Shogakukan Sets Final Volume of Tetsuya Chiba's Hinemosu Notari Nikki
Big Comic confirmed on Friday that the eighth compiled book volume of Tetsuya Chiba's Hinemosu Notari Nikki manga will be the final one when it ships on February 12.
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Why it matters
The closure of Chiba's long-running autobiographical strip and a 70th-anniversary volume arriving on the same day gives Shogakukan a single date to close out the record of a creator who kept drawing into his final months.
Key Facts
- The eighth volume of Tetsuya Chiba's Hinemosu Notari Nikki will be the final volume, shipping on February 12.
- Shogakukan will publish Gagyo 70-shunen Ai to Heiwa to Chiba Tetsuya, a book on Chiba's 70 years as a manga artist, on February 12.
- Chiba launched Hinemosu Notari Nikki in Big Comic in December 2015 and put it on hiatus on September 25 citing poor health.
- Tetsuya Chiba died on October 22 due to a myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Chiba received the Order of Culture in 2024 and was nominated to the Japan Art Academy in 2022.
The autobiographical short essay manga launched in Big Comic in December 2015; Chiba put it on hiatus on September 25, citing poor health, and died on October 22. Shogakukan will also publish a book marking his 70 years as a manga artist on February 12.
Shogakukan has set February 12 for two books: the eighth and final volume of Hinemosu Notari Nikki, and Gagyo 70-shunen Ai to Heiwa to Chiba Tetsuya, a commemorative book tracing Chiba's 70 years as a manga artist. The seventh volume shipped in November 2025, and the first in 2018. Chiba, best known for Ashita no Joe, was nominated to the Japan Art Academy in 2022 with Yoshiharu Tsuge, served as chair of the Japan Cartoonists Association, and received the Order of Culture in 2024. The manga, a short essay series about his own life, ran in Big Comic from December 2015 until the September 25 hiatus.
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Sources
- Anime News Network Late Tetsuya Chiba's Autobiographical Manga to End in 8th Volume