User blog comment:Gojirafan430/Well its been over a year..../@comment-69.80.164.154-20130423034319

I feel this is going to be the same as Hajime No Ippo. (Fighting Spirit) Basically they will finish this arc and then stop. This Hunter x Hunter I feel they expected it to eventually get up to this arc but did not expect so many Hiatuses. I think they felt if they went into one 20 or so episode filler arc explaining a character or two's back plot then they could get to the Exploration arc and through half if not all without the another going on hiatus. I have hopes this could still happen but we have to prey the hiatus is no longer than till mid June.