The manga “Ruri Dragon”, which has been suspended since August 2022 in Weekly Shonen Jump, will be published in issue 14 of the same magazine on March 4th, and 5 chapters will be published in the digital version of Weekly Shonen Jump and Shonen from April 22nd. It was announced on the work’s official X (formerly Twitter) on the 21st that it would be published every other issue of Jump+.
The series will be resumed for the first time in about 1 year and 7 months from Weekly Shonen Jump issue 14 released on March 4th, and episodes 7 to 11 will be published every week. From April 22nd, the 12th episode will be transferred to the digital version of Weekly Shonen Jump and Shonen Jump +, and will be published every other issue.
This work is a serialized one-shot that was published in the special issue of “Jump GIGA”, and the voice comic has been viewed a total of 2 million times on YouTube.
The main character is a girl who suddenly wakes up in the morning with a horn growing on her head, and is revealed to be the child of a dragon and a human. After that, she goes to school and is surprised and teased by her friends, a story that loosely depicts her daily life as a dragon girl.
Serialization began in “Weekly Shonen Jump” in June 2022, but in August of the same year, it was reported that the series would be suspended for a while due to the poor health of the author, Shindo Masaoki.
The announcement regarding the “Ruri Dragon” serialization is as follows:
We apologize for the inconvenience and inconvenience to our readers who have been on hiatus for a long time and have been waiting for the continuation. We are very sorry. After many discussions with Shindo-san, it was decided that “Ruri Dragon” will be serialized every other issue in the digital versions of Weekly Shonen Jump and Shonen Jump +. In the paper version of Weekly Shonen Jump, episodes 7 to 11 of issue 14 will be published every week, and from episode 12 onwards, they will be published every other issue. Thank you for your continued support.
Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department