'Kill Ao' Manga Ends, Gets TV Anime in 2026

by DatRandomDude
Aug 31, 2025 9:10 AM | 12 Comments

Production company DMM Pictures opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Kill Ao (Kill Blue) manga, revealing the main staff, teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere in 2026. The manga also ended with the 115th chapter in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine on the same day.

Staff
Director: Hiro Kaburagi (Great Pretender, 91 Days)
Character Design: Miho Daidouji (Ao Ashi sub-character design, Kimi ni Todoke 3rd Season chief animation director)
Sound Director: Shouji Hata (Sousou no Frieren, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
Studio: Cue

Fujimaki (Kuroko no Basket) began drawing the action comedy manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in April 2023. Shueisha published the tenth volume on July 4, with the 11th volume scheduled for release on September 4.

VIZ Media licensed the manga for English release in October 2024, and published the second volume on August 5, with the third volume scheduled for October 14 release. Shueisha began simulpublishing the manga in English on its Manga Plus website in April 2023.

Synopsis
Juuzou Oogami's a legend. Even among hit men, his name sends shivers down their spines. There's never been a job he couldn't handle—that is, until the day he awoke as a teenager! But how did his body transform? To find out, he'll have to infiltrate the one place he never thought he'd find himself in...school! (Source: VIZ Media)

Teaser PV

Official site: https://kill-blue.jp/
Official X: @KILLBLUE_PR

Source: PR Times

Kill Ao on MAL

12 Comments Recent Comments

I enjoyed Kill Blue's weekly chapters despite writing a not recommended review for it's manga, the rumoured axing of it being causal of it's abrupt ending was just so detrimental to the series as a whole for me. Hopefully a short anime will be able to get it's pacing right. This series has potential to be something fun.

Sep 2, 2025 5:05 AM by k3woru

good director and animation looking solid, will read the manga (which apparently got axed) and look forward to it.

Sep 2, 2025 4:26 AM by ryoko6

Omg let’s go!! I’ve been wanting to read the manga. I’m glad it’s getting adapted.

Sep 1, 2025 11:58 AM by imjayhime

Nepotism didn't stop the axe, but did get it an anime, smh.

Sep 1, 2025 3:31 AM by ReaperCreeper

Was Kill Blue axed recently?, because I'm surprised that the manga got an anime adaptation as it wasn't nearly as popular as Skaamoto Days in Weekly Shonen Jump or Spy x Family.

Aug 31, 2025 12:49 PM by AddaeAkono

Another action comedy in the style of "a cool fighting professional gets into comedic silly situations"? Is Spy x Family still that influential?

Aug 31, 2025 12:06 PM by RobertBobert

Surprised that this out of all the Jump manga is getting an anime adaptation. But good for Fujimaki, I guess.

Aug 31, 2025 10:45 AM by FMmatron

Literally last month, I made a comment on how this had no anime adaptation yet: https://xss.now.cc/forum/?topicid=2222164&msgid=72994893

And now, 1 month later, an anime for it is announced. But yeah, manga rating is 6.65 on MAL (with 2.3k votes)? Gonna keep my expectations low for this action-comedy.

Youchien Wars anime when? Gokurakugai anime when?

Aug 31, 2025 10:31 AM by wildhood

The manga became repetitive and boring. Let's hope the pacing and other problem will be solved in the anime version

Aug 31, 2025 10:04 AM by Yubisoft

@jacobPOL i doubt they will do 4 cours for this considering its an unpopular manga so best they can do is how summer time rending anime adaptation did all 130+ chapters in just 2 cours

Aug 31, 2025 9:45 AM by deg

@deg I doubt and this will be massively rushed through considering it depends on the density of the chapters as well, most weekly manga not necesarily text heavy and crammed at the same time like gintama detective conan per chapter for example but are still dense to very dense when it comes to density per chapter how many things can be going on thus also this translates to most anime adaptations based on weekly manga as well with them adapting 2 to 3 chapters thus adapting 60 chapters in 24 eps.

Aug 31, 2025 9:43 AM by jacobPOL

only 115 chapters so they can do it in 2 cours anime adaptation if they want like how summer time rendering did

Aug 31, 2025 9:16 AM by deg