Kagurabachi Goes on Long Hiatus: Japanese Fans React — "Please Don't Let Them Crush You… Rest Well."
カグラバチ 長期休載 日本のファンの反応
“Please don't push yourself and get crushed…”
無理して潰されないでくれよ…
Kagurabachi, one of Weekly Shonen Jump's biggest current hits, just announced a long hiatus — and the top Japanese reactions weren't "noooo, my manga." The very first instinct was protective: "Please don't let them crush you," "take your time," "rest as long as you need." From there the thread turned into something English fans rarely see — an unusually literate discussion of weekly serialization as a brutal labor system. The recurring themes: roll calls of authors who burned out before (Hunter x Hunter, World Trigger, Jujutsu Kaisen's rushed late hiatuses), detailed proposals to shift Jump to a biweekly schedule, anger that a weekly author was sent on an overseas trip at all, and — strikingly — praise for the editor who FORCED the rest as "finally doing their actual job." Underneath it all, the bittersweet timing (a hiatus right as the anime hype builds) and one wry, very Japanese verdict on weekly serialization as Osamu Tezuka's lasting curse.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 85)
- @teman-daisuki👍 86
Hunter x Hunter, World Trigger, Kagurabachi… being a mangaka is brutal work. Please take care of yourself.
ハンター、ワートリ、カグラバチ… 漫画家ってのは激務だな ご自愛下さい
- @クヤシックス👍 74
A hiatus right in the middle of this insanely hyped arc hurts, but we absolutely cannot let this become a repeat of World Trigger.
今の激アツな展開で休載きついけどワートリの二の舞にさせたら絶対いかん
- @久遠あやね👍 1
Please don't end up like the Hunter x Hunter author or the World Trigger author (tears).
ハンター作者やワートリ作者みたいにならないでね(涙)
- @nfwpajgdp👍 10
Jujutsu Kaisen had a ton of hiatuses near the end too, and the author was saying he wanted to wrap it up fast, so the finale got full of contradictions and retcons… Honestly he should've just taken a six-month break to rest and properly plot it out.
呪術も終盤休載多くて作者が連載早く終わらせたいとか言って終盤矛盾や後付け多い展開にしてたからな… 半年くらい休載して休んでストーリー練っとけば良かったなぁ
- @山田ゆうだい👍 17
It's over… my one joy is gone… But I guess it beats the possibility of never getting to read the rest at all.
終わった…楽しみが消えた… でも一生続き見れなくなる可能性も考慮したらマシか
- @Kyuu-y1y👍 0
Seriously, my whole vibe is just "please, REST." Take as many years as you need — I just want it to actually get a proper ending.
まじで、めっちゃ休んでくださいって感じ。 何年かかってもいいから完結はしてほしい
- @MrFortissalvare931👍 0
I'll be rereading the volumes and the serialized chapters on loop while I wait, so please rest up. …Oda-kun, could you keep drawing every week until August though…?
単行本と連載分繰り返し読んで待ってるのでゆっくり休んでくれ 尾田くん、8月までは毎週描いてくれないか…？
- @いちおう-t1p👍 0
Please, genuinely, look after your health — honestly people were worried about the author way before this, so it's kind of "only now?"
マジで健康に気を遣ってくれ、と言うかもっともっと前から作者大丈夫かとなってたのに今更かよ
- @トボ-z5d👍 26
From the author's side, of course they want to keep going even as their body breaks down. In Jump, where competition is already cutthroat, taking a clumsy break and losing fans means it's over — every single day is a battlefield, so it makes total sense if resting feels almost suicidal. They say Showa-era authors were so traumatized by their lean early years that they overloaded themselves with work, and Jump authors are surely no different.
作者からしたら身体にガタが来てもやりたいってのは当然なんだよな ただでさえ競争過多のジャンプで下手に休んでファンが離れたら終わりだし、毎日が戦場で休みなんて自殺行為に近いものだと思っててもおかしくない 昭和の頃の作家は仕事がない時期のことがトラウマで何本も仕事を抱えてしまってたというが、ジャンプ作家もまた然りだろ
- @むにゅら_munyura👍 2
Weekly serialization is basically a hellish work environment… Whether it's a sudden illness or whatever, you can't heal under those conditions — even things that should get better, won't.
週間連載なんて地獄の労働環境だろうしなぁ…、 急病なのか何なのか知らないけど、治るもんも治らんよ。
- @はるるん-y3r👍 3
Weekly serialization is the "sin" half of Osamu Tezuka's legacy of merits and sins… Not every mangaka is a superhuman like you, asking your assistants with a straight face, "Why are you sleepy?"
週間連載は手塚治虫の残した功罪の罪の方だな… 全ての漫画家があなたみたいに「なんで眠いんですか？」と真顔でアシに聞くような超人じゃないんだ…。
- @zaigerking7200👍 19
Maybe the weekly manga magazine itself has just become unsustainable.
週刊マンガ雑誌自体が継続不可能になっているのかもしれない。
- @tyororin6103👍 6
Keep the magazine weekly, but put individual series on a biweekly rotation — that'd be better. Sales would probably get uneven, but protecting the mangaka's health has to come first.
週間はそのままで作品は隔週形態にするとかしたほうが良いな。そうなると売上にばらつき出そうだけど、まず漫画家の健康守らんと
- @maccha-neko👍 0
Let's seriously go biweekly. Split the series into two groups, A and B, and alternate which group runs each week — that way the magazine still ships weekly, AND readers get twice as many series. There's risk (higher total page-rate costs, more advances to pay out), but it's vastly better than an author collapsing and the series ending for good — no?
マジで隔週にしよう そして週によって載ってる作品をグループ分けする グループAとグループBで それを交互に変えていけば一応週刊として出していける 読者的にも2倍の作品数が読める 原稿料の合計が増えたり、連載準備金を払う人数が増えたりでリスクはあるけども、ぶっ倒れて継続不可よりは遥かに良いと思うんだがどうかな？
- @fdx-kr7kv👍 31
Can the people blaming the editorial department actually read? The AUTHOR is the one who wanted to keep going, and the editors are the ones who forced him to rest. The author was clearly overworking, so the editors who made him stop are honestly admirable. That said — weekly serialization really is past its era. They should switch to something like biweekly: double the roster of authors, and keep shipping the magazine every week.
これが編集部の責任って言ってる奴文字読めてんの？作者本人がやりたいって言ってんのを編集部が無理やり休ませたんだろ？どう考えても作者がオーバーワーク気味だったからやめさせた編集部は立派だろ。 ただ週刊連載ってもう時代じゃないってのはあるよな。隔週ぐらいに変えたほうがよさそう。抱える作家を2倍に増やして毎週発行は継続にして。
- @何処にでもいて何処にもいない👍 7
Most mangaka do this because they love it, and the majority simply can't hit the brakes themselves. The editor is supposed to be that brake — so this editor is actually doing their job right.
そもそも漫画家の大半は好きでやっていて自分でブレーキがかけられない人の方が多いからな。 そのブレーキ役が編集だから今回の編集はちゃんと仕事してる。
- @AMPアンプ👍 8
If the announcement is to be taken at face value, the author himself wanted to keep drawing… which is exactly why people say someone outside should've stopped him — and this time it really does feel like a doctor('s?) order forced the stop.
いうて描かれたことがそのまんまなら本人は描き続けようとしたんだよな…まぁだからこそ外が止めろよと言われたらそうだけど、今回はマジでドクター(？)ストップがかかった感あるな
- @ソード-d5g👍 8
An overseas trip is absolutely not something they should've made the author do. Even a regular person needs days off to recover from one — so why make an already-overworked weekly mangaka do it? And it's not like he was taking constant hiatuses the way One Piece does, either.
海外遠征とか絶対作者にやらせることじゃなかったよな。一般人でも数日の休みを要するのに何で激務の週刊漫画家にやらせてるんだ？しかもワンピみたいに休載だらけって訳じゃなかったし
- @th-xj6pc👍 4
Wait… they sent him on an overseas trip AND had him draw a weekly manga…? That's way too exploitative. They should replace the editor-in-chief…
え？海外遠征させて週間漫画書かせてたの、、？ブラックすぎんか 編集長変えた方がいいよ、、
- @RicoWinters👍 0
Starting with Akira Toriyama, then Togashi — why do editors never learn from this?
鳥山明はじめ冨樫とか何で編集は学ばないの？
- @岡-k2s👍 0
Chainsaw Man Part 2… please, I'm begging you, let them rest!!! Once the fire of motivation goes out, it doesn't come back!!!
チェンソーマン2部… 本当に頼むから休ませてくれ！！！ やる気の火が消えたら戻らないんだよ！！！
- @ちいかわ-r4t👍 12
Right around when the hiatus starts, anime news and advance screenings will come flooding in, so we can hold out — plus there's still next week's chapter.
休載始まる辺りから先行上映始まるアニメの情報ドシドシ来るだろうしまだ耐えれる来週分はあるしね
- @eee-p5e4t👍 1
The anime was just announced and this is exactly the moment everything boosts, so realistically nobody wants to rest right now. Author supervision, tie-ins, special illustrations — the workload is about to balloon, so from here I'd want them on a biweekly schedule with health first. I hate that the author breaks down every single time, without exception.
アニメ化発表されてまさにこっからブーストかかりまくる時期だから本来なら誰も休みたく無いわな 作者監修やらタイアップやら描き下ろしやら相当増えるだろうし今後は週刊掲載じゃなくて隔週くらいで体調優先してもらいたい 毎度例外なく作家が壊れんの嫌だよ
- @reim-l6w👍 0
Alright then, time to go collect the volumes. I kept meaning to and then realized like 10 were already out and felt too far behind — but now's the moment.
よっしゃ、じゃあ単行本買い集めよっと。 買おう買おうって気づいたら10巻くらい出てて気が引けてたけど
- @sakai8017👍 1
Which comes first — Kagurabachi resuming, or Ao no Hako (Blue Box) finishing?
カグラバチの連載再開が先か、アオのハコの完結が先か
- @典-r5e👍 0
It's fine, we're saved. Hunter x Hunter just came back.
もう大丈夫。 ハンターハンターが来た
- @-13Kumagawa👍 0
I wonder if it's all playing out like the peak of Bakuman.
バクマン。の最高みたいになってんのかな
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