Shueisha is mid-run on a wide publishing slate, with Shonen Jump+ titles continuing under an unnamed new editorial structure after the end of its Mix Green outsourcing contract, and Shueisha Games has pushed two titles into 2027 while announcing an Xbox release for Chronoscript: The Endless End.
Shueisha's recent months were shaped by contract changes and health-related schedule breaks. On September 30 the company said its outsourcing arrangement with editor Shihei Lin and Mix Green Inc. had ended as of July 31; the works Lin oversaw, including Chainsaw Man, SPY x FAMILY and Dandadan, continue on Shonen Jump+ under a new structure, with no replacement named. Chained Soldier went on hiatus over artist Yohei Takemura's wrist injury, with a November 14 return listed and recovery as the priority, while Kagurabachi chapter 132 was pulled from the September 14 issue and then rescheduled for issue 44 on September 28 after Takeru Hokazono's recovery.
On the app and magazine side, MANGA Plus kept adding titles, including Digimon Eggs as a simulpub on October 2 alongside its Saikyo Jump launch, and Hidari Yokoyama's Ayaru's Brush with Romance under a simultaneous English release. HUNTER×HUNTER closed a 10-chapter batch with chapter 420, with the next installment's timing to be announced in the magazine; Yoshihiro Togashi said manuscripts through chapter 427 are complete. Sankaku Head's Umaru-chan 100 started on Young Jump+ on October 1, and Manga Mee opened a permanent submission window on Nola from September 1.
Shueisha Games moved its announced slate toward release, with four playable titles at gamescom 2026 and a Tokyo Game Show booth. Chronoscript: The Endless End, from DeskWorks, slipped to early summer 2027 and added Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Play Anywhere to the already announced PS5 and Steam versions. UN:Me, developed by Historia, moved to 2027 with motion capture built around Yumiri Hanamori's four-soul performance, and Jujutsu Kaisen RUMBLE: SURVIVATON, developed by poncle, is set for 2027. Hoshin Engi Re:surrection from LASTWONDER is planned for 2027 on Switch 2, PS5 and Steam.
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Shonen Jump+ is offering 52 chapters of Kentaro Yabuki's Black Cat for free until November 5. The action manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2000 to 2004, following Train Heartnet, an assassin known as Black Cat who leaves the organization Chronos and works as a sweeper with his partner Sven until a figure from his past reappears. Yabuki said on X that he began preparing the series in his late teens and serialized it from age 20.
Shueisha Games has released a trial version of The Season of Books and Keys, a PC adventure game built on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. The trial covers Chapter 1, "913," in which library committee members Jiro Horikawa and Shimon Matsukura take on a safe left behind by their deceased grandfather. iMel handles development, with mystery design by Nozomu Unabara of Liar-soft. The full version is scheduled for this winter, price undecided.
Shueisha Games pushed Chronoscript: The Endless End from 2026 to early summer 2027, adding Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC to the previously announced Steam and PS5 versions. The Steam demo holds an 85% positive rating across roughly 90 reviews. Producer Masami Yamamoto and Deskworks director Tom Fujii say user feedback led to changes in dodge invincibility timing, input buffering, and how the story is delivered.
Shueisha Games announced on October 21, 2026 that Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Play Anywhere are now supported platforms for Chronoscript: The Endless End. The exploration-style action adventure comes from developer DeskWorks and is scheduled for release in early summer 2027. The Xbox version was announced during the ID@XBOX x IGN October Showcase 2026, which aired at 2:00 JST, alongside an Xbox announcement trailer. The game casts the player as an editor trapped inside a manuscript, working through a story of an end that has run for 1,000 years across a 2D manuscript-paper space and a 3D Western-style mansion. It is already listed for PC and PlayStation 5, and the new Xbox listing adds a further set of Microsoft platforms. The supported languages span Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. A demo is available on Steam.
Shueisha Games released a Steam demo for the adventure game Hon to Kagi no Kisetsu on October 20, 2026, the opening day of Steam Next Fest. The demo contains all of Chapter 1, titled "913." Developer iMel is handling the game, which is planned for release this winter on Nintendo Switch and Steam. Hon to Kagi no Kisetsu adapts Honobu Yonezawa's novel of the same name, published by Shueisha Bunko. It follows Jiro Horikawa and Shimon Matsukura, two high school boys on the library committee who take on mysteries that arrive in their ordinary lives. In Chapter 1, senior student Mari Uragami asks the pair to open an "unopenable safe" left behind by her late grandfather, and the grandfather's words serve as the clue. The game uses illustrations and full voice acting throughout, and in some scenes the player solves the mystery directly as Horikawa. Kazuki Ura voices Horikawa, Yuichiro Umehara voices Matsukura, and Arisa Sakuraba voices Uragami.
Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump editorial department is running an all-applicant offer for the "ONE PIECE Card Game" Premium Card Collection Nike Collaboration Edition. The set includes Don!! Cards based on shoes modeled after the Gomu Gomu no Mi, Mera Mera no Mi, and Ope Ope no Mi, plus Monkey D. Luffy cards. The full complete set is 34 cards. Only digital edition subscribers via Jump+ and Zebrack can apply, with the application period running until October 18 at 11:58 PM.
Shueisha's MANGA MILLION platform has added Hiromasa Okujima's manga Together with Serial-san, which the service describes as a comedy about a college student who lets a wanted serial killer move in under his identity. The manga debuted in Shueisha's Grand Jump Mucha magazine on February 25. Okujima also created Baban Baban Ban Vampire, which ran in Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shonen Champion from October 2021 and inspired a Netflix anime and a live-action film.
Shueisha's Jump J-Books imprint announced that Love Through a Prism, the original anime from Boys Over Flowers creator Yoko Kamio, is getting a two-volume novel adaptation. Both volumes ship on December 4 with newly drawn cover art. The first is subtitled The Day London's Sky Was Blue, the second Destiny is Beyond the Canvas. The anime, directed by Kazuto Nakazawa at Wit Studio, debuted on Netflix on January 15.
Shonen Jump+ announced on Saturday that Chained Soldier, the manga by writer Takahiro and artist Yohei Takemura, is going on hiatus because of Takemura's health. Takemura said he injured his right wrist in June, with damage to the fibrocartilage, and that drawing in a brace has slowed his recovery. Shonen Jump+ lists a November 14 return, with Takemura's recovery as the priority.
Shueisha will terminate its contract with Walt Disney Japan for comics adaptations of Marvel characters as of September 30, 2026. Distribution stops sequentially on each e-book site between September 28 and 30, and physical sales end as well. Already purchased items stay viewable. Deadpool: Samurai and SECRET REVERSE, handled by Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi, are among the works affected.
The Digimon franchise announced on Tuesday that Shueisha's MANGA Plus platform will add Ayumu Minato's Digimon Eggs manga as a simulpub title on October 2. The series launches in Shueisha's Saikyo Jump magazine the same day, with Simplified Chinese and Korean versions on the Digimon Web website. A new anime project is planned for next year.
Sankaku Head announced in a Saturday livestream on Niconico that Umaru-chan 100, a new series in the Himouto! Umaru-chan manga, will start on Shueisha's Young Jump+ platform on October 1. The original manga ran in Weekly Young Jump from 2013 to 2017 and inspired a 12-episode television anime in July 2015, plus a second season, Himouto! Umaru-chan R, in October 2017.
MANGA Plus added four titles between late August and early September: KAKAKAKA by Mukade Makino, The Ura Files by Shun Numa and Yushin Kuroki, Noisering by Kanya Aki and Tsubasa, and Morino-san Just Won't Leave Me Be by Barako. The Ura Files launched simultaneously in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump and on MANGA Plus on August 31. KAKAKAKA is set in 17th-century Ming China; Noisering follows a sonarman after the Great Shizuoka Earthquake.
The short story collection To Love Ru -Trouble- Short Story Collection Parade went on sale on October 2. It gathers one-shot stories from the To Love Ru series, including one in which Rito Yuki splits into multiple copies every time he sneezes because of an invention by Lala. Kentaro Yabuki, who draws the manga with scripts by Saki Hasemi, promoted the release on his official X account. The volume costs 616 yen in the Jump Comics DIGITAL line. Separately, all chapters of To Love Ru -Trouble- Darkness were free to read in the browser version of Shonen Jump+ until 4:59 a.m. on October 3. COMIC ZIN, which received many inquiries, set a limit of one copy per person at the in-store register for the new book's release day. The store said repeat purchases by the same customer are prohibited and it may ask suspicious customers to leave.
Shueisha Games will release UN:Me, a soul triage adventure for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC, in 2027 at an undecided price. The game follows a girl carrying four souls, labeled I through IV, each claiming to be the body's true owner. Players explore her unstable inner world, gather clues, talk with each soul, then erase souls one by one and choose who remains. Historia, the studio behind the Caligula series, handles planning and development. Yumiri Hanamori voices all four souls, a role that led the team to record each soul on separate days rather than switch between them in one session. Producer Taiichi Kawai, planner and scenario writer Takuya Yamanaka, and director Shun Sasaki discussed the project at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The team also pushed the release from an earlier date to 2027 and added motion capture after Hanamori's performance.
Shueisha announced on September 30 that its outsourcing contract with editor Shihei Lin and with Mix Green Inc., the company where Lin is representative, ended as of July 31. The arrangement covered editorial operations for titles on the Shonen Jump+ app. Lin has worked as an editor on Chainsaw Man, SPY x FAMILY, and Dandadan. According to the announcement, the works he oversaw will continue serialization on Shonen Jump+ under a new structure. Shueisha did not name a replacement editor or give a reason for the end of the contract. The three titles named in the cluster are among the platform's best known. Shonen Jump+ is Shueisha's manga app and web platform. The announcement addresses only the outsourcing arrangement, not the status of any individual series. No date was given for when the new editorial structure takes effect beyond the July 31 end of the contract.
In an interview published on Shueisha's Manga Million app, Tokyo Ghoul author Sui Ishida described working overnight five to six days a week, twelve to thirteen hours a day, then meeting staff at ten in the morning for storyboarding sessions of thirty minutes to an hour. He said he does not recall which days he worked, and that he asked a friend and his older sister for help with the manga's ending.
Shueisha Games will release Jujutsu Kaisen RUMBLE: SURVIVATON in 2027 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, with a price still to be determined. The publisher and developer poncle, the team behind Vampire Survivors, showed the game to press ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs at Makuhari Messe from September 17 to 21. The build is planned for the Shueisha Games booth there. Matches take up to eight players, who control Jujutsu Kaisen characters, defeat waves of cursed spirits in a 15-minute time limit, and collect points. Cursed techniques fire automatically while movement stays manual. Points buy rule changes or interference against rivals, an idea drawn from the Culling Game arc. After 15 minutes the top two scorers enter a one-on-one final duel, where the special move gauge turns into a guard gauge. The full roster is planned to have more than 20 characters; the playtest offered nine, among them Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Satoru Gojo, Maki Zen'in, Yuta Okkotsu, Choso, Toge Inumaki, Kinji Hakari, and Kenjaku.
Shueisha Games said on September 17, 2026 that the soul triage adventure game UN:Me has slipped from 2026 to 2027, with the release date to be set later. The publisher is showing a demo at its Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth in Hall 5, 05-C10, which runs from September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe, and it is the game's first playable exhibit in Japan. Takuya Yamanaka, who worked on the Caligula series, handles planning and scenario, and Historia, which developed Caligula 2, directs and develops. The protagonist is a girl who houses four souls that each claim to own her body. Yumiri Hanamori voices her, keeping one voice across the four personalities. The delay is tied to motion capture work meant to let players read each soul through movement and facial expression during dialogue, with studio footage released alongside the announcement. Shueisha Games also detailed Soul II and Soul IV. A campaign to mark the voice cast runs through September 30, with five signed boards from Hanamori drawn by lottery.
Kagurabachi chapter 132 was pulled from Weekly Shonen Jump's combined issue 42/43, dated Sep 14, because of author Takeru Hokazono's sudden illness. The manga's X account said Hokazono has recovered and the chapter will run in issue 44 on Sep 28. It is the second health-related break this year; a June hiatus ran over a month.
Hidari Yokoyama launched a new manga, Ayaru's Brush with Romance (Ippitsu Ayaru), on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service on Sunday. Shueisha's MANGA Plus service is releasing it in English at the same time. The story follows Ayaru Kagami, a second-year high school student whose obscure first-name kanji means no one has ever called him by it, and who joins the Shodo Club after falling for Kyono Chinzei.
New York Comic Con has listed its Japanese guests and events for the 2026 convention at the Javits Center on October 8-11. Voice actor Hikaru Midorikawa appears for an ONE-PUNCH MAN panel, Shonen Jump+ editor-in-chief Yuta Momiyama and Weekly Shonen Magazine deputy editor-in-chief Yuta Hiraoka discuss MANGA Plus and K MANGA, and premieres include Shangri-La Frontier Season 3 and Dragon Ball Super: Beerus.
Takuya Yamanaka, director on the Caligula series, is working on UN:Me with developer Historia for FuRyu and Shueisha Games. In an interview, Yamanaka and Shueisha Games producer Yasuichi Kawai said the game is built without a fixed genre and aimed at unease rather than fear. UN:Me is planned for release in 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and PC via Steam, with a playable demo at Tokyo Game Show 2026.
Shueisha Games and LASTWONDER announced Hoshin Engi Re:surrection during Wednesday's Nintendo Direct. The roguelite is based on Ryu Fujisaki's Hoshin Engi manga and is planned for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Steam in 2027. It is set after the manga and follows Toshin and Chuechue, new characters drawn by Fujisaki, who use mythic weapons called Paope to explore dungeons.
Shueisha Games announced on September 8 its Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth lineup, with two playable titles at booth 05-C10 in Hall 5 of Makuhari Messe. Jujutsu Kaisen RUMBLE: SURVIVATON, developed by poncle, the studio behind Vampire Survivors, gets a world-first playtest. The mode is an online battle royale for up to eight players, who compete for points before the top two face off in a one-on-one duel for the win. The booth will carry live commentary from e-sports casters on its screens. UN:Me, developed by Historia, gets a Japan-first demo. The game is a soul triage adventure in which a girl hosts four souls and dialogue scenes search for the true owner of her body. The demo adds motion capture, which noticeably improves the girl's movement and expressions in conversation, and lets players meet three of the four souls before a major decision. A hands-on area called the Anxiety Corridor lets visitors explore a dim corridor meant to evoke the work's mental labyrinth. Novelties include poncle-designed pixel stickers, an uchiwa with MAPPA-drawn Yuji Itadori art, trauma face stickers, and a trauma instant cooling pack. Tokyo Game Show 2026 runs September 17 to 21, with public days from September 19.
HUNTER×HUNTER's latest serialized run ended with chapter 420 in Weekly Shonen Jump issue 41, released September 7. The 10-chapter batch matches the pattern set in 2024, when chapters 401 through 410 ran consecutively. The magazine said the next installment's timing will be announced in its pages once decided. Author Yoshihiro Togashi posted on X that manuscripts through chapter 427 are complete, though no publication date has been set.
indent's Nola platform opened a permanent submission window for Shueisha's Manga Mee editorial department starting September 1, 2026, recruiting original works for comic adaptation across three genres. Manga Mee has surpassed 16 million cumulative downloads, and Nola counts over 700,000 writers and over 3 million works.
Crunchyroll announced the first program details for the Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum, set for October 7, 2026, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. The invitation-only event expects more than 400 anime industry figures. Speakers include executives from Shueisha, Toho, MAPPA, and Aniplex, plus Guillermo del Toro, James Gunn, and the co-directors of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Sony Group CEO Hiroki Totoki opens the event.
LINE Manga, the digital comic service operated by LINE Digital Frontier, is running a campaign from August 24 to August 28, 2026, that makes all 30 volumes of Karuho Shiina's shojo manga Kimi ni Todoke free to read on the app. The five-day window covers the entire series, which follows Sawako Kuronuma, a high schooler ostracized for her resemblance to the horror character Sadako, as she gradually opens up through her relationship with popular classmate Shota Kazehaya. The manga ran in Bessatsu Margaret from 2006 to 2017 and has been adapted into anime, live-action film, and TV drama; cumulative copies in print exceed 36 million, according to Denfaminicogamer. Alongside the free chapters, LINE Manga is holding a two-day commemorative gacha from August 24 to August 25 that offers prizes up to 10,000 yen in manga coins, and a separate gacha running through August 28 where readers can win 99% off coupons for all volumes. A special page recommending memorable scenes is also live, and the official LINE Manga X account is running a repost campaign with the hashtag '#夏の終わりに君に届け全話無料'.
Shueisha's Grand Jump announced on August 19 that the launch of Rokudenashi Blues Gaiden: Onikazura is delayed from summer to winter and will now feature art by Yuki Yoshimoto. Boichi was originally announced as the artist. The manga is set in the early 1990s and centers on Onizuka and Kasai, two of the story's "four heavenly kings."
Shueisha Games brought four playable titles to gamescom 2026, which opened August 26 in Cologne, Germany. The lineup includes the newly titled survival craft RPG Wild Wild Eden, the soul triage adventure UN:Me, the boss battle action game BAKUDO, and the exploration action adventure Chronoscript: The Endless End. A fifth title, CONQUISTA: Tide of Wills, was covered separately. Wild Wild Eden, developed by Malaysia's Magnus Games Studio, offers open-world survival with a focus on taming nearly any monster as a mount or base helper. The game was announced in 2023 under a working title and received its official name in July 2026. UN:Me, from the creators of the Caligula series, had its worldwide first playable showing at the event. BAKUDO, developed by Taiwan's SAYIL GAMES, introduced a new high-difficulty boss and an ADV-style school segment. Chronoscript, from Desk Works of RPG Time fame, announced a public Steam demo for late August.
Shueisha Games released the demo for Chronoscript: The Endless End on Steam on August 21, 2026, alongside a new trailer. The demo lets players experience the opening of the exploration action adventure, in which the protagonist editor is trapped inside manuscript paper, up to the point of meeting a vampire who is a writer. The demo covers exploration of a field where hand-drawn 2D stages overlap with a 3D-rendered Western mansion, and formidable bosses appear along the way. Clearing the demo's main story unlocks Extra: Boss Challenge Battle, which allows players to take on more challenging fights and also unlocks skills. The full game is scheduled for release in Fall 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Steam. The game is developed by DeskWorks, a small team focused on unique art styles and gameplay. Supported languages include Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. The demo is available on a dedicated Steam page, and a separate trailer for it has been published.
Police in Japan arrested Mayu Yoshida, a 32-year-old restaurant employee from Osaka, on Aug 4 on suspicion of fraudulent obstruction of business. She placed billions of yen in orders for One Piece and Naruto merchandise through Shueisha's Jump Characters Store, then refused delivery, using 238 accounts for over 2,000 orders.
Shueisha's new global manga platform Manga Million has come under scrutiny after users discovered that translation companies credited on the platform, including Flitto Japan Inc. and EC Innovations, use AI translation solutions. This contradicts the publisher's earlier claim that "real people were working on this" to capture the nuances of the manga.
A new web manga label called MANGABU! launched on August 17, 2026, operated by FaMH Entertainment. The label is headed by Masahiko Ibaraki, former editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump and the first editor-in-chief of Jump Square, and Hideki Egami, former editor-in-chief of Monthly IKKI. The label's catchphrase is "After school isn't over yet," and it aims to publish a wide range of genres without restrictions. At launch, 15 series began serialization simultaneously, including "Bakudanhan no Musume," a comic adaptation of Aki Kajiwara's nonfiction novel by Matsu Karasume; "Times Tetepamu" by Mai Inoue; "Kome to Hana to, Awai to." by Daisuke Higuchi; and "IRUKA" by Kizu. The lineup spans suspense, romance, human drama, and comedy. The label positions itself as a place where creators, readers, and editors can enjoy manga like a club activity. FaMH Entertainment was established in May 2025 as a subsidiary of Fam Group, with Hiroyuki Kondo of Mash Group serving as chairman.
The first part of Musshu's manga adaptation of There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... ended on July 31 on Shueisha's Young Jump + platform. Eru Kudō will draw the second part, titled Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Naijan, Muri Muri! Muri Janakatta!? ~Second Season, launching in January or February 2027. The 10th compiled volume ships in December, with the final volume in 2027.
Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ published the final chapter of Kappi and nifuni's Hidarikiki no Eren (Eren the Southpaw) manga on Wednesday. The 26th and final compiled book volume ships on September 4. The new serialization, which began on March 4, is set in 2026 and involves a new competition at the Meguro Advertising Agency.
Nijimen published a character and voice actor guide for Slam Dunk, covering the Shohoku starting five and rivals such as Sendoh, Maki, and Sawakita. The guide lists TV anime cast members and, where applicable, the actors who voiced characters in the 2022 film The First Slam Dunk.
Shueisha launched MANGA MILLION on August 6, a global digital service commemorating its 100th anniversary. The service offers approximately 400 manga titles, totaling 1 million pages, translated into over 100 languages, free worldwide with no registration required. The distribution period runs through the end of December 2027. The lineup includes One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kingdom, Oshi no Ko, Spy x Family, and Chainsaw Man, plus more than 150 shojo and josei titles.
Two months after Shueisha Games released Schrodinger's Call, developer Acrobatic Chirimenjako discussed the difficulty of putting the game's impact into words. The team said many players call it a personally important title, and the game earned high Western reviews, a Metacritic Must-Play selection, and a top ranking for the first half of 2026.
Shueisha announced on Thursday the launch of Manga Million, a global digital manga platform offering over one million pages of translated manga from approximately 400 titles in more than 100 languages. The service is available worldwide for a limited time, free of charge and without registration. The launch lineup includes One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kingdom, Oshi no Ko, Spy x Family, Chainsaw Man, Nana, and Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, among others. More than 150 of the titles are shojo manga. According to Shueisha, nearly 300 titles are receiving their first-ever translations, and 50 works have been translated into multiple languages. The platform also includes special chapters and one-shots, such as Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back. Shueisha confirmed to Anime News Network that AI translation was not used for the project. The initiative is part of Shueisha's 100th anniversary celebration. Shuhei Hosono, Editor-in-Chief of Manga Plus by Shueisha, initiated the project, which was developed across Shueisha's editorial divisions with support from international licensing partners.
The Japan Magazine Publishers Association reported on Wednesday that Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump averaged 985,000 certified print copies per quarter from April to June 2026, the first time the magazine has dropped below one million since the association began publishing audited figures in 2008. The decline means no print magazine in Japan now has a certified circulation above one million copies. Weekly Shonen Jump's print circulation has fallen steadily for at least 12 years, from 1,290,417 copies in April-June 2022, below two million in 2017, and below 1.5 million in late 2020. The magazine's record circulation was 6.53 million copies with the combined New Year 1995 issue, released in December 1994, when it serialized Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk. In the same quarter, Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine averaged 281,000 copies, Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday averaged 120,000, and Monthly CoroCoro Comic averaged approximately 213,000. The figures come as Japan's manga magazine market shrank by 12.7% in 2025, and the print market as a whole fell below one trillion yen for the first time since 1976.
Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump published a new one-shot story for Osamu Akimoto's Kochikame manga to mark the series' 50th anniversary. The franchise is also getting a new anime, Shin Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo, with a new cast to be announced at a Tokyo event on September 5. A new video game, Kochikame: Ryo-san's Billion-yen Beat, is planned for multiple platforms.
Kenichi Kondo's Dark Gathering manga will not publish a new chapter in Jump SQ.'s September issue, which ships Tuesday. The series is scheduled to return in the magazine's October issue, shipping September 4. The announcement came from the magazine's official X account.
Shueisha Games and developer iMel announced a video game adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa's mystery novel Seasons of Books and Keys for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, launching in winter 2026. The fully voiced game stars Kazuki Ura and Yūichirō Umehara, features an original episode by Yonezawa, and supports Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese subtitles.
Shueisha's Young Jump magazine revealed on July 23 that Märchen Crown, the manga by Aka Akasaka, Aoi Kujira, and Ajichika, is entering its final battle. The series will take a one-week break and return in the combined 36th and 37th issue on August 6. The manga debuted in Young Jump in March 2025.
Shueisha Games will release Chronoscript: The Endless End for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam in fall 2026. The game is a new exploration action title from Desk Works, the developer behind RPG Time: The Legend of Wright. In it, an editor named Fredrick G. Muller is bitten by a mosquito and wakes up inside a manuscript written by Viola S. Chambers, a thousand-year-old vampire. The player explores a 2D paper world that sits within a 3D Western-style mansion, and the two dimensions affect each other. Books stacked outside the manuscript can cover parts of the field, and pages can fall in real space during battles. The game uses a Metroidvania structure, with new actions gained by defeating bosses. The demo included three abilities: Page Wing Leap, a double jump; Ink Immersion, which lets the player dive into ink stains; and Sightseer Midge, which shows the map as the writer's room. Defeating enemies grants enhancement items used at checkpoint chairs to improve six categories. The demo's tutorial boss, the Foolish Reading Librarian Insect, took three attempts to defeat. A separate Extra mode offers a harder boss, the Condemning Opera Director, with two additional actions unlocked.
Kensuke Nishida, co-creator of the Jagaan manga, will launch a new series titled Yūsha Yukio in the August 19 issue of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine. The dark fantasy isekai follows the hero Yukio, the strongest and luckiest man in the world. Nishida's previous work Jagaan ended in 2021 and has 14 volumes.
Shueisha issued a public apology on July 17 after Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #33 sold out across Japan, driven by scalpers targeting the issue's bundled One Piece Card Game promotional card. The issue, released July 13, also contained the final chapter of Kouji Miura's Blue Box. Despite Shueisha increasing the print run by 500,000 copies, copies vanished from stores and resold at inflated prices. In response, Shueisha announced a made-to-order reprint of Issue #33 through the Jump Characters Store, though the reprint will not include the promotional card. The publisher also canceled the planned Charlotte Pudding One Piece Card Game bonus card that was scheduled for V Jump's October 2026 issue. Going forward, One Piece Card Game promotional cards will be suspended across Weekly Shonen Jump, V Jump, and Saikyo Jump while Shueisha reviews its bonus item plans and sales methods. Readers unable to purchase Issue #33 will receive compensation: Issue #35 will include two campaign tickets for the ongoing Jump Ticket Rally Challenge, with the application deadline unchanged at July 31. The previously announced Everyone Wins mail-in campaign for the Straw Hat Crew's Three Strongest Set Cards will proceed as scheduled.
Yuuto Suzuki's Sakamoto Days manga is heading toward its climax, as announced in the 34th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. The series began its final battle in August 2025. The manga launched in November 2020 and has spawned an anime adaptation, a live-action film, novels, and a spinoff. The anime's second season is set for January 2027.