Shiretto Sugee koto Itteru Gal is taking a break. The manga’s staff announced on Wednesday that the series is going on hiatus and will return sometime in February or March next year, roughly four to five months away.
The break is not a full stop for the artwork. Illustrator Otsuji will draw special illustrations for the manga during the hiatus, and those will run on the series’ Tonari no Young Jump and Young Jump+ pages.
What the series is
Taichi Matsuura writes it and Otsuji draws it. The two leads are high school gyaru: Mirai Misato, who can see the future, and “Heeko” Taira, who can travel between parallel universes. Neither power gets in the way of ordinary school life. They mostly use them as an excuse to say strange things to each other.
It is based on Shiritsu Paranormal Kōkō, a short web anime channel from Plott, which is where the premise and the two characters come from. The manga’s full title, Gals casually say incredible things. -The daily life of Paranormal High School-, spells out the joke up front.
Matsuura and Otsuji launched the manga on Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump and Young Jump+ services in November 2023. Shueisha published the fifth compiled volume on March 18, and the sixth volume is set for November 18, which means it ships into the middle of the break.
The timing is awkward
That November 18 date is the part readers will notice. A new volume arriving a week before the series goes quiet leaves the release as the last piece of new material for months.
Hiatus announcements on Tonari no Young Jump have been common this year, and the reasons given usually stay vague. This one gives no cause at all, just a window for the return. The special illustrations are a small consolation, and a deliberate one: keeping the series visible on the platform while it is not running.
Who else is involved
Otsuji has another serialization with more momentum. She launched My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked, or Ibitte Konai Gibo to Gishi, in Ichijinsha’s Comic POOL digital magazine in November 2020. Ichijinsha published the 10th volume on August 25, and Seven Seas puts out the English edition, with the eighth volume arriving on June 23.
That series also has an anime. It debuted on July 8, and REMOW’s free “It’s Anime” YouTube channel streamed it. So Otsuji has a running manga, a fresh anime adaptation, and a second series going on a five-month break at the same time. Something had to give, and the newer title with the smaller following is the one that did.
What happens next
The manga returns in February or March 2027, with no exact date yet. Chapters already published stay up on Tonari no Young Jump and Young Jump+, so the back catalog is readable during the pause. The sixth volume ships November 18 as planned.
For anyone who wants to start now, the series is short by ongoing-manga standards. Five volumes exist, a sixth is days away, and the premise is easy to pick up in a chapter or two. The break is long enough that new readers can catch up without falling behind.
Breaks like this have been piling up. We reported on Gachiakuta returning on November 11 and on Go! Go! Loser Ranger! coming back from its own health hiatus.
Source: Tonari no Young Jump and Young Jump+, via Anime News Network.
Featured image: Shiretto Sugee koto Itteru Gal manga artwork, via Shueisha / Anime News Network.
