1. The hiatuses correspond to the periods of time when Death Note, Bakuman and Platinum End were written.
2. There are similarities between the design of each (bishonen characters, glasses, some manly characters, etc). Togashi/Ohba gives the design descriptions to Obata who draws the characters.
3. The stories of each author are equally intricated and well-written.
4. Togashi shares characters with Tsugumi Ohba (you could write it Ooba though but a lot of time it is written Ohba).
All in all, I believe that Ohba Tsugumi is just a nick for Togashi to do some other genre in manga.
>The stories of each author are equally intricate and well-written. No. Read bakuman. Its anything but that.
Brandon Nelson
it's one of the rare SoL where almost every character (and there's a lot) start somewhere and end somewhere else after a well planned evolution and character growth.
Luke Robinson
DN, Bakuman and Platinum End are guilty pleasures and training grounds for Togashi to try out new ideas and make HxH the best. He knows thy are not the quality people would expect from him, that's why he uses a fake name.
Ayden Rogers
i'd even say it's so well planned that it makes it a less interesting SoL than more spontaneous shoujo shit like Nodame Cantabile
Blake Barnes
Exactly how HxH is unenjoyable because it tries to be way more complex than a shounen needs to.
Robert Butler
I'd agree, but both (HxH and Bakuman.) are interesting in their own right.
I love the character growth in HxH though, so touching. And the fact that the base group of characters is not always together, sometimes for whole arcs.
Benjamin Ortiz
Are people really saying Bakuman is unironically good?
Its like 6.5/10
Chase Collins
intricately written =/= good
Jace Ward
I mean its way better than that garbage Shirobako and Sup Forums manages to think it's a 10/10.
Also Platinum ends stinks, not even worth talking about.
Kevin Smith
Its also poor meta analysis of the manga industry that unwittingly replicates many of the norms and cliches with little to no intelligent commentary or design. Hunter x Hunter is very much a deconstruction and, by extent and some argument, an analysis of its genre. Bakuman and Hunter x Hunter were written by very different people with very different approaches to narrative within manga. They're wholly incompatible interpretations of fiction.
Asher Green
>Also Platinum ends stinks, not even worth talking about.