Jūjika no Rokunin
Jūjika no Rokunin is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shiryuu Nakatake. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from March to October 2020, and was transferred to Magazine Pocket app and website from November 2020 to December 2025, with its chapters collected into twenty-three volumes as of January 2026.
By January 2025, the manga had over 4.5 million copies in circulation.
Plot
Jūjika no Rokunin depicts the vengeance of the main character on his bullies. Shun Uruma, a sixth-grade student, is named "Experimental body: A" by five of his classmates and is severely bullied. His only peace was with his brother, who loved him, and his parents, who protected him, until the five bullies killed his mother and father, also putting his brother in a vegetative state. He gets trained by his grandfather, Noboru Uruma, who served in a secret unit during WWII.Pre time-skip
Four years later, Uruma saves a girl, Chizuru Azuma, from a rapist and kills him after she is gone, making him the first kill that he has ever done. After that appears in front of his enemies, torturing and killing each of them. In the whole messs,s he reunites with Jun and Kaname Shirakawa, twins who were classmates with Uruma, and indirectly gets them involved in the final confrontation before the time-skip. Upon confronting the leader of the bullies, Kyou Shigoku, he is revealed to be the leader of a cult called The Revolutionary Club, and he was accompanied by his researchers, people working for him in the revolutionary club, from which the most notable are Momoki and Andou. Jun and Shun are forced to play a twisted game of rock, paper, scissors in which the loser of each round decides the fate of their sibling, Kakeru and Kaname for Shun and Jun, respectively. After the first round, Shun doesn't put out anything, which leads to an automatic loss, and another rule was revealed: when a loss is conceived, the loser's sibling gets a limb to be removed by Andou, one of the researchers, and his chainsaw. After the game, in which Jun thought that there was no punishment for him because he was working with Kyou, he learns his sister's date because of the two losses that he made. On the last round, the game gets interrupted by Shun's grandfather, who has escaped his imprisonment. He kills two of the researchers before Andou kills him with the chainsaw. Shun, after seeing his family get killed, attacks Kyou one last time before he gets left alone at the crime scene, ultimately getting him arrested for 5 years.Post time-skip
During the time-skip, Uruma loses his memories before joining an organization dedicated to targeting criminals called "Juujika-san". He is wearing a cross mask and a black robe to cover his identity while working for the organisation. After he regains his memories, Shun tracks down Andou to a remote island that's owned by the Revolutionary Club, and he travels towards it as a supposed recruit. On the island, he meets Reo and Hanaoka. Reo is the adopted daughter of Kurusu, another recruiter of the Revolutionary Club. After Shun gets discovered, he gets tortured by Andou before his friends Kawana and Doct. Heitami, he escapes the imprisonment and tortures Andou and Kurusu to death with Reo. He retrieves a phone and with Andou's fingerprint,t he can track Kyou.Dr. Kitami, Kawana, and Shun return to being "Juujika-sa,n" and everything goes back to normal for a while before Jun abducts Shun and he makes him watch the death of Azuma, who is revealed to be a clone of the real girl. Shun remembers how he lost his memory, which is revealed to be because Jun shot him with a gun. After that, they decide to return to the place where it all started, the middle schoolthat Shun shared with Kyou. Along the way, he meets a colleague of his grandfather in the Kitayama Corps, Juutarou Kib,e who wants to kill the Uruma bloodline because Noboru stole a girl that he liked, and Shun manages to defeat him. He and Kawana are confronted in front of the school by the parents of the bullies he killed.
Shun then makes his way inside, se,eing Kyou and they have a conversation before he enters a machine that returns him to his childhood. It is revealed that Shun and Kyou were best friends before he went rogstartedd start bullying him. Shun soon gets forced by Kyou to play a twisted version of a game where he has to choose which woman who is close to him diesuntil the last one standing becomes his girlfriend. The women there are Azuma, Kawana, Hanaoka, Oota, and the wife of a police officer whom Shun killed. As the game progresses,gresses Shun does everything that he can do to not kill anyone,ne but he is forced to press a button, which kills the police officer. From that point on, Ardss Kyou forces the game to continue, computer-generated arrow chooses Hanaoka as the next target. After her death, the arrow chooses Azuma, who is injected with a serum created by Momoki that makes her lose all of her senses before shdiesed as well. Reo successfully interrupts the game when she brings in a baby that is mummified, revealed to be a child of Kyou and Momoki. The current latest chapter reveals Shun escaping with the rest of the girls that has survived and Reo, and how Kyou "kills" the baby with a shotgun before aiming at Shun. Luckily for Shun and Reo, Momoki kisses Kyou as they escape. After that,Kyou hits Momo, ki, and the readers are revealed a flashback that shows the start of a sex scene between Momoki and K,, you.
Later, Shun and Kyou finally face off,,ce off which results in both Kyou and Uruma's deaths.
Characters
Main
;Shun Uruma;Chizuru Azuma
Supporting
Uruma's Family
;Noboru Uruma;Kakeru Uruma
;Mr. and Mrs. Uma
Meiseki High (明関高校 ''Meiseki Kōkō'')
;Kaname Shirakawa;Jun Shirakawa
;Anna Sugisaki
Metropolitan Police Department
;Zen'ichi AnzaiJuujika-san (十字架さん)
;Kougo Kitami;Mimi Kawana
Antagonists
;Kyou ShigokuUruma's Bullies
;Daichi Kuga;Hiro Madoka
;Yuuga Ushiro
;Katsumi Senkouji
The Revolution Club (革命倶楽部 ''Kakumei Kurabu'')
;Midori Andou;Sanae Momoki
;Takashi Nogi
;Miguel
Others
;Da ki Kawashima;Karen Sakuraba
;Ganno
;Maki
;Juutarou Kibe
Media
Manga
Jūjika no Rokunin, written and illustrated by Shiryuu Nakatake, began serialization in Kodansha's monthly manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on March 9, 2020. The manga was serialized in the magazine until October 9 of the same year, and was then transferred to the publisher's Magazine Pocket online platform starting on November 5 of the same year. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on August 7, 2020. As of January 8, 2026, twenty-three volumes have been released.In France, the manga is licensed by Delcourt/Tonkam, and in Italy by Star Comics.
Chapters not yet in ''tankōbon'' format
- Chapter 225: Hiding Something
- Chapter 226: Sorry
- Chapter 227: Human Pain
- Chapter 228: A Taste of Your Own Medicine
- Chapter 229: Apology
- Chapter 230: Where Am I Heading?
- Chapter 231: Memory of Justice
- Chapter 232: The Sixth
Reception
By March 2022, the manga had over 1 million copies in circulation, over 3.5 million copies in circulation by May 2024, and over 4.5 million copies in circulation by January 2025.Manga Sanctuary called the manga's first volume exciting and excellent, with a quest for revenge in Dexter Morgan's background, stating the manga is captivating from start to finish and downright dark at times. AnimeClick.it felt that the manga is extreme and bloody and similar to Dexter with the brutality of Saw and Hostel, said: "Its story is full of disturbing and shocking moments, wildly weird and clearly entertaining," They describe the manga design style as "aggressive", adding: "The characters emotions are often distorted, with antagonists who seem to be the idealized embodiment of pure evil and a protagonist who is brutally violent and seeks revenge."