WSJ - Weekly Shonen Jump

Witch Watch Opening

youtube.com/watch?v=a_NB6QkfzAM

New chapters out officially, Have fun

KGB growing broke the schizo..... again

You really gotta ask who in the Shueisha adaptation Department had a grudge against Sakadays cause going from that

youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkcjgTfLHU
to this is such a staggering leap in quality

The Elusive Samurai
Blue Box
Witch Watch
Kagurabachi
Undead Unluck (Volume extra Epilogue)

early thread

AGAIN

The Elusive Samurai
Blue Box
Witch Watch
Kagurabachi
Undead Unluck (Volume extra Epilogue)
Nue's Exorcist
Ruri Dragon
Akane Banashi

It's genuinely insane how aesthetically pleasing this is while keeping the spirit of the manga.

2chan thread
may.2chan.net/b/res/1309027365.htm

Yeah. it'd be extremely hard to top WW's opening.

WINNER

Best WSJ girl?

With Witch Watch's official anime debut

There won't be any new WSJ adaptations for the meantime

Akane/Nue/Kill Blue/Kagurabachi will be next year or so

Akane/Nue/Kill Blue/Kagurabachi will be next year or so

And we don't even know if Nue/Kill Blue are actually immune to getting axed

Witch Watch opening already at 30K likes at xitter

VGH....
Aoi in home clothes...

Man, some of these girls really are ugly. At least I can understand Roboco.

Sakamoto Days
Ichi the Witch
Super Psychic Policeman
Star of Beethoven

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi

What about Sakamoto and Blue Box's first openings in comparison?

Shinobi Undercover

Read her manga.

Lazy JK brat! Can't cooks, only eats! Need correction!

Is the guy from Jigokuraku working on any series right now ?

Syd Craft

Roboco is apparently getting a bonus extra chapter to promote the movie next week. You are going to check out the movie, right?

Roboco is going for a detective conan parody next week?

Objective: survive

it grew? I thought it finally reached its pre-anime ceiling

I haven't been keeping up with my jump series nor these threads for like 8 months. What'd I miss? What series will get axed next? What series surprised people that it's still here?

Yes I'm very excited for it. I'm EOP though so I'll have to wait a long time probably to see it with subs

It went up about 8k

[OFFICIAL POWER RANKING]

AXED ROYALE

It's just this week's toc dawg

How dare this trash live longer than Doron

growing

you mean stagnating?

It's already been soft axed, don't worry.

girls that I like (<3)

aoi

lacrima

ruri

kahoin

Opening has lots of good shots.

I haven't been keeping up with my jump series nor these threads for like 8 months. What'd I miss? What series will get axed next? What series surprised people that it's still here?

threads has gotten utter cancerous
small rundown

UU and Yoza ended

Nue and Kill Blue is still there

The act age mangaka is back with iruma mangaka with a news series ichi the witch

boy having crush on girl

this is kind of rare if you think about it
it needs to be more common

Is Shinobi gonna live ?

It's doing better than a lot of other shit in the magazine so maybe

Maybe her beanie should say good sales instead

Our ULTIMATE EXORCIST

True official power ranking

Sakamoto shilling continues despite selling worse than Blue Box and Kagurabachi

Damn Saito is shilling ichi HARD.

almost last

KGB bros...

SD in second after One Piece

With that anime adaptation

Lol

SD being that high should be a crime after its anime failed to gain any traction at all

As far jump is concerned

SAKAMOTO NAMBAH TWO

no matter its sales. They use it as OP's replacement when it's not on for the top right corner of the cover.

Why does everyone have to look so queer. Even JJK felt straighter.

author comments?

I didn't realize how entitled One Piece fans are because they were going into panic mode when they found out Ishitani was the one working on this thinking she left Toei

What the hell, these rankings are dogshit

Anons here like to say Kagurabachi or Ichi are shilled, but Sakamoto is the manga getting constantly shilled by the editorial even when it performs worse than other manga that deserve better

Sakamoto Days is the new Toriko

than other manga that deserve better

Just BB, really, and it's an action series which is jump's thing.
Not including kgb here because SD has anime so it gets priority.
Ichi, however, is getting some insane shilling so early on (despite doing worse than BB at the same point).

If they like Sakamoto so much, how did the anime end up that way.....

hey anime companies, we have this new shonen waiting to be adapted

it's extremely demanding action nonstop, characters are paper thin and the plot and villain are offensively retarded

it also sells like 100k at best

now who wants to get this super hot series!

Embers and Beethoven don't really feel like they're on axe pacing yet to me, even though Embers had that little timeskip a couple chapters ago.

Yeah no, you can explain Sakamoto's placement. Ichi is outright shilling, it's not a big hit, there's no anime, it has no seniority status, weird to see it leapfrog a bunch of other series that should be higher.

Constant generals ruined these threads

KGB puts salt in the wound. Sakamoto Days with all its shilling and its (crap) anime has been losing for weeks against a series with just 6 volumes and no anime

Frieren parody WHEN?

I don't mind it because, after all, it has an anime and is an action series. It's normal, series with anime and seniority get priority.
But is right, the push ichi is getting is just fucking shameless, same with its borderline perfect toc.

No big studio wanted it, they had to beg TMS to adapt it and give them blue box as part of the deal

HOLY KINO, KILL BLUE DID IT AGAIN!

Ichi is still selling better than all the series in the other page, I'm pretty sure

According to TMS, they really wanted it, it was meant to be their anniversary.

Just corporate speak, all their eggs were on the blue box basket, hell the next season is already announced

Not really, considering digital and all, circulation wise it's lagging behind at least TES.
It's also a less than a year old series with 2 volumes out, so it's even worse in that regard.
It's really blatant, in a bad way.

Anyway, here are the REALER rankings.

Last weeks wedding dress.

does anyone actually like midamoto mids though?

So which of you fuckers broke the kgb hating tard again? He hadn't sabotaged the chapter dump thread in a while and now he's back at posting pages out of order and even using his second trip code
Even after the dump dude's been spamming unrelated pictures. Just leave him alone, he clearly doesn't have the money to buy his meds.

... korean females?

new ruri power

its ending on like chapter 90
NOW which one shot do you want Shindo to serialize next?
For me, Sky craw has the most potential for a serialization

You clearly want to discuss him so I can't leave him alone

Chillin' out with Ruri

No, stop that. Go jerk off or something.

This opening is so much fun. Akaneschizo is on suicide watch after WW ends up being the best selling WSJ title this month.

Astro royale axed

They usually bring out the bigger manga adaptations on either Spring or Fall (yes, I'm implying where Sakamoto was placed as a lower priority)
Akane on Summer 2026
KGB on Fall 2026

on either Spring or Fall

I've never really bothered to bring it up but why are those seasons usually the ones where the more popular anime are aired?

People are outside during Summer and miserable in the Winter

And if Kill Blue and Nue somehow get their anime?

Kill Blue on Winter
Nue on Spring

Saito will save syd like he did to kill blue

Sakamoto Days

perverts get the bullet

parasites get the bullet

324900+ people get the bullet

Why are there 4 Mikeys

Shueisha's Highest Initial Print Runs from April 2024 to March 2025.

is it tell not show or he actually shows the civies killing?

Evolution of Shueisha's Highest Initial Print Runs between 2018 and 2025.

Hima-Ten

tokyo cringevengers

He showed a couple. And bank dude shoots a coworker for complaining about him shooting the gambler.

A couple of examples and then

SHOCKING NUMBER

I can't believe this series with this much soul is on track to get axed. The current state of this magazine is so depressing

GGG all over again
People just don't care about classical music

Hi

Ma

Te

Uh

"Exclamation mark"

It was boring btw, not as boring as embers but still

Apparently, Moue references CHAD Kubo's BLEACH for story structure when drawing AKINO-baNINO

I don't read either but Akane's panelling on the right is more aesthetically pleasing to read. Your eyes go right to left into a page turn and double spread.
That Bleach page goes right, left, down-right, left, down, page turn. Too slow.

also, here's your big bad guy's motivation for destroying Japan

People choose to do job, and are upset they have to do job now, and it's other people's fault they are doing the job

was black cat axed?

I mean, it's a normal motivation in movies where the former elite team is forced to do some fucked up shit and wants revenge.
Suzuki just SUCKS at execution.

This motive falls flat because they show assassin life as "Wowee cool!" instead of a miserable hell on Earth
Pic very much related

Hell even if we're just going with Jump manga, Kindergarten Wars unironically handles that really well
None of these people want to be assassins. They're all fucking miserable even if they're doing cool shit.

Borderline gag action movie tropes don't mix well with serious action movie tropes.
This is like having the terrorist team of die hard in naked gun.

Literally the whole manga has shown assassins as a very common job people choose to do with glee and have to go to a school to do
Why is he trying to change all of that now?

Japan legalises guns because assasins

I'm a threadreader for SD and KB, but isn't the plot point the same?

Yes, even nips were shitting on sakadays for copying

Prime material for edits.

It's amazing how KB did it earlier and it's EQUALLY dumb in SD.
Like, suzuki could have taken a look at the reactions and think

maybe I shouldn't go through with this

Ishitani can elevate even boring shit. Kudos.

Why does his megaphone have the Garlean flag on it?

They tricked him into killing his girlfriend.

Uzuki when he kills someone: :^)

Uzuki when he kills someone who happened to be important to him >:(

Did this dumb bitch not think all the people he killed before this had people important to them too?
Are we supposed to see him as hypocritical or are we suppose to think he has a point?

OP initial print is over 3 mil

will probably stop selling more than 1 mil first month soon

grim

This motivation seems fine?
I guess the issue is coming from the story trying to make him the villain and risking random moments of 'villain has a point but then randomly bombs a children's hospital'
In any other action movie this would be the hero
Nobody takes issue with John Wick killing countless people who have zero personal connection to him, it works because the organization is properly set up to be the villain

manga becomes super popular

you shouldn't advertise it for some reason

He's the villain, but you are meant to think it was other people driving him mad at whatever.
Sakamoto is not a well written manga, AT ALL.
No one struggles with the fact they are KILLERS, even chihiro who kills a lot bothers to have a proper internal struggle.

He's just a schizo, even the tulpa of his girlfriend he created doesn't agree with him and wants to kill him.

super popular

eh... even for you spammer it should be apparent it's

actually less popular than other veteran manga

Yep, so popular it sells way worse than BB despite the similar print at the same point in time.

I have a bad feeling about that student gender ratio in Beethoven thing because shoving more harem elements when it wasn't there for first 3 chapters is the common sign of manga failing.

Voted, see ya next week.

Someone really liked this week's chapter from the looks of it.

I didn't ever even give it a chance
it takes me a while to get over it and give a newbie a chance after I get a U19 I read

where's kimetsu, they wouldn't print over 2 million for a final volume that sold 6 million

Kind of putting the cart before the horse. It's already not doing well, adding more girls in the hope of pulling in readers is an attempt to save itself. Like Mamayuyu.

They kneecapped the print for its final volume at 3.95 million so it wouldn't take over OP's 4.05 million record... only to announce reprints before it even went on sale. It sold 5 million in a month, not counting digital.
Shueisha is petty like that.

lol

Wind breaker exists.

The FIGHT of "The Most Interesting"!

But that's super fujobait riding on TR's coattails.

That one is clearly yumebait, but you're more or less right
Kodansha wanted another cashgrab during TR's downtime

I love Yoda-kun

yumebait

Most fujobait are actually yumebait, the characters never commit to leave the options open for normal girls.
But damn it goes hard into the fujobait territory with sakura, his totally not ex bf and his totally not new bf while he acts like a blushing tsundere.
It's basically a reverse harem with a male lead.

Astro Royale is definitely getting that cover for the 50th chapter. No cap. They are saying it might get axed. I don't see it happening with how weak most of the magazine is. Astro deserves its first anniversary celebration

I hate how the characters in this always look like they're not making eye contact with anything

Fujo harem with nice animation in the adaptation.

gets completely sidelined for a newer manga, ichi

Jump is brutal with how openly it shows favor to its various mangaka

Results matter, but ichi is sidelining a ton of other stuff, right off the bat.
It's saito's only hit in his tenure so far after all I guess, but he could dial it back a bit.

I can't believe this shit will live to see 100 chapters but Magu-chan didn't.

The opening is great but Sakadays still had better animatiion in the actual show

Which Jump Spring anime are you going to follow this season?

take me back . . .

JJK isnt this season. roboco is a movie, not a show

what ever happened to faggot comments

young jump anon hasnt been seen in over a year . is he dead ?

desuarchive.org/a/thread/262967623/#262967623

not young anymore

the girl from candy flurry was so CUTE !

Is a compilation movie, and I never excluded movies

They already have a section for that bro
mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/ranking/hottest

I'm a big sucker for YOASOBI so the opening visuals being amazing is a massive bonus for me

Well they won’t end this batch

Idk he is teasing more dragon lore and other dragons out there

Sakadays does indeed have better animation than both WW and Blue Box but it has zero creative flair which pretty negates it anyway

Thank you as always.

Ishitani without One Piece is actually pretty amazing what the fuck

Group cover predictions or wishes?

Our WINNERS... might lose

Ichi already pillar tier because why the fuck not with Saito.

that can be done by chapter 90

But that will be in 5 years anyways

Apologize.

Did Sakamoto anime end?

He did greenlit Kagurabachi so I am happy for all things considered.

I'll think about.

"Katekyo Hitman Reborn!" New Anime Project is IN WORKSl! Judging from Legal Documents Filed by Shueisha

No Official Information has been revealed yet
2026 Marks the Anime's 20th Anniversary

I still think he wanted that whole batch except for mamayuyu dead (only because of the oneshot for the gfc reception).
I mean, it's a thing to serialize authors with doomed works to get more experience.

I am glad they are looking at old IPs since the new stuff is failing. Psyren maybe?

DON'T YOU FUCKING LIE TO ME

I'VE BEEN WAITING ON A NEW REBORN ANIME FOR A DECADE

Why? It was garbage, especially so towards the end.

Give a different finale to the manga and I'll be slightly interested.

i mean its probably the last arc

i really hope they're doing Shimon and Arcobaleno right out of the the bat. I don't think this generation of zoomers can't handle Daily Life arc being it's very first one before Mukuro

No one could handle that shit, it was painfully unfunny.

Ichi yellow tier
Syd still pink tier
Embers and Beethoven pink tier
ASStro pink tier
Shinobi, Kiyoshi, and Hima blue tier?
Roboco blue or whatever
everyone else still the same

Jap boomers sure survived because it was doing decently as a purely gag manga before the turn to battle genre

(me)
I meant cover theme

If it was doing so well as a gag manga it wouldn't have transitioned so hard into a battle one.
It was the most boring shit ever until the varia arc started, except for chrome, she was shit compared to mukuro.

Artland is dead so it's a new studio

Voice cast is a mystery because almost all of the important ones aren't in the seiyuu industry anymore. So recast is high. Not that I don't mind.

almost all of the important ones aren't in the seiyuu industry anymore

For real?

Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Mukuro have pretty much been inactive since the anime ended.

Hibari's seiyuu is still active since he regularly voices Ludger for Tales. I think Chrome's VA has an illness that prevented her from working. Lambo is Naruto, nuff said. I think Ryohei also stopped voice acting too.

Recast is pretty much written in their faces. KHR seiyuus are a weird bunch of mainly amateur seiyuus that didn't branch out to other shows

A theme that gets Chihiro out of that damn coat

I really hope this is actually going somewhere. Wasn't there a similar tweet in 2022 about a KHR remake that went nowhere?

Jump's new projects fail to bring in the fujos

They have to bust out their OG Fujo magnet

I see

I feel like that might've been referring to Amano's detective manga

their OG Fujo magnet

PoT is still running.
KHR wishes it was on that level.

I think it will just be an adaptation merely just to finish the last two arcs. Shaman King did not get the high class remake unlike with HxH

KHR's anime was dangerously close to the current manga whenever it aired. It was practically a miracle the Future Arc got finished

Has Nue FUCKING lost yet?

I mean

The anime had to do two filler arcs.
Funny enough, they were about the Arcobaleno and dealing with Daemon Spade.

I've watched reborn anime and it's SO bad and SO boring
Hopefully this one will be a lot better

It seems to be going to it's final arc as we speak

I remember so many people were hyped about the Shaman King remake but then they looked at the studio and realized it was never going to be HxH level

Kiyoshi

Will Uzaki be okay with her injury?

Jump remakes are mostly there to finish whatever manga content they haven't finished on their original run but it's never gonna generate the same buzz as they used to before. See Ruroni Kenshin

SK remake was okay but it always looked so cheap compared to the original anime

What's the point of making anime remakes of old manga? How does it generate any money? Do they actually sell volumes of old manga this way? Or do they sell lotsof merch?

It also had no

REVIVE A SOUL

KIMI NI TODOKE NORTHERN LIGHTS

No banger music either. It was just kinda there merely to finish what the first anime couldn't.

You should be surprised how well Slam Dunk when the CGI movie came out

youtube.com/watch?v=bGZOtOtyvMY

come back when?

Yeah but it's a movie
For an anime readaptation I don't know how they're selling their stuff

The One Piece

Takei fucked up hard; he rejected the offer from Mappa because he wanted the VAs, but the VAs were going to be expensive as fuck because the original show had semi-retired legend VAs that only do legacy voices (Megumi Hayashibara, Minami Takayama) or legends like Nana Mizuki or Yui Horie).

Another Unaxable day passed for Nue

I thought Takei didn't want a remake of SK how did he eventually change his mind?

it might end in february 2029 i think

Lambo is the only expensive one out of the Reborn VAs but it's Lambo though.
A full recast is the easier choice if they can't get the og cast back.

I still can't believe my favorite Tales character has the same voice as the one KHR character I hated the most. Legit can't understand what people find in Hibari.

hot

cool

strong

Ludger?

He's hot
He's cool
He's OP
But also he's surprisingly kind which makes the girls wet their panties. It helps that he has no depth so his fans can always dream anything they want out of him

He was the ideal fangirl fucktoy. We're talking about a dude that still managed to rank in last year's Yume rankings at a relatively high place

cool, hot, stoic and strong black haired boy that girls love

You know. There's someone in the current WSJ lineup that fits this bill perfectly

Wink wink

in so much danger that we need to count the days it's still alive

My heart goes out for you bro

He's kinda like a Bakugo in a sense.
No depth and is mostly detached from the plot but girls love him so much that he will be the only character they care about

It can't be axed thanks to AJ

zero boost from the award

It can perfectly get axed, a loud minority isn't a real audience.

Nue. I'm not joking.

Editor’s Comment for Nue's Exorcist – Anime Japan 2025 “Manga We Want to See Animated” Winner:

Yusuke Asai (Editor):

"From here on out, we’ll keep making it even more exciting!"

Yu Saito (Editor-in-Chief):

"Romance and battles will continue to unfold from here on!"

Kawae:

“I am honored to be selected! I will continue drawing my manga with full dedication to repay everyone who voted for me!”

It's the new immortal series of WSJ give up

just some corporate speech

zero WE'LL MAKE IT INTO AN ANIME! after winning a make it an anime award

They should axe it alongside half the magazine.

It can perfectly get axed

No

Nue fucking won

Tbh, Bakugo is an anomaly
Like imagine having a deuteragonist that actually died in his first real fight against a villain this far into the manga

HimatenGODS, how are we feeling? look like we can keep existing

forced romance

boring

Yu Saito (Editor-in-Chief):

"Romance and battles will continue to unfold from here on!"

If the EIC say something like this then yeah pretty much safe

it was always romance bro

He's talking about Captain Tsubasa. That manga practically resurrected the BL community in Japan and gave birth to the shotacon subgenre.

I wonder if there will be other case of WSJ series getting transfereed to J+, i remember the cope kgbfans had when it kept getting bottom toc, they said it would get transfered to J+, i wonder if it's still possible to get a wsj transfer to j+

a loud minority isn't a real audience.

It's literally a good thing lol

When even nips started saying that it got a

only in jump's main magazine

Side text.

I don't think so, because it would be a new scapegoat for not getting axed, imagine every vet with shit sales asking a transfer in j+

Jump's new projects fail to bring in the fujos

They aren't trying. Too many of new manga emphasizes male mc's relationships with female characters without giving him strong bonds with other dudes.

Alternatively, they need another Jump magazine that has pretty much the same genre line up and "mood" as WSJ but comes out twice a month. Some slots could be used for WSJ transfers.

Which ones?
Beast Orange and Home at the Horizon?

Our

Only Ayakashi triangle, Tomatoypoo Lycopene and chainsaw man have ever made the jump to J+

Not only that but all their newest heavy hitters and best editors are on J+ already.

A bi-weekly magazine? Those pretty much no longer exist

HxH level

shit?

Latest Kiyoshi chapter was just the mangaka coping the #1 Demon fight in Demon Slayer and I'm disappointed with it desu. I thought Akari would actually do something.

thread straight strugglin right now

If Saito was honest Kiyoshi would be near the bottom

they only transfer sort of successful series, J+ it's not a landfill

the newbies would rather get 1m views on their manga first chapters than go with wsj now

it's not as if J+ doesn't have its own set of axebait, I'd argue that kagurabachi and ichi are far more popular than almost everything on J+ except spy x family and K8

Centuria once again beats every WSJ and J+ thread

the absolute state of this magazine

and ichi

far more popular than almost everything on J+ except spy x family and K8

Why are retards so desperate to throw Ichi in

cos there's no rivalry, I want ichi to thrive, also I want nue to die

So you lump it in even though it's blatantly wrong
Is the console war boogeyman living under in your bed or something?