Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun Manga Pauses for Creator’s Health

The November issue of Square Enix’s G Fantasy magazine announced on Saturday that Iro Aida’s manga Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is going on hiatus. The break begins with the next issue on November 18, as Aida steps away to receive medical treatment for an unspecified illness.

In the meantime, the magazine plans to rerun earlier chapters and will share a return date once one is set. The series had already taken a short pause in July before coming back in August.

For anyone unfamiliar, the story unfolds at Kamome Academy, where rumors swirl about the school’s Seven Mysteries. One of them is Hanako-san, a spirit said to haunt a stall in an old bathroom and grant any wish when summoned. When occult loving student Nene Yashiro calls on that spirit, her life takes a turn she never expected.

Aida has been telling this story since 2014, and it has grown into a sizable series, with Square Enix reaching its twenty fifth volume in late October and Yen Press publishing it in English. It has also spread to the screen, with a first anime in 2020 and a second season that has been airing in parts through this year on Crunchyroll.

The world even expanded through the After-School Hanako-kun spinoff, which ran from 2018 to 2021 and received its own anime adaptation in 2023.

My take: Above everything else, I hope Aida rests and recovers fully. Hanako-kun has such a devoted following, and fans will gladly wait as long as it takes for the creator to feel well again.