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Recently, Togashi gave some updates regardingHunter x Hunterand his health in general.Hunter x Hunterhas been running on Shueisha’sShonen Jumpsince 1998, and the story has been compiled into 38 volumes so far.
DespiteShonen Jumpbeing a weekly magazine, it’s been a few years thatHunter x Hunterhas had an irregular publishing schedule. This is mostly due tocreator Yoshihiro Togashi’s health problems, especially regarding chronic back pain, that makes it hard for him to draw new chapters.
Anyway, he posted on his social media thathe finished thename(as the original manuscript of a manga chapter is called) of two new chapters. He also stated thathe went through medical surgery with local anesthesiaand that the experience was valuable (apparently, the doctors explained to him what they were doing while they were doing it, since he was awake): Togashi didn’t explain what the surgery was for:
Thank you very much.
Hunter x Hunter Latest Chapters
The latestHunter x Hunterchapters were published this year. Chapter 400 was published in 2022, then the series went into hiatus once again. On May 17, 2025,chapter 401 was finally published, and now the series is getting weekly chapters since then (thelatest one is chapter 408,published on November 25).
Generally, the chapters are published in “blocks”. Togashi prepares and then serializes around 10 chapters (the average number of chapters in aHunter x Huntervolume) and then starts a new hiatus to prepare more chapters. It is not confirmed if the series will follow this pattern once again, buthe has been working on chapters lately.
Togashi’s Back Pain and Health
Togashi has suffered from chronic back pain for a long time. This pain sometimes reaches a peak (“crisis”) in which he cannot do routine tasks. A few years ago, he even commented onShonen Jumpthat he had trouble getting out of bed and going to the bathroom, and sometimes it’s such a hard pain he needs to call an ambulance.
It is not uncommon for mangaka to have pain in their backs and in their hands, so it is likely this problem came or was aggravated due to Togashi’s work routine. Since the pain is so hard, he cannot do trivial things, he also stops drawing manga during these hard times. Also, for a long time, Togashi didn’t have assistants (because he’d rather do all the job himself) but he recently hired a few of them to help him withHunter x Hunterserialization.
Hunter x Huntermanga and theHunter x Hunteranime 2011 reboot are licensed in the US by Viz Media.
