Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-75.73.249.238-20140107022735/@comment-4664248-20150901125818

Alexander9696 wrote: I know this may not be good news. however i'm a die heart fan of HOTD. So what do u guys think? click on the link....

http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7292/is-highschool-of-the-dead-on-hiatus-again Not trying to be rude, but did you bother to check the date that the post was made? It says over a year ago. Also I wouldn't take any "news" seriously unless it came from one of the following sites, Shouji Sato's personal website, Anime News Network, Crunchyroll, Yen Press, Kadokawa Shoten, or Dragon Age Monthly.

Now on to what he actually said. I remember seeing this around August 2013, it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. The two reasons that he gives have been stated a lot, but there's no real proof to back those claims up. I've personally never seen anything stating that Daisuke had a heart condition or that they stopped making it because of the earthquake. As for them finding out the fan base, I'm sure they've seen the sales figures of the manga volumes from Domestic sales and International sales so I highly doubt they were surprises about it, they may have been surprised at some of the fan pages and all the fan art though.

The chapter 30 being a "testing the waters" chapter I can't really refute, because that's exactly what is was, so he has me there. But where he states that Shouji started preparing chapter 31 material is bullshit, he's never said anything about working on the next chapter of HOTD. Skipping over the Fire Fire Fire part (because I don't follow that series nor do I care about it says about it), it's save to say that Triage X has won out in the which series is going to be released. Because it has a bigger audicence in Japan, it's being released constantly, it just got it's anime adaptation (which was shit btw) and has over 11 volumes out right now (both in Japanese and English) I'd say it won.

Lastly the digital sales thing, I've never heard of a single company (modern company that is) that cares about if their books are being sole digitally or in paperback. Money is money, and I HIGHLY doubt that they'll care which one the money comes from. I personally like a physical copy of my books, but that's just me.

Anyways I think that covers it, so uh yeah...