The new chapter of the manga was published on 18 May, 2026.
The sequel of Mari Yamazaki’s “Thermae Romae” manga series, “Zoku Thermae Romae” (Thermae Romae redux) is back with a new chapter after eight months. The manga entered its long hiatus in September 2025 after its 13th chapter. The 14th chapter has finally been published on Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ platform.
Zoku Thermae Romae
Creator: Mari Yamazaki
Publisher: Shueisha
Reading platform: Manga Plus
When was the new chapter of Zoku Thermae Romae published?
The 14th chapter of the manga was published on Monday, 18 May, 2026. You can currently read the latest chapter of the historical fiction manga on Shueisha’s Manga Plus platform.
What is Zoku Thermae Romae about?
The series is a sequel to Mari Yamazaki’s manga Thermae Romae, which was published from 1008-2013. It won the third Manga Taishō and the Short Story Award at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The original manga also inspired a 2022 Netflix anime series titled Thermae Romae Novae.
Yen Press currently publishes the manga in English and describes the story as:
When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs...over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae!
Zoku Thermae Romae was launched in February 2024 in Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ platform. Manga Plus describes its plot as:
The year is 158 AD, and the Roman Empire thrives under the 20th year of Emperor Antoninus Pius’s reign. Lucius, a Roman bathhouse architect, is now sixty years old and plagued with back pain. His wife Satsuki has mysteriously disappeared, his son, Marius, is beyond comprehension...and to top it off, he still has the Roman bathhouses to worry about!