Chanta's Noro-Noro Puku-Puku debuts on Shonen Jump+

Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ has a new Monday fixture, and its heroine's problem is unusually specific: she has to exorcise 108 curses with a black cat stuck to her head.

What has launched

The manga is Noro-Noro Puku-Puku by Chanta, and its first chapter went up on Shonen Jump+ on Monday 5 October 2026. It runs weekly on Mondays, and the opening chapter is free to read on the platform.

A shrine maiden with a punishment problem

The premise, as the manga's own page sets it out, is a sentence rather than a curse. Suzu is a shrine maiden of rare bad karma who finally draws divine punishment, and the punishment is a job: exorcise 108 curses, working alongside Puku, the black cat that has taken up residence on her head. Chanta frames it on the page as an absurdist exorcism comedy, and the 108 figure is the whole engine of the joke, because it turns a one-off haunting into an itemised, seemingly endless workload.

Who Chanta is

Chanta is the creator of Sachi-roku, the Shonen Jump+ series carried in English as Sachi's Records: Sachi's Book of Revelation. That earlier book traded in the same collision of mundane routine and the supernatural, and Noro-Noro Puku-Puku reads as a faster, flatter version of the same instinct: a girl, a curse, and a running count she cannot argue her way out of.

Our opinion

The interesting thing about the setup is that it is a serialisation built out of admin. Most exorcism manga give their lead a single rival or a single sealed evil and let escalation do the work; Chanta has instead handed Suzu a numbered list, which is a much better fit for a weekly comic, because the reader always knows how far along she is and how far she is not. Puku is the other half of that bet. A companion who lives on the heroine's head is a permanent visual gag and a permanent excuse to talk out loud, and it is the cheapest possible way to keep a two-hander on the page without inventing a supporting cast. Whether the count reads as a clock or a leash is the question the first arc has to answer, and putting a first chapter up free on Shonen Jump+ is the standard way Shueisha tests that question where it counts. For Chanta, the platform is not neutral either. Shonen Jump+ is where the publisher lets its odder comedies find an audience before they have to justify a print run, and a premise this deliberately small is exactly the kind of thing that either becomes a quietly long runner or vanishes in ten weeks.