Shueisha is a major Japanese manga publisher that also operates a games division, Shueisha Games, and has recently acquired an in-house PR firm. Its long-running partnership with Marvel to publish manga adaptations will end on September 30, 2026, while its games division is preparing an open-world survival RPG for early access in 2027 and a psychological horror game for PC in 2026.
Shueisha's most significant recent development is the termination of its contract with Walt Disney Japan to publish manga adaptations of Marvel characters. The contract ends on September 30, 2026, and five series, including Deadpool: Samurai and Spider-Man: Bonds, will be removed from digital storefronts and stop selling physical volumes. Existing stock in stores remains available while supplies last.
Shueisha Games, the publisher's game division, is expanding its catalog. It announced Wild Wild Eden, an open-world survival craft RPG developed by Magnus Games Studio, with early access on Steam planned for spring 2027. The psychological horror adventure Un:Me, developed by historia Inc., is scheduled for a 2026 PC release, with Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 versions also confirmed. However, Shueisha Games also canceled the PC adventure game Ukiyo, developed by Freekey Design, handing control back to the developer.
On the manga side, Shueisha acquired Arch PR Co., Ltd. and renamed it Shueisha MANGA-pr Co., Ltd., creating a dedicated in-house PR arm focused on social-media-driven manga promotion. The company also received a portion of 11.5 billion yen in Japanese government subsidies for AI-driven translations and overseas expansion, part of a broader effort to counter piracy and grow the subscriber base of participating services. Several Shueisha manga series saw notable developments: Hunter x Hunter Volume 39 arrived in July 2026 after a 22-month gap, Kagurabachi received a TV anime adaptation confirmed for April 2027, and the Kill Blue anime secured a weekly simulcast schedule on free ad-supported platforms in North America.
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Shueisha announced its contract with Walt Disney Japan to publish manga adaptations of Marvel characters will end on September 30. The publisher will remove five series from digital storefronts between September 28 and 30 and stop selling physical volumes. Existing stock in stores remains available while supplies last.
Shueisha Games and developer Magnus Games Studio have announced Wild Wild Eden, an open-world survival craft RPG with anime-style visuals. The game is set on an uncharted planet where players tame monsters, build bases, and unravel the world's secrets. Early access on Steam is planned for spring 2027. The game was previously known under the working title PROJECT SURVIVAL, first shown at BitSummit in July 2023. Since then, the development engine was changed and the visuals and content were overhauled. Players can gather materials, craft tools, and construct bases anywhere in the world, including atop waterfalls or inside volcanoes. Monsters are tamed using traps and Dream Bottles, then can be ridden, fight alongside the player, or assist with base tasks like farming. A breeding system allows crossbreeding same-species monsters to pass down traits and abilities, with rare color variants possible. The game supports solo play and online multiplayer. The story follows survivors of a destroyed home planet who seek a new home on Eden, only to uncover dark secrets about their past.
Shueisha announced on July 1 that its contract with Walt Disney Japan for Marvel character manga adaptations will end September 30. Affected titles include Deadpool: Samurai, Spider-Man: Bonds, Spider-Man: Octopus Girl, and two collections. Physical copies will sell only while stocks last; digital versions will be removed from e-book stores by September 30.
Shueisha Games announced on June 30 that it will cancel the release of the PC adventure game Ukiyo, which was in development by Free Key Design. The game, set in a cyberspace world with a Japanese-style aesthetic, follows a samurai cat named Kai trapped in a virtual space called UKIYO. It had been shown at events like BitSummit and Tokyo Game Show in 2022, but updates on its official X account had stopped. Shueisha Games apologized to those waiting for the release and said future information will come from the developer. According to Game Spark and GameBusiness.jp, the publisher and developer on the Steam store page have been changed to FREAKY DESIGN, which was previously handling the design aspect. The game was originally part of Shueisha's Game Creators CAMP support project. Seaknot Studios, which handled game system production, has not commented on the change.
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will provide 11.5 billion yen (~$71.1 million) in subsidies to 15 entertainment companies, including Crunchyroll, Bandai Namco, and Shueisha, to accelerate overseas expansion. The program covers half the cost of AI-driven translations, advertising, and international event participation. The government aims to counter piracy, which caused an estimated 5.7 trillion yen in losses in 2025, and grow the combined subscriber base of participating services from 100 million to 300 million.
Uniqlo announced the third installment of its Manga UT Shueisha 100th Anniversary T-shirt collection, featuring designs from SPY×FAMILY, BLEACH, Yu-Gi-Oh!, MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES, Black Clover, and Sakamoto Days. The shirts will be available from early August at Uniqlo stores and online for 1,990 yen each.
Shueisha Games and developer historia Inc. have announced that the psychological horror adventure game Un:Me will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5, in addition to the previously announced PC version via Steam. The news came with a new trailer shown during The Mix Summer Game Showcase livestream on June 1, 2026. The game follows a girl who awakens in a mysterious labyrinth with four souls inside her mind. Each soul has its own traumas and abilities, and they can seize control of the girl's body during exploration, changing what the player sees and can do. Players use special items found in the labyrinth to converse with the souls and learn their stories. The core mechanic involves choosing which soul to keep in the body and which to erase. The PC version is scheduled for a 2026 release, while the console release dates remain unannounced.
Shueisha will publish the 39th volume of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter manga on July 3, 2026, marking the first new volume in 22 months since Volume 38 shipped in September 2024. Volume 39 collects chapters 401 to 410, which were serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from issue 45 of 2024 through issue 2 of 2025. The manga has been on an irregular release schedule since December 2022, when Shueisha announced it would move away from weekly serialization. Togashi has provided updates on his X account, revealing in late May 2026 that he completed the manuscript for Chapter 421. The author underwent surgery in 2024 and has been drafting storyboards for additional chapters. Viz Media released the English edition of Volume 38 in January 2026. The Hunter x Hunter franchise also saw two game releases in 2025 and 2026: the fighting game Nen x Impact and the survival roguelike Nen x Survivor. A third stage play adaptation covering the Greed Island Arc ran in Tokyo and Osaka in mid-2025.
Shueisha will acquire all shares of Arch PR Co., Ltd. by March 31, 2026, making it a subsidiary, and rename it Shueisha MANGA-pr Co., Ltd. on April 13, 2026. The new company aims to combine Shueisha's content with social media to strengthen reader engagement and expand global recognition. Arch PR was established in 2020 as a subsidiary of Arch Co., Ltd., an IP and animation production company involved in projects including the theatrical anime Promare and the Jujutsu Kaisen Domain Expansion campaign. The new company's representatives are Takanori Asada and Karon Yoshida.
The Akane-Banashi anime has released a preview for its 8th episode ahead of its May 23, 2026 debut. The series premiered on April 4, 2026, and streams on YouTube and Netflix worldwide. The anime adapts the manga by writer Yuki Suenaga and illustrator Takamasa Moue, which began in 2022 and has 17 volumes. Viz Media publishes the English version. The anime is directed by Ayumu Watanabe, with scripts overseen by Michihiro Tsuchiya. Yu Harima is assistant director, and Kii Tanaka handles character designs and chief animation direction. Production is by ZEXCS. The Japanese cast includes Anna Nagase as Akane Osaki, Takuya Eguchi as Karashi Nerimaya, Rie Takahashi as Hikaru Koragi, and others. Netflix also recently revealed additional English dub cast members for the third episode. The story follows Akane Osaki, a high school student who secretly takes rakugo lessons from her father's former teacher, Shiguma Arakawa, and begins her climb from opening act to headliner.
Takeru Hokazono's Kagurabachi manga is on a one-issue break due to the author's sudden illness, as announced in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump issue 25. The series will return in the next issue on May 25. This is the second unplanned break for health reasons in under a year, following a similar pause in June 2025.
The Days of Diamond manga by Ōhashi Hirai will resume serialization in Shueisha's Young Jump on June 4, 2026, after a hiatus that began in January. The series has experienced multiple breaks since 2024, often tied to volume preparation or personal reasons. MANGA Plus publishes the series digitally.
Naoki Oki's manga Punk Gun will conclude in the next issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine, which ships on May 21. The announcement appeared in the magazine's 24th issue on Thursday. Punk Gun launched in Weekly Young Jump in May 2025, running for just over a year. The series follows Aiboba, a young boy living on the outskirts of the crime-ridden Dead City, who leads a band of orphans into a dangerous incident. Shueisha published the third compiled volume on April 17, and the fourth volume is scheduled for release on May 19. MANGA Plus publishes the series in English. The manga's end was confirmed by the magazine's editorial department; no announcement regarding the author's next project has been made.
Crunchyroll announced a partnership with Kodansha USA to add 23 back-catalog manga titles to its Crunchyroll Manga app on May 18, alongside You Chiba's Dricam!! from Shueisha. The additions include major series like Attack on Titan, Tokyo Revengers, and Your Lie in April, marking a significant expansion of the app's library since its relaunch in October 2025.
The free streaming channel It's Anime has locked in a weekly release schedule for the Kill Blue adaptation, giving North American viewers a regular Saturday night slot for new subtitled episodes and a one-week turnaround on the English dub. Subtitled episodes will premiere Saturdays at 10:00 PM EST on Samsung TV Plus and other FAST platforms, arriving shortly after the Japanese broadcast. The English dub of episodes 1 and 2 launched day-and-date with the subtitled version. Starting with episode 3, each new dubbed episode will follow within one week of its subtitled counterpart. The series adapts Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Weekly Shonen Jump manga about a 39-year-old hitman, Juzo Ogami, who is transformed into a 13-year-old boy and forced to infiltrate a middle school. Ray Chase voices the adult Ogami and Caitlyn Elizabeth voices the child version, with Kayli Mills, Khoi Dao, and Dawn M. Bennett in supporting roles. It's Anime, operated by Tokyo-based REMOW, positions Kill Blue as the most widely available anime of 2026, distributing it free and ad-supported across Samsung TV Plus and VIZIO WatchFree+.
Shochiku confirmed that Takeru Hokazono's Kagurabachi manga will receive a television anime adaptation in April 2027. The series is in production at Cypic, the studio previously known as CygamesPictures, with Tetsuya Takeuchi directing. Takeuchi's past work includes key animation on the Rock Lee versus Gaara fight in Naruto, a sequence Hokazono cited as a reason for his excitement about the adaptation. Keigo Sasaki is handling character designs, and Taihi Kimura, winner of the 2025 Seiyu Awards Best New Actor prize, will voice protagonist Chihiro Rokuhira. Shochiku and CyberAgent sit on the production committee. The announcement arrived during the fifth Jump Press program and was accompanied by a trailer, a teaser visual, and a commemorative illustration from Hokazono. A world tour starting in summer 2026 will screen 20 minutes of the first episode at events worldwide, culminating in a full first-episode screening in Japan in spring 2027 before the broadcast. The manga has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since September 2023 and has over 4 million copies in circulation.
Shonen Jump editorial staff addressed why many award-winning manga creators never debut professionally. They said most winners already have ability and potential, but winning a prize does not mean they are ready for serialization. The real challenge is the polishing phase, where creators must refine storytelling and accept editorial feedback. Some promising artists struggle because they become overly attached to their own ideas and resistant to criticism. The editors also said the desire to create a commercially successful manga is a positive trait, but chasing trends too aggressively can erase a creator's individuality.