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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I'm surprised I was right about Someone being on the cover, so that leaves Shinobi, Ichi, and Kagurabachi for covers, right?

Anyhow, Shinuki, since you are an expect here: How does the whole cover issue work, do they plan this months in advance?

Also, i plan to do some digging on these new GFC authors of 2026 when i have the time today and plan to post anything they did prior, so look forward to that at least.
 

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I'm surprised I was right about Someone being on the cover, so that leaves Shinobi, Ichi, and Kagurabachi for covers, right?

Anyhow, Shinuki, since you are an expect here: How does the whole cover issue work, do they plan this months in advance?

Also, i plan to do some digging on these new GFC authors of 2026 when i have the time today and plan to post anything they did prior, so look forward to that at least.
lol i'm not expert kkk but the covers are obviously planned in advance since each author has to draw a colored illustration, the cover was already done when Kagurabachi had to be removed so they weren't able to edit that but they were able to remove it from the ToC page and even print the one shot placement and the author comment from the one shot.
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Damn, Hima-Ten is strong in digital, outselling the physical version and outselling its phyisical version and Class 2B, seems like 2B & Roku are very heavily physical:

Nue's Exorcist #16 (19,379) - 9,061 Physical + 10,318 Digital
Shinobi Undercover #9 (15,061) - 8,047 Physical + 7,014 Digital
Hima-Ten! #11 (14,846) - 6,486 Physical + 8,360 Digital


Class 2B has zero digital and Roku we don't know if also has zer oor just not enough digital to put at over 11k total.

Remember these are just estimatives done by UzuRepo, not official digital numbers.

 

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Quick thoughts on the ToC:
- Surprised by Cannon Master’s poor performance
- UNDER DOCTOR is making a bit of a comeback (as we’ve said many times before, let’s wait and see how Vol. 3 perform before passing judgment)
- After this color page, everyone will love Greykeith
- Given the hiatus in this volume, #45 will most likely be Kagurabachi cover
- Long live Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (I just had to include that)
 

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Under Doctor seems very likely to hit a year of serialisation after all even if it doesn't climb out the bottom. If Sakamoto Days ends next round, they'll only need to cancel Cannon Master for a batch of 3. And that alone will possibly be enough for the series to make it to 2027 #9 for its first anniversary even if it got cancelled the next round after.
 

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Golden Future Cup is back in the Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #44 of 2026!!!

The classic one shot competition where the winner is granted a serialization is back with at least 3 contestants! More contestants will be revealed later! The first one will be published next issue already.

The preview of the 3 works names & genres:

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #44:

-Cursed Case by Oku Takuo (Horror Action)


Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #45:

-Doggie Dog World by Jo Tanakura (Picaresque Action)



Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #46:

-Banchoism by Saiko (Neo-Bancho Action That Speaks Through Fists)


Im interested in the first one, we need some type of horror story in the magazine that is not gag
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And i thought that Hal Formula was at least getting a color page after that super luxurious recommendation leak

lol they will axe even before volume 1 releases
 

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And i thought that Hal Formula was at least getting a color page after that super luxurious recommendation leak

lol they will axe even before volume 1 releases
Isn't going to happen, even if Hal Formula ends next round, which i don't think it will since we already have 3 spots pretty much confirmed (4 if WW ends too), next round will only start on November after GFC ends.
 

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Garbage trash ass magazine that has no respect at all for their artists. Guess 100k per volume isn't enough for this biased editor, no wonder Nue never gets anime under this sabotage.
Nue‘s already selling 100k per volume?

lol i'm not expert kkk but the covers are obviously planned in advance since each author has to draw a colored illustration, the cover was already done when Kagurabachi had to be removed so they weren't able to edit that but they were able to remove it from the ToC page and even print the one shot placement and the author comment from the one shot.
--- Double Post Merged, , Original Post Date: ---

Damn, Hima-Ten is strong in digital, outselling the physical version and outselling its phyisical version and Class 2B, seems like 2B & Roku are very heavily physical:

Nue's Exorcist #16 (19,379) - 9,061 Physical + 10,318 Digital
Shinobi Undercover #9 (15,061) - 8,047 Physical + 7,014 Digital
Hima-Ten! #11 (14,846) - 6,486 Physical + 8,360 Digital


Class 2B has zero digital and Roku we don't know if also has zer oor just not enough digital to put at over 11k total.

Remember these are just estimatives done by UzuRepo, not official digital numbers.

About time we got an estimate like this…
 

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About time we got an estimate like this…
UzuRepo has been doing this for a while actually!
If we take his weekly estimations then the current roster does numbers like these (i've been keeping track of those for fun lol)
I took his estimations for the possible weeks and added shoseki / oricon for the weeks where certain volumes didn't make it on his chart / billiboard.

One Piece 115 - ~ 1.300.000 with 4 weeks after first month (this ones more tricky tho cause OP gets its digital release 1 month after physical release)
Hunter x Hunter 39 - 1.049.000 (5 Digital Week estimates counted)
Me & Roboco 27 - ~ 17.000 (Only first week counted with digital estimates)
Sakamoto Days 27 ~ 200.000 (5 Digital Week estimates counted)
The Elusive Samurai 25 ~ 96.000 (3 Digital Week estimates counted)
WITCH WATCH 26 ~79.000 (2 Digital Week estimates counted)
Blue Box 26 ~ 157.000 (3 Digital Week estimates counted; He estimated 4 weeks for Volume 25 and it reached 163.000)
Akane Banashi 22 ~ 99.000 (2 Digital Week estimates counted)
Nue's Exorcist 25~ 34.000 (Only first week counted with digital estimates)
Kagurabachi 11 ~ 258.000 (5 Digital Week estimates counted)
Ichi The Witch 9 ~ 180.000 (4 Digital Week estimates counted)
Shinobi Undercover 8 ~ 26.000 (Only first week counted with digital estimates)
Someone Hertz 3 ~ 63.000 (2 Digital Week estimates counted)

Kiyoshi & Under Doctor both never made it to his top 50 estimation charts.

Of course those are just HIS estimations but interesting still imo
 

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UzuRepo has been doing this for a while actually!
If we take his weekly estimations then the current roster does numbers like these (i've been keeping track of those for fun lol)
I took his estimations for the possible weeks and added shoseki / oricon for the weeks where certain volumes didn't make it on his chart / billiboard.

One Piece 115 - ~ 1.300.000 with 4 weeks after first month (this ones more tricky tho cause OP gets its digital release 1 month after physical release)
Hunter x Hunter 39 - 1.049.000 (5 Digital Week estimates counted)
Me & Roboco 27 - ~ 17.000 (Only first week counted with digital estimates)
Sakamoto Days 27 ~ 200.000 (5 Digital Week estimates counted)
The Elusive Samurai 25 ~ 96.000 (3 Digital Week estimates counted)
WITCH WATCH 26 ~79.000 (2 Digital Week estimates counted)
Blue Box 26 ~ 157.000 (3 Digital Week estimates counted; He estimated 4 weeks for Volume 25 and it reached 163.000)
Akane Banashi 22 ~ 99.000 (2 Digital Week estimates counted)
Nue's Exorcist 25~ 34.000 (Only first week counted with digital estimates)
Kagurabachi 11 ~ 258.000 (5 Digital Week estimates counted)
Ichi The Witch 9 ~ 180.000 (4 Digital Week estimates counted)
Shinobi Undercover 8 ~ 26.000 (Only first week counted with digital estimates)
Someone Hertz 3 ~ 63.000 (2 Digital Week estimates counted)

Kiyoshi & Under Doctor both never made it to his top 50 estimation charts.

Of course those are just HIS estimations but interesting still imo
Can you break it down between Physical and Digital? Trying to get a better picture here…..

Nue reached 1.6 million copies in circulation with vol 14 which is basically 114k copies per volume.
I must’ve missed it. Can you link me back to the announcement here?
 

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Can you break it down between Physical and Digital? Trying to get a better picture here…..
For Ichi The Witch 9 for example; physically it for Week 1-5 each it sold roughly 40K, 37K, 8K, 7K & 4K which makes 96K.

Taking UzuRepo's estimates for Ichi 9 digitally only are 64K, 19K, 4K & 4K from Week 1-5. All the past estimates for each week are on his twitter page up until May or April I believe.
 

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Circulation includes printed copies delivered to shops, digital, and these days usually overseas sales as well (though those will be minimal for Nue), everything.

The authors get money for printed copies and generally you don't see lots and lots of copies sitting around in shops so, when we get them, that's the best metric to follow over all the incomplete and unreliable estimations.
 

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For Ichi The Witch 9 for example; physically it for Week 1-5 each it sold roughly 40K, 37K, 8K, 7K & 4K which makes 96K.

Taking UzuRepo's estimates for Ichi 9 digitally only are 64K, 19K, 4K & 4K from Week 1-5. All the past estimates for each week are on his twitter page up until May or April I believe.
Problem is, I’m not on twitter. So if anyone would be willing to compile his data, or show where he keeps his archives outside twitter (imgur, or any image hosting sites) that would be much appreciated.
 

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Picaresque Action... no idea what that is, but it sounds interesting, nonetheless.
Picaresque is an "anti-hero action" (in easy terms)
Is something related to a type of character like Lupin, Jack Sparrow etc...
 

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From what is being shown, Hal Formula and Cannon Master are the next axes. Maybe they will end alongside Sakamoto or Witch Watch. Amd then we will see how good Ura, Graykeith and Animal Signal do on TOC, and volume 3 of Under Doctor will be really important for it.
 
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