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Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc Does Not Return in Viz's Shonen Jump
posted on by Karen Ressler
Jump SQ. magazine in Japan on Monday.
The manga went on fined 200,000 yen ($1,900) in February.
Viz Media was simultaneously publishing it in English before the manga went on hiatus.
At the time of the manga's hiatus, Shueisha commented that it is taking this news seriously, and that Watsuki expresses deep regret. When it announced the manga's return, the magazine noted that Watsuki is living a life of reflection and atonement, but that Shueisha and Watsuki decided that continuing the manga to answer the desires of fans was a matter of duty.
Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidō-hen) manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine last September.
Watsuki first launched his 28-volume reported last year that a new live-action film in the works.
