@AfroSamurai:
Yeah, I agree with Rayleigh and Timeco's (now deleted?) post. I don't get why Robby and others always get so worked up about the topic, Togashi owes you absolutely nothing, if you want to complain, complain with your wallets by not supporting the series.
I followed and paid for his story for years and supported. Both manga and anime. That doesn't entitle me to expect him to be chained to his desk and slave his life away, but when doing an ongoing story there is a mutual agreement for the author to do his best to keep telling the story to the end. It DOES give me the right to expect the smallest barest modicum of respect on his end where he at least pretends to have a set schedule or a planned return date.
And I haven't bought a volume since the Chimera arc, but obviously my one voice doesn't make much difference there.
As I already said at length, no one gets on Oda's case for doing 3 chapters a month instead of 4, and we all cut Muira a break on Berserk because his schedule is clearly what the story actually needs, and I'm the staunchest defender around for George Martin finishing his novel whenever he finishes it.
If Togashi just came out and said "Every year I am going to release 10 chapters from January to March, and then I am going to take the next nine months off to do whatever", that'd be perfectly fine. Not ideal, but it'd be upfront and honest. The current situation where he does random chapters, with random length breaks, with the art quality sometimes being awful, is just bad. Its bad professionally, its bad for the company he works for, its bad for the bookstores, and yes, its bad for the audience.
If he has no interest in doing a weekly manga… then don't do a weekly manga! Just write novels in the universe or keep story bits contained and do specials or SOMETHING.
It's one thing to critique the series, and another to lambast the author (who has no obligation to continue writing as he is extremely wealthy and treats this as a hobby).
That's exactly the problem.
Togashi has earned his success, and the right to not work as hard as he used to.
But, If he wants to treat it like a hobby and not a job, then schedule it like one. Finish the story, then do one shots when he feels like, where it doesn't matter if he only does a handful of chapters a year. Not ongoing narrative that never gets anywhere in a format completely inappropriate for his current production schedule.
No one is on Toriyama's case to keep doing Dragonball. He wants to release a 10 chapter Nekomajin or Sandland of Jaco when the inspiration strikes and that's all he wants to do, that's fine. And if Togashi finished this story and then did anything else he desired when he desired, that'd be fine!
It's the current situation that's ridiculous. What if everyone else in Jump insisted on the same structure?
)I do think however everyone should get Oda's schedule. 3 weeks on, 1 week off. That seems pretty beneficial overall in the long run for all involved.)
@Cyclone_Baroness:
For some reason I thought The magazines like Shonen Jump specifically had a set number of series. Is HxH taking up a slot that could go an author that could go to a new series? Or does Jump have a fluctuationing count?
It doesn't take up real estate while its on break, no. It fills in a slot when a new series gets cancelled which happens regularly to the lowest ranked thing.