Shueisha is managing multiple ongoing manga serializations, expanding its game publishing label, and restructuring its PR operations, while also dealing with a high-profile scalping incident that forced it to suspend its One Piece Card Game magazine promotion program.
Shueisha's manga publishing remains active across its magazines. Kensuke Nishida launches the dark fantasy isekai Yūsha Yukio in Ultra Jump. Yuuto Suzuki's Sakamoto Days is heading toward its climax in Weekly Shonen Jump, with its anime second season set for January 2027. Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter volume 39 shipped in July 2026 after a 22-month gap, and Togashi completed the manuscript for chapter 421. Takeru Hokazono's Kagurabachi took a one-week break due to the author's sudden illness, the second such break in under a year. The Days of Diamond manga resumed serialization in Young Jump in June after a hiatus since January. Naoki Oki's Punk Gun ended after just over a year and four volumes. The Akane-Banashi anime premiered in April 2026 and streams on YouTube and Netflix worldwide.
Shueisha's game label, Shueisha Games, announced the open-world survival RPG Wild Wild Eden for early access on Steam in spring 2027, and showed a playable demo at Bilibili World 2026. The psychological horror game Un:Me was confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 in addition to PC, with the PC version scheduled for 2026. Shueisha Games canceled the release of the indie title Ukiyo, with the developer Free Key Design taking over publishing under the name Freaky Design.
In July 2026, Shueisha issued a public apology after Weekly Shonen Jump issue #33 sold out across Japan due to scalpers targeting a bundled One Piece Card Game promotional card, despite a 500,000-copy print increase. The publisher canceled the planned Charlotte Pudding bonus card for V Jump's October 2026 issue and suspended all One Piece Card Game promotional cards across its magazines while it reviews its bonus item plans. Shueisha's contract with Walt Disney Japan for Marvel manga adaptations will end on September 30, 2026, removing five series from sale. The publisher also acquired Arch PR and renamed it Shueisha MANGA-pr to focus on social-media-driven manga promotion. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will provide 11.5 billion yen in subsidies to 15 companies including Shueisha for AI-driven translations and overseas expansion.
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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.
Manga Plus added Tabireco's Baby Road Trippers manga on Thursday, with the first 20 chapters available immediately. The series follows high school girl Fuji Yonagi, who finds school stifling and takes up car camping, then meets extroverted classmate Asahi Ichinose. The manga launched in Shueisha's Ultra Jump in August 2024, with its third volume released March 18 and the fourth due August 19. Tabireco previously created The Hungry Succubus Wants to Consume Him.
At Bilibili World 2026, Shueisha Games showed the world premiere playable demo of Wild Wild Eden, an open-world survival craft RPG. The game's monster taming system uses a Dream Bottle to put creatures to sleep, then tames them through petting and feeding, requiring ongoing care like real pets. Developers said the approach predates Palworld and reflects co-founder Dc Gan's love of animals and camping.
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.