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.
Seishi Kishimoto
Kishimoto's first manga was the one-shot "Trigger" published in Square Enix's "Gangan Powered" in 2001. With the story he wanted to write about "faith and parent-child relationships," but had trouble fitting it within the page limit. He began his first serialized work, "666 Satan", in "Monthly Shōnen Gangan" in 2001. The manga continued for six years and has been translated and released in several foreign countries, including in North America by Viz Media. A year after "666 Satan" ended, Kishimoto launched "Blazer Drive" in the debut issue of Kodansha's "Monthly Shōnen Rival", preceded by a prequel one-shot, "Tribal", in the final issue of "Comic BomBom"; Blazer Drive ran through 2010 and received a video game tie-in. He then created the one-shot "Jūniji no Kaneganaru", which was published in the monthly shōjo magazine "Aria" in 2011. In the January 2012 issue of "Monthly Shōnen Rival", Kishimoto debuted "Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji", which ran until 2013.