This year has been a wild one for Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and their latest cancellation means that ten major entries have ended their run just in 2025 alone. Shonen Jump kicked the year off going through some major changes. After losing two of its biggest and longest franchises towards the end of 2024 with My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen ending, 2025 has revealed an even bigger wave of losses coming for the magazine. But while some series have been able to reach their natural end, many of the others this year have been straight up cancelled to clear up room for new additions.
The latest issue of Shonen Jump magazine has cancelled yet another series with the final chapter of Suganuma Tatsuya’s Nice Prison released. This manga has been cancelled just a few months into its serialization, and has been capped off at 19 chapters. But this also marks an unfortunate milestone for the magazine this year as this now means ten series have reached their end in just 2025 alone. But the majority of them have been through cancellation rather than the creator getting to end it themselves.
Shonen Jump Ends Its 10th Manga Series in 2025
With Nice Prison being cancelled this week, Shonen Jump’s ended series in 2025 include:
- Undead Unluck
- Mission: Yozakura Family
- It will not
- Astro Royale
- Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery
- Super Psychic Policeman Chojo
- Star of Beethoven
- Embers
- Kill Blue
- Nice Prison
Unfortunately, out of the ten series that have ended, only three of them were actually brought to their official ending with Shonen Jump. Undead Unluck and Mission: Yozakura Family were allowed to reach their proper conclusions, and it was the same with Kill Blue just earlier this month (as it gets ready to come back with a new anime). There’s a bit of debate over whether or not this was the case for each series as it seemed like each one was being rushed to their conclusion, but it’s at least a better case than the seven others that were cancelled after short runs.
Astro Royale and Syd: Craft Love is a Mystery got to have at least a full enough run to tell a few of their story arcs (with Astro Royale managing to make it through an entire year of serialization before its cancellation), but the others weren’t subject to that same fate. Nice Prison, for example, didn’t even get to make it to the 20 chapter mark before its own finale. As the year continues, there could be even more cancellations or even proper series finales on the way.
What Does This Mean for Shonen Jump’s Future?
This number of cancellations and endings within the magazine does paint a poor image of health for Shonen Jump this year, but at the same time its franchises are finding new success regardless. Without its former pillars, new series have started to make their mark with fans. This includes running hits celebrating their first year of serialization like Kagurabachi, Ichi the Witchand Hima-Ten!and series introduced just this year that are already making waves.
Series such like Kaedegami, Otr of the Flameand franchise sequels like Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo are already showing a lot of promise for what could be a genuinely long run for their stories, and that’s a better indication of the health of the magazine. Because while this number of endings is worrying for a single year, there’s also a lot of others that are really starting to pick up.
