Uzono Shiniko Hōkoku manga ends with its fourth volume

Kadokawa has listed the fourth volume of Uzono Shiniko Hōkoku as the final entry in the series. The volume goes on sale on January 7 and closes out a work that began in December 2024 on ComicWalker.

The confirmation comes via the publisher's catalog, which already identifies that fourth book as the end. There is no announcement from the author or Kadokawa explaining the decision, and it has not been detailed whether the volume will include additional material.

Gonbe Shinkawa's manga adapts the novel of the same name by Bunkichi Majima. Asahiro Kakashi is credited with storyboard composition. MangaUpdates lists it under horror, mystery, and seinen, and describes it as an episodic work of short chapters built on a previous novel.

A disturbing premise

The story revolves around an informal investigation sustained since 1892 by the Japanese government, the military, research agencies, and ordinary citizens. The phenomenon that gives the manga its name has a simple and disturbing rule: if the name of a person, an animal, or an inanimate object is changed to "Uzono Shiniko," it suddenly attracts disasters.

That episodic mechanic has carried the series through three volumes. The fourth, scheduled for January 7, should close the case. For now there is no English license or announced Spanish edition, so the ending is only guaranteed in the Japanese market.

Shinkawa's track record at Kadokawa

Shinkawa does not reach this ending without history at the publisher. In June 2021, he launched The Witch and the Knight Will Survive with Dai Chikamoto on the Young Ace Up site. That series ended with its third collected volume, published in Japan in October 2023.

Yen Press released the final volume of that work in English in October 2024. The same publisher handles two other works by the author: The Wolf Never Sleeps, with Shien Bis, and Yokohama Station SF, with Yuba Isukari.

A listing that still marks it as ongoing

MangaUpdates, updated on March 27, 2026, still listed Uzono Shiniko Hōkoku as an open series. The confirmation of the ending comes from Kadokawa's catalog and not from that database.

With the January 7 date on the table, it remains to be seen whether the fourth volume wraps up the story with an epilogue. For now, the only certainty is that the series says goodbye in Japan with that volume.