#Dragon quest manga author who goes hiatus series
The series has been released infrequently ever since, on Togashi’s terms and nobody elses. It was a blockbuster success from day dot, ranking 1st multiple times in Shonen Jump. After a short stint with the series Level-E, Togashi returned with Hunter x Hunter, a shonen epic unlike any other. Years later bridges were mended and Shueisha made aggressive attempts to bring Togashi back into the fold. It pretty much equated to flipping the bird to his bosses and telling them he didn’t need their magazine and he didn’t need to be a mangaka. Togashi told the editors to shove it, a major faux pas in Japanese society. Then after an apparent health scare, Togashi abruptly quit and handed in a rushed final chapter for the series ending it in the middle of an arc and leaving fans as well as Shueisha in a state of utter shock. Well it all goes back to the mid 90’s where Yu Yu Hakusho was regularly published in Weekly Shonen Jump and was at the absolute height of its popularity, pushing numbers that was only ever matched by the Dragon Ball series. So why is it that Togashi is able to come and go so freely? Is it all about the money or is there more to it than that? There is a reason Togashi is able to do what he does, because whenever he does it it makes Shueisha a lot of money. Whenever a chapter of Hunter x Hunter is published it becomes an ‘event’ a big moment and it brings in curious eyes and the fans come back in troves. It is an interesting perspective and one that is likely very true, Togashi gets plenty of time to plan his next move and plot out events in greater detail than most mangaka.įurthermore what Togashi has managed to cultivate over more than a decade of frequent hiatuses is an event feeling.
Many wish that the series would simply run consistently like any other normal series would but there is the other side of the coin, the fans who credit the many hiatuses for why Togashi is able to remain so creative and a big part of why the series is so very good. You can check out more fascinating hiatus charts at It does raise the interesting question though how does one sustain their love for a series that is on break more than it isn’t?īeing a fan of the Hunter x Hunter series is a burden to some and to others a blessing. Here is one of them:Īs you can see the red indicates the hiatuses, which actually surpass the amount of time the series was actually printed in Shonen Jump. There is even a website dedicated entirely to tracking the series many hiatuses in a series of detailed graphs and charts. After roughly 2 years having passed since the series last went on hiatus due to ‘intense back pain’, Togashi is slated to return this April continuing with the Dark Continent arc which he began 2 years and about 5 chapters ago.įans of the series are no stranger to Togashi’s frequent hiatuses, even spawning the affectionate nickname for the series ‘Hiatus x Hiatus’. Journey to the West (Of Japan) Travelogueīig news broke for fans of Yoshihiro Togashi’s infrequently published yet utterly brilliant shonen manga epic, Hunter x Hunter.
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