Issue 33 of Weekly Shonen Jump 2026, Shueisha’s weekly manga anthology which premiered the likes of Dragon Ball, Hunter x Hunter, and Bleach, is reportedly selling out across bookstores and shops in Japan after being targeted by scalpers.
However, for once we can’t blame Logan Paul, as the scalpers aren’t actually interested in the issue of Weekly Shonen Jump itself. As reported by Oricon, resellers are targeting issue 33 of Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 as it contains a “29th Anniversary Edition” promo card for the One Piece Trading Card Game.
Several reports of people posting literal car trunkloads of Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 issue 33 have been circulating online, with resellers reportedly asking for upwards of $60 on second-hand sites. For context, an issue of Weekly Shonen Jump retails for roughly 300 yen in Japan, which is equivalent to around $2.
本日発売の週刊少年ジャンプ33号。
連載29周年記念ONE PIECEカードが付属ということもあり、
転売ヤーに買い占められているみたい。普段からジャンプを読んでいる人が
普段は読まない転売ヤーのせいで買えなくなるなんて、
あまりにも理不尽だ。 pic.twitter.com/t0YrfCNPCc— ゆるパンダ (@yurupanda2019) July 13, 2026
Worse still, issue 33 of Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 features several chapter premieres of long-running series, including Hunter x Hunter chapter 413, Sakamoto Days chapter 267, and even One Piece chapter 1188.
Fans of the series sports romance series Blue Box are the most offended by the scalping issue, though, as issue 33 features chapter 250 of the manga—the final chapter in Kouji Miura’s long-running manga, which was first serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump back in 2021.
The dumbest part of this entire situation is that the 29th Anniversary Edition One Piece Trading Card Game promo card can be bought separately, as pre-orders for a collection of the set, which includes four non-foil and four foil versions of the same card, opened on Bandai Namco’s website on July 5.
Oricon also reports that secondhand stores in Japan are only purchasing single copies of the card for a maximum of 1,000 yen, which is roughly equivalent to $6. That means, if the scalpers can’t find a better offer, that going through all this effort to resell the card would only net them $4 in profit. Seems like a hell of a lot of effort for such a small gain, especially when it ends up depriving readers who are actually interested in the contents of Weekly Shonen Jump’s pages.
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