Creator of ‘Hunter x Hunter’ Draws A 2-Chapter Manga

Aug 17, 17 at 12:57am

Serena Rei

Though he went on hiatus way back due to health reasons, Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi is now back with a new manga project to look out for.

It was announced in the official website of Grand Jump magazine that Togashi along with Hachi Mizuno are currently collaborating in a short two-chapter manga titled Akuten Wars (Bad Weather Wars). The first chapter will be published in the magazine’s September issue on August 23 while the last chapter will be released in its October issue slated to be released this month.

Aside from Togashi, the creator of Koroshiya-san and The Parasite Doctor Haruki is also drawing Watashi no H na Rirekisho o Mite Kudasai (Please Look at my Lewd Resume) as well Masanori Morita who will be releasing a new chapter of Rokudenashi Blues manga.

The wrestling comedy manga titled The Momotaroh!! by Makoto Niwano will be releasing a new chapter as the Mokkori Hanbe manga by Masaya Tokuhiro.

Grand Jump has also confirmed the they will also be reprinting the chapters of the soccer manga Captain Tsubasa and the wresting manga series Kinnikuman.

About Yoshihiro Togashi

Yoshihiro Togashi is born in Shinjo, Yamagata, Japan on April 27, 1966. Like his wife Naoko Takeuchi (the creator of Sailor Moon), he began drawing his own manga at an early age. He started drawing manga in his high school years and is very active in his school’s fine-arts club. He then studied education in Yamagata University to become a teacher.

Even while studying to complete college, he slowly submitted some his manga work to Weekly Young Jump. He was able to publish his first manga at age 20 titled Buttobi Straight which received the prestigious Tezuka Award. He was then contacted by an editor of the Weekly Shonen Jump in which his internationally popular manga works like Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter X Hunter were published.

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