Two years after My Hero Academia ended, Kohei Horikoshi is back — and his new horror one-shot, Quit Laughing Shijima (Warawanaide yo Shijima-san), landed in Weekly Shonen Jump today and is free to read on MANGA Plus right now.
Read Quit Laughing Shijima Right Now on MANGA Plus
The 61-page one-shot published today in Japan in Weekly Shonen Jump combined Issue #37/38, and is simultaneously live on MANGA Plus by Shueisha — free, no subscription needed, and fully accessible in Singapore without a VPN. When we covered the announcement last month, the premise had us intrigued; today the full story is actually there to read.
MANGA Plus publishes new Weekly Shonen Jump chapters simultaneously with Japan, so Singapore readers are getting the exact same first look as readers in Tokyo.
A Smile That Hides Something Sinister
Horikoshi describes Quit Laughing Shijima as a “boy-meets-girl horror” story. A boy arrives in a small town where everyone seemingly adores a laughing girl named Shijima — but beneath that smile something is deeply wrong. The cover art, showing Shijima looming giant over a coastal cityscape while grinning and holding a chain, makes no effort to hide the unsettling premise. The one-shot includes a centre colour spread that gives Horikoshi space to flex the visual craft that MHA fans know well.
His First Shonen Jump Work Since My Hero Academia
This is the first thing Horikoshi has published in Weekly Shonen Jump since My Hero Academia concluded in August 2024, after a 10-year run that amassed more than 100 million copies in circulation worldwide. The franchise still lives on — I Am a Hero Too is streaming on Crunchyroll, and the games and merchandise keep coming — but this one-shot marks Horikoshi stepping back into new territory as a storyteller rather than just continuing an existing brand.
It is a standalone one-shot for now, meaning you can read the complete story in a single sitting today. Whether Shueisha picks it up as an ongoing series will depend on reader response. For more manga news from Japan, head to our Manga & Anime section.