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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #45 (2026)
00. Ichi the Witch (Cover & Lead Color Pages, 2nd Anniversary)
01. Akane-banashi
02. Sakamoto Days
00. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
03. Someone Hertz
04. Me & Roboco
05. Shinobi Undercover
06. Roku's House of Oddities
00. Doggie Dog World (One Shot by Tanakura Jou, Color Page, Golden Future Cup 2026 #2)
00. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica (Not Ranked)
07. Under Doctor
00. The Ura Files (Not Ranked)
08. Witch Watch
00. Animal Signal (Color Page)
09. Nue's Exorcist
10. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
11. Kagurabachi
12. Hal Formula
13. Cannon Master
00. One Piece (Absent)

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #46 (2026) - Information
Shinobi Undercover (Cover & Lead Color Pages, 2nd Anniversary)
Under Doctor (Color Page)
Someone Hertz (Color Page)
Banchoism (One Shot by Sai Koroko, Color Page, Golden Future Cup 2026 #3)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

What do you mean "more reliable hit than Kagurabachi"?

Author isn't dying or struggling to release chapters, it can get many color pages and many magazine covers, it will 100% be longer, it's also a more "traditional" hit series than Kgb.

 

[RealityChecker]

Author isn't dying or struggling to release chapters, it can get many color pages and many magazine covers, it's also a more "traditional" hit series than Kgb.

Traditional? How so?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Traditional? How so?

Typical fantasy battle shounen with mainstream appealing artstyle

 

[RealityChecker]

Typical fantasy battle shounen with mainstream appealing artstyle

You think it is gonna get bigger than Kagurabachi?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

You think it is gonna get bigger than Kagurabachi?

Probably not

 

[shillin65]

Issue 37/38 votes
1. 2B
2. Kiyoshi
3. Kagurabachi
4. One Piece
5. Kinato

Good issue overall; I also enjoyed Horikoshi's oneshot, might be cool to see it serialized eventually

 

[Kiaida]

Kinnikuman (-) remains unbearable for basically every chapter in the Dream Chojin Tag arc, possibly my least favourite major story arc in a WSJ series of notable length?

I'm not the biggest Dream Chojin Tag arc fan, but generally enjoy it. The Kinnikuman Great stuff is funny, but also lets Terry finally be useful again and the Muscle Docking is a really cool finisher move. I also don't remember too many duo tournaments like this, so it has that going for it. Neptuneman and Big the Budo are probably the worst main villains in the series though.

That is making me wonder what may be the arc from a hit series I like the least... I could cheat and go for a manga I don't like, but I'll go with Bakuman's Nanamine arcs. I don't think there's anything good that can be said about that. Gin's last arc is also a slog.

 

[tirakai]

Kinato feels like has has only 2 or 3 chapters left at most. I'm genuinely wondering if it'll end on its own (with just a batch of 2) because Sakamoto Days definitely does not come across as if it can end in the next couple issues. Unless they cancel Drawn to the Fire despite the early colour page.

 

[monstera11]

Are you saying he's going to pull a Slam Dunk? In Shonen Jump #27 of '96, which featured the final chapter of Slam Dunk, there was a message at the end of the chapter; in chapter 276 it said on its pages: "End of Part 1". And then in volume 31 that information was removed, and so the series ended once and for all.

スラムダンクの続編が出る可能性はある？作者の想いとは

未だにバスケ漫画の金字塔と言われる『SLAM DUNK』 その『SLAM DUNK』の続編が出るという噂が度々上がっているのはご存知でしょうか？ 漫画の内容が途中で終わっていることからこんな噂が上がる

kaimyou.biz

Are you suggesting Togashi do the same thing? Tell the readers and editors of Jump that it was the end of Part 1 of the manga and then never continue the story, only mentioning in the last volume that the manga is over.

Ngl CSM really should have done the same. Part 2 should have never existed - it ruined the legacy

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weird how much discussion there's about Drawn to the Fire chapters every week in some Forums, 12h and more than 200 comments on Animanch for ch17, more than Nue and everything else, yet the manga seems dead in the rankings.

 

[cameronney618]

Banner from Shonen Jump Twitter using this week double issue cover, it makes the hierarchy even more clear:

They can keep shilling ichi all they want, it's never going to be a bigger series than kgb.
It's going to look embarrassing in a couple of years.

 

[Kiaida]

Weird how much discussion there's about Drawn to the Fire chapters every week in some Forums, 12h and more than 200 comments on Animanch for ch17, more than Nue and everything else, yet the manga seems dead in the rankings.

Nue and Kagurabachi have a bunch of threads there, community thread, chapter thread, etc and always have multiple threads for a chapter. I don't remember Drawn to the Fire having good numbers specifically? I just checked it and I can't even see a thread right now, while there are threads for Hal, Animal Signal, Roboco, etc.

 

[Franz]

Author isn't dying or struggling to release chapters, it can get many color pages and many magazine covers, it will 100% be longer, it's also a more "traditional" hit series than Kgb.

Let's wait to see what will happen with the anime

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Nue and Kagurabachi have a bunch of threads there, community thread, chapter thread, etc and always have multiple threads for a chapter. I don't remember Drawn to the Fire having good numbers specifically? I just checked it and I can't even see a thread right now, while there are threads for Hal, Animal Signal, Roboco, etc.

You're probably looking at other Animanch, with the pink icon, try the blue one, if not:

『夏と蛍籠』過去ログ - 1ページ目｜あにまん掲示板

『夏と蛍籠』過去ログ - 1ページ目

bbs.animanch.com

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Let's wait to see what will happen with the anime

It's not like a anime will change anything, it will still be a more reliable hit for Jump than Kagurabachi due to all the things i listed.

--- Double Post Merged, Aug 10, 2026 ---

The banner version from Japanese Jump acc:

God, Suzuki art looks so poor & unfinished here, man can't even draw a consistent small illustration without looking like he's dying while doing it

 

[Kiaida]

You're probably looking at other Animanch, with the pink icon, try the blue one.

I was checking the blue one. Not joking, I don't see it, but there are two active Kagurabachi and Nue threads.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I also can imagine some fans all being at the same place instead of spreading thin everywhere else. Most discussions I saw about this manga on places like 5ch they were just hating on the MC for being too cocky.

EDIT: Oh ok, I see your link. But still, Nue and Kagurabachi got multiple threads for their chapters, DttF's died without a second one. I could maybe guess some of these are people that use the site for the Blue Lock threads, so they're already more inclined to like a BL bait spokon.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Shoseki Top 500 (August 7)
2. Black Clover #38
3. Sakamoto Days #28
10. Akane-banashi #23
14. The Elusive Samurai #26
15. Someone Hertz #4
24. Witch Watch #27
56. Black Clover Official Guidebook
86. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #9
107. Me & Roboco #27
121. Under Doctor #2
215. Kinato's Magic #2

Also:

351. Under Doctor #1


Shoseki Top 500 (August 8)
1. Black Clover #38
2. Sakamoto Days #28
7. Akane-banashi #23
11. The Elusive Samurai #26
12. Someone Hertz #4
16. Witch Watch #27
56. Black Clover Official Guidebook
82. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #9
83. Me & Roboco #27
108. Under Doctor #2
232. Kinato's Magic #2

Also:

412. Under Doctor #1


Shoseki Top 500 (August 9)
1. Sakamoto Days #28
3. Black Clover #38
9. Akane-banashi #23
15. The Elusive Samurai #26
16. Someone Hertz #4
23. Witch Watch #27
61. Black Clover Official Guidebook
96. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #9
97. Me & Roboco #27
137. Under Doctor #2
212. Kinato's Magic #2

Also:

304. Under Doctor #1


Week 1 is finished, despite UD vol 2 performance the vol 1 still charting quite well, it will appear in the weekly!

 

[cameronney618]

Man, i don't even care if these recent chapters have cost ruri tons of views in jump plus. It's been vastly superior than the meandering school arc shindo put out.

Last time i shared the same enjoyment i have now was back during the oneshot. Shame, this would all be season 2 material for the anime.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Under Doctor

Vol 1: #8 > #27 > #26 > #85 > #155 > #130
Vol 2: #21 > #32 > #50 > #121 > #108 > #137

Kinato's Magic

Vol 1: #17 > #57 > #53 > #115 > #200 > #226
Vol 2: #40 > #60 > #96 > #215 > #232 > #212


Kinato vol 2 ain't even doing that bad despite being stuck in the bottom 1, it sucks the magazine readers just never supported it...

 

[Discomusic]

They don't really translate one-shots unless it's a real big name doing them like with this week.
Most one-shot translations that are done are scanslations from manga fans such as myself. I kinda wish that the one-shots do get officially translated as it could be a fun way to help test the waters to see what new authors we would love to see join the line-up of Weekly Shōnen Jump in the West, especially since there are plenty of untranslated one-shots that I would love to see get translated, myself.

Yes, I meant both official and unofficial translation as well. I was hoping that there was a group passionate enough about Jump that is willing to translate every one-shot from there, but apparently that is not the case.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

In my opinion, right now i feel like Roku's House of Oddities is the most "interesting" series running on WSJ, not gonna say the best but the most interesting, i don't know if it will sell like a hit but for me it does feels like a hit new series, Nakamura did exactly what i so much say when a promising newbie end up flopping, that is "He just need to find the right story & characters and you have a hit in hands" and Roku is pretty much this, Nakamura picked all the positive points from Agravity Boys, got rid of the negatives, toned down the weirdness of the humor & characters to the perfect balance, added 2 girls to the mix, 1 sexy & 1 cute, to not make it another sausage fest and now he has a success in his hands! The series is really good right now!

Meanwhile i think Under Doctor is the most unique, i don't mind the action arcs/chapters but it's undeniable the series is at its absolute best when it focus in the medical stuff and also easily becomes the most unique of the bunch, it's been focused on medical stuff for the last 9 chapters and its doing a pretty good job in my opinion, the online comments are also pretty positive over these chapters so it's why i do have confidence in the series to keep going because in terms of quality the series is definitely going up.

I don't have a exact opinion in the current batch but i do feel like Animal Signal has a space in the magazine even if not exactly the most exciting series, specially considering it has romcom elements, i hope if it continues the authors start to spice it up, in both senses, story & fanservice because it has the potential to become something more exciting. Hal Formula i say more or less the same thing that i said about, it's not exactly the most exciting series but is very solid, i can't feelTerasaka passion and it definitely has a spot in the magazine since Jump is in a desperate need of sport, it only needs the time. And i also think Cannon Master has a spot in the magazine, i wasn't much sure for a while but i'm starting to think the series has a good potential, it's really competent with the art and action scenes, Machida is impressive for someone with no serialization experience and i think Jump needs a new talent with this level of art and action competence, and the story isn't bed either, but who knows what's going to happen, at least the 1st ranking was the same as the rest so we can't say is dead or anything.