At long last, the Hunter x Hunter manga returns in November

polygon.com:

It’s official — the Hunter x Hunter manga is finally returning. The Shonen Jump twitter account posted the news that Volume 37 would come out on November 4 in Japan. There is no word on when the volume will come out stateside, but Polygon has reached out to Viz Media to confirm.

There hasn’t been an update to the Hunter x Hunter manga since 2018. Due to frequent and severe health issues, author Yoshihiro Togashio often has to take hiatuses from his work. But back in May, he created a Twitter account where he began posting updates on his work. Most of them were simple page numbers that did not reveal much about the upcoming volume, though he did tweet a few more finished drawings and sketches.

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The manga started in 1998, and had two anime series based on it. Hunter x Hunter takes place in a world where licensed professionals called Hunters embark on fantastical adventures, such as subduing dangerous monsters, tracking down criminals, or hunting treasure. A young and incredibly talented boy named Gon takes the Hunter Exam in order to find his distant father, a legendary Hunter who left him as a child. Along the way, Gon meets Killua, the runaway heir of a notorious assassin family; Kurapika, the sole survivor of a brutal genocide who seeks vengeance; and Leorio, who wants to be a doctor.

The current manga volumes have pivoted to Kurapika’s quest for revenge. As a current member of the Zodiacs — basically the governing body of the Hunter Association — Kurapika joined a dangerous expedition to an unknown continent. He serves as the bodyguard to a baby princess and has been navigating a cutthroat royal family’s brutal war for succession. Leorio is also there, but he’s working on the Med Bay and we