Hirayasumi manga will end on 19 October after five years
Keigo Shinzō's prize-winning slice-of-life manga has two chapters left, with the last one dated for 19 October, as an NHK drama and a January 2027 anime keep the series in view.
Hirayasumi is coming to an end. Keigo Shinzō's slice-of-life manga has two chapters left, and if the magazine's schedule holds, the final one will run on 19 October 2026.
What Shogakukan announced
The 45th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits carried the notice that Hirayasumi will conclude in two more chapters, with the ending dated for 19 October. Shinzō launched the series in the same magazine in April 2021, and Shogakukan published the tenth collected volume on 30 April 2026. The publisher puts Hirayasumi at more than 1.1 million copies in circulation worldwide.
A quiet series that kept collecting prizes
The premise is deliberately uneventful. Hiroto Ikuta is 29, with no girlfriend, no full-time job and no plan for the future, and he is perfectly happy about all three. When he inherits a neighbour's house, his 18-year-old cousin Natsumi moves in, and the manga settles into a study of two people living at very different speeds. That restraint has travelled well. Hirayasumi won the 71st Shogakukan Manga Award, was nominated for the 15th Manga Taishō in January 2022, placed 18th in the 2023 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guide, and picked up nominations for the 27th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in February 2023 and for Best Continuing Manga at the second American Manga Awards.
The adaptations keep arriving
The manga has already produced an NHK live-action drama, which premiered in November 2025, and a television anime is set for January 2027 on NHK General. Viz Media, which publishes the manga in English and shipped volume nine in May, is co-producing the anime with Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions and Production +h, and has announced a 2027 English release.
Our opinion
Ending a series while its adaptation pipeline is still filling is the odd, sensible arithmetic of modern manga. Hirayasumi has been commissioned for television on the strength of a book that never chased a plot, so the anime now arrives as a closed text: a finished story with a beginning, a middle and an ending already in print. That is a far better place for a slow drama to start than an unfinished one, and it also means the adaptation's audience can finish the story online in an afternoon before the anime has had a chance to be its own thing. Shogakukan letting Shinzō stop where the material naturally stops, rather than stretching the series to ride the adaptation boom, is the more valuable decision of the two, and it hands the anime something most adaptations are never given: an ending that was written, not negotiated.