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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[elyseinf]

Btw, there are a lot of unhinged people on that forum. Someone there was worrying about Shinobi placement and that it wasn't save, and one of the replies made me spit my water

"Shinobi won't get axed, unless Yodaka sexually assaults (dunno about this forum rules regarding strong words so i paraphrased) Aoi, don't worry!"

Some of them Japanese folks are different breed...

 

[Newkerzy]

I feel like I've brought this up a bajillion times, but they gave this privilege to both Gege and Horikoshi as well. It wasn't biweekly, but they consistently put out 3 chapters and then had a break. I don't see why they can't give this to Hokazono.

……

I’m pretty sure they didn’t though? Sure, there were breaks every now and then, but it wasn’t nearly as consistent as Oda’s.

Btw, there are a lot of unhinged people on that forum. Someone there was worrying about Shinobi placement and that it wasn't save, and one of the replies made me spit my water

"Shinobi won't get axed, unless Yodaka sexually assaults (dunno about this forum rules regarding strong words so i paraphrased) Aoi, don't worry!"

Some of them Japanese folks are different breed...

Like, damn….. They sound more like your average 4ch incel shitposter 🫤.

 

[Dog the dog]

Taking breaks won't fix Hokazono's lack of organization and discipline. The guy spends 6 out of 7 days just in the drafts and rushes through everything else in the last day. Something like this is unsustainable in the long term, and you can see the consequences of Hokazono's poor schedule (chapters full of scribbles or with reduced pages, late submissions every week, almost no color pages, breaks after delivering a color page, etc.). He needs an editor who acts as a mother and forces him to do his homework in time.

 

[FantasticFootno]

I don't think anything will be allowed to run bi-weekly schedulle in WSJ, "fans" will go livid? Recenty Shinuki sent here a link to a Japanese forum discussing ToC, and people there weren't that much critical about current arc content per se, but they were really annoyed with the amount of breaks Hokazono took, even tho here in the west we all agree that the amount of breaks weren't enough. If such a schedule was possible, I think they would alreay move OP to it. But they could've at least move Bachi to Oda schedule.

Now, I don't really know how representative this forum is about the japanese opinion on breaks and all that stuff, since obviously people who discuss ToC on Thrusday are somewhat hardcore fans, but there's that.

I don't know if you're paying attention to recent One Piece, but its getting pretty close to biweekly. We went from 3 chapters and then a break for like the past few years, to now two chapters and then a break. This has happened enough times that I believe its the new schedule unfortunately. And so while its not exactly like biweekly, going down from like 36 chapters a year to 31-32 is something. We're getting pretty close

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……

I’m pretty sure they didn’t though? Sure, there were breaks every now and then, but it wasn’t nearly as consistent as Oda’s.



Like, damn….. They sound more like your average 4ch incel shitposter 🫤.

Nah, at least for jjk, if you check out Jajanken, while the breaks were not on a set pattern at points (after the hiatus around chapter 150, sometimes it was every 2, 3 or 4 chapters), it was still like a frequent amount of breaks. Once you get to the 210s, its was mostly down to 3 chapters and then a break, with it becoming basically the constant around 240. So I will admit I probably was misremembering it being consistent, due to how consistent it was during the last 30 something chapters (thats basically a year of the series to be fair), it was still pretty consistent before that.

Horikoshi I was defo wrong about tho, his breaks were all over the place, but still pretty frequent (during the final arc).
Anyway tho, my main point is still that jump should let him take breaks, considering how often Gege and Horikoshi were.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Kagurabachi chapter 139 has 15 pages, not 14, i counted myself, the leaks people are seeing online is missing 1 whole page.

 

[Newkerzy]

Horikoshi I was defo wrong about tho, his breaks were all over the place, but still pretty frequent (during the final arc).
Anyway tho, my main point is still that jump should let him take breaks, considering how often Gege and Horikoshi were.

Yeah, that’s what I figured. Horikoshi did start to lose steam towards the end, and I’m sure we all noticed that.

Ditto for Gege though, since I didn’t follow JJK.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Kagurabachi chapter 139 has 15 pages, not 14, i counted myself, the leaks people are seeing online is missing 1 whole page.

Lol classic leaker bs, some things never change. I remember when JJK would leak and sometimes just be missing important pages.

Yeah, that’s what I figured. Horikoshi did start to lose steam towards the end, and I’m sure we all noticed that.

Ditto for Gege though, since I didn’t follow JJK.

The main reason I had this belief was that it seemed like every week would have 2/3 of the "big" jump series. And so it would cycle between JJK, MHA, and OP being on break, while the other 2 weren't. I'm seeing now that this probably only happened a few times, or maybe sometimes MHA would be missing like for 2 weeks straight, with OP/JJK not on break, but the regularity of OP's breaks sorta tricked me into thinking the other 2 series were also on a "schedule".

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Would be so hilarious if Mr. Hizuki is popular from the start, vol 1 sell over 20k copies and Gondaira gets instantly treated as a potential next flagshipr or something, total opposite of how he was treated for a good while with Yozakura even when it was already doing well in the rankings

But yeah i know i should not jinx it

 

[Dog the dog]

Weekly Oricon Top 50 (11/2/26 - 11/9/26)
3. Sakamoto Days #29 (58,100)
16. Nue's Exorcist #17 (13,568)
19. Shinobi Undercover #10 (11,765)
23. Haikyu!! Character Remix #3 (11,286)
31. Roku's House of Oddities #2 (8,577)
43. Under Doctor #3 (6,209)

Spoiler: Other Jump magazines for anyone interested

Shonen Jump+
1. Spy x Family 18 (253,866)
2. Dandadan #26 (63,028)
8. Hetalia World☆Stars Gangsta 3 (21,953)
12. Chained Soldier 22 (17,071)
14. Red Cat Ramen 16 (16,244)
17. Shiba-Inu Rooms 9 (12,367)
40*. Noisering 1 (6,600*)
137. Make the Exorcist Fall in Love 16 (2,650)
198. The Marshal King 4 (1,827)
232. Hope You're Happy, Lemon 12 (1,608)
N/A. Life-Man 2 (<800)
N/A. Life-Man 3 (<800)
N/A. West Tokyo Metal Bros 3 (<800)
N/A. World Wide Web MIKO! 2 (<800)
*Shoseki rank and estimate were higher than the lowest Oricon series.

Jump SQ.
221. Boku no Kanojo wa Kessan Heiki 1 (1,674)
238. Akanabe-sensei wa Tereshirazu 6 (1,572)

Saikyo Jump.
N/A. Ghost Catchers! 1 (<800)
N/A. AKuryou Kazoku 2 (<800)
N/A. Tsmugi no Mahou 5 (<800)

 

[BelTL]

Btw, there are a lot of unhinged people on that forum. Someone there was worrying about Shinobi placement and that it wasn't save, and one of the replies made me spit my water

"Shinobi won't get axed, unless Yodaka sa (dunno about this forum rules regarding strong words so i paraphrased) Aoi, don't worry!"

Some of them Japanese folks are different breed...

you can go with the "go cycling"

 

[yeahitstruethough]

20 people made a spectacle about fujos therefore literally all the fan magazines and events people have done are entirely fake and not real

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Kagurabachi has the weirdest effect on people where even when it's objectively the 2nd most successful series in the magazine now, they will come up with literally any excuse to downplay how it's actually all forced / fake / not popular / etc

People talking about it too much? Forced
People not talking about it enough? Unpopular
People make too much art for the characters? Forced
People make not enough art for the characters? Unpopular
They release too much merch for it? Forced
They go literally 1 week without merch? Unpopular
Kagurabachi declines? Wow see it was actually unpopular the whole time
Every other series declining AT LEAST the same amount proportionally? No see it's just the industry collapsing, not the series' fault

I get you're genuinely upset about it's success but please come on

 

[Broseph]

20 people made a spectacle about fujos therefore literally all the fan magazines and events people have done are entirely fake and not real

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Kagurabachi has the weirdest effect on people where even when it's objectively the 2nd most successful series in the magazine now, they will come up with literally any excuse to downplay how it's actually all forced / fake / not popular / etc

People talking about it too much? Forced
People not talking about it enough? Unpopular
People make too much art for the characters? Forced
People make not enough art for the characters? Unpopular
They release too much merch for it? Forced
They go literally 1 week without merch? Unpopular
Kagurabachi declines? Wow see it was actually unpopular the whole time
Every other series declining AT LEAST the same amount proportionally? No see it's just the industry collapsing, not the series' fault

I get you're genuinely upset about it's success but please come on

Not speaking about anyone specifically in this forum but at least on social media, there are some people you can tell hated that Kagurabachi was so popular with Western fans right off the bat and still have an axe to grind that it actually ended up being successful when they expected it to be another Red Hood type series. That bitterness is very obvious during a lot of discourse

 

[TwoTimesMartyred]

Speaking of fujos, I'm genuinely a bit surprised Under Doctor seems to be gaining that audience now?
Maybe it'll survive a bit longer, or not, idk...

 

[FantasticFootno]

20 people made a spectacle about fujos therefore literally all the fan magazines and events people have done are entirely fake and not real

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Kagurabachi has the weirdest effect on people where even when it's objectively the 2nd most successful series in the magazine now, they will come up with literally any excuse to downplay how it's actually all forced / fake / not popular / etc

People talking about it too much? Forced
People not talking about it enough? Unpopular
People make too much art for the characters? Forced
People make not enough art for the characters? Unpopular
They release too much merch for it? Forced
They go literally 1 week without merch? Unpopular
Kagurabachi declines? Wow see it was actually unpopular the whole time
Every other series declining AT LEAST the same amount proportionally? No see it's just the industry collapsing, not the series' fault

I get you're genuinely upset about it's success but please come on

My entire point was that you can try to manufacture a fujo audience, as I saw a fanbase do that. Later on there were at least worthwhile characters to ship, but at the beginning they were trying to push literally any ship through. That was what I was replying to. That it doesn't necessarily have to be organic. And that I've seen axed series with at least more worthwhile fujo ships in it, over what early bachi had.
I don't really have any axe to grind against the series, its a perfectly fine series. Half the time I'm on here wishing for Hokazono to be treated better by jump. My complaining was more about the fanbase, but also, I dislike most fanbases for popular series (ones I like and dislike), as they all are insufferable in different ways lol. And that doesn't really change how I feel/talk about a series, as a fanbase and a series are two distinct things.

 

[monstera11]

Not speaking about anyone specifically in this forum but at least on social media, there are some people you can tell hated that Kagurabachi was so popular with Western fans right off the bat and still have an axe to grind that it actually ended up being successful when they expected it to be another Red Hood type series. That bitterness is very obvious during a lot of discourse

They are bitter Kagurabachi is more successful than their fav, basically.

 

[tirakai]

Hal Formula still retaining it's spot as top of the flops for now.

So Sakamoto Days is ending after all, I figured it would after this week's chapter being very conclusive for all the fighting. Now the question of if they'll end Cannon Master anyway to leave a gap, or if it'll be extremely lucky and stick around until around ch 30 despite being a total instant flop.

The magazine's going to be in a weird state after Sakamoto Days ends, since it means only One Piece, Roboco, and Akane-banashi have anime and Roboco's was just weird shorts nobody watched. We've got Kagurabachi and Nue announced for next year at least but WSJ really needs to get anime for their series faster. Are Ichi and Shinobigoto and Kiyoshi also all going to be well into their 3rd year before they get anything announced?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Kenta Shinohara final author comment for Witch Watch:

"Thank you so much for everything over the years! May Jump always remain a exciting and fun place."

Also excluding Shinohara, out of the 18 authors, 14 left a comment celebrating WW end, 4 + Oda didnt:

-Eiichiro Oda (One Piece, absent)
-Takeru Hokazono (Kagurabachi)
-Shiro Usazaki (Ichi the Witch)
-Reiya Machida (Cannon Master)
-Nakama Ryo (Jan is in Danger!)

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Nakama Ryo author comment for the first chapter of "Jan is in Danger!":

"I'm starting a new manga series! I'll put my heart and soul into it, so please look forward to it!"

 

[Nuesmoker]

Billboard top 20 Manga for WSJ:

3. Sakamoto Days
17. Nue's Exorcist

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 (2026)
00. Jan is in Danger! (New Series by Nakama Ryo, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Sakamoto Days
02. Ichi the Witch
03. Someone Hertz
00. Witch Watch (Color Page, End)
04. Akane-banashi
05. The Ura Files
00. Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
06. Roku's House of Oddities
07. Animal Signal
08. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
00. Graykeith: Translator Daemonica (Color Page)
09. Me & Roboco
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Under Doctor
12. Hal Formula
13. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz
14. Kagurabachi
15. Cannon Master
00. One Piece (Absent)

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #52 (2026) - Information!
Mr. Hizuki of the Ginza Backstreet Police Box (New Series by Gondaira Hitsuji, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
Sakamoto Days (Color Page, End)
Jan is in Danger! (Color Page)
Nue's Exorcist (Color Page)

Yeah im sure saito is placing under doctor on the back of the magazine because the doctor is under

he’s a funny guy

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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 Cover: Jan is in Danger!

This looks lovely

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Jan is in Danger! Lead Color Pages

I love his art is sô different than the main stuff on the magazine. It could do well basically because it has a very unique style

 

[monstera11]

Atp I am not surprised they desperately want Kubo back with Bleach. Seeing WW and SakaDays ended at the same time. The probably gonna end Cannon Master and leave a spot open for oneshots until Bleach comes back

Not to mention that gege rumor.... (which i still believe is a hoax)