Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service announced on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, that it has begun publishing Kazuya Konomoto and Ryō Yamasaki’s Kami Kill manga in English. The first eight chapters of the quirky, heartfelt, and mysterious tale are immediately available for readers.
Brothers, Barbers, and Baffling Occurrences in Kami Kill
Kami Kill centers on brothers Fuji and Kiri, who operate a small barbershop on a dilapidated shopping street. Their daily struggles to make ends meet are consistently interrupted by peculiar new occurrences that arrive at their doorstep, all while they await their father’s return. The series blends elements of drama and slice-of-life, targeting a seinen demographic. The title itself is a play on “kami kiru,” meaning “to cut hair” in Japanese.
The manga made its initial debut in Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine on August 21. Shueisha is set to release the first compiled book volume of Kami Kill on October 17.
Esteemed Creators Behind the Series
The collaboration brings together acclaimed writer Kazuya Konomoto and artist Ryō Yamasaki. Konomoto is widely recognized for his work on hit titles such as the manga Setoutsumi, and as the screenwriter for the popular original anime Odd Taxi and its subsequent film, The Odd Taxi: In the Woods. He also penned the original anime film The Last Blossom (Housenka). Konomoto’s return to serialized manga with Kami Kill marks his first new original manga in eight years since Setoutsumi.
Ryō Yamasaki, described as a “superstar artist,” contributes the artwork for Kami Kill. His previous work includes an adaptation of the movie Six Singing Women, which was published on Young Jump’s web manga platform, Tonari no Young Jump, in 2023. Yamasaki is also known for his landscape design and community-focused projects, having founded studio-L and authored several books on community design.
