The Law of Ueki shonen manga is officially getting a new one-shot chapter over 16 years since its conclusion. The announcement was made on the Weekly Shonen Sunday website, with the new one-shot set to be published in the magazine’s first issue of 2025, set for release on December 4.
The story of the one-shot is set after the conclusion of the battles to determine the “Next God” and will show an “unknown battle” that happened afterward.
Tsubasa Fukuchi wrote and illustrated the The Law of Ueki manga series. It was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine from July 2001 to October 2004, with its chapters compiled into 16 volumes. A sequel, The Law of Ueki Plus, was serialized in the same magazine from April 2005 to June 2007, getting compiled into a total of 5 volumes. The author also shared the news about the new one-shot on his X/Twitter account:
His message reads: “(ZZZ… Zzzzz… Can you hear me…? To the heart of those who used to read… The Law of Ueki… I’m speaking to you directly… Next week… Please read Weekly Shonen Sunday Issue #1… One-shot… The Law of Ueki: Exhibition… will be published… 16 years since the last one… A new one-shot… Tell… your friends from back then… Zzz… Zzzzz…)”
VIZ Media licensed the manga in English, and they describe the story:
In a world of powerful celestial beings, an epic contest is being conducted to select the next king! Each Celestial selects a kid in junior high to be his champion and grants him a special power. The kids battle it out–losers are eliminated, and the winners are granted new talents!
Seemingly ordinary Kosuke Ueki has been chosen to be a contender in the tournament. Granted the power to change trash into trees, Ueki has two disadvantages to overcome–one, he doesn’t know he’s a participant in the tournament, and two, how the heck can anyone win a battle with the power to turn trash into trees?
The series also got a 51-episode TV anime adaptation by Studio DEEN. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 2005 to March 2006. In North America, Geneon licensed it in 2005, with Discotek Media acquiring it in 2018.
Source: Official X (formerly Twitter)
©Tsubasa Fukuchi / Shogakukan
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