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Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #41 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • One Piece 1192

  • Hunter x Hunter 420

  • Me & Roboco 296

  • Sakamoto days 274

  • Witch Watch 261

  • Akane-banashi 221

  • Nue's Exorcist 160

  • Kagurabachi 131

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 107

  • Ichi the Witch 97

  • Shinobi Undercover 96

  • RuriDragon 51

  • Someone Hertz 48

  • Under Doctor 31

  • Roku's House of Oddities 21

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 19

  • Animal Signal 13

  • Hal Formula 12

  • Cannon Master 11

  • The Ura Files 2

  • GrayKeith: Translator Daemonica 1 - New Series


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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. GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (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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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #41 (2026)
00. GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (New Series by Natsuki Hokami, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Someone Hertz
02. One Piece
00. The Ura Files (Color Page)
03. Ichi the Witch
04. Sakamoto Days
00. Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
05. Roku's House of Oddities
06. Akane-banashi
07. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
08. Animal Signal
09. Witch Watch
00. Me & Roboco (Color Page)
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Hal Formula
12. Cannon Master
13. Kagurabachi
14. Hunter x Hunter
15. Under Doctor
16. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #42-43 (2026) - Information!
Sakamoto Days (Lead Color Pages)
GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (Color Page)
Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
 

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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #41 (2026)
00. GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (New Series by Natsuki Hokami, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Someone Hertz
02. One Piece
00. The Ura Files (Color Page)
03. Ichi the Witch
04. Sakamoto Days
00. Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
05. Roku's House of Oddities
06. Akane-banashi
07. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
08. Animal Signal
09. Witch Watch
00. Me & Roboco (Color Page)
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Hal Formula
12. Cannon Master
13. Kagurabachi
14. Hunter x Hunter
15. Under Doctor
16. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #42-43 (2026) - Information!
Sakamoto Days (Lead Color Pages)
GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (Color Page)
Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
Thats um. Certainly a toc. I expected 2B to hit bottom, but it still hurts. And it looks like cannon master and hal have no motion behind them. On the bright side, another Kiyoshi color page! (Bachi that low vindicates my feelings on being underwhelmed by this flashback lol. Tho I have to imagine its because of the lack of chihiro, usually flashback arcs rank low).
 

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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #41 (2026)
00. GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (New Series by Natsuki Hokami, Cover & Lead Color Pages)
01. Someone Hertz
02. One Piece
00. The Ura Files (Color Page)
03. Ichi the Witch
04. Sakamoto Days
00. Shinobi Undercover (Color Page)
05. Roku's House of Oddities
06. Akane-banashi
07. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
08. Animal Signal
09. Witch Watch
00. Me & Roboco (Color Page)
10. Nue's Exorcist
11. Hal Formula
12. Cannon Master
13. Kagurabachi
14. Hunter x Hunter
15. Under Doctor
16. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #42-43 (2026) - Information!
Sakamoto Days (Lead Color Pages)
GreyKeys: Translations from the Demon World (Color Page)
Roku's House of Oddities (Color Page)
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
Seems like it’ll be the penultimate chapter of SD; hopefully means we get a Blach sequel announcement. Animal signal survives and it looks like 2B, UD, cannon master, and HAL are going to be on the chopping block.

Shinuki please let us know your thoughts on Grey Keys when you read it 🙏
 

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Couldn't be a more unexciting pick for lead color page. And I doubt it's the penultimate chapter considering how we first need to get to fix Sakamoto's belly. It's probably the last LCP for it though.

Also, another Kiyoshi color page? I swear every week it's either Shinobi or Kiyoshi.

For the ones that claimed Hal Formula was already dead:
Still ranking low and no color page. I think 2-B sales may push it above Hal as a priority for the magazine, but it's between them, Under Doctor and Cannon Master. Animal Signal should be safe for a round now.
 

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Sakamoto Days will have the lead color pages on issue #42-43!

I swear every time there's several series' anniversaries to address at the same time and there's a group cover they end up doing Sakamoto.

Knowing this is the case and that we have a double issue (which I had completely forgotten was happening until today) we're gonna be really behind for all of the anniversaries. Since the earliest to do them is #44 and we have Ichi on #41 and Kagurabachi/Shinobi/Someone Hertz on #42, I imagine it'll go something like this:
Issue 44: Someone Hertz 1st anniversary (Shinobi cp for 2nd anni)
Issue 45: Ichi 2nd anniversary
Issue 46: Kagurabachi 3rd anniversary

I mainly say this since they seem to be more okay with having anniversaries being delayed for series that are their bigger hits. I could also easily see them giving Kagurabachi 3rd anni a normal color though, for the sheer sake of not killing him, which would be unfortunate but understandable given the streak of 15p chapters (though the opposite could be theorized, that the 15p chapters are for the purpose of giving him time to make a full anni cover and color spread).

Honestly though knowing how things usually work the likelihood of 3 back to back anni covers is very low and something random will probably squeeze it's way in there. Probably Akane, since I imagine Witch Watch's next cover will be it's last one within the final couple chapters (assuming it even gets one) and I'm not expecting that in the next 5 chapters (maybe 10-15 though, since I think there will be some wind-down after the final fight).
 

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When in doubt, Sakamoto gets the lead color page. It works every time.

Happy to see Animal Signal didn't drop like a rock immediately after a color page. Happens sometimes with the series that aren't immediately obvious hits, but get early color pages. I think it's safe until at least chapter 30 now. Hopefully it can get to the first anniversary!
 

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Anyone else a bit disappointed with the batch we got for HxH. It was great stuff but I feel like togashi could’ve done all of this in half the chapters while still being detailed like usual. Some chapters just kind of meandered it feels like.
 

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Anyone else a bit disappointed with the batch we got for HxH. It was great stuff but I feel like togashi could’ve done all of this in half the chapters while still being detailed like usual. Some chapters just kind of meandered it feels like.
You have to remember, he is still having back problems that slow down his productivity. It’s not worth it to push him as hard.
 

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If we're getting GFC this year not too long after HxH's leave for the series' slot & we get a batch of new series right after it's done with a GFC winner in that batch finally getting serialized, I would like to suggest who I think that mangaka should be:
Tabigoro Kuji, the 2023 GFC Winner


I would like you guys to hear me out on this one, because I feel like that they might be the best choice as we've just got 2 romance oriented series done by big name mangaka via Animal Signal & Ura's Report, and the 2 other unserialized GFC winners have done so with romance oriented one-shots (Shirosaki with Loveday Sezaki-san & Hakase with Signal All Red) while Kuji has done more fantasy/action based stories such as Canvas Terra & Beast Summon. If either Shirosaki or Hakase debut with a series based on their one-shots soon, it could risk oversaturating the magazine with rom-coms or romance adjacent series & get axed in favor of either Animal Signal or Ura. If Kuji gets serialized, they would only have to worry about competing with the new favorite Ichi, the struggling Cannon Master & the brand new Grey Keys (One Piece is its own entity at this point) for the fantasy demographic in Jump.
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You have to remember, he is still having back problems that slow down his productivity. It’s not worth it to push him as hard.
I agree, let Togashi take all the time he needs
 

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You have to remember, he is still having back problems that slow down his productivity. It’s not worth it to push him as hard.
That’s precisely why I’m worried and a bit frustrated he wasted the chapters we had; 418 and 419 could’ve been one chapter for instance.
 

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If we're getting GFC this year not too long after HxH's leave for the series' slot & we get a batch of new series right after it's done with a GFC winner in that batch finally getting serialized, I would like to suggest who I think that mangaka should be:
Tabigoro Kuji, the 2023 GFC Winner


I would like you guys to hear me out on this one, because I feel like that they might be the best choice as we've just got 2 romance oriented series done by big name mangaka via Animal Signal & Ura's Report, and the 2 other unserialized GFC winners have done so with romance oriented one-shots (Shirosaki with Loveday Sezaki-san & Hakase with Signal All Red) while Kuji has done more fantasy/action based stories such as Canvas Terra & Beast Summon. If either Shirosaki or Hakase debut with a series based on their one-shots soon, it could risk oversaturating the magazine with rom-coms or romance adjacent series & get axed in favor of either Animal Signal or Ura. If Kuji gets serialized, they would only have to worry about competing with the new favorite Ichi, the struggling Cannon Master & the brand new Grey Keys (One Piece is its own entity at this point) for the fantasy demographic in Jump.
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I agree, let Togashi take all the time he needs
Just had the epiphany that a serialized Signal All Red would be stepping on the toes of Animal Signal as a romcom manga about superpowered individuals starring a tsundere. Yup, if Animal Signal takes off, we're not seeing Signal All Red for a loooooooong time.
 

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Chapter is 13 pages long so I just think it's him submitting late tbh.
13 pages?? Maybe he's conserving his energy for that upcoming LCP, instead of releasing blatantly unfinished chapters like last year. But also, idk about that. I was looking at last year, when his chapters were all unfinished, and they were still not ranking this low. And I doubt a (presumably) finished 13 page chapter would be submitted later than one that had pages of unfinished art.
Plus you have guys like Suzuki submitting unfinished art too, and yet he's still ranking high. I feel like they'd be giving him more leeway than this.
 

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Just had the epiphany that a serialized Signal All Red would be stepping on the toes of Animal Signal as a romcom manga about superpowered individuals starring a tsundere. Yup, if Animal Signal takes off, we're not seeing Signal All Red for a loooooooong time.
Yup, and it's a shame because that's the one I wanna see most, but I feel like Hakase might have a chance when Witch Watch leaves the magazine...
 
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