Ajin: Demi-Human Complete 5

by Gamon Sakurai

Genres: Manga

580 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2025

About the author

Also known as 桜井画門.

Gamon Sakurai is a Japanese comic book artist from Tokyo. Born in 1986, Sakurai was selected for the Afternoon Magazine Four Seasons Award for New Comic Artists. Upon being selected for the award his short story was published and he was selected for editorial review by manga publishing giant Kodansha. Sakurai would make his publishing debut with indie publisher Issuisha in 2010, releasing a short story anthology. He would then work with Kodansha to work on his first feature length series AJIN: Demi-human in 2012.

Reviews

[William Moses Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of those stories where time flies and I'm having a blast. And I can't stop thinking that the antagonist is one hell of a badass. The plans, and their execution, brilliant. And the protagonist, amazing. I'm absolutely loving this and now we're almost at the end. Let's see how things end.

Also, as an aside. The stylistic choice they use to delimit flashbacks from the present is quite nice. Seeing that sequence of black-edged pages helps set up expectations for how long we're not in the present and it also makes it easy to notice the switch up.