After nearly xx years of garnishing all the hype an anime tin peradventure garnish,Hunter X Hunter has spent the last two years on hiatus and this is not the beginning fourth dimension fans have had to expect for new bug of Shonen Leap to continue on with the story.

As it's a common tendency of the series, all of the hiatuses thatHunter X Hunter has been on since first being published in Shonen Jump back in 1998 tin exist organized and recalled in chronological gild. Only the hiatuses that lasted at to the lowest degree 2 months volition exist counted in order to demonstrate the respectful patience that a mangaka like Yoshihiro Togashi deserves.

12 2006-2007: 84 Week Hiatus Streak During The Chimera Ant Arc

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Prior to 2006, Yoshihiro Togashi was getting his piece of work published in Shonen Jump on a semi-regular basis. 2006 was different though.

Perhaps the Chimera Ant Arc that Togashi was working through was non entirely plotted when he started. Or it could be that Yoshihiro Togashi wanted to take more than fourth dimension to perfect and build upon this all-encompassing arc.

11 2008: ix Calendar week Hiatus Streak Gave Nativity To The Nickname "Hiatus X Hiatus"

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Later theHunter X Hunter manga returned in 2007, it took another short hiatus from the pages of Shonen Jump in January of 2008.  Information technology is at this point in theHunter 10 Hunter publication history that the series began to evolve into "Hiatus X Hiatus," a fanmade nickname.

While this new championship is intended as more of a friendly term of endearment, this 9-week hiatus made it clear that the 84-week break thatHunter X Hunter took from Shonen Spring in 2006 and 2007 was not a one-fourth dimension matter.

10 2008: 19 Week Hiatus Streak During A Global Recession

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If the 9-calendar week streak that followedHunter X Hunter's first true hiatus was not enough to propose that the series would be released at a much slower charge per unit moving forrard, then the 19-calendar week hiatus the series took in the middle of 2008 should.

To be fair to Yoshihiro Togashi and Shonen Jump, 2008 did notch a global recession into the history books that the manga manufacture was absolutely affected by. Still, the Bubble Ant arc was responsible for introducing Gon and Killua to the true scale of theHunter 10 Hunterearth. It couldn't be helped that this revelation had to exist put on hold as often as information technology was.

9 2009-2010, 53 Week Hiatus Streak Covered All But The First 2 Weeks In 2009

Netero's Nen Vs Meruem Hunter X Hunter

The hiatus thatHunter 10 Hunter took in 2009 was not the kickoff year-long break that the series took from Shonen Spring. It did remove Togashi's manga from the pages of Shonen Jump for nearly all of 2009, though.

If Yoshihiro had non been published in Shonen Leap for the outset two weeks of 2009, that year would have been completely void of any new Hunter x Hunter chapters earlier resuming their Chimera Ant adventure in 2010.

viii 2010-2011, 59 Week Hiatus Streak Was Followed Past The Conclusion Of The Chimera Ant Arc & Ii New Arcs

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When the series returned in 2011, fans were finally treated to the end of the Bubble Ant Arc, the unabridged 13th Hunter Chairman Election Arc, and the beginning of the Dark Continent Expedition Arc. For fans that had adapted to the new pace that Togashi and Shonen Jump were publishingHXH, the release streak at the end of 2011 and outset of 2012 was a 18-carat treat.

vii 2012, 35 Calendar week Hiatus Streak Halted The Dark Continent Expedition Arc & Led To A Kurapika Ane-Shot

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Subsequently waiting 3 years for the Bubble Ant Arc to wrap and being treated to ii entirely new arcs, it took an additional 35 weeks for a Kurapika i shot to exist published in place of new chapters in the Dark Continent Expedition Arc.

The Kurapika one-shot that was published in Jan of 2013 givesHunter X Hunter fans the chance to meet into Kurapika's past before setting him up equally the protagonist in the Dark Continent Trek Arc. Still, fans were surely disappointed after waiting for so long for more Night Continent lore.

6 2013-2014, 75 Week Hiatus Streak Prolonged The Nighttime Continent Expedition Arc Fifty-fifty Further

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After the Kurapika one-shot was published in the pages of Shonen Jump at the beginning of 2013, Hunter Ten Huntertook a 75-week publishing hiatus. That means fans excited to learn more near the Night Continent Expedition Arc were actually forced to expect 110 weeks for new Nighttime Continent lore afterward being introduced to the new arc dorsum in 2011.

5 2014-2016, 85 Week Hiatus Streak Is Currently The Second Longest Pause

Map Of The Dark Continent in Hunter X Hunter

I of the longest hiatus streaks since the serial took its first suspension in 2006 comes afterward the Dark Continent Trek Arc wrapped up halfway through 2014.

This is also the firstHunter X Hunter hiatus that spanned the entirety of a given agenda year. For the entirety of 2015,HXH never published new content in the pages of Shonen Jump. This left fans to imagine what the true expedition to the Nighttime Continent would look like themselves until the series returned in 2016 to fill in the blanks.

iv 2016-2017, 49 Calendar week Hiatus Streak Was Followed By More World Building Details

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Another extended hiatus correct in the middle of a new arc was nothing new by the time 2016's end-of-year hiatus strikingHunter Ten Hunterfans. At this point, fans had come to embrace the hiatus and even casually began flooding the internet with calorie-free jabs about their favorite anime.Fortunately, the Succession Contest Arc is full of chapters that offer viewers answers to world-building questions that they take been request since the Chimera Ant Arc.

3 2017-2018, nineteen Week Hiatus Streak Followed Afterward A Legendary Battle

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After fans were treated to more Succession Arc content, some other hiatus of nineteen weeks stalled the new arc from givingHXHfans more Kurapika content.

This hiatus too followed afterwards the legendary boxing betwixt Chrollo Lucilfer and Hisoka Morow. After cutting to the Heaven's Arena and introducing the life-saving capabilities of Nen, Togashi pivots back to the Succession Contest for a single chapter before entering some other hiatus.

2 2018, 23 Calendar week Hiatus Streak Interrupted The Succession Contest Arc

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After waiting another 23 weeks for more than Succession Contest Arc content, fans were finally satisfied when Yoshihiro Togashi returned with newHXH capacity at the end of 2018.

The Succession Competition is meant to entertain viewers with incredible Nen battles upward until the massive dark continent trek team reaches their destination.

1 2019-current, 129 Week Hiatus Streak & Counting

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The plans are set up and the succession contest has begun, but fans ofHunter X Hunter are still waiting today for Yoshihiro to return with illustrated panels of Kurapika playing detective while the wealthy princes of Kakin battle for their right to the throne.

The current hiatus that fans are patiently waiting through is the longestHunter 10 Hunter hiatus yet. Still, fans are re-watching and re-reading with hopes that Yoshihiro Togashi will 1 day be back and better than always.

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