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

Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #42-43 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • One Piece 1193

  • Me & Roboco 297

  • Sakamoto Days 275

  • Witch Watch 262

  • Akane-banashi 222

  • Nue's Exorcist 161

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 108

  • Ichi the Witch 98

  • Shinobi Undercover 97

  • Someone Hertz 49

  • Under Doctor 32

  • Roku's House of Oddities 22

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 20

  • Animal Signal 14

  • Hal Formula 13

  • Cannon Master 12

  • The Ura Files 3

  • Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 2


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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #42-43 (2026)
00. Sakamoto Days (Lead Color Pages)
01. Ichi the Witch
02. One Piece
03. Someone Hertz
04. Me & Roboco
00. GrayKeith: Translator Daemonica (Color Page)
05. Akane-banashi
06. Shinobi Undercover
00. Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
00. The Ura Files (Not Ranked)
07. Witch Watch
08. Animal Signal
09. Nue's Exorcist
00. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
10. Under Doctor
00. The secret of Captain Gozo Tsunoda (One Shot)
11. Hal Formula
12. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
13. Cannon Master
00. Kagurabachi (Absent)

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #44 (2026) - Information!
Someone Hertz (Cover & Lead Color Pages, 1st Anniversary)
Akane-banashi (Color Page)
Nue's Exorcist (Color Page, Characters Popularity Poll Results)
Cursed Case (One Shot by Oku Takuo, Color Page, Golden Future Cup 2026 #1)
 
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They're pretty much giving these volumes for free, they're after these dumb cards. Congrats Saito for finally artificially inflating Shinobi sales, hilarious how it was handpicked to be in this event instead of more popular series, lmao.
There any Kiyoshi natsucomi cards? Or just saito’s fave lol
 

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Jesus christ

 

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They're pretty much giving these volumes for free, they're after these dumb cards. Congrats Saito for finally artificially inflating Shinobi sales, hilarious how it was handpicked to be in this event instead of more popular series, lmao.
This is from an event?
 

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There any Kiyoshi natsucomi cards? Or just saito’s fave lol
It's the big hitters (OP, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto) and Shinobi because it always has to be forced in everything.

This is from an event?
Yeah, their summer event that gives some gifts if you buy a few specific series.
 

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I mean, my question why is Kagurabachi being targeted over OP and Kingdom? Aren't the One Piece cards the major target with this scalping? Heck, it's not just Jump manga in this even, there's Jump+ manga like Strikeout Pitch and Shiba Inu Rooms and Shoujo manga like Honey Lemon Soda and Kimi wo Wasureru, but it's just the Jump manga + Dandadan, Boruto, and Chainsawman being scalped.
 

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TOC will reign as the sole method to know the popularity of a manga. Forget about sales for now.
Except the TOC is also a terrible indicator for popularity unless you genuinely believe Ichi the Witch is already more popular than One Piece, that Someone Hertz is already more popular than Sakamoto Days and Blue Box (series with anime), that Kagurabachi is a regular mid tier series while Shinobi Undercover is the actual next Demon Slayer/Jujutsu Kaisen. The TOC can't be the only objective way to measure popularity because we already know that factors outside of popularity (ie. authors submitting works late cause them to be lower or the "ecchi tax") impact it. You can't solely rely on one piece of data to determine if something is popular, you need multiple different sets.

If sales become an unreliable metric, we genuinely have no way to actually know if something is popular anymore since we don't get the actual survey results (unless it's INCREDIBLY obvious something is popular like My Hero Academia when it started).
 

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I mean, my question why is Kagurabachi being targeted over OP and Kingdom? Aren't the One Piece cards the major target with this scalping? Heck, it's not just Jump manga in this even, there's Jump+ manga like Strikeout Pitch and Shiba Inu Rooms and Shoujo manga like Honey Lemon Soda and Kimi wo Wasureru, but it's just the Jump manga + Dandadan, Boruto, and Chainsawman being scalped.
These cards come randomly and most of the newer volumes come with those. And besides, it is not like every store has lots of copies of One Piece and Kingdom, since they have over 50 volumes. Kagurabachi just got the better end of the stick because it has few volumes but a lot of copies.
 
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This is absolutely ridiculous.


I have no words. Scalpers can go die but this is one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
I'm glad shuiesha can just reprint volumes whenever they want cause it would be so funny to see all these scalped volumes immediately lose all of their "value" and get sold for pennies cause people thought they would somehow be able to make money off of all this shit.
 

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Except the TOC is also a terrible indicator for popularity unless you genuinely believe Ichi the Witch is already more popular than One Piece, that Someone Hertz is already more popular than Sakamoto Days and Blue Box (series with anime), that Kagurabachi is a regular mid tier series while Shinobi Undercover is the actual next Demon Slayer/Jujutsu Kaisen. The TOC can't be the only objective way to measure popularity because we already know that factors outside of popularity (ie. authors submitting works late cause them to be lower or the "ecchi tax") impact it. You can't solely rely on one piece of data to determine if something is popular, you need multiple different sets.

If sales become an unreliable metric, we genuinely have no way to actually know if something is popular anymore since we don't get the actual survey results (unless it's INCREDIBLY obvious something is popular like My Hero Academia when it started).
I am talking about new manga, like Under Doctor, Kinato, Roku's House, Drawn to The Fire, 2-B, Animal Signal, Hal Formula and Cannon Master. Already stablished manga are irrelevant on this particular regard. If sales become unreliable, we can't know if any of those new series is popular or not, besides looking at the TOC.
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This is tragic.
 

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If the scalpers buying these volumes immediately sell back what they bought, does it still count as a sale on Oricon?
 

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I'm glad shuiesha can just reprint volumes whenever they want cause it would be so funny to see all these scalped volumes immediately lose all of their "value" and get sold for pennies cause people thought they would somehow be able to make money off of all this shit.
They don't care about the volumes. They are literally throwing them away just to get those metalic cards.
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If the scalpers buying these volumes immediately sell back what they bought, does it still count as a sale on Oricon?
It will mess with the rankings regardless.
 

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Aight I've cracked the case.

Scalpers thought that Under Doctor was a spinoff prequel of Black Jack and scalped the shit out of it. It totally makes sense. It's not that scalpers read.
 

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Aight I've cracked the case.

Scalpers thought that Under Doctor was a spinoff prequel of Black Jack and scalped the shit out of it. It totally makes sense. It's not that scalpers read.
Just because of the Horikoshi recommendation.
 

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Feels like the Mashle author should come back soon. He's going to have to work on his plot work, but if Rococo does end in the future I could see him doing the resident gag series.
yeah... he is a good mangaka but needs to work more on plot. But anyway... We Loved Mash just because the way he was. The problem is that if the manga was comedy it would be perfectly normal, but for an action series it looks so innatural when the Mc overpower all the characters (But... thinking well it's the same as Kiyoshi)
 

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I've seen this exact same shit happen with anime DVD/Blu-ray sales. It means only one thing: physical is dead, and which title has higher or lower numbers means absolutely nothing now. But in the case of manga, we can at least look at the digital sales.
 

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Thanks to Shueisha and Scalpers this is the situation
  1. ONE PIECE (81 Volumes Ranking)
  2. HUNTER X HUNTER (38 Volumes Ranking)
  3. SAKAMOTO DAYS (27 Volumes Ranking)
  4. Akane-banashi (22 Volumes Ranking)
  5. Blue Box (12 Volumes Ranking)
  6. Kagurabachi (11 Volumes Ranking)
  7. Ichi the Witch (8 Volumes Ranking)
  8. Shinobi Undercover (5 Volumes Ranking)
204/500 are just current WSJ volumes

And thats just WSJ current related, J+ titles (SxF, CSM, DDD, Ruri) SQ titles (WT, Gokurakugai) and old WSJ titles (Stone, KNY, MHA) are also having similar effects
 

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There are now two full days of scalped volumes taking the whole ranking.
 

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Fuck it
"One manga book only costs 600 yen, but you can get 7-8k yen for the card. If the card is in good condition, you can even get 10k yen."
"I only got trash cards (not One Piece). Am I supposed to throw all the books away?"
In reply section, many actually asked how the "book" (book, not manga), looked like, they dont even know what One piece is. They only care about the money they may get.
 
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