What is Choujin X, Sui Ishida’s next series?
His next series keeps the transformation horror and drops the weekly deadline entirely.
Choujin X (超人X) began on Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump website on May 10, 2021. It follows two school friends who inject themselves with a serum and become choujin, humans with monstrous powers: Ishida’s territory of bodies changed against their owners’ plans, drawn in a looser hand than Tokyo Ghoul’s.
The publishing arrangement is the story. Ishida announced from the start that chapters would appear on his own schedule, with no fixed cadence, and that this time he wanted to draw the backgrounds and finishing work himself. The series also ran in print in Weekly Young Jump from October 14, 2021 to February 4, 2022, before continuing on the website alone. Chapters are simulpublished in English by Viz Media and on MANGA Plus as they appear.
THE RECORD
Choujin X · 2021–Launch
Announced November 2020; chapter 1 on Tonari no Young Jump, May 10, 2021.
The schedule
Irregular by design: chapters land when Ishida finishes them, sometimes in bursts. A deliberate answer to seven years of weekly serialisation.
The books
Volumes 1 and 2 together on December 17, 2021; volume 10 followed on July 18, 2024, with the first ten volumes passing 1.8 million copies in circulation including digital.
In English
Simulpublished digitally from launch; Viz’s English print editions began in 2023. No anime adaptation exists as of this writing.