No. Not even close, and honestly I don’t think Buncololi has any interest in landing this plane anytime soon.
Sasaki and Peeps is sitting at 13 volumes in Japan and still going, with the web novel version chugging along on Kakuyomu since somewhere around the end of 2018. I got asked about this series twice in the same week after the Season 2 announcement started making the rounds, which tells me a bunch of people watched the anime back in Winter 2024, forgot about it, and are now going “wait, that bird show, was that actually good?” Fair question. The books are where the answer lives, and the books are very much a work in progress.
TL;DR
- Sasaki and Peeps is NOT finished. 13 volumes in Japan (MF Books/KADOKAWA), ongoing, no ending announced. The web novel has been running on Kakuyomu since late 2018. English release from Yen On is at 8 volumes and moving at a genuinely respectable pace. Season 2 of the anime lands Fall 2026 from SILVER LINK. If you’re waiting for a complete series before starting, you’re going to be waiting years.
How Many Volumes Are There?
Thirteen as of right now, published under MF Books, and I want to flag something for anyone cross-checking me: MangaUpdates still lists 11, which is stale. BookWalker Japan has all 13 up with their volume subtitles and everything, so that’s the number I trust. This kind of database lag happens constantly with MF Books titles for some reason (I’ve never bothered figuring out why, though I notice it enough that maybe I should
The print run started in January 2021, so the series has been averaging something like two and a half volumes a year. That’s a healthy clip. Not Bookworm-level output, but Bookworm is a machine and comparing anyone to it is unfair — looking at you, every publisher blurb that ever tried.
The volumes themselves are long, too. This matters for the “when will it end” math more than people think. A 13-volume series where each book is a brick covers a lot more story than 13 volumes of a standard rom-com. Which is part of why the anime only got through one volume in twelve episodes, but that’s a whole separate article I’ve got coming.
Where Is the English Release At?
Yen On has 8 of the 13 out in English, and I’m about to say something I basically never get to say: the localization pace is fine. Good, even. I have a standing grudge against Yen Press pacing that regular readers have heard me air out plenty of times, and this series just does not give me the ammunition. Eight volumes deep with a five-volume gap on an ongoing series is the kind of gap that closes, not the kind that becomes a permanent scar like some series I could name that will never finish anything ever (No Game No Life, hi).
For the record, I read the first two volumes in English when they came out and then jumped ahead cause I got impatient around the death game arc. The translation reads smoothly, though whoever decided how to render Peeps’ speaking style made a choice I’m still not sure about. The sparrow talks like a distinguished old man, which is correct, but theres a stiffness to it in English that I dont remember bothering me when people described the Japanese phrasing. Minor thing. It didn’t stop me buying the next volume.
Is There Any Sign of an Ending?
This is where I have to be straight with you: this series opens plot threads like it’s getting paid per thread. The community joke — and I saw this in the anime finale discussion thread, it stuck with me — is that Sasaki and Peeps loves opening two new storylines for every one it closes. By the current volumes you’ve got the otherworld politics, the psychic bureau stuff, the magical girl situation, the angel and demon proxy war, and a neighbor subplot that gets darker the longer it runs, all going at once.
Volume 5 actually resolved the otherworld succession arc, which surprised me at the time, I remember thinking okay, Buncololi can close a door when he wants to. And then volume 6 introduced aliens. I said back then that the series would probably consolidate its cast after that, and, well. Volume 13 just added a new point-of-view character, so you can go ahead and grade that prediction.
Whether all these threads are building toward one big everything-collides finale is the actual open question. The finale of Season 1 teased exactly that kind of convergence, and readers further ahead than me seem split on whether the endgame has started or whether we’re still in the expansion phase. I honestly don’t have a prediction here.
How Long Until It Actually Finishes?
Pure napkin math, take it as the guess it is. The series does roughly two and a half volumes a year and the web novel is still generating new material ahead of the print version, so the pipeline isn’t drying up on its own. If Buncololi decided today that the convergence arc starts now, you’d still be looking at maybe 3-4 volumes of payoff given how many threads need closing, call it 2028 at the earliest. If the expansion phase continues, and volume 13 adding a new POV girl suggests it might, then we’re talking 17-18 volumes minimum and somewhere past 2029.
For what it’s worth, MF Books series in this sales tier rarely get cancelled abruptly, they get wound down with warning. There’s been no wind-down signal. The spin-off manga is active, the anime is getting a second season, merch keeps coming. Every commercial indicator points to a series in its middle, not its ending.
What About Season 2?
Fall 2026, with the same studio returning. No episode count announced as of me writing this, and no confirmed adaptation range either, though the safe money says it picks up from volume 2 since Season 1 covered volume 1 and basically nothing else. Volume 2 kicks off the magical girl conflict properly and gets into the death game, so Season 2 has notably more action-forward material to work with than the setup-heavy first season did.
The first season was received… fine. MAL has it at 6.84, which sounds harsh but honestly tracks with how the season felt week to week — it aired, some of us enjoyed it, engagement dropped off episode by episode, and the discourse moved on fast. I watched it during that Winter 2024 season mostly as my low-stakes Friday show while everything else that season was demanding my full attention, and it was good at being that. The LN readers in every discussion thread kept insisting the books were substantially better, which is the thing that eventually got me to buy volume 1 during a BookWalker coin sale that spring.
They were right, incidentally. The books are better. The anime is a perfectly acceptable delivery mechanism for the premise, the books are where the actual voice of the series lives.
Should You Start an Unfinished 13-Volume Series?
Yeah, with one caveat. The appeal of Sasaki and Peeps is not “where is this going,” it’s “hanging out inside the head of a tired 39-year-old man who treats interdimensional commerce like a retirement plan.” If you need narrative momentum toward a defined ending, the thread sprawl will wear on you, volume 4 alone is juggling like four factions. If you’re fine with a series that’s fundamentally about the ride, the unfinished status costs you nothing.
And the practical stuff is all in your favor: 8 volumes legally in English, a healthy release pace, an anime season coming that will spike interest and probably speed up the localization further. Compared to starting something like the Index novels where the mountain is forty-plus books and the map is a fan wiki, this is an easy on-ramp.
The one group I’d genuinely tell to wait: completion-only readers. There is no end announced, the author shows no urgency, and the web novel is still updating. This could run to 20 volumes without breaking stride. I wouldn’t be surprised either way, and that’s kind of the point.