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

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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I mean KGB is selling less probably because people aint liking it + aint liking this new arc.

I think such a MC driven story like KGB bet on an arc without the mc at all is shooting yourself in the foot
But the volume contains only one chapter of the current arc
 

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But the volume contains only one chapter of the current arc
but i mean, a lot of people that are reading weekly does buy the volume, it could had some impact on people not being interested in buying anymore idk
 

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As an author, if you already sell enough to live off your work and know it's safe long term, why shouldn't you do whatever you want? If Hokazono's vision of the story includes a long flashback, he can just do it. It's the same with Chainsaw Man, people keep going on about Part 2 sales and I doubt Fujimoto cares at all. If I were in their positions I also wouldn't care at all and would rather write what I find more interesting, if a % of readers don't like it, too bad.
 

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Personally I really appreciate getting a full story arc for this part of the history of Kagurabachi. There's clearly a lot thought put into the backstory of the series and it's definitely worthy of a full story arc.

I'm so used to flashbacks being just a few chapters in the middle of another arc covering a couple critical events, resulting in them feeling like an annoying distraction from the present day stuff you actually care about (One Piece is real bad for this, the recent Brook flashback for example had good moments in it but I absolutely did not care about Brook's history whatsoever in the middle of Luffy and Loki vs Imu), more of a highlights real than a proper story, but the Seitai War is its own proper dedicated story looking like it'll be long enough to take up a full anime cour on its own.
 

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I quite frankly don’t mind if the sales drop during this arc if it means we get to see a full idea of Hokazono’s vision (speaking as someone who is LOVING the character moments this flashback has given us). The greater concern at the moment is his health/lateness to submit that is impacting both his magazine performance and his ability to draw in new fans.

I hope drawing the more tragic parts of the flashback isn’t as emotionally taxing on Hokazono as drawing the Kuma flashback was for Oda, or else he might just die by the end of the Seitei war. (hopefully it’s the opposite and Hokazono got tired from drawing too much joy and will become re-energized when the tragedy comes)
 

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Updating Shoseki:

Shoseki Top 500 (September 11)
9. Kagurabachi #12
21. Kochikame #202
71. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1
90. Shinobi Undercover #9
95. Nue's Exorcist #16
113. Hima-Ten! #11
128. Roku's House of Oddities #1

Shoseki Top 500 (September 12)
7. Kagurabachi #12
14. Kochikame #202
56. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1
71. Nue's Exorcist #16
74. Shinobi Undercover #9
115. Hima-Ten! #11
151. Roku's House of Oddities #1

Shoseki Top 500 (September 13)
6. Kagurabachi #12
11. Kochikame #202
51. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1
69. Shinobi Undercover #9
75. Nue's Exorcist #16
123. Roku's House of Oddities #1
126. Hima-Ten! #11


Start of Week 3

Shoseki Top 500 (September 14)
8. Kagurabachi #12
23. Kochikame #202
87. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1
147. Shinobi Undercover #9
155. Nue's Exorcist #16
175. Hima-Ten! #11
181. Roku's House of Oddities #1

Shoseki Top 500 (September 15)
11. Kagurabachi #12
23. Kochikame #202
132. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1
146. Shinobi Undercover #9
150. Roku's House of Oddities #1
157. Nue's Exorcist #16
190. Hima-Ten! #11

Shoseki Top 500 (September 16)
18. Kagurabachi #12
37. Kochikame #202
143. Class 2B Hero Destroyerz #1
202. Roku's House of Oddities #1
228. Nue's Exorcist #16
250. Shinobi Undercover #9
271. Hima-Ten! #11


Great to see Roku rising, its even above Nue! I told ya, the series would have long legs to at the very least outlive Hima :super
 

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Great to see Roku rising, its even above Nue!
Physical sales are weird, Nue is way above it and Shinobi at Amazon. Well, Jump puts no effort into promoting Nue, all the others get recommendations and light novels.
 

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Any thoughts on why Kagurabachi lost almost 30K of volume sales?
I think the raid """arc""" being so mediocre, and the flashback turning off other fans for lacking the protag + just having lower stakes, is leading to less enthusiasm about the series. It doesn't really matter, because the flashback will end around the anime airing, and the enthusiasm will return tenfold, but thats my take at least. Plus its not even a drastic drop yet, we gotta see how the next volume fares.
 

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Btw, Hitoner is above Kagurabachi on September 16 and i don't think Tsugimanga results are affecting by the time yet, Tomohiro Yagi really got the last laugh over Weekly Shonen Jump :grin
 

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As an author, if you already sell enough to live off your work and know it's safe long term, why shouldn't you do whatever you want? If Hokazono's vision of the story includes a long flashback, he can just do it. It's the same with Chainsaw Man, people keep going on about Part 2 sales and I doubt Fujimoto cares at all. If I were in their positions I also wouldn't care at all and would rather write what I find more interesting, if a % of readers don't like it, too bad.
I mean, I don’t care about that at all

im probably one of the 5% of readers that truly enjoys the 4th great ninja war arc, so I understand the feeling

and i hope Hokazono keeps doing what he want, a writer tells a story about what he wants to, not about what the readers want and like
 

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To be honest, I think the constant breaks, lower page counts + the recent hiatus affected sales a lot
 

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But since we live in capitalism, unfortunately art becomes a mere product and if it doesn’t give profit then… 🪓
 

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But the 4th war was never unpopular in Japan lol
I say mostly based on western fanbase, i’ve always wanted to find some research on how popular this arc was in Japan, but never found out a great source about it
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Besides toc rankings i mean
 

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I mean KGB is selling less probably because people aint liking it + aint liking this new arc.

I think such a MC driven story like KGB bet on an arc without the mc at all is shooting yourself in the foot
Is Chihiro really that popular in Japan? He is one of the worst MC's I've read; all of the interesting ideas the manga has put forward have nothing to do with Chihiro.
 

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Personally I really appreciate getting a full story arc for this part of the history of Kagurabachi. There's clearly a lot thought put into the backstory of the series and it's definitely worthy of a full story arc.

I'm so used to flashbacks being just a few chapters in the middle of another arc covering a couple critical events, resulting in them feeling like an annoying distraction from the present day stuff you actually care about (One Piece is real bad for this, the recent Brook flashback for example had good moments in it but I absolutely did not care about Brook's history whatsoever in the middle of Luffy and Loki vs Imu), more of a highlights real than a proper story, but the Seitai War is its own proper dedicated story looking like it'll be long enough to take up a full anime cour on its own.
While we did get more Brook, the point of that flashback was to give us an understanding of Shuri (Gunko's) character. It will make more sense once she actually wakes up and does something this arc.
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Iirc he won the popularity poll
🤯
That is crazy to me. What a basic ass, bland ass, no personality having ass, looking just like every other black-haired KGB character ass, character to be winning a character popularity poll....This magazine has fallen off tremendously.
 

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Chihiro has a strong personality, he's very dour and serious and revenge-driven. Just because he's not silly and goofy doesn't mean he's lacking a personality.
 

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Chihiro has a strong personality, he's very dour and serious and revenge-driven. Just because he's not silly and goofy doesn't mean he's lacking a personality.
Silly and goofy isn't a signifier of personality. Nor was that anything I was using to say he is bland and basic. The author really hasn't written him to be anything other than a brooding revenge driven MC. We know literally nothing else about him, what he likes or dislike, what he'll do after achieving said revenge. I am judging a character that feels like a plot device rather than a person living in the world the author is creating.

Edit: Maybe, I am wrong and missing something here. What do you feel is strong about his personality and characterization? If we strip away the revenge part what is left of the character Chihiro?
 
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