Ichi the Witch Manga Debuts in Shonen Jump

There’s a new Shonen Jump manga series, and it is Ichi the Witch. The first chapter is available worldwide, and people can read it for free on MangaPlus and Viz Media’s sites.

Aside from the fact that this is a new Shonen Jump manga series, another reason this release is so notable is the writer behind Ichi the Witch. The author is Osamu Nishi. Previously, she created Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun. Shiro Usazaki is the artist behind it.

Ichi is a young man known for his hunting prowess who lives on Druid Mountain after being abandoned there as a child. He expresses his desire is to hunt and defeat an unknown entity he discovered also living there, concerned about it being a threat to the people in the nearby village. 

It turns out Ichi gets his chance to face it, as a number of the young women from the town heading out to the capital for a test. They end up catching that creature’s attention. It turns out that being is a Majik, with a witch Desscaras also dispatched there to investigate. Women who pass a Majik’s test can become witches. However, in the series’ world, it’s proven impossible for men to become witches. So, we see what happens when an extraordinary young man ends up in a life-changing situation and gains that kind of power.

Chapter 2 of Ichi the Witch will debut in Shonen Jump and on manga sites like MangaPlus and Viz on September 15, 2024.