Weekly Shonen Jump is launching three new manga series across April 2026, including a horror comedy from Agravity Boys creator Atsushi Nakamura and a fantasy comedy from Gintama creator Hideaki Sorachi.
Weekly Shonen Jump is launching three new manga series across April 2026, the magazine's biggest single month new series push in recent memory. Shueisha is using the spring window to refresh its lineup after several long running titles wrapped in late 2025 and early 2026, and the three debuts span horror comedy, sports, and fantasy comedy. Each one launches in a separate week, giving the magazine a steady drumbeat of new material across the month.
Here is what readers can expect.
The first new series is Roku no Okashina Ie, which roughly translates to Roku's Strange House. It is written and drawn by Atsushi Nakamura, who returns to Weekly Shonen Jump five years after his previous series Agravity Boys ended in 2021. Nakamura is also known for the one shot Kurokuroku, which appeared in the magazine before Agravity Boys.
The new series is being pitched as a horror home comedy. The premise centres on five young boys who are simultaneously possessed by a curse, with the action taking place primarily inside the haunted house where the protagonists live. Shueisha's preview describes the series as blending domestic comedy beats with classic Japanese horror tropes, an unusual genre fusion for the publisher's flagship magazine.
The series replaces Gonron Egg, which Shueisha cancelled in early 2026 after a relatively short run. Nakamura's return is the most anticipated of the three debuts among the magazine's existing readership, given his established profile in Jump.
The second debut is Natsu no Mushikago, which translates to Summer Bug Cage. The creator is Satoshi Masayoshi, a debut artist who has previously worked as an assistant on other Jump titles but is now publishing his first solo serial. Early promotional images suggest a sports manga with a basketball focus, though Shueisha has been cagey about the full premise ahead of the launch.
A sports manga is something of a strategic choice for Jump in spring 2026. The magazine's previous basketball entry Slam Dunk remains one of its all time bestsellers despite ending decades ago, and the gap between sports launches in the magazine has been visibly long since Blue Box's success in the past two years. Masayoshi's debut gives Shueisha a fresh sports title in a slot that has been quietly underweight.
The headline grabber is 2 Nen B Gumi Yusha Destroyers, the new fantasy comedy from Hideaki Sorachi. Sorachi created Gintama, the gag heavy samurai and aliens comedy that ran in Jump for fifteen years and became one of the magazine's defining titles before ending in 2018. This is Sorachi's first weekly serial in seven years.
The new series translates roughly to Class 2 B Hero Destroyers, and the premise inverts the standard fantasy isekai setup. Instead of following heroes, the manga follows a group of demon aligned schoolkids whose demon king has been driven out of his castle by the heroes. The setup has the same kind of self aware genre subversion that Gintama built its identity on, and Shueisha is positioning the launch as one of the most important new series events of the year.
Sorachi has not committed to whether the new series will run for years or wrap up quickly. The creator is also currently writing the original Dandelion anime that is launching on Netflix in April, which gives him an unusually crowded spring slate.
Three new series in a single month is more than Weekly Shonen Jump typically launches in a quarter. The push reflects Shueisha's effort to refresh the magazine's lineup after a wave of long running series wrapped between late 2025 and early 2026, including Chainsaw Man's second part and several other established titles. Jump's table of contents has been heavier on continuing series and lighter on new launches than the previous decade's average, and the spring 2026 wave is the publisher's most aggressive correction to that trend.
For English language readers, Viz Media will publish each of the three new series simultaneously through its digital Shonen Jump subscription, with the first chapters going live the same day as the Japanese print release. Manga Plus, Shueisha's free official platform, will also carry the first three chapters of each new series at launch, including for readers in India.
The next test is reader retention. Jump's notorious reader survey driven cancellation system means that any new series can be cut within ten chapters if its standings are weak, and the spring lineup will face that pressure starting from the very first issue.
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