Ushijima the Loan Shark Gets New 1-Shot Set 10 Years After Manga's End
Manga creator Shohei Manabe announced on September 1 that he will draw a new one-shot for his Ushijima the Loan Shark manga. Manabe's announcement says the one-shot will have 38 pages, but the combined 42nd and 43rd issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine revealed on Monday that the one-shot will have 34 pages. The manga will be on display for an exhibition for the manga that is being held from September 19 through October 4 at Yurakucho Marui in Tokyo. Manabe stated there are no plans to release the one-shot outside of the exhibition.
大大大好評だった
— 真鍋昌平 九条の大罪17巻8月3日発売 (@shoheimanabe) September 1, 2026
闇金ウシジマくん原画展！
最後の集大成として
銀座有楽町マルイで開催決定！
そして今回最終話から
10年後を描いた
闇金エザキくん38pの短編漫画を
原画展のために描きおろしました！全ページ特大サイズで展示します！
他で発表する予定はありません
是非会場で読んでください！！ pic.twitter.com/aiEAKaxM75
The one-shot will be set 10 years after the end of the manga's story.
Manabe launched the manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2004, and ended the series in March 2019. The manga's 46th and final volume shipped in May 2019.
Youichi launched a spinoff manga titled Namerikawa-gumi Yakuza Meshi (Namerikawa Group's Yakuza Meals) in March 2025.
Yū Hayato launched the ongoing Yamikin Ushijima-kun Gaiden: Nikumamushi Densetsu (Ushijima the Loan Shark Side Story: The Legend of Nikumamushi) spinoff manga on Yawaraka Spirits in February 2017. Shogakukan published the manga's 26th volume on July 30.
Dōdō Yamazaki launched the Yamikin Ushijima-kun Gaiden: Ramen Namerikawa-san (Ushijima the Loan Shark Side Story: Ramen Namerikawa) spinoff manga also on Yawaraka Spirits in December 2017. The manga ended in its fifth volume in May 2019.
Satoshi Sasasani launched a spinoff manga titled Naniwa Time Leap Aizawa-kun (Osaka Time Traveling Aizawa-kun) in Shogakukan's Monthly Spirits magazine in April 2024.
Yamazaki launched the ongoing Shōnen-in Ushijima-kun (Ushijima-kun in Penal School) spinoff manga on Shogakukan's Manga ONE app in January 2023.
The main Ushijima the Loan Shark manga won in the General category of the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2011. The series was nominated for an Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2008 and 2010, as well as for France's Angoulême Comics Awards in 2008.
The manga's live-action television series adaptation ran from October-December 2010, and the first film opened in August 2012. A second season premiered in January 2014, with a second film then premiering in May 2014. The third season premiered in July 2016, while the third film opened in Japan in September 2016. The fourth and final live-action film, Yamikin Ushijima-kun The Final, opened in Japan in October 2016. A live-action spinoff series titled Yamikin Ushijima-kun Gaiden Yamikin Saihara-san (Ushijima the Loan Shark Side Story: Saihara the Loan Shark) premiered in Japan in September 2022.
Sources: Weekly Big Comic Spirits issue 42/43, Shohei Manabe's X/Twitter account
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