Hiatus starts on June 21st, but new chapters are still slated for next week
The official Twitter account for Shueisha, Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Thursday that the Jujutsu Kaisen manga will go on hiatus from the beginning of the magazine’s 29th issue on June 21 due to Akutami’s ill health. . The magazine will announce when the manga will return at a later date when Akutami has fully recovered. A new chapter of the manga will still appear next week on June 14.
Akutami added that the manga’s hiatus will be “about a month.” He also noted that his condition is not serious and that he remains mentally healthy.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English and it describes the story:
In a world where demons eat man without a doubt, the fragments of the legendary and fearsome demon Ryoma Sukuna have been lost and scattered. If any of the demons absorbed Sukuna’s body parts, the power they gained could destroy the world. Fortunately, an organization of Jujutsu Mages exists to protect the precarious existence of the living from supernatural phenomena!
Yuji Itadori is a high school student who spends his days visiting his bedridden grandfather. Although he looks like your average teenager, his amazing physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school’s outcasts in the Occult Club. One day, the club obtains a mysterious hand on a sealed cursed object, but little do they know the horrors they will cause when they break the seal…
Akutami launched the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in March 2018. Shueisha published 16 volumes of the manga. This manga has more than 50 million copies sold .