This year’s eighth issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine revealed on Monday that Shohei Manabe’s Ushijima the Loan Shark (Yamikin Ushijima-kun) manga will end in five chapters.
The manga has been running in Weekly Big Comic Spirits since 2004, and Shogakukan published the 44th compiled book volume last October.
The manga won in the General category of the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2011.
The fourth and final live-action film, Yamikin Ushijima-kun The Final, opened in Japan in October 2016.