Medalist is on hiatus due to production circumstances, with no return date set. The second anime season finished, and a film is set to open in Japan on February 19, 2027.
Tsurumaikada's ice-skating manga Medalist is on hiatus because of production circumstances. The official X account announced the break on Friday and gave no return date. The creator apologized and said that when the manga resumes she would ideally like to carry the story to the Junior Grand Prix finals without breaks. The 15th compiled volume, which Kodansha published on July 22, includes the JGP Final.
The anime side is moving forward. The second season ended on Sunday, the same day Kadokawa announced an anime film with a February 19, 2027 opening date, a teaser trailer, and a teaser visual. The film tells a story set after the end of the second season. The cast and staff from the TV anime return. The first season premiered in Japan in January 2025 on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation block and 23 affiliates, with Disney+ streaming it. The second season premiered on January 24 on the same block. Hulu streams the anime in the U.S., and Disney+ streams it in other countries and territories.
Merchandise and print coverage continued through the year. A pop up store at Kinokuniya Shinjuku Main Store ran from June 18 to June 30 with banquet-themed illustrations of Inori, Tsukasa, Hikaru, and Iruka. Banpresto showed Medalist prize figures at the 85th Prize Fair, with release scheduled from January to March 2027. Wonder Festival 2026 Summer dealer information listed Medalist figures ahead of the July 26 event.
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Tsurumaikada's Olympic ice-skating manga Medalist is going on hiatus due to production circumstances, the official X/Twitter account announced on Friday. No return date was given. The creator apologized and said that when the manga resumes, she would ideally like to carry the story to the Junior Grand Prix finals without any breaks.
The 85th Prize Fair, a private industry viewing held in Tokyo on August 25, 2026, displayed new Banpresto prize figures scheduled for release from January to March 2027. The Banpresto brand showed figures from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Medalist, and Bocchi the Rock!. BANDAI SPIRITS displayed prizes from Marriage Toxin, Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji, and KINGDOM HEARTS.
Kadokawa revealed on Sunday a teaser trailer, teaser visual, character visuals, and the February 19, 2027 opening date for the upcoming anime film based on Tsurumaikada's Olympic ice-skating manga Medalist. The film will tell a story set after the end of the television anime's second season, with the cast and staff from the TV anime returning. The first season premiered in Japan on the "NUMAnimation" programming block on TV Asahi and 23 affiliated channels in January 2025, with Disney+ streaming it. The second season debuted on January 24 on the same block and ended on Sunday. Hulu is streaming the anime in the U.S., and Disney+ is streaming it in other countries and territories. The second season featured the returning cast and staff, with Hazuki Nakamura as art director and Kentaro Kashiwagi as compositing director of photography. The anime's second season opening theme was "Cold Night" by girl group HANA, and the ending theme was "Rookies" by Conton Candy. Japanese figure skater Rika Hongo took part in motion capture filming alongside the first season's Akiko Suzuki, who choreographed the skating routines. Tsurumaikada launched the manga in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine in May 2020, and Kodansha published the 15th compiled volume on July 22.
Dengeki Hobby Web reports the top 20 best-selling manga volumes on Amazon Kindle as of July 17, 2026. The Apothecary Diaries Volume 17, available for pre-order, takes the top spot. Other notable entries include pre-order titles Kingdom 80 and Medalist 15, new releases Shangri-La Frontier 27 and Zatch Bell! 2, and recent volumes Hunter x Hunter 39 and One-Punch Man 37. Sale items like Mob Psycho 100 at 100 yen per volume also appear.
Kodansha will release a slate of digital manga on July 22, 2026, including the final volume of Space Brothers in a special edition with a booklet and recap map, the latest volume of Medalist featuring the JGP Final, and several other ongoing series from its Morning, Afternoon, and Comic DAYS imprints.
Dengeki Hobby Web published the third installment of dealer information for Wonder Festival 2026 Summer, three weeks before the July 26 event. The roundup covers figures from KanColle, Medalist, Vigilante -My Hero Academia ILLEGALS-, Blue Archive, Uma Musume, Tsukihime, Made in Abyss, and more, with sculpts by Okiraku-dou, Būrian-Wa-Sa-Seki, Atelier ITO, and others.
A Medalist pop up store will run from June 18 to June 30, 2026, at Kinokuniya Shinjuku Main Store. Newly drawn illustrations show Inori, Tsukasa, Hikaru, and Iruka in banquet dress and suits. Deformed GraffArt goods with rain umbrellas are also available. A purchase bonus postcard is given for every 2,200 yen spent.
Medalist creator Tsurumaikada submitted an original illustration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine. The drawing shows series protagonists Inori Yuitsuka and Tsukasa Akeuraji holding a "40th Anniversary" card. Kodansha will sell merchandise based on the artwork. Monthly Afternoon launched in December 1986 and has published major titles including Ah My Goddess, Parasyte, and Blade of the Immortal.
TheOASG Podcast reports that Shogakukan's MangaOne editorial department admitted it allowed manga creator Shoichi Yamamoto to publish under a pen name after his 2020 arrest and conviction for a sex crime. The department also hid his past from the artist drawing the series. Shogakukan later revealed that Tatsuya Matsuki, the act-age writer convicted in 2020, was also working on the service under a pen name. An investigative committee with lawyers has been formed.