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Ire Yonemoto's Wild Strawberry Manga Approaches Conclusion (Updated)

Shonen Jump's X/Twitter account reported on Thursday that Ire Yonemoto's Wild Strawberry manga is approaching its conclusion. The manga creator drew an illustration teasing the "final showdown."

Update on August 8: The manga will end in its next chapter on August 22. The seventh volume will ship on September 4.

Although not related by blood, Kingo and Kayano have grown up together in an orphanage and are the closest thing either of them has to a family. When it seems that their dreams of being adopted are about to come true, their new parents turn out to be Jinka! Just as Kingo is about to be eaten, a Jinka blooms in Kayano…but her Jinka is very different. It doesn't attempt to hurt Kingo or other humans. Kingo must do everything he can to keep his sister's affliction a secret so she doesn't get pruned. One day, while working as a lowly grunt for the Flower Funeral Forces, Kingo gets an alert about a Jinka near his apartment. He rushes to the scene to find Kayano surrounded, and earns himself a bullet through the head for trying to save her. But when he wakes up, he's in a mysterious pruning facility, his sister is gone, and he is now infected by a Jinka himself—Kayano.

Yonemoto launched the manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ platform in July 2023. The company published the fifth compiled volume of the manga on February 4. Shueisha's MANGA Plus and Viz Media's Shonen Jump+ services are publishing the manga in English as it comes out in Japan. The 42nd chapter of the manga debuted on April 17.

Viz Media digitally released the second compiled volume of the manga in English on February 25.

Source: Shonen Jump's X/Twitter account