Author Gege Akutami said that the hiatus will last about a month
The official Twitter account for Shueisha is the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine which announced on Friday that the manga Jujutsu Kaisen will continue in this year’s 35th issue, which will ship on the 2nd. The series continued on hiatus in the 29th issue on June 21st due to Akutami’s poor health.
Akutami has stated that the manga’s hiatus will be “about a month”, and assured fans that the health condition is not serious.
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…
Viz Media published the first three chapters of the manga in English concurrently with Japan as part of its Jump Start initiative. When Viz then moved to its new Shonen Jump model in December 2018, the company began publishing new chapters of the manga online. Shueisha is also publishing the manga on its MANGA Plus website.
The anime Jujutsu Kaisen anime premiered on October 2, and it had 24 episodes. Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Movie), a new animated feature film from the franchise, will premiere this winter. The series is based on the work of Gege Akutami, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Koto Senmon Gakko manga.
