Fans of Hunter x Hunter can rejoice this week, as the series' nearly four-year-long hiatus officially has an end date: October 24, 2022. Fans have been hotly anticipating the series' return for years now, so this news is sure to mean a great deal to many fans of the beloved series. Hunter x Hunter's creator, mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi, had been forced to put the series on hiatus back in 2018 due to a decline in his health. Fortunately, Weekly Shonen Jump didn't cancel the series but rather placed it in reserve until Togashi could get back to it.Togashi announced his return to Hunter x Hunter in April 2022, and over the following summer created a Twitter account, where he began to post in-progress pictures of his work to assure fans that the series really was coming back. According to many of his tweets, Togashi was still suffering some health issues which make holding a pen difficult, and he had to come up with some creative solutions to work on the series without aggravating his condition. The culmination of Togashi's work over the summer is a full chapter of Hunter x Hunter for the first time since November 2018, just a month shy of four years.The official Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump Twitter account tweeted (in Japanese) that the magazine would publish the new chapter on October 24, 2022. From there, fan accounts translated the announcement and the news began to spread among the Western fandom for the series as well. This will actually be the first chapter of Hunter x Hunter to be released since Shonen Jump's publisher Shueisha opened its English-language app Manga Plus in 2019.
Hunter X Hunter Returns on October 24th
Togashi has indicated that he's worked on as many as ten new chapters of Hunter x Hunter, so hopefully, fans will have plenty of content on the way for the foreseeable future. It's not known if Togashi's workarounds will continue to be effective at allowing him to work, but even if fans only get these ten chapters and nothing else for quite a while, it should go a long way towards ensuring this beloved series gets a proper ending.
Regardless of what happens with Hunter X Hunter going forward though, fans can at least celebrate that the popular series is returning for now. Hunter X Hunter is well-loved for a reason, and with its returns, fans finally have a reason to celebrate.