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

Your Favorite Chapters of Issue #48 of 2026 (5 Choices At Most)

  • Me & Roboco 302

  • Sakamoto Days 280

  • Witch Watch 267

  • Akane-banashi 227

  • Nue's Exorcist 166

  • Kagurabachi 136

  • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi 113

  • Ichi the Witch 103

  • Shinobi Undercover 102

  • Someone Hertz 54

  • Under Doctor 37

  • Roku's House of Oddities 27

  • Class 2B Hero Destroyerz 25

  • Animal Signal 19

  • Hal Formula 18

  • Cannon Master 17

  • The Ura Files 8

  • Graykeith: Translator Daemonica 7


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Also there’s probably less kids reading manga period. This is the TikTok/Reels generation. You get free entertainment instantly on your phone instead of having to buy and read a magazine or manga

I’m not gonna blame them. I’m 31 and I scroll that shit too much sometimes. I can’t imagine if I grew up on it
 

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Also there’s probably less kids reading manga period. This is the TikTok/Reels generation. You get free entertainment instantly on your phone instead of having to buy and read a magazine or manga
yeah i mean there a bunch of those on twitter, people that talk about a clip of a anime but never even watched
 

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Also there’s probably less kids reading manga period. This is the TikTok/Reels generation. You get free entertainment instantly on your phone instead of having to buy and read a magazine or manga

I’m not gonna blame them. I’m 31 and I scroll that shit too much sometimes. I can’t imagine if I grew up on it
Manga so expensive now, inflation 😭
 

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Is there even anything NOT on decline? Most, maybe all, entertainment industries already peaked. Box office, TV ratings, e-sports, gaming sales, even social media is declining. There are so many options and not enough time or money, it seems obvious to expect a decline for everything, including manga sales. Not a big deal anyway, it'll be fine.
 

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Is there even anything NOT on decline? Most, maybe all, entertainment industries already peaked. Box office, TV ratings, e-sports, gaming sales, even social media is declining. There are so many options and not enough time or money, it seems obvious to expect a decline for everything, including manga sales. Not a big deal anyway, it'll be fine.
Box office revenue is up for the winners, the big movies are making more money than ever by selling less tickets cause inflation. Ne zha 2 was huge, Spider-Man broke records.

Yes not enough time, too many jump series a year on top of like 4-6 new jump+ series a month, still?
 

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Is there even anything NOT on decline? Most, maybe all, entertainment industries already peaked. Box office, TV ratings, e-sports, gaming sales, even social media is declining. There are so many options and not enough time or money, it seems obvious to expect a decline for everything, including manga sales. Not a big deal anyway, it'll be fine.
Gambling I guess at least in the US. Not sure if that counts as an entertainment industry but that feels like all the rage nowadays. If not, then traditional sports. That’s still going strong although feeding off the former as well
 

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Box office revenue is up for the winners, the big movies are making more money than ever by selling less tickets cause inflation. Ne zha 2 was huge, Spider-Man broke records.
I'm talking more about general industry numbers. Aren't total numbers down in comparison to pre-Covid? I know they had a rebound these last few years, but there's also inflation to consider there. In fact, this is an interesting point to bring, but as manga won't grow in total sales numbers as much as before, maybe special editions with higher prices might become more common. Some series like Shangri-la Frontier already do it. A bit similar to how western comics profit more out of a single customer by selling a billion variants.

Yes not enough time, too many jump series a year on top of like 4-6 new jump+ series a month, still?
And that's if you just stay with Jump. There are too many good series in every magazine and I still feel like I'm missing out...

Gambling I guess at least in the US. Not sure if that counts as an entertainment industry but that feels like all the rage nowadays. If not, then traditional sports. That’s still going strong although feeding off the former as well
Aren't TV ratings and attendance down for most sports? I wouldn't count gambling as entertainment. It for sure got bigger, but I think the reason is more because it's easier to prey on people during economically difficult times.
 

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i've seen enough. Please serialise apollo.

MC and Rival reminds me of Hikaru and Akira. They look the same and they have similar dynamics.

If i have to make a comparison to other series, it feels like Gundam Build crossed with MHA / Hikaru no go, atleast in terms of character dynamics.

And unlike his other oneshots, the ending is very open.
 
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Aren't TV ratings and attendance down for most sports? I wouldn't count gambling as entertainment. It for sure got bigger, but I think the reason is more because it's easier to prey on people during economically difficult times.

NBA is up, NFL is stable, MLB playoff seem good.

TV rating are down across the board though.
 

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NBA is up, NFL is stable, MLB playoff seem good.

TV rating are down across the board though.
Bad year for ohtani, no wonder no baseball manga in jump survived 😭 2027 please be better
 

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Is there even anything NOT on decline? Most, maybe all, entertainment industries already peaked. Box office, TV ratings, e-sports, gaming sales, even social media is declining. There are so many options and not enough time or money, it seems obvious to expect a decline for everything, including manga sales. Not a big deal anyway, it'll be fine.
Not really disagreeing with you but Box office is pretty far from being in decline right now, it's been a fantastic year with record breaking movies and still has Doomsday to open lol
 

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Not really disagreeing with you but Box office is pretty far from being in decline right now, it's been a fantastic year with record breaking movies and still has Doomsday to open lol
You should have seen China’s box office earlier this week after their full generative AI movie made only over $200k USD.
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I know that it isn’t very Jump related but that last comment.
 

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i've seen enough. Please serialise apollo.

MC and Rival reminds me of Hikaru and Akira. They look the same and they have similar dynamics.

If i have to make a comparison to other series, it feels like Gundam Build crossed with MHA / Hikaru no go, atleast in terms of character dynamics.

And unlike his other oneshots, the ending is very open.
If anyone here has the translated one-shot, please let me know. I’m quite eager to see if Hayashi has improved his writing.

You should have seen China’s box office earlier this week after their full generative AI movie made only over $200k USD.
It couldn’t even beat that crappy but heartfelt movie made by a mother and her son. Made with a budget of like, what, 500 bucks?
 

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kyoani finds a way to make a jump x magazine crossover
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only major negative i have for apollo is that the mech you see in the lcp are just a training build of sort and the actual mechs they rode look pretty childish and boring.

MC's literally has a 1:1 buster sword.
 

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Not really disagreeing with you but Box office is pretty far from being in decline right now, it's been a fantastic year with record breaking movies and still has Doomsday to open lol
I mean ur correct? but again more movies than ever now are reaching / getting close to the 1B mark but thats cause of the crazy inflation for ticket prices and not cause the interest in the market is growing. most movies that have reached 1B in the last 2 years would not have even come close to that number if released in the last 10-20. Like the 2D Ticket today costs around (im not american but ima use dollars cause I would think the most profit comes from the USA) 14-16$, IMAX and 3D can cost up to 20-25$. Literally every ticket is now almost 2x compared to ur average ticket from 2012 lmao.
 

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Oh, right. I didn't recognize it at first. Haha I wonder how well the deal was made between KyoAni and Shueisha since KyoAni is prone to doing crossovers between their shows.
I think studio can just do that
Iirc there was Nisekoi and Bakemonogatari together in one art by Shaft
 
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