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Shuu Katayama's Shishō Series Manga Ends in March

The April issue of Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine revealed on Wednesday that Shuu Katayama's Shishō Series manga will end in the magazine's next issue on March 30.

The manga is an adaptation of uni's occult stories. The author began posting the stories on the Japanese image board 2channel (2chan) and on the pixiv image sharing website in 2003. The series has more than 100 stories, and includes numerous side stories and various fan art on fan sites.

The series is told from the point of view of an unnamed character who befriends an upperclassman at his college club. This upperclassman has the ability to see supernatural beings and events, and the main character begins calling him by "shishō" or "master teacher."

Katayama launched the manga in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in 2013. Shonengahosha published the manga's sixth volume last September. The manga also inspired a comedy spinoff manga titled Shishō Series - Shishō to Boku to, which launched in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours GH in October 2014, and ended in December 2016. Yūga Takauchi drew the manga.

uni compiled some of the stories into two novels that Futabasha published in 2014. The series also received a radio drama adaptation that began in August 2016. A live-action film, television series, and television anime was planned for the series, but has not yet materialized. At the time of the announcement, Mahiro Takasugi was announced as the "image character" for the anime, which would have been a hybrid of both live-action and anime. Studio Pierrot Plus was the planned studio for the anime, and a promotional video was streamed.