Weekly Shonen Jump’s average print circulation fell below one million copies for the first time since audited figures began. Data from the Japan Magazine Publishers Association shows that Shueisha’s flagship manga magazine averaged 985,000 printed copies between April and June 2026.


The figure marks a major change from the magazine’s 1990s peak. Weekly Shonen Jump reached a record circulation of 6.53 million copies with its combined New Year issue released in December 1994, during an era that included major serializations such as Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk. It nevertheless remains Japan’s highest-circulation weekly manga magazine, ahead of Weekly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday.


The decline reflects a broader contraction in Japan’s print-publishing market as more readers move toward digital platforms. Print circulation alone does not measure Weekly Shonen Jump’s full readership or international reach, but falling below one million represents a symbolic milestone for one of manga publishing’s most influential magazines.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 will continue with “The Recapture Arc” on August 12. Beginning with Episode 12, the eight-episode storyline follows the 11-part “Loss Arc,” which premiered on April 8 and concluded the first portion of the season.


A newly released trailer previews Subaru and his allies as they attempt to recover what was taken from them during the previous arc. The footage points toward another difficult stage of their journey through the Pleiades Watchtower, with the group still confronting lost memories, fractured relationships and the threats surrounding the tower.


Crunchyroll streams Season 4 in North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, India and Southeast Asia. The platform has not separately detailed whether every language option offered during “The Loss Arc” will continue when Episode 12 arrives.

Watch the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RqqQuy7pgo

Kaiju No. 8: Narumi’s Week at Work will premiere on September 5 as a four-episode original short anime. New episodes will arrive weekly on Saturdays, with the Japanese release scheduled for 8:00 p.m. JST through the TOHO animation YouTube channel and other services.


Crunchyroll says it will stream the series across North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East and CIS. That broad distribution gives international viewers additional Kaiju No. 8 content following the anime’s first two television seasons, although exact regional release times have not been announced.


The short centers on First Division captain Gen Narumi and offers a look at his life away from the main series’ larger battles. Its story draft is credited to Kizuku Watanabe, creator of the comedy spinoff manga Kaiju No. 8 Relax, and a promotional trailer has been released ahead of the premiere.

MAPPA will celebrate its 15th anniversary with an exhibition featuring production materials and large-scale installations from 23 of the studio’s works. MAPPA EXPO 15th Anniversary will run at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM in Tokyo from September 16 through December 7, with some displays changing between the exhibition’s first and second periods.


The Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc area will present key animation drawings and the first public display of a life-size Bomb Devil figure. Attack on Titan The Final Season will be represented by production materials from its concluding chapters, original watercolor background art from the final hill scene, and an installation combining sculptures and projected imagery to recreate the Rumbling.


The JUJUTSU KAISEN displays will change during the event, beginning with Season 1 and JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 before shifting to the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death and Shibuya Incident arcs, as well as Season 3’s Culling Game Part 1. A separate Yuji Itadori: Circling Memories installation will combine a train carriage, battle footage, and a life-size figure of Yuji. MAPPA plans to take the exhibition to additional Japanese cities after the Tokyo engagement.

Garena has announced Palworld Online, an officially licensed mobile MMORPG based on Pocketpair’s Palworld, for release in 2026. Garena will develop and publish the game while working with Pocketpair, adapting the original title’s open-world exploration, creature collection, survival crafting and base-building systems for a shared online world.


Players will be able to capture and raise Pals, establish shared settlements and automate production by assigning creatures to different tasks. The game will support cooperative activities such as boss encounters and exploration, alongside competitive PvP modes, while introducing a new setting, original story material and side stories created specifically for this version.


Palworld Online will use a touch-friendly interface with optional one-tap controls for construction, relocation and Pal management. Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe said Garena’s experience with global publishing, localization and live mobile operations will help bring the licensed adaptation to players worldwide, although an exact launch date and detailed regional plans have not yet been announced.