Hiromasa Okujima’s Shijūkara ga Naku Koro ni to End at Eight Chapters
Hiromasa Okujima has announced that Shijūkara ga Naku Koro ni will conclude with its eighth chapter.
Launched in December 2025 on Fusosha’s Manga Spa! platform, Shijūkara ga Naku Koro ni (When The Japanese Tit Sings) follows the lifestyle of a 41-year-old businessman. Okujima shared the news of its conclusion on Saturday through X, formerly Twitter.
Okujima also launched Together with Serial-san (Serial-san to Issho) in Shueisha’s Grand Jump Mucha magazine on February 25. MANGA MILLION, Shueisha’s new global digital manga platform, is publishing the manga in English.
His Baban Baban Ban Vampire manga began in Akita Shoten’s Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine in October 2021. Akita Shoten released its 14th collected volume on August 6. The manga inspired an anime that streamed on Netflix in January 2025 and a live-action film that opened in July 2025. Dark Horse has licensed the manga in English and will publish its first volume on November 10.
Viz Media’s boys-love manga imprint SuBLime licensed Bad Boys, Happy Home (Dōsei Yankee Akamatsu Seven), by SHOOWA and Okujima, and published the first volume in print and digitally in July 2021. The creators launched the manga in Akita Shoten’s Kachi Comi magazine in April 2018.
Okujima’s Katei Kyōshi no Kishi Knight Desu. (I Am the Home Tutor Kishi Knight.) inspired a live-action television series that premiered on January 5. The manga ran in Akita Shoten’s Nicchan Gecchan magazine in 2019, and the publisher collected it in a single volume.
