How does Togashi draw Hunter x Hunter?
Start with the habit that explains the rest: Togashi has typically worked with few or no assistants. The tools of the classic period are recorded in the series' production history: drafting ink and Kabura pens for the illustrations, and an eMac for coloring. For the first volume, the screentone on the single color pages was applied by fellow manga artist Naoko Takeuchi, his future wife. The cost of the near solo method showed in the magazine itself: artwork in the weekly run was sometimes sketchy, a flaw Togashi himself apologized for in the magazine more than once, pledging to redraw sections for the collected volumes, which he did.
THE 2022 REBUILD
Process posts, a bigger staff, a slower panelWHAT THEY DID GET
A method matched to a new clockOn October 1, 2023, after nearly seven months of silence, Togashi posted two words, 'Start over', beside a photograph of a page corner and a ruler. It is the working method in miniature: no announcement, no schedule, just the next manuscript begun where the last one stopped. The December 2022 settlement with his editors, no weekly format, support until completion, is what makes that method survivable: batches of chapters, produced by a small team under his instructions, at the speed his body and his standard allow. His October 2026 decision to decline future deadline carrying work and prioritize his own manuscripts is the same settlement, extended to everything outside the manga.
THE BOOK ON THE SHELF
Hunter x Hunter · Vol. 1