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The Summer of 2026 is also featuring a brand-new shonen anime, which is currently airing on Crunchyroll. The series has rapidly progressed and is already featuring the classic shonen hero transformation that other series take much longer to introduce. Most shonen heroes follow a formulaic structure, with one of the most common dynamics being a…

Weekly Shonen Jump’s average print circulation fell to 985K copies for the April-June window in 2026, dropping below 1 million for the first time since the 1970s, when it first achieved the 1M circulation peak. Japan Magazine Publishers Association, which tracks quarterly certified print publications, announced the latest figure on Aug 5.

D.Gray-man is considered one of the best Shonen Jump series of all time thanks to its captivating storytelling and exceptional cast of characters. Written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino, the manga debuted in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2004 but transitioned to Shueisha’s Jump Square Rise in 2018. Due to Hoshino’s poor health, the…

My Hero Academia‘s creator has returned to the pages of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine two years after its finale with a brand new Horror inspired manga. Kohei Horikoshi has been moving on from the hero series for the past couple of years as the manga officially ended its story with a few epilogue entries…

TOKYO – The average circulation of Weekly Shonen Jump fell below 1 million copies for the first time since official figures began, marking another milestone in the long-term decline of Japan’s print manga magazine market.

Weekly Shonen Jump recorded an average certified print circulation of 985,000 copies per issue from April through June 2026, according to figures published on the official website of the Japan Magazine Publishers Association.

While Shonen Jump has seen several manga series become major anime hits, not too many of these examples had finished their source material before it hit the screen. This fall, one of the only examples of a Shonen series releasing a television series following its cancellation will be released. In recent days, there was a…

The Summer 2026 anime season continues to heat up, thanks to the many amazing series currently airing on Crunchyroll, including a hot new shonen anime. There is no denying that this season offers a wide variety of anime, featuring the strangest adult anime on Netflix and one of the darkest anime of the year with…

A major shonen series in Shueisha’s Jump magazines has confirmed it will end after ten long years, and there are still no hopes of its anime coming back for a Season 2 any time soon. Shonen Jump has had quite the year as there have been a umber of major series ending their runs after…

2026 has been a big year for manga fans, especially those of Shonen Jump, as the magazine continues its trend of debuting new series while many others are either being canceled or reaching their conclusion. What makes this year especially notable, however, is that four major Shonen Jump series have already concluded, while a fifth…