Sui Ishida Details Exhausting Weekly Schedule Behind Tokyo Ghoul
Ishida's account puts specific hours and meeting times on a production load the fandom had previously known about only in general terms, and it lands as his current manga Choujin X runs on an irregular release schedule rather than a weekly one.
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In an interview published on Shueisha's Manga Million app, Tokyo Ghoul author Sui Ishida described working overnight five to six days a week, twelve to thirteen hours a day, then meeting staff at ten in the morning for storyboarding sessions of thirty minutes to an hour. He said he does not recall which days he worked, and that he asked a friend and his older sister for help with the manga's ending.
Ishida said the drawing itself consumed most of the time, which is why the overnight blocks ran as long as they did. At ten each morning the staff gathered for storyboarding that could run thirty minutes or an hour. He has spoken before about the health problems that followed. In the new interview he also said the endgame of the story kept creating narrative problems, and that a trusted friend and his older sister helped him work through them, which changed how he thinks about developing ideas with other people. Choujin X, his current series, has 16 tankobon volumes and more than 2.5 million copies in circulation as of June 2026.
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