{"rewrite":{"id":"r_99073d6fe3e9d33cb64a8f57","clusterId":"c_17414eddaf73c3b1fe97f022","slug":"sui-ishida-details-exhausting-weekly-schedule-behind-tokyo-ghoul","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Sui Ishida Details Exhausting Weekly Schedule Behind Tokyo Ghoul","summary":"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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eIshida 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.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul schedule left him unable to recall which days he worked. The detail that stands out is the ending: he needed a friend and his older sister to help finish it.","twitterPost":"Sui Ishida needed a friend and his older sister to help finish Tokyo Ghoul's ending. The schedule erased which days he worked.","threadsPost":"Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul run left him unable to recall which days he worked. The detail that stands out is the ending: he asked a friend and his older sister to help with it, which suggests the weekly schedule had worn down more than his memory.","newsletterBlurb":"Sui Ishida gave a detailed account of his Tokyo Ghoul work schedule in an interview on Shueisha's Manga Million app: overnight drawing five to six days a week, twelve to thirteen hours a day, followed by morning storyboarding with staff. He also said a friend and his older sister helped him resolve problems in the manga's ending. His current series Choujin X runs on an irregular release schedule.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Animehunch\",\"url\":\"https://animehunch.com/tokyo-ghoul-author-reveals-brutal-schedule/\",\"title\":\"'I Don't Remember What Days I Worked': Tokyo Ghoul Author Reveals Brutal Schedule During Manga's Run\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4600,"outputTokens":606,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1790009062,"createdAt":"2026-09-21T16:38:26.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-21T16:43:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-21T16:43:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_17414eddaf73c3b1fe97f022","canonicalTitle":"‘I Don’t Remember What Days I Worked’: Tokyo Ghoul Author Reveals Brutal Schedule During Manga’s Run","representativeArticleId":"a_f9033777a420b2d567137b09","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Tokyo Ghoul\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Shueisha\"],\"people\":[\"Sui Ishida\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-21T15:02:54.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-21T15:02:54.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-21T16:43:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Animehunch","url":"https://animehunch.com/tokyo-ghoul-author-reveals-brutal-schedule/","title":"‘I Don’t Remember What Days I Worked’: Tokyo Ghoul Author Reveals Brutal Schedule During Manga’s Run"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Tokyo Ghoul"],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Shueisha"],"people":["Sui Ishida"],"type":"news","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}