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Togashi Yoshihiro’s Hunter x Hunter went on hiatus in the September 7 issue of Jump (2026 issue 41), wrapping up its ten-week run of consecutive chapters exactly as most fans predicted. No date has been given for when it’ll return. This installment once again followed Kurapika, the Phantom Troupe, and Gon and Killua, but concerns that this could turn into another extended hiatus remain strong. On the thread, criticism that “only this author gets away with taking breaks like this” collided with defenses like “at least he’s still drawing” and “still faster than Vagabond,” and the discussion spiraled out into the industry’s whole hiatus culture.
2026.09.07
The consecutive serialization of Togashi Yoshihiro’s manga Hunter x Hunter came to an end with the September 7 (Monday) issue of Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 issue 41 (Shueisha).
As most fans had predicted beforehand, it wrapped up after a ten-week consecutive run.
Source: kai-you.net / Original article here
What people said
It's totally manga. There's no way you could understand how the Fourth Prince's ability actually works from text alone.
It's probably paced around finishing one whole tankobon volume at a time — finish a volume's worth → serialize it in Jump → go on hiatus to work on the volume release and the next batch → publish again once it's all ready. Seems to be the cycle.
That 'chapter' had Gon get healed and revived by Killua's sister, then Killua heads off to travel with her, so he and Gon part ways for a while — and Gon goes straight from there to meet and talk with Ging. That's where it ends. The Troupe, meanwhile, is on the same ship right now desperately hunting for Hisoka.
I was genuinely hyped when the Demon World Tournament kicked off (a nod to Togashi's earlier series Yu Yu Hakusho).
A mangaka friend of mine laughed bitterly and said 'everyone's taken a page from Togashi's book.' Taking long breaks once you're a hit was unthinkable back in Akira Toriyama's day, but Togashi paved the way (as awful as that is).
Just wait till it's finished and read it all in one go.
They should make being a reader a licensed profession too — revoke the license of anyone the publishers or mangaka don't want reading their work, so their brains can never comprehend manga or anything derived from it, ever again.
I bet an AI Togashi finishes it before the real Togashi does. Honestly I think that's the joke Togashi himself is making in the manga — getting 'Laplace'd' (a nod to the manga's own predictive 'Laplace's Demon' ability).
Who in the world is dumb enough to cancel a series that sells millions of tankobon copies the second it drops, lol?
He's blatantly a ripoff of Killvern from Dai no Daibouken (Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai), no matter how you look at it.
Well, Inoue's got Real going too, though.
I think a big part of why he shares his progress like that is to back himself into a corner — like, 'well, I already announced it, so now I have to actually do it.'
I feel like once things wrap up with Kurapika and the Troupe, it'll hit a natural stopping point and he might just end it there. Though he could've ended it back at Greed Island once Gon achieved his goal, and kept going anyway — so I have a feeling he'll keep going even past this too.
What the old men saw pretty much covers everything, doesn't it. Even the Calamity thing is just flavor text — he's not planning to actually solve that mystery.
It's turned out this way because the editors won't let go of him and won't let it end.
A lot of people don't get this. It's a classic Jump pattern — the author would be fine ending it, but the editors won't let it go.
Say what you want, but it's still a masterpiece even after the Hunter Exam — Yorknew, Greed Island, the Chimera Ant arc. Personally I liked the Election arc too. The stuff with Killua's family is great as well — there's not a single bad arc in it.
As for One Piece, I never understood the 'Pegabank' arc (likely a garbled or slang reference to a specific arc name).
Saki — on hiatus more than half of every year, 20 years in with no end in sight.
Kenka Shoubai — serialization's been stopped for 6 years now.
And then there's the legend-tier Vagabond and Bastard!!, both well past 10 years since their last chapter.
Historie comes up now and then too. I hear it's good, but I heard the author basically told people outright to give up on it ever being finished, so I haven't picked it up.
Vagabond gets singled out a lot in these conversations, but it actually quietly got 'finished' through an Inoue-held Vagabond exhibition and an accompanying booklet — though it's not an ending anyone could really accept.
Background and key points of debate
Togashi Yoshihiro is an author known for repeatedly going on hiatus, anywhere from a few weeks to several years at a stretch, and this pattern of “ten weeks of chapters, then another hiatus” has essentially become the norm at this point. Commenters on the thread floated the idea that his workflow follows a cycle tied to finishing one tankobon volume at a time — serializing chapters until a volume’s worth is complete, then focusing on the volume release and writing the next batch before publishing again. The debate centered on whether to view this hiatus-heavy style as “irresponsible” or as “still better than nothing, at least he’s drawing.” For comparison, posters brought up Inoue Takehiko’s Vagabond (on hiatus for over 10 years), as well as Kishimoto Masashi’s Naruto and Araki Hirohiko’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, both of which reached clear, definitive endings. One post claiming “the author wants to wrap it up but the editors won’t let him” also circulated, but that’s reader speculation rather than confirmed fact, so it shouldn’t be taken at face value.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Togashi Yoshihiro’s Hunter x Hunter Wraps Its 10-Week Run Right on Schedule — Next Chapter’s Release Date Unknown.”
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