This year’s 19th issue of Shogakukan‘s Big Comic magazine announced on Friday that Tetsuya Chiba‘s Hinemosu Notari Nikki manga will go on hiatus due to Chiba’s poor health. The magazine’s editorial staff stated that Chiba is eager to resume the manga’s serialization as soon as possible, but the editorial department will prioritize Chiba’s health and recovery.

In a separate statement by Chiba, he stated that the severe summer heat might be the cause of him feeling under the weather. Chiba added that he will focus on recovering to get back to drawing manga again. He apologizes for the worry he has caused, and asks for the readers’ patience as he takes some time to recover.

Chiba launched the autobiographical short essay manga in Big Comic in December 2015. Shogakukan published the manga’s first compiled book volume in 2018, and the seventh volume in November 2025. The manga previously went on hiatus in August 2024, and resumed serialization in December that same year.

Chiba debuted as a manga creator in 1956. He is perhaps best known for his Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe) boxing manga, which ran from 1968 to 1973, and has remained a mainstay in Japanese popular culture for decades. The manga inspired two television anime in 1970 and 1980, as well as two anime films in 1980 and 1981. The manga’s story was re-imagined in a new sci-fi setting with new characters in 2018’s Megalobox anime, which credits the original manga as its origin. The sequel series for Megalobox, Megalobox 2: Nomad, premiered in April 2021.

Ashita no Joe received its first official English release under the title Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow in December 2024.

Chiba was nominated to the Japan Art Academy in 2022 as one of its first two manga creators (along with Yoshiharu Tsuge). He is also currently the chair of the Japan Cartoonists Association.

Chiba was honored with the prestigious Order of Culture award in 2024, and is the first manga creator to have received the honor. The order is awarded to those “who have made outstanding contributions in developing” Japanese culture.

Chiba is 87, and had heart surgery to put a stint in his coronary artery in January 2022. Chiba noted in a blog post in 2024 that he also had eye surgery.

In November 2021, Chiba had revealed that he admitted himself to a hospital in Tokyo after he started feeling unwell after summer ended that year. He stated that he started having abnormalities one after another in his heart valve, coronary artery, and throat. He then started treatment for a tumor in his throat. 

Source: Big Comic issue 19

The staff for Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation III, the third season of the Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation anime, announced in a video on Sunday that the season’s second cours (quarter of a year) will premiere in 2027.

The new season covers the “Eris Training Arc” storyline, which started in the 13th volume of the original novel series. The “Chaos Breaker” arc started with the eighth episode on August 16.

The season’s new cast members include:

Yuiko Ōhara performs the new opening theme song “Ketsui no Uta” (Song of Resolve). Mika Nakashima performs the ending theme song “Inori, Owareba” (If the Prayers Are Over). Shinoda, the guitarist and vocalist of the rock band Hitorie, wrote the new song’s lyrics and music. (Hitorie performed the second season’s second opening theme song “On The Frontline.”)

The anime debuted on Tokyo MX and BS11 on July 5. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and it is also streaming an English dub.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both Rifujin na Magonote‘s original main light novel series and Yuka Fujikawa‘s manga adaptation. The company also licensed Shōko Iwami‘s Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Gets Serious (Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Datte Honki desu) spinoff manga. Seven Seas describes the “epic and influential fantasy” story of the original novels:

Kicked out by his family and wandering the streets, an unemployed 34-year-old shut-in thinks he’s hit rock-bottom—just as he’s hit and killed by a speeding truck! Awakening to find himself reborn as an infant in a world of swords and sorcery, but with the memories of his first life intact, Rudeus Greyrat is determined not to repeat his past mistakes. He’s going to make the most of this reincarnation as he sets off on the adventure of a second lifetime!

Rifujin na Magonote initially serialized the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) website from 2012 to 2015. Kadokawa‘s MF Books imprint then began publishing a print version in 2014. The 26th volume shipped in November 2022.

The first part of the novels’ first anime adaptation debuted in January 2021, and the second part debuted in October 2021, after a delay from that July. Funimation streamed the season. Crunchyroll and Hulu are now streaming the anime, including the unaired side-story original video anime (OVA) episode “Eris the Goblin Slayer.”

The second season aired for two cours (two quarters of a year). The first half premiered on Tokyo MX in July 2023 before airing on other networks, and the second half debuted in April 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the season as it aired.

A free-to-play Mushoku Tensei – Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu: Chronicle of Echoes (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation: Chronicle of Echoes) “serious alternate-world x 3D battle role-playing game” launched on July 27. Gree Entertainment is planning and releasing the game, and Asobimo is developing and maintaining it.

Source: TOHO animation‘s YouTube channel