Hunter × Hunter
Written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi, the "Hunter × Hunter" manga began its ongoing serialization in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine on March 3, 1998. Shueisha has compiled most of the chapters into 36 "tankōbon" volumes as of October 2018. In December 2011, Shueisha began republishing the manga into a magazine-styled "sōshūhen" format. The company published one volume per month for a total of six volumes, covering up to the end of the Greed Island story arc. In December 2012, Togashi wrote a two-part manga titled to act as a prequel to the first animated film. "Tokyo Ghoul" author Sui Ishida created a 69-page storyboard of a manga chapter depicting the past of "Hunter × Hunter"s Hisoka. The storyboard was released digitally via "Shonen Jump+" on June 2, 2016.
Hero Tales
Authored by the group Huang Jin Zhou, "Hero Tales" started serialization in Square Enix's "Gangan Powered" since 2006. After "Gangan Powered"'s last issue in 2009, the series continued serialization in "Monthly Shōnen Gangan". The series is also collected "tankōbon" volumes by Square Enix. The first volume was published on August 11, 2007. As of June 22, 2009, four volumes have been released in Japan. The first "tankōbon" was published in English by Yen Press in October, 2009 and began serializing in Yen Plus February 2009 issue.