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NEWS: Yoshihiro Togashi Teases Return of Hunter x Hunter Manga

I can't help but wonder if Togashi wishes in retrospect that he never introduced the Dark Continent. The election arc where the 2011 anime left off felt like such a natural ending point: Gon recovered and finally got to meet Ging, Killua managed to throw off the shackles of his family and free his sister, and both Leorio and Kurapica were doing their own things. Of course there was much more that could have been told, but given Togashi's continuing health issues, it would have been a fine place to say goodbye to the characters. Instead he decided to make the entire series up to that point a sneak prologue, as if we'd been reading One Piece's East Blue saga without knowing what it was meant to be, and introduce this massive new world. Unfortunately I don't see any way that Togashi reaches a conclusion to this huge new storyline in his lifetime, not unless something drastic happens like a massive improvement in his condition, or an unlooked-for decision to pass drawing duties to another artist and only handle writing. I'm sure the new content is fantastic, but is it worth it in the end?

Honestly I would really wish that he just move away from weekly publishing. It's hard enough on healthy mangaka, and it's never gonna be sustainable again for him in his condition at this point.

Honestly I would really wish that he just move away from weekly publishing. It's hard enough on healthy mangaka, and it's never gonna be sustainable again for him in his condition at this point.

I can't help but wonder if Togashi wishes in retrospect that he never introduced the Dark Continent. The election arc where the 2011 anime left off felt like such a natural ending point: Gon recovered and finally got to meet Ging, Killua managed to throw off the shackles of his family and free his sister, and both Leorio and Kurapica were doing their own things. Of course there was much more that could have been told, but given Togashi's continuing health issues, it would have been a fine place to say goodbye to the characters. Instead he decided to make the entire series up to that point a sneak prologue, as if we'd been reading One Piece's East Blue saga without knowing what it was meant to be, and introduce this massive new world. Unfortunately I don't see any way that Togashi reaches a conclusion to this huge new storyline in his lifetime, not unless something drastic happens like a massive improvement in his condition, or an unlooked-for decision to pass drawing duties to another artist and only handle writing. I'm sure the new content is fantastic, but is it worth it in the end?

Honestly I would really wish that he just move away from weekly publishing. It's hard enough on healthy mangaka, and it's never gonna be sustainable again for him in his condition at this point.

Hell no. that wouldn't even work as an ending. kurapika never have a closure to that point in the story and not a much needed development yet. leorio i think is in blank character, because never have a significant battle with enemy tho, or showed any awesome medical skills neither looks like is just another supporting character after all... um, for me killua needs to fight with Illumi for real freedom (kinda see a resolution with death to that problem) goney could come back but idc, he's the least of my favs.