'Hunter x Hunter' Fans Can't Wait for the Series to Come Back

After five months of waiting, Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter is set to come back from its hiatus on September 22, and fans are over the moon to be able to read new chapters of the manga.

With the latest break leaving the manga on quite a cliffhanger for the Dark Continent arc, fans can't wait to see what happens next.

The series last went on hiatus back in April, and has missed about 20 or so issues of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. This isn't as bad as the previous hiatus for the manga, however, which lasted 80 issues and began around 2004.

The Dark Continent arc of the series has been packed to the brim with methodical intrigue as the series' characters all coalesce into a single space on the Black Whale. There's a suspicious succession contest that's boiling to a point, and the entire arc has been about establishing the different factions aboard the ship, and their relations to one another, while at the same time teasing a huge confrontation between all of them.

The factions have been crossing over with one another in little clashes, but the true conflict had yet to spark as no one could prove that another faction had made a move. But with things finally kicking back up, fans can't wait to see how it all shakes out.

Read on to see what fans are saying about Hunter x Hunter coming back from hiatus, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Hunter x Hunter was originally created by Yoshihiro Togashi for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998. The story follows a young boy named Gon Freecss, who discovers that his previously thought to be dead father is in fact alive. Not only is he alive, he is a famous Hunter, a professional traveler who specializes in finding rare treasures, exploring unidentified lands, and hunting down dangerous individuals. Gon then decides that in order to meet his father he has to become a licensed Hunter, but in that journey gets wrapped up in way more strangeness than he ever could have anticipated.