Yoshihiro Togashi, the creator of popular manga “Hunter x Hunter,” joined Twitter on Monday surprising his fans with the possible return of the shonen battle anime after a four-year hiatus.

In his first tweet, which amassed over 800,000 likes and more than 377,000 retweets, Togashi appeared to tease new chapters of the series. Togashi posted a picture of what appears to be the edge of a Manga sketch, with a caption that roughly translates to “four more episodes for the time being.”

Just minutes after the post, fellow manga artist Yusuke Murata, best known for creating “One Punch Man,” confirmed that the account was legitimate and that he was “with the man himself.”

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With over 79 million copies in circulation, “Hunter x Hunter” is one of the most popular manga series of all time.

Due to Togashi’s struggles with illness and back pain, the series – which was first published in 1998 – had been halted several times. 

The last published chapter, 390, was published in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2018. 

Apart from “Hunter x Hunter,” Togashi is best known for his acclaimed 1990 manga “YuYu Hakusho.”

Born in Shinjō, Yamagata, Togashi began drawing manga casually in his first to second year of elementary school. After completing high school, Togashi enrolled at Yamagata University where he studied education with a dream to become a teacher. During college he submitted some of his manga work to Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha.

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In 1986, at age 20, he authored a manga titled Buttobi Straight, which fetched him the Tezuka Award, the most prestigious award for new comic artists in Japan.

In 1990, Togashi became popular with his series YuYu Hakusho. In 2017, Togashi wrote the two-chapter manga Akuten Wars.

Togashi is married to Naoko Takeuchi, the creator of “Sailor Moon.” The couple have two children and have collaborated on a children’s book titled Oobo— Nu— Tochiibo— Nu.