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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #50 (2026)
00. Akane-banashi (Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Sakamoto Days
02. One Piece
00. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
03. Someone Hertz
04. Ichi the Witch
05. Roku's House of Oddities
00. Shishikabane (One Shot by Maki Gyujirou, Color Page, Golden Future Cup #7)
06. Shinobi Undercover
07. The Ura Files
08. Witch Watch
09. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica
00. Me & Roboco (Color Page)
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Under Doctor
12. Animal Signal
13. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
14. Hal Formula
15. Kagurabachi
16. Cannon Master

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 (2026) - Information!
Jean is in Danger! (New Series by Nakama Ryo, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Witch Watch (Color Page, End)
Graykeith: Translator Daemonica (Color Page)
Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)

 

[Shonenfan]

Yes, but you can't dismiss manga sales either; it's clearly a sign that people are buying and collecting the series. Isn't that an indication that some people like it?

They’re not mutually exclusive. ToC isn’t just reader surveys. The editor is taking into account surveys, sales, and other factors in their decision of where to place it. The surveys are probably the strongest factor though. Also non battle manga have longer leashes because it’s more niche; for the sake of diversity in the magazine it’s the way it goes. Remember the editor in chief has more info then we do even if it is…. Saito.

Also established series in the bottom don’t mean axed. It means the arc isn’t well received and the authors leash gets slightly tightened; if the next arc is bad they won’t get axed but rushed. I think jump editorial will take it easy on hokanzo due to health, incoming anime, and the fact that this arc is a flashback not involving the MC.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Preview in high quality of the other 2 new series:

Mr. Hizuki of the Ginza Backstreet Police Box by Hitsuji Gondaira

With you, From the Tennis Club Next Door by Shinobu Kasaya

Tennis Club already has its vol 1 recommendation, Yuki Tabata kkkk, but Mr. Hizuki, i wonder if Yagi (Hitoner) will recommend since he was Gondaira assistant and Gondaira also helped him to draw some pages on Hitoner

 

[JBC008]

Preview in high quality of the other 2 new series:

Mr. Hizuki of the Ginza Backstreet Police Box by Hitsuji Gondaira

With you, From the Tennis Club Next Door by Shinobu Kasaya

Okay, now it looks better.

 

[Shockzz1234]

Preview in high quality of the other 2 new series:

Mr. Hizuki of the Ginza Backstreet Police Box by Hitsuji Gondaira

With you, From the Tennis Club Next Door by Shinobu Kasaya

I can't unsee how absolutely gigantic her forehead is. Girl has a whole airport runway hiding under those bangs.

 

[Xanji06]

I'm unsure if it was already posted in here but UNDER DOCTOR Volume 3 Extras have revealed (something quite obvious) that the Doctor chapters are getting better Survey Poll results than the action chapters. (The U represents the "Under-Side" and the D the "Doctor-Side" of the series).

 

[tirakai]

I'm unsure if it was already posted in here but UNDER DOCTOR Volume 3 Extras have revealed (something quite obvious) that the Doctor chapters are getting better Survey Poll results than the action chapters. (The U represents the "Under-Side" and the D the "Doctor-Side" of the series).

The real thing of note in this panel is that the series was originally meant to be around a 70-30 split with battles as the main focus, but has shifted due to the doctor stuff being better received.

Which is what many of us suspected, but it's interesting to see proper confirmation.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Yu Yu Hakusho Definitive Edition will be released here in Brazil, the volume 1 cover:

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Hamano Nene:

For some reason this reminded me of APPLE, that one shot from The Promised Neverland author. This should be serialized

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Yu Yu Hakusho Definitive Edition will be released here in Brazil, the volume 1 cover:

Its pretty expensive, even more for a 2in1. But I’ll buy it

 

[shillin65]

issue 49 votes
1. Sakamoto
2. Ura
3. Graykeith
4. Hertz
5. Witch Watch

 

[Stivie]

They’re not mutually exclusive. ToC isn’t just reader surveys. The editor is taking into account surveys, sales, and other factors in their decision of where to place it. The surveys are probably the strongest factor though. Also non battle manga have longer leashes because it’s more niche; for the sake of diversity in the magazine it’s the way it goes. Remember the editor in chief has more info then we do even if it is…. Saito.

Also established series in the bottom don’t mean axed. It means the arc isn’t well received and the authors leash gets slightly tightened; if the next arc is bad they won’t get axed but rushed. I think jump editorial will take it easy on hokanzo due to health, incoming anime, and the fact that this arc is a flashback not involving the MC.

But that's the problem, most of the manga that survived this year are niche manga, and some of them don't even have that many readers. And the more mainstream manga like Sakamoto are ending. And, most likely, the niche manga that debuted this year won't reach Sakamoto's sales.

Besides, there are manga like Kiyoshi and Shinobi Undercover, which should be mainstream and don't even come close to Akane Banashe's sales.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Jesus Christ Nakamura, lord have mercy!

I'm telling y'all, the eventual beach chapter will get 1st place and break Twitter

 

[RealityChecker]

But that's the problem, most of the manga that survived this year are niche manga, and some of them don't even have that many readers. And the more mainstream manga like Sakamoto are ending. And, most likely, the niche manga that debuted this year won't reach Sakamoto's sales.

Besides, there are manga like Kiyoshi and Shinobi Undercover, which should be mainstream and don't even come close to Akane Banashe's sales.

There is a problem with your argument: You can't expect any manga to be selling like 100K first volume to compensate anything. The most recent manga that made it that far on volume 1 was Ruri Dragon, since it sold 120K on its first volume. And that was 4 years ago. Funny enough is that Ruri Dragon would be considered niche by your argument. Haha

What I am trying to say is that we don't know what could be mainstream or not. Countless manga were published and would be expected to be mainstream for them to just get cancelled over poor sales and reception.

 

[Kiaida]

But that's the problem, most of the manga that survived this year are niche manga, and some of them don't even have that many readers. And the more mainstream manga like Sakamoto are ending. And, most likely, the niche manga that debuted this year won't reach Sakamoto's sales.

And how is this related to Animal Signal? It's staying because Cannon Master does even worse, it's more niche, and they're already debuting 3 series in this batch. They'll have debuted 14 new series by the end of the magazine year.

2016: 10
2017: 11
2018: 11
2019: 12
2020: 18
2021: 10
2022: 11
2023: 11
2024: 13
2025: 13
2026: 14

Besides 2020, a poorly managed year, the last 3 years they're debuting more series than usual and trying everything. It's not like they can just spawn 100k sellers. The "niche" series you're mentioning either sell well enough to survive over all the newbies that can't break 10k or are just going to be axed eventually, which is probably the case for Animal Signal.

 

[Lord Anubis]

This post has inspired me to do some deep digging into this decade's averages of new serials, mainly for predicting 2027 & I found something interesting...
This is how many new series we've been getting per year, for this decade
2020: 18 new series
21: 12
22: 10
23: 11
24: 13
25: 13
26: 14
We add all of these up together & we have 91 new serializations for this magazine decade, which is perfectly divisible by 7, equalling 13. Meaning that it is reasonable to presume that 2027 will have 13 new serials. But here's where it gets interesting in regards of rookie & returnee distribution...

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I've also been looking through these serials by which ones have been done by returning mangaka & which ones are being done by rookies & I noticed a peculiar pattern
2020: 9 returnees & 9 rookies
21: 6 returnees & 6 rookies
22: 4.5 returnees & 5.5 rookies
23: 5 returnees & 6 rookies
24: 8 returnees & 5 rookies
25: 3 returnees & 10 rookies
26: 10 returnees & 4 rookies
If we add them up together
We have 45.5 vets & 45.5 rookies joining the Weekly Jump line-up this decade
This unusually returnee heavy year has ironically made the weight between rookies & returnees exactly equal

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Meaning if 2027 were to continue to keep these averages perfectly consistent, it would have to premiere 13 new series this year:
6 by veteran/returning authors
6 by complete rookies
1 by a vet/rookie duo

 

[Stivie]

There is a problem with your argument: You can't expect any manga to be selling like 100K first volume to compensate anything. The most recent manga that made it that far on volume 1 was Ruri Dragon, since it sold 120K on its first volume. And that was 4 years ago. Funny enough is that Ruri Dragon would be considered niche by your argument. Haha

What I am trying to say is that we don't know what could be mainstream or not. Countless manga were published and would be expected to be mainstream for them to just get cancelled over poor sales and reception.

It's also not possible to keep favoring niche manga all the time; soon we'll have manga with sales below 2K surviving in the magazine because of their rankings, and the excuse will be that they're niche.
Ruridragon is more accessible to the public than Kimetsu no Yaiba, which is very violent.

 

[RealityChecker]

favoring niche manga

Which manga do you think are niche on the magazine right now?

 

[kiyoshibro]

Mr. Hizuki of the Ginza Backstreet Police Box by Hitsuji Gondaira

Hizuki in the first police report mission:

 

[cameronney618]

I'm unsure if it was already posted in here but UNDER DOCTOR Volume 3 Extras have revealed (something quite obvious) that the Doctor chapters are getting better Survey Poll results than the action chapters. (The U represents the "Under-Side" and the D the "Doctor-Side" of the series).

the irony is that there's been more action chapters than ever before. And the chapter where shuli treats haiji is still the only chapter where they actually SHOWED anyone doing surgery ON SCREEN!

 

[Dog the dog]

You say that, but nobody mentions the fact that Animal Signal is in a safe position and only selling 5,000 copies. Also, many here are in favor of Kiyoshi staying on the magazine. Under Doctor is recovering, and if you accept Kiyoshi staying on Animal Signal, you don't have to accept Under Doctor.

Under Doctor, Animal Signal and HAL Foruma survived this round only because they had Witch Watch, the GFC and probably Cannon Master cushioning them. AS and HAL are almost guaranteed to be next in the chopping block unless Ura, Graykeith and the new Tintin batch somehow perform worse than them in sales before a new batch arrives, and if Under Doctor continues declining in sales, it will also get cancelled as soon as a new manga surpasses it in sales (assuming WSJ doesn't lower the bar again and sellinng under 10k becomes enough to live).

 

[Shonenfan]

It's also not possible to keep favoring niche manga all the time; soon we'll have manga with sales below 2K surviving in the magazine because of their rankings, and the excuse will be that they're niche.
Ruridragon is more accessible to the public than Kimetsu no Yaiba, which is very violent.

They won’t do that because they have lowered sales targets for the niche series however those are more dependent on survey results. The more niche series will either have split results meaning none survive or they will cannobalize another niche series (if it’s established then it will get rushed and if it’s new it will get axed).

Frankly if there aren’t enough new battle manga that are beating the niche series then it means they weren’t good enough and the EiC and editors will lose their jobs.

Aside from a few series like Kinato, Otr (which I can get because he has a hit series in him and Otr wasn’t it), phantom seer and Mamayuyu, none of the axed battle manga in the past decade really showed unjust cancellations from a business perspective