The relationship between 'HunterxHunter' publishing cycle and 'Dragon Quest' the video game?
What do you think it is?
People say this, although it is a kind of rumor, the Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi is so obsessed with the video game 'Dragon Quest' that he stops letting out his work to the publisher when a new game is released.
This could be true, half true, or lie. Then again, he has a huge issue with his comics 'Hunter x Hunter', and it is well known to the readers. In 2009, he stopped serializing the manga for 7 months without any further notice. Fans had no idea when he would start producing one of the most popular mangas in the world.
He started getting his work published in Jump magazine since March 3, 1998. This manga has the most unusual publishing style in Japanese manga history. It's called 'Conti Publishing'. Conti is like a draft art with storyboard before he put pen lines on it. So, it is not a properly completed 'manga'. For the last few years(more specifically volume 18-20, Hunter x Hunter is put up on the Japanese best-selling manga magazine in this state.
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There is no clue why he keeps on pausing his work, or letting out his conti-state art work. This must have been how he got 'Dragon Quest' rumor from the readers and the fans.
This irregular conti publishing have been criticized by many fans and readers, which eventually helped the artist to publish high-quality art work all over again from 2010. The longest discontinued period was one and a half year. Because of this, there is 20 more volume-difference from the other Jump comics One Piece and Naruto, which have started in similar time.
Nevertheless, except 2010, he has published his comics 1 to 2 volumes each year. It is not really slow compared to the other mangas if we look into statistics. Besides, fans do not seem to care too much about its publishing cycle, since its quality as manga and fun factors set off the negative sides of the creator Yoshihiro Togashi.
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