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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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Been a while since we've done this, how would you guys rank all the current series overall? Based off both the series as a whole, but also where the series currently is.

For me,

Overall
1. Hunter x Hunter
2. One Piece
3. Nue's Exorcist
4. Kagurabachi
5. Akane Banashi
6. Ruri Dragon
7. Roku
8. Kinato's Magic
9. Someone Hertz
10. Class 2-B Destroyerz
11 .Cannon Master
12. Ichi the Witch
13. Under Doctor
14. Sakamoto Days
15. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
16. Shinobi Undercover
17. Drawn To The Flame
18. Animal Signal
19. HAL Formula

Currently
1. Hunter x Hunter
2. Nue's Exorcist
3. Kagurabachi
4. Ruri Dragon
5. Roku
6. Kinato's Magic
7. One Piece
8. Class 2-B Destroyerz
9. Cannon Master
10. Under Doctor
11. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
12. Shinobi Undercover
13. Akane Banashi
14. Ichi the Witch
15. Someone Hertz
16. Drawn To The Flame
17. Sakamoto Days
18. Animal Signal
19. HAL Formula
 

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I don’t think overall vs current would change much for me other than probably putting Witch Watch down because I generally like it in comedy mode more than arc mode. Also put them in categories.

10/10:
1: HxH
9/10:
2: Akane
3: WW
8/10:
4: Hertz
5: Roku? (It feels early to put it this high but I’ve been enjoying it more than most of the magazine soooo)
7/10:
6: Ichi
7: Kiyoshi (Ichi definitely has higher highs but I think Kiyoshi might be more consistent tbh)
8: Roboco
9: Nue
6/10:
10: DttF
11: Destroyerz
 

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Been a while since we've done this, how would you guys rank all the current series overall? Based off both the series as a whole, but also where the series currently is.

For me,

Overall
1. Hunter x Hunter
2. One Piece
3. Nue's Exorcist
4. Kagurabachi
5. Akane Banashi
6. Ruri Dragon
7. Roku
8. Kinato's Magic
9. Someone Hertz
10. Class 2-B Destroyerz
11 .Cannon Master
12. Ichi the Witch
13. Under Doctor
14. Sakamoto Days
15. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
16. Shinobi Undercover
17. Drawn To The Flame
18. Animal Signal
19. HAL Formula

Currently
1. Hunter x Hunter
2. Nue's Exorcist
3. Kagurabachi
4. Ruri Dragon
5. Roku
6. Kinato's Magic
7. One Piece
8. Class 2-B Destroyerz
9. Cannon Master
10. Under Doctor
11. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
12. Shinobi Undercover
13. Akane Banashi
14. Ichi the Witch
15. Someone Hertz
16. Drawn To The Flame
17. Sakamoto Days
18. Animal Signal
19. HAL Formula
Gonna do that too, but only the overall one. (Currently would be too similar). Nice top btw!

1. Hunter X Hunter
2. Nue's Exorcist
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
4. Kagurabachi
5. Under Doctor
6. Roku's House of Oddities
7. Cannon Master
8. Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz
9. Someone Hertz
10. Shinobi Undercover
11. Ichi the Witch
12. Animal Signal
13. Hal Formula
14. Kinato's Magic
15. Drawn to the Fire

Not ranked: OP, Roboco, Sakamoto, WW, Akane.
I'll catch up on Akane when I'll have time btw! And maybe OP too.
Also, I like everything beside MAYBE DttF, but it still has cool moments.
 

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Been a while since we've done this, how would you guys rank all the current series overall? Based off both the series as a whole, but also where the series currently is.
Overall:

1. Hunter x Hunter 2. Nue's Exorcist 3. Ruri Dragon - I'm more passionate about Nue than HxH, but these are the series I would say I really love.

4. Someone Hertz 5. Akane-banashi 6. Witch Watch - High quality series all around.

7. Animal Signal 8. Roku 9. Hero Destroyerz - The newbies I like the most and think would jump tiers with more time, but I only trust Roku to survive.

10. Roboco 11. Cannon Master - Enjoyable reads.

12. Sakamoto Days 13. Ichi 14. Under Doctor - Okayish. Not engaged to their stories, but I like individual chapters/arcs.

15. Kinato - Fell off from the good start sadly.

16. Kagurabachi 17. Kiyoshi 18. Shinobi Undercover - These lost my interest because they're appealing to a public I'm not part of.

19. Hal Formula 20. Drawn to the Fire - Boring.

Not reading One Piece.
 

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Not ordered within the tier since which ones I like more change every week

Really Like Tier

Ruri Dragon (this is definitive number one in the magazine)
Animal Signal
Someone Hertz
Witch Watch
One Piece

Like Tier

Ichi the Witch
Shinobi Undercover
Nue's Exorcist
Kagurabachi
Cannon Master
Roku
Hero Destroyerz

Annoy Me But Still Feel Something Reading Tier
Drawn to the Fire
Sakamoto Days

Indifferent Tier

Kinato's Magic
HAL Formula

I put Akane on hold, will probably get back to it at some point. Dropped Roboco long ago because I personally don't find it funny, but there's nothing wrong with it inherently. Lost all interest in Under Doctor and Kiyoshi. If HAL Formula sticks around, I'd probably drop it within five chapters because it does not hold my interest at all.
 

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1. Ruri Dragon
2. Kagurabachi
3. Akane-banashi
4. Someone Hertz
5. Sakamoto Days

Really Good
6. Ichi the Witch
7. Shinobi Undercover

Good
8. Me and Roboco
9. Animal Signal
10. Under Doctor
11. Nue's Exorcist
12. Witch Watch

Mediocre
13. Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz
14. Hal Formula
15. Roku's House of Oddities
16. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
17. Canon Master

Awful
18. Drawn to the Fire
19. Kinato's Magic

Don't read One Piece. Currently catching up on Hunter, it'll probably be high up there when I do.
 

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You know, putting together that list made me realize something. Most of the stuff I look forward to in Jump these days are the series that consistently put a smile on my face rather than things I'm excited for the next story development for. Like, the only stories in the magazine I'm deeply invested in are Hunter x Hunter and Akane. I think Ichi, Kiyoshi, and Nue have fine overarching plots but they are all (broadly) just "there are a group of bad guys we will have to fight one arc at a time," and in Kiyoshi's case kind of besides the point of why I like it which is that I find it's characters and especially it's art so charming, it's basically moe to me lol.
 

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I'm awful at numbered ranking so i'll do groups of my current rankings

Peak
Class 2B
Kagurabachi
Roku
Animal Signal

Great
Someone Hertz
Nue's Exorcist
Ichi the Witch
Akane-banashi
Witch Watch

Good
Kiyoshi
Roboco
Sakamoto
Kinato
Under Doctor

Fine
One Piece (controversial take but it doesn't really hit for me anymore, though that might change if I reread it) (pre-timeskip is better anyways)
Hal Formula

Dropped
Cannon Master (maybe I didn't give it enough time but it's painfully boring)
Drawn to the Fire (starting to doubt Jump will ever have a good spokon again)
 

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Much like shillin65 above me there, I suck at ranking things in literal order, so I'll just do it by tier list in no particular order. Funny enough, this was asked a while back, so here's my rankings from back then lol. I don't think much would change between overall and current rankings for me either, so:

S Tier - One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Akanebanashi
A Tier - Ichi the Witch, Kagurabachi, Roku (Up 1)
B Tier - Shinobi Undercover, Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Someone Hertz, Witch Watch, Cannon Master (New)
C Tier - Under Doctor (Down 1), Sakamoto Days, Ruri Dragon, Nue's Exorcist, HAL Formula (New), Me and Roboco
D Tier - Kinato's Magic (Down 1), Drawn to the Fire, Class 2-B, Animal Signal (New)

I think that's all the series? Lol. Someone Hertz is close to going up to A Tier for me and Sakamoto Days is close to going down to D Tier honestly, we'll see how it ends.

Honestly, I'd be down to make this a semi regular thing, just to check in what changes occur. Maybe twice a year/once every six months or so.
 

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GOAT: One Piece

S Tier: HxH (but past few chapters have been very boring and unnecessary; feels like we could have gotten to where we're at in half the chapters)

A Tier: UE Kiyoshi, Akane Banashi, Kagurabachi

A/B tier: Ichi the witch, Shinobi Undercover (both are kind of inconsistent)

B Tier: Roku, WW, Hertz, 2B, UD (last chapter was A tier, but it just varies so wildly and can feel aimless; drives me cray tanimoto isn't doing longer arcs)

C Tier: Sakamoto Days (what a fall off, even the choreography feels uninspired. Slur is just a bad villain, should've made Takamura the big bad), Nue (probably should be B tier, but the pacing just throws me off and the art is hard to kind of follow), Canon master (down here so I can be mentally prepared), HAL (I like it though), Roboco (the comedy version of UD; sometimes it literally makes me laugh out loud and is hard A tier and other times I'm just bored)

D Tier: Kinato (axed pace has hurt it), Animal Signal (cool animal facts but boring) Dttf (characters kind of blend together)
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When are we expecting new series? Mid to late August?
 

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Shoseki Top 500 (August 4)
1. Black Clover #38
2. Sakamoto Days #28
3. Someone Hertz #4
4. Akane-banashi #23
5. The Elusive Samurai #26
8. Witch Watch #27
10. Black Clover Official Guidebook
20. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #9
21. Under Doctor #2
22. Me & Roboco #27
40. Kinato's Magic #2



Pretty noticeable drops for Under Doctor and Kinato.
 
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over 38 - 1st
Sakamoto Days 28 - 2nd
Someone Hertz 4 - 3rd
Akane-Banashi 23 - 4th
The Elusive Samurai 26 - 5th
Witch Watch 27 - 8th
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 9 - 20th
Under Doctor 2 - 21st
Me and Roboco 27 - 22nd
Kinato's Magic 2
Under Doctor selling less than Kiyoshi? 😭
I don't think really means that it will be axed, as Kiyoshi has lived this long off of its existing sales, but like... I mean this once again calls into question why volume 1 sold the way that it did
 

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Scalpers can have a huge impact on sales, just look at how difficult it is for normal people to buy pokemon cards recently. And even within WSJ, Shueisha had to cancel the further plans to include One Piece cards in magazines because scalpers completely ruined availability of the Jump issue with one.

Add that to people panic-buying because they've heard about the scalping and it results in a not insignificant number.
 

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Shoseki Top 500 (August 4)
1. Black Clover #38
2. Sakamoto Days #28
3. Someone Hertz #4
4. Akane-banashi #23
5. The Elusive Samurai #26
8. Witch Watch #27
10. Black Clover Official Guidebook
20. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #9
21. Under Doctor #2
22. Me & Roboco #27
40. Kinato's Magic #2


Pretty noticeable drops for Under Doctor and Kinato.
As expected UD wouldn't sell as much as vol 1, that's not surprising at all but i don't expect to sell less than Kiyoshi, most likely it will be at top in the next days seeing vol 1 is charting pretty well too.

127. Under Doctor #1

Great to see Black Clover final volume charting at the top above Sakamoto Days :hee
 

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Guys its just because the schoolchildren are getting older and finally have the money to buy Kiyoshi volumes.
 

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Guys its just because the schoolchildren are getting older and finally have the money to buy Kiyoshi volumes.
They're going all in on the volume sales ahead of the Kiyoshi anime announcement next week.
 

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Btw, the sheer irony of how some were arguing after Under Doctor vol 1 sales (and Kinato to some extention) that Kiyoshi might be in trouble for that only for vol 2 to start under Kiyoshi, is hilarious! :XD
 

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I feel vindicated
 
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