Manga went on hiatus in September with planned return before end of 2017

Next year's first issue of Shueisha 's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Yoshihiro Togashi 's Hunter X Hunter manga will resume publication with the ninth issue on January 29.

The manga went on hiatus in September, and Togashi announced at the time that he planned to resume the series before the end of the year. The manga had resumed from a one-year hiatus on June 26. Before that, the manga had been on a two-year hiatus since August 2014. What was initially a two-week hiatus for the author's serious lower back pain extended until April 2016.