yoruhashi has a new series, and it starts this week. Tatarigatachi -Dochakushin Geigeki Gakuin- begins in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion on October 22, in the magazine’s 47th issue of 2026.
The announcement ran in issue 46, which went on sale October 15. The magazine’s official X account posted it the same day with a line describing the series as a large-scale sword-fighting revenge story.
What Tatarigatachi is about
Raran is a young boy whose older sister prays to the cat god in the mountain. She keeps at it until a divine disaster kills her. Raran’s answer is to declare war on curses themselves, and the manga follows him as he sets out to destroy all of them.
That is the premise as the announcement gives it. No supporting cast has been named, and the page count for chapter one wasn’t included. What the promo line does tell you is the register: revenge, delivered with swords.
Champion is launching more than one title
Deadman’s Bite Chair arrives in issue 52, out November 26. The magazine’s post framed both series as part of an autumn harvest festival of new serializations, which is how publishers usually describe a relaunch push.
For yoruhashi, the magazine matters more than the phrasing. Weekly Shōnen Champion runs a weekly schedule, and the author’s recent output has been monthly or biweekly at most. That is a real change in working conditions, and weekly pacing breaks plenty of artists who were comfortable on a slower calendar.
The track record
The Kingdoms of Ruin is the one most readers know. It ran in Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Garden from April 2019 to June 2026, with 15 collected volumes and the last one out on July 9. Yokohama Animation Laboratory adapted it for TV in October 2023, Crunchyroll streamed it and later added an English dub, and Seven Seas licensed the manga in April 2020.
Then came Rega in the Sleeping Forest, launched in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in August 2025 and finished on March 9, 2026. The final chapter read like a midpoint, which raised the obvious question of whether the series had been cut short, and the second collected volume closed it out on April 9. Kodansha USA has the license and starts its English release in spring 2027.
Before that, Kokusan Shōjo Clarith started in Shōnen Magazine Edge in December 2022, moved to the Comic Days app in January 2024 when Edge shut down, and stopped at two volumes.
Three publishers in four years, and three premises built on somebody with a grudge and a body count. Whatever else you say about yoruhashi, the author knows the lane.
The revenge angle
The Kingdoms of Ruin ran on the same fuel. Adonis, raised by the witch Chloe, watches the Redia Empire execute her and answers by swearing to destroy humanity. Tatarigatachi swaps an empire for a curse and a teacher for a sister, then points the boy in the same direction. If the opening arc of Kingdoms of Ruin was what hooked you, this looks like more of it, with a mountain god standing in for the empire.
The risk is repetition. Both series open with a dead woman and a boy who decides the world owes him. What separates them will be the world-building, and the announcement gives away almost nothing about how curses work in this one.
What has not been announced
No English release, no simulpub, no confirmed digital storefront outside Japan. Chapter one has a date and a magazine, and that is it. Champion titles do turn up on English services with some regularity, but nothing has been said about this one, and guessing would be a bad habit.
For now the way to read it is the Japanese magazine, in print or through Akita Shoten’s digital channels.
Why it matters
Champion has been rebuilding its lineup, and landing an author with a finished 15-volume series and a TV adaptation on their resume is a decent get for a weekly magazine competing for the same shōnen readers as Jump and Magazine. For readers, the interesting part is the schedule. yoruhashi on a weekly deadline is a different writer than yoruhashi on a monthly one, and the first few chapters will show which version shows up.
Related launches from the past few weeks: Inaba’s new series in Young Dragon Age, Katsuwo’s shōgi manga for Dengeki Daioh G, and Chanta’s Noro-Noro Puku-Puku on Shōnen Jump+.
Source: Anime News Network, citing Weekly Shōnen Champion issue 46 and the magazine’s official X account.
Featured image: Promotional art for yoruhashi’s Tatarigatachi -Dochakushin Geigeki Gakuin-, via Anime News Network.
