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On October 5, Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi announced on his X account that, citing mental and physical health issues, he will turn down all future work requests that come with deadlines and prioritize writing the Hunter x Hunter manuscript instead. The series, which began serialization in 1998, has sold over 100 million copies in total (including digital editions) and remains hugely popular, but it’s also well known for its repeated long hiatuses. On 5channel, many questioned the premise of the announcement itself, asking “Was he even doing other deadline work to begin with?”, while others compared him to manga artists like Takehiko Inoue and Kazushi Hagiwara, whose own long-running series have similarly stalled out.
Yoshihiro Togashi, creator of the manga Hunter x Hunter, updated his X account on the 5th to announce that, due to mental and physical health issues, he will turn down all future work requests that come with deadlines and instead prioritize producing his own manuscript.
On X, he wrote: “With my mental and physical health issues piling up, after I finish the request I’m currently handling, I’ve decided to turn down all future work requests that have deadlines and prioritize producing my own manuscript. I’ll post an update here once manuscript production resumes.”
Hunter x Hunter, which began serialization in 1998, is an adventure fantasy following the boy Gon as he journeys with friends including his best friend Killua. The story is currently in the “Dark Continent Arc” (Succession War Arc), depicting the clashing agendas of characters like Kurapika and members of the Phantom Troupe aboard a ship bound for an uncharted continent. The series has sold over 100 million copies in total (including digital editions).
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Besides the actual manuscript pages for Jump, there's probably still HxH-related deadline work — like game tie-ins and merchandise.
I think it started around the same time as One Piece.
Neither one of them is ever going to end.
If all you need to do is think and talk, you could do that bedridden.
Same vibe, lol
Yeah right, lol
Hunter x Hunter.
The art style's probably going to get rougher again…
Though for readers that might actually make it more interesting.
I want him to sink the ship and kill everyone off.
This could be setting up a total massacre ending —
Chrollo and Hisoka go berserk and that's how it ends.
He finishes exactly one volume's worth, then conveniently gets sick.
Real convenient way to keep his promise to the editor.
That "back pain"… suspicious.
Can he even finish writing it in the first place?
Was it actually getting good?
You were just playing favorites with Hisoka.
Meanwhile the prince using King Crimson (the stand ability from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) got turned into a nobody.
Everything after that is basically a different series as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, it ended with the Ant arc.
Wait, what? Wait, what?
That's proof he's not taking it seriously.
That's not something you say if you're even nominally serializing in a weekly magazine, irregular schedule or not.
Said like he was actually doing the Hunter work.
Takehiko Inoue — can't finish Vagabond, still serialized
Kazushi Hagiwara — left his series hanging and is off doing other work without a care
Yasuhiro Kida — stopped drawing and is off dabbling in stocks and politics
And now Togashi's doing this.
Out of that lineup, Togashi actually looks like the least bad one.
There's also that one case in shojo manga where the readers themselves started dying off one by one before the series ever got to finish — some theater-themed manga.
In the end, it's money, hangers-on, and old age that change people.
Kenka Shoubai (his fighting-themed manga) is probably done for at this point.
Once someone doing creative work gets into stocks or politics, that's the end.
Don't disrespect commercial publishing like that.
And besides, if you can barely even make progress on Hunter x Hunter, don't go taking on other jobs too.
Dōjinshi have deadlines too, you know…
Though this guy did put out dōjinshi with his wife during one of his Hunter hiatuses.
Looks like it's headed for the Oishinbo route (gone semi-indefinitely irregular).
Did it merge with Azumanga Daioh? lol
Background and points of debate
Togashi is known for having repeatedly taken long hiatuses from Hunter x Hunter, so the stated policy of “prioritizing manuscript work” itself echoes his past hiatus announcements. Where opinions split on the thread was over the premise of the announcement itself — whether he had actually been taking on other deadline work besides HxH over the past decade or so. While there are related projects like game adaptations and merchandise, it’s unclear from this announcement whether he personally had been taking on individual deadline jobs. Many commenters also drew comparisons to artists like Takehiko Inoue and Kazushi Hagiwara, whose long-running series have similarly stalled, though the circumstances behind each artist’s hiatus differ and can’t simply be equated. In the end, readers’ real concern is whether the “Dark Continent Arc” will actually be completed once serialization resumes — but for now, the only confirmed fact is this change in policy.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Hunter x Hunter Creator Yoshihiro Togashi Limits Work Due to Health Issues — Refuses All Deadline Jobs, Will Prioritize Own Manuscript.”
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