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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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)

 

[tirakai]

It's still at the edge of the bottom and no colour page, but Hal Formula climbing a little bit is nice at least. I'll be surprised if it actually becomes a hit but I hope it can stick around for a few batches like Under Doctor at least.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

So i checked GreyKeys chapter, It's basically the one shot but with the characters having slightly different designs, many of the scenes reworked/redrawn and the scenes with wolves being with bats

The artstyle and the demon world has a vibe of Black Clover mixed with Muhyo to Roji, very charming, is pretty well drawn, i feel like wanting this to survive just to see how Hokami will explore this world

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A few panels if anyone is interested (Only click if you don't mind but none of these are the biggest ones anyway):

Spoiler

 

[TwoTimesMartyred]

I've read the one shot and I really like that Greykeys (the MC himself) is very expressive and quirky. Hope he keeps that energy for the series.

 

[Baes]

Hunter x Hunter is back on hiatus!

Surprising 0 people

 

[Xanji06]

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)

Roku Top 5! Great to see. Also Animal Signal at 8 is nice to see, especially since its batch-mates appear to be kinda flopping; not 100% dead yet but it isn't looking good for them.

Also damn another Kiyoshi & Roku color lmao? Thats 3 Colors (one being lcp) in 5 chapters for Roku and 4 Colors in 7 for Kiyoshi.
I really am hoping that Roku V1 ends up doing good - im a bit scared that its gonna end up below Shinobi. (it would obviously still survive 100% but I want to see greater numbers since it got a ch17 cover)

Also the GreyKeys Cover looks amazing! Really excited for the series; Need both new series's to survive!

 

[Stivie]

Maybe Saito has to poach some talent from manga series that are finished outside the magazine, the only big name who hasn’t returned with a series is probably Iseyama, but I’m concerned that AoT was all he had as a writer. I doubt kishi comes back even though j think that’d be awesome and we know the bleach sequel will sell but that seems like a cheap accomplishment for the mag like Modulo (not a NEW hit series)

I guess Saito’s “break glass in case of emergency” would be to have furudate come back with a new sports series (or even a act-adv series) or have Goutouge come back with an act-adv (hopefully more focus on adventure this time). Likely both are helping the anime side out for their movies before they return though so we probably won’t see them return in the 20’s. I prefer having new or axed vet authors strike it big though. I do think Red Hood/Otrs author will strike it big in his third series whether it’s that one shot or hopefully something more fantasy adventure based similar to his mentor Horikoshi (who also seems to be itching to come back).

You guys can't be serious about an anti battle shonen bias, it's literally the most supported genre by both the manga and anime industries. Series like Someone Hertz are just more appealing to the public than every battle shonen Jump released in the last two years.

I don't know if there's a bias against Battleshonen, but there's always been a certain favoritism towards comedies.
Just remember Phantom Seer, which was canceled even though it sold 20,000 copies, while Magu-chan and Highschool Family stayed in the magazine for longer.
And criticisms like, "this story is generic," are more common in battleshonen than in comedy or romance manga.
Now Greykeys is about to debut, with a higher probability of cancellation than survival, after all, Ura, apparently, has already been chosen as a success and any reason will be used for Greykeys to be rejected by the Japanese.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Damn, even on Matome Ura no Report is getting a lot of praise, i'm going to be shocked if this manga flops with how well is being received pretty much everywhere online in Japan

Comments about GreyKeys cover & lead cp (the ones i posted) has been actually quite positive on 5ch, plenty of praise about the art, which is in fact pretty good, i guess Hokami writing only needs to be good too and it might have a chance.

Btw, i don't know why but only now i realised that GreyKeys chances of getting a recommendation by Koyoharu Gotouge are actually pretty good, Gotouge seems to have a real connection with Hokami:

100k+ with first volume?

 

[RealityChecker]

Now Greykeys is about to debut, with a higher probability of cancellation than survival, after all, Ura, apparently, has already been chosen as a success and any reason will be used for Greykeys to be rejected by the Japanese.

Greykeys will only be cancelled by itself. Ura being a hit will have nothing to do with it.

 

[Bulju]

Lemme post the images for the sake of yall's convenience:

Spoiler: Dttf and Ahiru No Sora comparisons

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/be97a930d904.png

I know I'm late on this but this is insane, and I can't believe some people are giving the benefit of the doubt to the author considering it's so blatant. The fucking wrinkles on the first image are the exact same, lmao.
You didn't post this one which I think is by far the funniest one. For some reason the author deemed it necessary to plagiarize a panel of someone's toes!

Spoiler

 

[Dongus]

Man... I guess it ever truly was...
Drawn
To The
Frame

 

[CastletonSnob]

More like Drawn to the Axe.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Well, so now we are at 19 series, -1 to the standard Jump works which is 20, honestly they could've kept Kinato for another round if they were going to do that, but anyway, with 19 series we're in a interesting moment, if we take in count the usual time when a new round starts, when the first of the current batch, in this case Ura no Report, reach 8 ~ 10 chapters, a new round would technically happen around the first half of November, issue #48 ~ #50, but i personally don't think Jump will go 2 months with only 19 series or 18 when One Piece has its breaks, or going 2 months with one shots, so what i'm betting to happen is:

-I think they will start Bleach in October after the final cour ends, not necessarily after Sakamoto ends, but a bit before since already have a free space.

-With that Sakamoto would keep going for a couple of weeks until the first half of November when it ends + whatever they axe together and we have the final batch of the year on November with probably another 2 or 3 new series depending if they already give it up on Class 2B.

Sakamoto will finish volume 30 with the lead cp chapter 275 on issue #42-43, so from #44 to #50 or less would be 5/6 chapters which seems more than enough to fill a final volume and finish this final fight.

 

[monstera11]

Then they really could have kept Kinato for 5 more chapters man....

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Noone posted the Kagurabachi PV yet?

 

[Wookitake]

Man... DTTF was really full of plagiarism. That's insane.

 

[RealityChecker]

New 2B Volume PV featuring the original Gintama Trio!

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The Ura Files almost second on Twitter mentions.

 

[Thehoennhippo]

Almost second, also known as “third.”

 

[Baes]

Any chance the plagiarism is the "true" reason DTTF got axed?

And maybe their original plan was to axe only Kinato and the 2 new series would replace Kinato and HxH, but the surprise plagiarism came and they had to axe it.

 

[KrenKren]

Can't wait for the Samura stuff to be animated. He's still probably my favourite character

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Also results for the Kagurabachi double spread popularity contest are out, and the best one won

 

[RealityChecker]

Almost second, also known as “third.”

I said almost second because it just needed 16 tweets for it to be second.

 

[Shonenfan]

Well, so now we are at 19 series, -1 to the standard Jump works which is 20, honestly they could've kept Kinato for another round if they were going to do that, but anyway, with 19 series we're in a interesting moment, if we take in count the usual time when a new round starts, when the first of the current batch, in this case Ura no Report, reach 8 ~ 10 chapters, a new round would technically happen around the first half of November, issue #48 ~ #50, but i personally don't think Jump will go 2 months with only 19 series or 18 when One Piece has its breaks, or going 2 months with one shots, so what i'm betting to happen is:

-I think they will start Bleach in October after the final cour ends, not necessarily after Sakamoto ends, but a bit before since already have a free space.

-With that Sakamoto would keep going for a couple of weeks until the first half of November when it ends + whatever they axe together and we have the final batch of the year on November with probably another 2 or 3 new series depending if they already give it up on Class 2B.

Sakamoto will finish volume 30 with the lead cp chapter 275 on issue #42-43, so from #44 to #50 or less would be 5/6 chapters which seems more than enough to fill a final volume and finish this final fight.

Maybe even less tbh. Suzuki has both of those one shots (the awesome Takamura one and the cloning locker) that could definitely be used to pad the space out for a 31st volume. Either way, this feels like one of the worst final boss fights in recent WSJ history; just feels boring and tedious. While I knew uzuki sucked, I was hoping for Suzuki to bust out the craziest choreography and frames and we just got lackluster. I don’t know if it’s burn out or just poor writing from Suzuki, but I hope he takes a nice rest and really improves his writing for when he does that samurai series he mentioned. What’s been the worst final fight in a non axed manga? For me it’s still probably bleach but this is up thetr