JJK hiatus plans explained: JJK creator wants to focus on manga’s ending
Like many manga authors, Gege Akutami suffers from health problems. Other creators have suffered health problems only to find themselves needing to take year-long breaks.
For example, the Tower of God hiatus was originally planned to be short, but then it was extended multiple times into weeks and then many months. The Hunter x Hunter hiatus is also infamous and an anime fans have been waiting on Hunter x Hunter Season 7 for years.
In Spring 2021, Akutami was asked by the Weekly Shonen Jump editorial department to take a break from the manga series. But the creator didn’t want to slow down the weekly serialization so that the Jujutsu Kaisen manga’s ending could be drawn as soon as possible, so the JJK author just put a hold on an answer.
CW: mentions of attempted suicide
Will this be a regular series where I review manga? All signs point to “maybe I dunno we’ll see let’s try it lol!”
Before I get started I cannot stress enough how spoilerific this is gonna be if you’re watching the
Jujutsu Kaisen anime but not reading the manga. Yuta’s been mentioned a handful of times in the series, and while this manga volume serves as his backstory, there’s MAJOR spoilers pertaining to the series villain and other characters we’ve met thus far.
I also talk about what’s going on in the manga currently.