A legendary assassin wakes up as a teenager when ‘Kill Blue’ volume 1 debuts next month

(Featured Image Source: ©Tadatoshi Fujimaki / Viz Media / Shueisha, Shonen Jump)

What happens when one of the world’s best assassins wakes up as a teenager!? He heads back to school! See Juzo Ogami’s school adventure when Kill Blue volume 1 debuts next month.

“Juzo Ogami’s a legend. Even among hit men, his name sends shivers down spines. There’s never been a job he couldn’t handle—that is, until the day he wakes up as a teenager! But how has his body transformed? To find out, he’ll have to infiltrate the one place he thought he’d never find himself in again…school!”

via Viz Media

Kill Blue is an action-adventure comedy manga series written and illustrated by Tadatosi Fujimaki and published in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump. The series follows Juzo Ogami, a talented and feared 40-year-old hitman who awakens as a teenager. With no other options, he takes on a special job: attending a new school to see if it is right for his boss’s daughter. However, this new assignment may unexpectedly lead him to what caused his current condition.

Kill Blue volume 1 will be released on June 3, 2025, in paperback and digital form. You can pre-order your copy at Viz.com or get it at your local comic / book shops.

(Source: Viz Media)

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