How Kiyoshi the Exorcist Became a Jump Fair 2025 Shikishi

Kiyoshi the Exorcist Mini Shikishi — Jump Fair 2025 Exclusive

What Is a Mini Shikishi?

A shikishi is a square, thick paper board with deep roots in Japanese culture — traditionally used for calligraphy, brush paintings, and celebrity signatures. From the 2000s onward, publishers began producing miniaturized, printed versions as promotional giveaways, and the mini shikishi became a fixture of Jump campaign merchandise.

This piece is stamped “NOT FOR SALE,” which confirms it was never a retail product. It was distributed as part of a 2025 Shueisha campaign — the listing attributes it to Jump Fair 2025, a nationwide promotion in which Shueisha partners with bookstores and offers limited giveaways to customers purchasing qualifying volumes. Image analysis has also produced a reading of “Jump Festa ’25,” which is a separate annual fan event held at Makuhari Messe each December; determining the correct campaign would require inspecting the physical item. In either case, the piece belongs to an official 2025 Shueisha campaign. The illustration is printed, not hand-drawn.

Kiyoshi the Exorcist — Series Background

The manga featured here is Akuharaishi no Kiyoshi-kun — rendered in English as Kiyoshi the Exorcist — created by Hiikage Ichi and published in Weekly Shonen Jump. The title’s first word, akuharaishi, means roughly “one who expels evil spirits,” placing the series in the tradition of supernatural-action manga rooted in Japanese folk beliefs about malevolent spirits and the rituals used to drive them out. That genre has found a wide international readership, and fans who came to the genre through titles like Jujutsu Kaisen will recognize the thematic territory immediately.

The illustration on this shikishi shows Kiyoshi and several other characters in what appears to be a toast or celebration, with dialogue equivalent to “Cheers!” and “Congratulations!” Whether this was drawn specifically for the Jump campaign or adapted from an existing chapter is not certain from the image alone, but the festive mood fits the promotional context well.

Jump Campaign Culture and What It Means for Collectors

Jump Fair is Shueisha’s recurring bookstore promotion, typically tied to multi-volume purchases. Distribution depends on which stores participate, what quantities are stocked, and how quickly stock moves — so a given mini shikishi can be genuinely hard to obtain even within Japan. Access from outside the country depends entirely on importers or Japan-based resellers, which is the only route by which items like this reach international collectors at all.

Mini shikishi belong to the kami-mono category — “paper goods” in collector shorthand — a flat, lightweight format that travels well across borders. The “NOT FOR SALE” designation matters to collectors who value campaign exclusives over standard retail items, since the supply chain is fundamentally different. And Weekly Shonen Jump’s global reputation, built over decades through One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach, means that Jump-branded merchandise carries recognition that extends beyond familiarity with any single series in the lineup.