka pro is decreasing while people drawing as a hobby is increasing.

Yeah, no kidding??? People don't want to work for free, with no guarantee and want to have a "work life balance"? I'm shocked!

 

[kiyoshibro]

"Piracy damage is way too severe"

Who would have thought that countries without access to official websites would start pirating... and then there's also the fact that Mangaplus doesn't have ALL the series under license (like Kinnikuman or others), but only the recent ones

 

[TheRealTravisty]

This isn’t going to make me friends on here, and I’m totally okay with that, but regarding piracy, I find that people use the, “these official sites aren’t available in my country” or “not all of the series are available” excuse waaaay too much.

Like call me skeptical, but I see way too many people asking about where to see series that are available legally for free. Speaking personally, when I point out the official sources or hell, even something like trying out the library I get downvoted to hell.

Some of you guys don’t consider the entertainment you supposedly love to be worth paying for. And that’s okay. No need to trot out the same old reasoning.

 

[tirakai]

Piracy comes down to a matter of convenience, more than anything else. You see that with games, most people with a gaming PC use Steam because it's generally quicker and easier to buy things there than it is to pirate. The only people who pirate games on PC are people who never had any intention to buy them in the first place (i.e. no loss).

Manga+ is a fantastic app and website and has grown a lot as word of mouth spreads, but all the Japanese sites and every non-Shueisha official manga apps/sites suck with weird scammy points systems that drive a lot of people away.

But the bigger issue is that it'd be impossible for manga publishers to truly be more convenient than a pirated manga website the way Steam outclasses games pirating, because they're never going to make one core manga website with everything on it like a pirated manga site has.

And then there's the fact that some publishers just don't seem to be interested. Like I love Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, it's probably my favourite ongoing series, but Akita Shoten seems to have little digital presence in general never mind making a manga+ style western app with simulpub chapters of it and their other hits. I'd love to be caught up legally, but I can't in English without fan scans. And when you're on a scan site already, you're going to end up using it for other stuff since it's easy.

 

[nemu asahi]

People are used to free entertainement and so they tend to choose free stuff first, then buy a title IF they REALLY like it (from the free stuff they could read/watch).

Reading/watching for free is deemed a right now. Too bad that mangaka make a living when people BUY their stuff.

And some people want to buy the stuff but they can't because it costs a lot of money for medium/small publisher to make simul pub + maintening a website of their digital stuff. I'm sure a lot of medium/small publishers don't have the money for it. They need to invest 500 man or more just to make the first chapters of a series. With all the costs added for... how many languages do you want??? it would be like doubling the needed investment.

On the contrary, I'm really suprised that Shueisha and Kodansha don't do it for all their titles, as they have the means to do it. It's stupid.

I'm really angry at people MAKING money out of Edited Mangas (paywall, add money etc.)

For consumers of Edited Mangas, I would be ok with it if they had bought the Japanese tankobon. They bought the manga once, so they can enjoy it in the language they want, where they want. It's my take on this as an author, but it would be different for every mangaka, each one deciding how they want their work to be "consumed". Like some don't want fanfictions. Their right.

EDIT the word EDITED means pirated. I used a word I can't write apparently.

 

[Phantom RPG]

Man, with so many talking about sequels, they forget we got one in modulo a few months ago. I, for one, think Kubo is likely to make a short-term sequel à la Modulo, and I would totally be okay with that. I do not see a single issue with that.

Also, with Shinuki's comment, yeah, I really am beginning to think we won't be seeing a batch of two this year.

Also noticed that I'm not the only one who thinks it's unwise to invest only in veterans when you have a buckload of newcomers eager to show their stuff in the magazine. There are quite a few i can say have potential for some interesting stories.

 

[Reverseshin]

Spoiler: Bleach Thousand Year Blood War Cast Photo and Board Drawing

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 21, 2026, Original Post Date: Jun 21, 2026 ---

Spoiler: Bleach X Village Vanguard

 

[cameronney618]

It's going to be 100x worse once One Piece ends. They will have mangakas line up to collab and draw a number of One Piece spinoff serialisation in WSJ to milk it dry.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Shoseki fixed the monthly top 500!

Monthly Shoseki Top 500 (May)
1. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo #3
3. Kagurabachi #3
5. Blue Box #25
6. Sakamoto Days #27
7. Ichi the Witch #8
15. Someone Hertz #3
22. The Elusive Samurai #25
98. Hima-Ten! #9 (15,724)
137. Me & Roboco #26 (12,858)
138. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8 (12,792)

Roboco & Hima keeping stable numbers while Kiyoshi did 1k better than vol 7!

ME & ROBOCO

Me & Roboco #1 (13,263)
Me & Roboco #2 (15,202)
Me & Roboco #3 (16,000)
Me & Roboco #4 (21,844)
Me & Roboco #5 (24,440)
Me & Roboco #6 (26,050)
Me & Roboco #7 (25,911)
Me & Roboco #8 (27,782)
Me & Roboco #9 (27,184)
Me & Roboco #10 (25,646)
Me & Roboco #11 (25,879)
Me & Roboco #12 (27,550)
Me & Roboco #13 (23,796)
Me & Roboco #14 (23,961)
Me & Roboco #15 (21,690)
Me & Roboco #16 (21,840)
Me & Roboco #17 (22,124)
Me & Roboco #18 (18,691)
Me & Roboco #19 (16,012)
Me & Roboco #20 (15,436)
Me & Roboco #21 (15,321)
Me & Roboco #22 (14,740)
Me & Roboco #23 (15,600)
Me & Roboco #24 (13,512)
Me & Roboco #25 (13,714)
Me & Roboco #26 (12,858)


HIMA-TEN!

Hima-Ten! #1 (15,254)
Hima-Ten! #2 (15,238)
Hima-Ten! #3 (14,922)
Hima-Ten! #4 (19,113)
Hima-Ten! #5 (17,309)
Hima-Ten! #6 (15,450)
Hima-Ten! #7 (16,230)
Hima-Ten! #8 (16,548)
Hima-Ten! #9 (15,724)


ULTIMATE EXORCIST KIYOSHI

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #1 (12,774)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #2 (11,880)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #3 (12,845)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #4 (13,192)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #5 (12,750)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #6 (12,325)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #7 (11,970)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #8 (12,792)

Lol people constantly lie about it not reaching 10k with the latest volume, but its really a consistent 12k.

 

[Shonenfan]

This isn’t going to make me friends on here, and I’m totally okay with that, but regarding piracy, I find that people use the, “these official sites aren’t available in my country” or “not all of the series are available” excuse waaaay too much.

Like call me skeptical, but I see way too many people asking about where to see series that are available legally for free. Speaking personally, when I point out the official sources or hell, even something like trying out the library I get downvoted to hell.

Some of you guys don’t consider the entertainment you supposedly love to be worth paying for. And that’s okay. No need to trot out the same old reasoning.

I don’t disagree but manga piracy has also led to the industry growing massively overseas in ways that it wouldn’t have otherwise and is crucial for some of the positive changes it forced.

Mangaplus ve KManga shows the gap between the two and how one (mangaplus) has adapted intelligently creating a steam like system (with a fair and easy monthly vault access) has lead to a brilliant way for growth whereas the other (KManga) shows how a company is completely out of touch and trying to squeeze every last cent out of you uncomfortably and has had awful growth because of it (the idiocy to not license Sensen senki when it would’ve brought views even if it gets axed).

Manga piracy has acted and in some ways still does act as an unfortunate check on these companies being either too greedy or too ignorant and uncreative.

 

[cameronney618]

We got Reigen 2.0 in Jump

 

[nemu asahi]

(Please somebody insert the twitter post?)

The number of people wanting to become mangaka pro is decreasing while people drawing as a hobby is increasing.

Yeah, no kidding??? People don't want to work for free, with no guarantee and want to have a "work life balance"? I'm shocked!

Thanks for the twitter post insert Shinuki!

 

[Reverseshin]

Spoiler: New Merchandise

Spoiler: Hunter X Hunter Returning Conformation

 

[Hawke]

really digging the involvement kubo has with everything, down to the opening theme

also if the kazui illustration isn't a cheeky nod at the worst kept secret ever...

 

[cameronney618]

Since when did himaten got a character poll? i see alot of people mentioning it but i've never seen it.

 

[monstera11]

Welcome back, Ping Pong Peril

 

[tirakai]

The setting of Cannon Master is really cool with the massive mechanical monsters, like a series about people taking down Zoids, and the action was pretty good, but I don't really like the main two's dynamic.

It's very reminiscent of Reigen and Mob from Mob Psycho 100 and Reigen's constant lies with Mob blindly believing him was always my least favourite part of that series (though here the master is at least genuinely competent instead of a total fraud he just doesn't compare to his living weapon of a disciple).

Overall it felt like pretty standard battle shounen affair but in a really cool and distinct setting. The setting is definitely what's going to make or break this series.