Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26871067-20161115051001/@comment-26871105-20161115073128

Yeah it was really weird reading those articles that for whatever reasons, treat HxH as some kind of long running TV series as opposes to the fact it's a long running comic/manga/graphic-novel that was adapted twice (and the first time across multiple seperate seasons) throughout its life time. And that the articles failed to realise that people are frustrated at the manga/source material's continuous hiatus as opposed to the adaptations'. Hence it's impossible for that claim that Togashi is somehow giving up his "franchise" possible, because there is no franchise to begin with because Togashi owns HxH as a "series" and not as a "franchise".

It's also rather questionable to make the claim that Togashi is somehow asking Ishida to replace him as the writer of his own creation, even though Ishida merely did a one-shot of Hisoka that was acknowledged by Togashi; I fail to see how there is any indication of "shit I wanna give my creation to you right now" from that fact.

If we were to look at history, Togashi isn't the kind of person to just give up his creation and leave it to other people's hands. You've seen it in Yu Yu Hakusho, where the TV adaptation team legitimately put in more effort than the author himself as such the vast majority of people today know YYH by the TV series as opposed to the source material itself. Even Togashi admitted that the TV team understands the series better than himself, but it's not like he'd just give up his ownership just like that.

I mean it's understandable, why should he give up his creation and leave it to some other people's hands, why should we jump to that conclusion with minimal considerations? Do we not care about the man's pride as an author but only his work? That's just not cool man.