'If You Don’t Have a Hit You Get Canceled': Award-Winning Shonen Jump Series Discontinued After 1 Year
An award-winning manga collection featured in Shonen Jump and Manga Plus will finish after one yr of serialization. NoIdentify by creator Rafal Jaki and illustrator Machine Gamu will conclude its story in February with Chapter 14.
Jaki, who served as showrunner and government producer on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, broke the disappointing information to followers on X (previously Twitter). “As Chapter 13 is out, I wanted to announce that NoName will be ending with Chapter 14,” Jaki mentioned on X. “I wanted to thank all the readers – I was really happy that the story of Ula and Ralf could become a very small part of your life. I wish we could have done more, but me and Gamu are already working on a new series, and we hope you will check it out once it is ready. You can still read all the chapters for free.”
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When a fan requested Jaki if ending NoIdentify was a private or outdoors choice, Jaki responded: “We planned the first arc for around 360 pages, but if we could continue, we would. The harsh reality of JUMP+ is that if you don’t have a hit, you get canceled. That being said, we are grateful for the opportunity and hope to come back stronger.” Jaki additionally confirmed that Volume 2 of the manga will nonetheless be printed in Japan. “I’m happy how the story has ended,” Jaki mentioned. “You will have to wait 2 weeks to find out.”
“In a world where peoples’ names grant them superhuman powers… Two agents from the Nordic Naming Bureau (NNB), an agency specialized in investigating crimes committed by ‘Namers,’ handle the case of a man and his missing wife and son,” the official description of NoIdentify on the Manga Plus app reads. “Things take a turn, however, when the duo come face to face with the man, who wishes to give his son the same name as himself…” The collection started as a one-shot printed on the Manga Plus Creators platform in September 2023 and commenced serialization on Shonen Jump+ in January 2024.
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NoName won Manga Plus Creators’ first-ever Gold Award in November 2023. Jaki celebrated the win of 1,000,000 yen (US$6,800) and the chance to be serialized simultaneously on Manga Plus and Shonen Jump by sharing a particular illustration of Ursula in her big bear type on X. In addition to the award-winning fame, NoIdentify was the primary non-Japanese manga collection to be serialized in Shonen Jump.
Although NoIdentify’s Shonen Jump run was comparatively short-lived, its recognition for excellence and yr of serialization is one other instance of the growing international influence on Japan’s anime and manga industry. Authors like inee, the creator behind the hit ladies’ love motion collection Love Bullet, which might possible have been canceled if not for fan help worldwide, are releasing manga series in Japan despite living in the United States.
Source: X (formerly Twitter), Manga Plus
