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Ryo Minenami Ends Boy's Abyss Manga in 5 Chapters

Ryo Minenami announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that the Boy's Abyss (Shōnen no Abyss) manga will end in five chapters. The first of these last five chapters is the 179th chapter, which ran in the 29th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine on Thursday. If there are no delays, the manga will end on July 18.

Minenami previously announced in January that the manga will end this year. The manga entered its final arc on February 8.

Viz Media licensed the manga, and released the fourth volume in English on January 23. Viz Media describes the manga:

Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss.

Reiji's life is as miserable as the small town he can't escape. The most interesting thing that's ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?

Reiji's mother is checked out, he's stuck caring for his grandmother with dementia, and his childhood friend treats him like a lackey. Then beautiful, big-city pop star Nagi miraculously shows up working the counter at the local convenience store. Reiji is starstruck. When she offers him the ultimate way out of his claustrophobic existence, will he succumb to temptation…?

Minenami launched the manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in February 2020. Shueisha published the manga's 16th compiled book volume on March 18, and will publish the 17th volume on July 19.

The manga inspired a live-action series adaptation, which premiered in Japan in September 2022.

Source: Ryo Minenami's X/Twitter account