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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Lord Anubis]

2 more days until Issue 50 leaks...

 

[Stivie]

Weird that Shinobi Undercover is kinda of completely ignored in this Jump Festa.

Perhaps Shinobi Undercover is beginning its final arc.

 

[RealityChecker]

Weird that Shinobi Undercover is kinda of completely ignored in this Jump Festa.

Like Ruri Dragon.

 

[Nuesmoker]

Last year Nue and Bachi got ignored too, so I wouldn't think much about it.

The timing for its anime announcement will be weird though, either it gets announced a bit earlier than usual (like Nue got announced at 164-165 chapters), or it will be AFTER Festa.

 

[KyuKyu555]

My votes for Issue #48 of 2026
1. The Ura Files 8
2. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 7
3. Animal Signal 19

4. Akane-banashi 227
5. Someone Hertz 54

6. Witch Watch 267
7. Ichi the Witch 103
8. Under Doctor 37
9. Roku’s House of Oddities 27
10. Shinobi Undercover 102
11. Hal Formula 18
12. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 113
13. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 25
14. Sakamoto Days 280
15. Cannon Master 17

The bottom six are still really to pretty good!

 

[Kiaida]

I'm not sure that article about IPs brings up anything new at all. One Piece was always going to be milked after its end. Dragon Ball started being milked already back in the 90's. It's not like they were against it, there are piles of Jump games already back in the 1990's, Dragon Ball movies and GT existed...

The article ignores how the big decline in circulation happened before digital was even a thing and how digital subscriptions actually help these magazines stay profitable and the best place to release new popular works. A Jump mid tier is a big IP for the industry.

Bringing back old stuff to the magazine would do nothing for its circulation anyway. V-Jump has official sequels/prequels of 3 of Jump's biggest series ever and it gets outsold by Corocoro. Either Dragon Ball, Naruto and Dragon Quest aren't that popular or maybe people can accept that these readers are never coming back to the magazine format.

This supposed crisis is so overblown considering none of these magazines and their publishers ever mentioned struggling with it. One of the biggest success stories in anime this year is Even The Student Council Has Its Holes from Magazine, Frieren was pushed as a massive hit since its debut on Sunday, etc. The idea that these historical magazines are being replaced in relevance and japanese viewers would be happy with nothing new being made is just wrong.

 

[Xanji06]

ONE PIECE will be on break next week for Issue #51 (via @/ pewpiece on Twitter)

 

[Broseph]

I'm not sure that article about IPs brings up anything new at all. One Piece was always going to be milked after its end. Dragon Ball started being milked already back in the 90's. It's not like they were against it, there are piles of Jump games already back in the 1990's, Dragon Ball movies and GT existed...

The article ignores how the big decline in circulation happened before digital was even a thing and how digital subscriptions actually help these magazines stay profitable and the best place to release new popular works. A Jump mid tier is a big IP for the industry.

Bringing back old stuff to the magazine would do nothing for its circulation anyway. V-Jump has official sequels/prequels of 3 of Jump's biggest series ever and it gets outsold by Corocoro. Either Dragon Ball, Naruto and Dragon Quest aren't that popular or maybe people can accept that these readers are never coming back to the magazine format.

This supposed crisis is so overblown considering none of these magazines and their publishers ever mentioned struggling with it. One of the biggest success stories in anime this year is Even The Student Council Has Its Holes from Magazine, Frieren was pushed as a massive hit since its debut on Sunday, etc. The idea that these historical magazines are being replaced in relevance and japanese viewers would be happy with nothing new being made is just wrong.

Well the worry isn't that IPs are just now getting milked but that established IP revenue now makes more money for Jump than the actual publication does (that includes digital I think). So they could be more driven to milk popular series in the main magazine than they ever have before. I don't think everything is all bad and they will clearly keep making new series but hard not to worry a bit for the future when they're already bringing back a couple finished old series probably to the main magazine when in the past they would have serialized them on a spinoff magazine

 

[Kiaida]

Well the worry isn't that IPs are just now getting milked but that IP management now makes more money for Jump than the actual publication does (that includes digital I think). So they could be more driven to milk popular series in the main magazine than they ever have before

This makes no sense business wise. They can keep doing their old IP anime, games and other stuff without these fossils taking up space for new series. There's enough proof that these series don't bring readers to the magazine, they'll sell basically the same as Jump+ works, meanwhile brand new WSJ series do sell more in average than brand new series in any other magazine.

Kagurabachi and Ichi sell much more than basically anything from other magazines that debuted since 2023.
Someone Hertz, Nue, Shinobi, Roku, etc are more popular than 95% of other new works from rival magazines, Jump+, other online services.

In terms of dominance, Weekly Shonen Jump still dwarfs everything for new manga. The general sales decline in the industry will never be reversed... Japan is already down 6M from their population peak!! The belief that a bunch of dinosaur manga can revert this is a mix of nostalgia and copium to ignore reality. It would be like if during the Naruto, One Piece and Bleach era that millennials put on a pedestal Jump started publishing Kinnikuman Nisei or Dragon Quest Avan to bring back the Golden Age 6 million readers. These people will never come back and actual readers want new series.

 

[Broseph]

This makes no sense business wise. They can keep doing their old IP anime, games and other stuff without these fossils taking up space for new series. There's enough proof that these series don't bring readers to the magazine, they'll sell basically the same as Jump+ works, meanwhile brand new WSJ series do sell more in average than brand new series in any other magazine.

The problem is if the 'magazine' becomes less and less important to Jump going forward and the goal becomes to try and cultivate IPs that can become big money makers outside. Not an immediate worry, I'm not saying the whole magazine will be spinoffs of old series but the potential trend is a little worrying

 

[Lord Anubis]

ONE PIECE will be on break next week for Issue #51 (via @/ pewpiece on Twitter)

Any word on if there's gonna be a new batch confirmed in that issue?

 

[almavivi]

Overall manga sales aren't falling; rather, the market share of the major magazines is shrinking. It's very similar to what happened with broadcast television in the US - in the past, if you watched a TV show, it was almost certainly on broadcast TV, whereas now... maybe 1 in 10? And yes, the average broadcast network show is still watched by more people than 95% of other shows.

 

[Lord Anubis]

Also, the Supernatural Battle Fantasy Club one-shot is doing numbers on Twitter right now.
Not Dog Eat Dog World level, but doing pretty well, a little over 425 thousand views, 4 thousand likes & 2 thousand re-tweets at the time I'm typing this:

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Seems like there's some hate towards Ichi going on this week from Kagurabachi fans on Twitter frustrated by the dead last placements, calling the series a "Industry Plant" lol

At least for once its not Nue getting targeted

 

[SharkBait]

Seems like there's some hate towards Ichi going on this week from Kagurabachi fans on Twitter frustrated by the dead last placements, calling the series a "Industry Plant" lol

At least for once its not Nue getting taergeted

Ichi the Witch did nothing wrong

 

[tirakai]

Once the anime starts and Kagurabachi inevitably explodes in the west, it's going to have the absolute worst fanbase of all time.

 

[RealityChecker]

Seems like there's some hate towards Ichi going on this week from Kagurabachi fans on Twitter frustrated by the dead last placements, calling the series a "Industry Plant" lol

At least for once its not Nue getting targeted

Although I think Ichi should not be first place every single issue, I don't think they are wrong in placing it above Kagurabachi. I feel it will be bigger than Kagurabachi whenever an anime comes.

--- Double Post Merged, Monday at 3:44 PM, Original Post Date: Monday at 3:44 PM ---

it's going to have the absolute worst fanbase of all time.

It already has.

 

[SharkBait]

Roku got me tearing up this week. The writing and emotion is perfect.

 

[Stivie]

Although I think Ichi should not be first place every single issue, I don't think they are wrong in placing it above Kagurabachi. I feel it will be bigger than Kagurabachi whenever an anime comes.

If that were the case, Ichi would have surpassed Kagurabachi's sales a long time ago.

 

[RealityChecker]

If that were the case, Ichi would have surpassed Kagurabachi's sales a long time ago.

That is why I said whenever an anime comes.