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

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[WyldViolet]

Gondaira...? Idk maybe 3rd time will be the charm for me. If Yagi could do it with Hitoner, anything is possible.

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Also, probably a long-shot, but the police box thing makes me wonder if there might be some Doctor Who inspiration.

 

[Bundama]

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11/4
75 Drawn to the Fire 2

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10/2
146 Drawn to the Fire 1

Don't trust shoseki rank at all bruh. Don't give a shit how many fewer hot releases 11/4 had but ain't no way Drawn to the Plagiarism had a better rank with V2.

 

[monstera11]

A quick check of livechart gives me

Anime confirmed for 2027

Mashle s3 (Winter)
Sakamoto Days s2 (Winter)
The One Piece (Winter)
Akane-Banashi s2 (Winter)
Kagurabachi (Spring)
Nue's Exorcist (Summer)
New KochiKame anime (unknown besides 2027)

Unknown but could be in 2027

Jujutsu Kaisen s4
Chainsawman s2
Naruto x Ninku
Ruri Dragon
Witch Watch s2
Undead Unluck s2
Kill Blue s2
World Trigger REBOOT, whatever it is
and some kind of specials for Dr Stone and Haikyuu

There's also more DB Super and Kinnikuman coming but their content is sequels not run in WSJ.

It throw me off whenever they said "winter" because it could mean Jan-Feb 2027, OR DEC 2027

 

[Wookitake]

Regarding those new mangas,

1) I did not read High School Family and I guess the author's style does not suit me
2) I did not read Yozakura Family, however, I'm intrigued by Gondaira returning so soon. I'll definitely read it. The name of the series sucks, though. Let's see how they translate it. Maybe leave it just as 'Ginza's Street Police Box'? GSPB for short.
3) Looks like a mix of Blue Box (racket sport) and Someone Hertz (quirky female mc + timid male mc). I'm a spokon fan, so I'll read it too.

 

[Shonenfan]

These are all really cool color pages. I like Shishikabane best followed by Kiyoshi, Akane, and Roboco.
This is very true and I agree with it. We have gotten many battle series that have just failed to gain any traction.
-The Mage Next Door - Had a lot of promise but never lived up to it's potential (imo)
-Gonron Egg - Another failed battle series in a fantasy setting. Could have been really cool but the author never found their footing.
-Kaedegami - A lot of potential but a lack of world building and weak character writing sunk this series.
-Kinato's Magic - Probably my second favorite of the failed battle series. The character work was really good imo, magic system being developed, and the world was interesting but never had time to be developed.
-Alien Headbutt - This manga he potential but quickly squandered it. The characters we not written well at all and what people felt was the best part of the series was introduced too late to save it.
-Otr the Flames - Probably the best failed battle series to grace the pages of Jump recently. I really enjoy this author's work it's too bad the fans couldn't get behind it.
-Cannon Master - Amazing art and fight choreography, we just need better character writing. The world building would handle itself if the character writing were better imo. This manga is all about the visual storytelling, which is likely its gift and its curse.
Not even close, it is actually sad that there are many panels from this manga that are much worse than this.
To me it's cringe and he hasn't been showing this character in the more recent chapters he was in. Almost like the author forgot that Chihiro wakes up with fresh hate. Would be cooler if the author played with it more instead of it being a one-off thing.

Most of the reasons the series fail is the story in the first few chapters doesn’t say anything interesting with its theme, it’s not exciting, and it doesn’t make you feel some emotion. Read the first few chapters of the axed series I mentioned and then compare them to Ura Report and Greykeith. The axed series are just formulaic go to point A and fight bad guy and then repeats the same basic theme each time. Compare that to Greykeith who tells a nice sweet story about why translations and communication are important and repeats that theme in a similar but different way each time. Ura report has the benefits of showing off Numa’s humor, but shows not to judge a book by its cover etc. it’s the same theme but repackaged different enough each time. If you have good art, hot girls, or extremely funny then you can get by on your stories or themes not making the reader feel an emotion/ lacking saying something with your them/ being exciting, but it only takes you so far.

Mage failed because it just wasn’t exciting. It had a very relaxed vibe but that won’t capture Jump readers

Gonron failed because the MC’s design is awful, the art was too scratchy, and the individual stories for each chapter in the first volume don’t grab you or say anything. It’s just MC went here, sees bad guy, fights bad guy.

Kadegami’s failure is a because the battles and choreography were not remarkable. I think the Chinese setting didn’t help and it just didn’t say anything in its individual chapters. It wasn’t exciting.

Kinato did not fail; the audience rejected it due to genre type that they didn’t feel belonged in Jump and the genre fans didn’t want it in Jump. Shinuki discussed this.


AH was fun to the west but JP didn’t like anything about it. Like everything was rejected about it.

Cannon Master failed because Ur was annoying to JP and I honestly don’t think the setting is appealing to Japan. I think a lot of mangaka make a mistake of making the first villains we see just a belligerent brutes, which makes it hard to see what’s interesting. I think it also faltered at those indices stories because people hated Ur

Otr failed because the MC design was unpopular and he put himself in the same trap of settling down and doing a training arc on chapter 4. Again, if after the first few chapters he want with the dwarf arc then it could have succeeded. I also don’t think Vikings as a main setting is too popular in JP. You can do an arc there like Elbaf or you can do a seinen, but in WSJ I think you need to be nails in all other categories to do something outside of JP or pure fantasy world.

Basically, to break it down: is the series exciting? If not, does it at least illicit some sort of emotion that makes you want to keep with it? To do that, it needs good themes that don’t feel like a repeat each time you do a chapter. It needs good art and choreography. It needs to be structured with interesting elements (power system, world, character writing etc.)

 

[Lord Anubis]

True, but giving Gondaira had a successful series alongside Nakama I thought it would be smart to have a new face, in this case only Shinobu is new.
Maybe, its just that this year was really veteran heavy, so I was a bit annoyed thinking that saito is just playing too safe by having four back to back veteran heavy batches. Sometimes you need fresh new faces to deliver something new is what I think. No offense.

I hope next year is not as heavy with veterans and focus more on giving the limelight to the newcomers, is all I would want. Don't you agree?

Also Shinobu is, or in this case, was an assistant for the series black clover. So make do with that as you will.

Same, these batches have been infuriating me a lot for precisely those reasons

 

[Nuesmoker]

Shoseki Top 500 (November 5)
3. Sakamoto Days #29
8. Nue's Exorcist #17
9. Shinobi Undercover #10
14. Roku's House of Oddities #2
25. Under Doctor #3
94. Cannon Master #1
212. Drawn to the Fire #2

Also:

299. Roku's House of Oddities #1

 

[JBC008]

Shoseki Top 500 (November 4)
3. Sakamoto Days #29
8. Nue's Exorcist #17
9. Shinobi Undercover #10
14. Roku's House of Oddities #2
25. Under Doctor #3
94. Cannon Master #1
212. Drawn to the Fire #2

It shows that Roku is a hit and Under Doctor was no fluke and bounced back.

 

[cameronney618]

bounced back.

This is likely going to be worst than vol 2. There is no "bouncing back" here aside from the fact that jump can't produce a battle shonen that sells more than 10+k since ichi.

 

[JBC008]

This is likely going to be worst than vol 2. There is no "bouncing back" here aside from the fact that jump can't produce a battle shonen that sells more than 10+k since ichi.

Well, I’m trying to look at the glass half full.

 

[kiyoshibro]

Well, I’m trying to look at the glass half full.

Which is something nobody does here, so it’s really admirable

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I’m waiting for the first official sales figures, since it’s only the second day
I’ll also add that: to me, UNDER DOCTOR feels like a series that sells steadily over the long term: there are still people buying Volume 1... So if it “only” sells 8k in the first month but then gets two reprints later, that’s fine.

(It’s wild that, in 2026, a series is judged only on its first-month sales. “This series will only survive if it sells 10k in the first month” What about the other months? What if a series can hold its own across several months?)

 

[RealityChecker]

Shoseki Top 500 (November 4)
3. Sakamoto Days #29
8. Nue's Exorcist #17
9. Shinobi Undercover #10
14. Roku's House of Oddities #2
25. Under Doctor #3
94. Cannon Master #1
212. Drawn to the Fire #2

Roku Volume 1 is at 299.

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We will have to wait, but I don't think Under Doctor is gonna do well in sales as it did in volume 2. But I don't think it is at risk for now.

 

[Stivie]

This is likely going to be worst than vol 2. There is no "bouncing back" here aside from the fact that jump can't produce a battle shonen that sells more than 10+k since ichi.

You say that, but nobody mentions the fact that Animal Signal is in a safe position and only selling 5,000 copies. Also, many here are in favor of Kiyoshi staying on the magazine. Under Doctor is recovering, and if you accept Kiyoshi staying on Animal Signal, you don't have to accept Under Doctor.

 

[RealityChecker]

You say that, but nobody mentions the fact that Animal Signal is in a safe position and only selling 5,000 copies. Also, many here are in favor of Kiyoshi staying on the magazine. Under Doctor is recovering, and if you accept Kiyoshi staying on Animal Signal, you don't have to accept Under Doctor.

Both Under Doctor and Animal Signal are going to be axed.

 

[Kiaida]

You say that, but nobody mentions the fact that Animal Signal is in a safe position and only selling 5,000 copies. Also, many here are in favor of Kiyoshi staying on the magazine. Under Doctor is recovering, and if you accept Kiyoshi staying on Animal Signal, you don't have to accept Under Doctor.

"You accept"

You realize people here don't decide what stays on the magazine or not, right? It's not a Jump Council, just a discussion forum. Both Animal Signal and Hal Formula are staying because they only needed to cancel a single manga and Cannon Master did worse than them. No one here will be surprised if they are axed in the next batch, doesn't mean people have to start disliking Animal Signal or Hal Formula if they enjoy reading them.

And I don't even know why you keep bringing up Kiyoshi. It decisively sells more than Under Doctor, Animal Signal, Hal Formula and Cannon Master. The only two new series in 2025 and 2026 that regularly sell more than it are Someone Hertz and Roku, there have been more natural endings of hit series than new manga able to sell more than Kiyoshi's 10k. I guess you could add Class 2-b to that, but there's a high chance it'll decline in the 2nd volume.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

How is a volume on top 20 on the 2nd day being discussed as “it will be cancelled”

 

[RealityChecker]

How is a volume on top 20 on the 2nd day being discussed as “it will be cancelled”

I don't think Under Doctor is on top 20 on its 2nd Day.

 

[Stivie]

"You accept"

You realize people here don't decide what stays on the magazine or not, right? It's not a Jump Council, just a discussion forum. Both Animal Signal and Hal Formula are staying because they only needed to cancel a single manga and Cannon Master did worse than them. No one here will be surprised if they are axed in the next batch, doesn't mean people have to start disliking Animal Signal or Hal Formula if they enjoy reading them.

And I don't even know why you keep bringing up Kiyoshi. It decisively sells more than Under Doctor, Animal Signal, Hal Formula and Cannon Master. The only two new series in 2025 and 2026 that regularly sell more than it are Someone Hertz and Roku, there have been more natural endings of hit series than new manga able to sell more than Kiyoshi's 10k. I guess you could add Class 2-b to that, but there's a high chance it'll decline in the 2nd volume.

Under Doctor sold 20k copies in its first volume and dropped 12k in its second volume. I don't know how much it will do in the third volume, but it seems to be recovering, so I believe it will do more than the second volume, at least. So it's not like Under Doctor sells less than Kiyoshi, it's more like they're on the same level. But Kiyoshi never surpassed 20k.

 

[monstera11]

Damn, each card worth at least 3000 dollars??

Man stopped at Changi Airport with S$400,000 worth of One Piece trading cards

The 31-year-old declared that he had two trading cards, but ICA officers found 105 cards in his luggage.

www.channelnewsasia.com

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Animal Signal has ranked decently so far, it has yet to rank in the bottom 3, so i really don't know why anyone would think the manga is in any danger right now lol

Ch1: Cover & Lead Color Pages
Ch2: Color Page
Ch3: 5th
Ch4: 8th
Ch5: 7th
Ch6: 6th
Ch7: 11th
Ch8: 11th
Ch9: 11th
Ch10: 8th
Ch11: 12th
Ch12: Color Page
Ch13: 8th
Ch14: 9th
Ch15: 12th (Bottom 5)
Ch16: Color Page
Ch17: 12th (Bottom 5)
Ch18: 13th (Bottom 4)
Ch19: 7th
Ch20: 11th
Ch21: 12th (Bottom 5)