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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #48 (2026)
00. Sakamoto Days (Cover & Lead Color Pages, 6th Anniversary)
01. Ichi the Witch
02. Someone Hertz
03. Under Doctor
04. Akane-banashi
05. Witch Watch
00. Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
00. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica (Not Ranked)
06. Animal Signal
00. Inugami and Suzune (One Shot by Wani, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #5)
07. Me & Roboco
00. The Ura Files (Color Page)
08. Shinobi Undercover
09. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Hal Formula
12. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
13. Cannon Master
14. Kagurabachi

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #49 (2026) - Information!
Ichi the Witch (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Under Doctor (Color Page)
Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
Superpower Battle Fantasy Club (One Shot by Tatara Kyo, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #6)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Monthly Shoseki Top 500 (September)
2. Kagurabachi #12
12. Kochikame #202
34. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1 (26,400)
44. Nue's Exorcist #16 (21,400)
50. Shinobi Undercover #9 (18,400)
74. Roku's House of Oddities #1 (15,664)
78. Hima-Ten! #11 (15,208)

~~~~~~~~~~ /// ~~~~~~~~~~​

Nue the 21k King

NUE'S EXORCIST

Nue's Exorcist #1 (25,080)
Nue's Exorcist #2 (26,679)
Nue's Exorcist #3 (29,885)
Nue's Exorcist #4 (29,948)
Nue's Exorcist #5 (29,738)
Nue's Exorcist #6 (28,516)
Nue's Exorcist #7 (30,190)
Nue's Exorcist #8 (24,668)
Nue's Exorcist #9 (23,022)
Nue's Exorcist #10 (24,770)
Nue's Exorcist #11 (22,919)
Nue's Exorcist #12 (22,866)
Nue's Exorcist #13 (21,666)
Nue's Exorcist #14 (21,091)
Nue's Exorcist #15 (21,200)
Nue's Exorcist #16 (21,400)


Hima-Ten ended its serialization run selling pretty much the same average it did the entire 2 years, which is impressive tbh, much better than drop, hopefully we get a anime adaptation in the future and also Genki Ono returning in the future!

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)
Hima-Ten! #10 (15.470)
Hima-Ten! #11 (15,208)


Shinobi keeping the same sales as the last volume, pretty much flat sales but at least not dropping bellow vol 2

SHINOBI UNDERCOVER

Shinobi Undercover #1 (14,710)
Shinobi Undercover #2 (17,183)
Shinobi Undercover #3 (18,098)
Shinobi Undercover #4 (20,301)
Shinobi Undercover #5 (17,008)
Shinobi Undercover #6 (21,116)
Shinobi Undercover #7 (19,634)
Shinobi Undercover #8 (18,200)
Shinobi Undercover #9 (18,400)


Roku first volume performing pretty well for a comedy series by a, twice, failed author, let's hope Roku actually rises in sales with vol 2 instead of just following the same route of flat sales

ROKU'S HOUSE OF ODDITIES

Roku's House of Oddities #1 (15,664)


And Hero Destrozers doing 26k, through the weekly would be 28k but anyway, even for a veteran its decent numbers, but the terrible rankings its what doesn't make this result feels as good as it should since it's pretty much enough to "save" it from a axe, still, Class 2B is going to be here for a extra time

CLASS 2B HERO DESTROYERZ

Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1 (26,400)

 

[SharkBait]

Roku first volume performing pretty well for a comedy series by a, twice, failed author, let's hope Roku actually rises in sales with vol 2 instead of just following the same route of flat sales

ROKU'S HOUSE OF ODDITIES

Roku's House of Oddities #1 (15,664)

Awesome start and it does well in the magazine, should easily meet and exceed Agravity Boys. They need to do a full series reprint.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Awesome start and it does well in the magazine, should easily meet and exceed Agravity Boys. They need to do a full series reprint.

Already did:

Agravity Boys #1 (12,150)

And it was 6 years ago, what in my opinion makes Roku numbers more impressive.

 

[Newkerzy]

Roku first volume performing pretty well for a comedy series by a, twice, failed author, let's hope Roku actually rises in sales with vol 2 instead of just following the same route of flat sales

ROKU'S HOUSE OF ODDITIES

Roku's House of Oddities #1 (15,664)

Here’s hoping for bright things in the future for Roku!

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Inugami and Suzune by Wani: First, i thought the mc was a girl but its actualy a guy lol

Well, hard to make a comment about this one without properly reading it because you will not understand what is going on for most part and i'm lazy right now to be translating pages, what i get is that overall it is one of these "MC and Spirit/Demon Contract" kind of work but it's not a battle shounen at all, it's pretty different, it's way more like a "horror" story and visually gruesome, so it's not a standard WSJ supernatural story, and the art is one of the main factors that gives this "horror/uneasy" vibe to the story, author's artstyle it's "good" but it's totally not "Shonen Jump", in fact this fits way more on Shonen Sunday or Shonen Champion, i wouldn't mind seeing a serialization for the author (not necessarily the one shot) but the artstyle is pretty outside of what you see on Jump, so i feel like it needs to be a story pretty well planned to have a chance to be a success

Overall i thought it was pretty unique visually, interesting. For me so far:

The Young Witch and the Teacher > Dog Eat Dog World > Banchoism = Inugami and Suzune >>> Cursed Case

they should also release this one shots on MangaPlus

 

[Newkerzy]

In other topics, great news for ES21 fans in Japan!

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on potential Tokyo game: 'It's coming at some point in the near future'

The NFL previously hosted 14 preseason games in Japan from 1976 to 2005.

sports.yahoo.com

Inagaki would be happy to hear of this.

 

[icrawfish]

Allow me to stir my own crackpot for a second, if you will…

What if editorial is taking an approach where they think the better a surviving series is doing on it’s own, the less they’re pushing to market it? Maybe their mindset is that Kagurabachi has reached most of it’s potential audience by now and markets itself so they don’t have to push any harder, meanwhile these other Jump series we see illogically high and pushed in comparison are the ones that can survive but Shueisha wants to really get their names out there to see how much they can draw people to it (or to keep them from falling into social neglect?).

Not saying that’s the correct way or that I even like it, but it’s a thought that’s come into my head before. Like some have mentioned before I do think the TOC is a nigh incalculable cocktail of reader votes, deadline management/punishment, and some editorial bias for whatever their internal reasonings are, so getting all up in arms about why Kiyoshi’s up and Nue’s down or especially Kagurabachi’s slump feels like a discussion that cannot be concluded.

(i guess that would lend itself to hitting 1000 pages, huh…)

 

[Lord Anubis]

they should also release this one shots on MangaPlus

Same, at least give us overseas fans a chance to check out the newer generation of Jump Rookies.

 

[RealityChecker]

Allow me to stir my own crackpot for a second, if you will…

What if editorial is taking an approach where they think the better a surviving series is doing on it’s own, the less they’re pushing to market it? Maybe their mindset is that Kagurabachi has reached most of it’s potential audience by now and markets itself so they don’t have to push any harder, meanwhile these other Jump series we see illogically high and pushed in comparison are the ones that can survive but Shueisha wants to really get their names out there to see how much they can draw people to it (or to keep them from falling into social neglect?).

Not saying that’s the correct way or that I even like it, but it’s a thought that’s come into my head before. Like some have mentioned before I do think the TOC is a nigh incalculable cocktail of reader votes, deadline management/punishment, and some editorial bias for whatever their internal reasonings are, so getting all up in arms about why Kiyoshi’s up and Nue’s down or especially Kagurabachi’s slump feels like a discussion that cannot be concluded.

(i guess that would lend itself to hitting 1000 pages, huh…)

That would be the case if One Piece, Ichi, Akane-Banashi, Sakamoto Days and others reached bottom 1 and stayed there.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Same, at least give us overseas fans a chance to check out the newer generation of Jump Rookies.

why they don't do that? Didnt they release Horikoshi's One Shot? So it means they have the raws to do it

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Allow me to stir my own crackpot for a second, if you will…

What if editorial is taking an approach where they think the better a surviving series is doing on it’s own, the less they’re pushing to market it? Maybe their mindset is that Kagurabachi has reached most of it’s potential audience by now and markets itself so they don’t have to push any harder, meanwhile these other Jump series we see illogically high and pushed in comparison are the ones that can survive but Shueisha wants to really get their names out there to see how much they can draw people to it (or to keep them from falling into social neglect?).

Not saying that’s the correct way or that I even like it, but it’s a thought that’s come into my head before. Like some have mentioned before I do think the TOC is a nigh incalculable cocktail of reader votes, deadline management/punishment, and some editorial bias for whatever their internal reasonings are, so getting all up in arms about why Kiyoshi’s up and Nue’s down or especially Kagurabachi’s slump feels like a discussion that cannot be concluded.

(i guess that would lend itself to hitting 1000 pages, huh…)

And Kagurabachi is for some reason the only big series that they're purposedly placing in the bottom or dead last? See where this theory fall apart?

 

[almavivi]

Here's my theory: Kagurabachi and Nue are two series in the roster that could surpass One Piece, and Jump's editorial department is trying to prevent this. I hope they at least won't break the authors' hands.

 

[RealityChecker]

Here's my theory: Kagurabachi and Nue are two series in the roster that could surpass One Piece, and Jump's editorial department is trying to prevent this. I hope they at least won't break the authors' hands.

That is what they did to Ruri Dragon.

 

[BelTL]

And Kagurabachi is for some reason the only big series that they're purposedly placing in the bottom or dead last? See where this theory fall apart?

but HxH also loves the bottom position

 

[Broseph]

Here's my theory: Kagurabachi and Nue are two series in the roster that could surpass One Piece, and Jump's editorial department is trying to prevent this. I hope they at least won't break the authors' hands.

Surpass them how?

 

[Stivie]

but HxH also loves the bottom position

True, Hunter x Hunter almost always ends up at the bottom whenever it returns from hiatus.

 

[yeahitstruethough]

Kagurabachi ichiban kuji sold out in 25 minutes because as always they make the smallest amount possible

 

[Shonenfan]

People people TOC is not a direct one to one. At least in terms of value, one TOC does not really mean too much on its own usually; it’s the trend that is important. It’s also influenced by more than just ToC. There are four trends:
1. Perpetual top and gets covers/color pages consistently (One Piece, Ichi, SD, akane, hertz, Roku) 2. Safe middle, and hits the top quite a bit and gets color pages (Kiyoshi, Shinobi) 3. Bounces around middle and bottom (Nue) 4. Bottom (Cannon Master).

Just because a series is in one position for an issue or gets a color page doesn’t automatically mean it’s safe or not (although it’s usually a strong indicator), but trends of growth are what Jump is looking at in both ToC and Sales. They all matter cumulatively.

Bad sales and bad ToC? Cancelled

Good sales (both in total number and growth from last volume) and bad ToC? Depends on how strong those sales (both in terms of numbers and growth) are but you’re on the chopping block potentially and need fodder (UD, phantom seer, kinato, ex famous authors like 2B, Astro Royale. Samurai8) however Established series work a little differently and go more the way I talk below.

Bad sales and good ToC? You’re fairly safe and will get some promotion but eventually you’re going to have to rush things like the ending (shoutout Hinomaru Zumo, UU) established series with bad TOC and good sales kind of fit here

Good sales and good ToC? You’re safe.

Again though ToC may be influenced by reader surveys but other stuff like editors not trusting growth and sales. It’s not always just two seperate things, they’re usually connected, but Jumps editors look for differing things when reviewing sales than we do

 

[yeahitstruethough]

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People people TOC is not a direct one to one. At least in terms of value, one TOC does not really mean too much on its own usually; it’s the trend that is important. It’s also influenced by more than just ToC. There are four trends:
1. Perpetual top and gets covers/color pages consistently (One Piece, Ichi, SD, akane, hertz, Roku) 2. Safe middle, and hits the top quite a bit and gets color pages (Kiyoshi, Shinobi) 3. Bounces around middle and bottom (Nue) 4. Bottom (Cannon Master).

Just because a series is in one position for an issue or gets a color page doesn’t automatically mean it’s safe or not (although it’s usually a strong indicator), but trends of growth are what Jump is looking at in both ToC and Sales. They all matter cumulatively.

Bad sales and bad ToC? Cancelled

Good sales (both in total number and growth from last volume) and bad ToC? Depends on how strong those sales (both in terms of numbers and growth) are but you’re on the chopping block potentially and need fodder (UD, phantom seer, kinato, ex famous authors like 2B, Astro Royale. Samurai8) however Established series work a little differently and go more the way I talk below.

Bad sales and good ToC? You’re fairly safe and will get some promotion but eventually you’re going to have to rush things like the ending (shoutout Hinomaru Zumo, UU) established series with bad TOC and good sales kind of fit here

Good sales and good ToC? You’re safe.

Again though ToC may be influenced by reader surveys but other stuff like editors not trusting growth and sales. It’s not always just two seperate things, they’re usually connected, but Jumps editors look for differing things when reviewing sales than we do

Saito has stated brand deals matter more than volume sales now and guess what non-one piece series has the best brand deals and also best volume sales

And look how that series is treated

 

[RealityChecker]

what non-one piece series has the best brand deals and also best volume sales

HunterXHunter?