

As most of us know by now [Daisuke
Satō](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Sat%C5%8D) passed away. However,
the series he worked on such as
[HOTD](https://myanimelist.net/manga/669/Highschool_of_the_Dead) is yet to
announce its discontinuation and thus [remains on an indefinite
hiatus](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13032/1458).

This however made me wonder, **_what will happen to a series when the author
passes away?_**

Will the franchise pick the series up with another mangaka instead? Silently
let it linger on 'publishing' as memento? Discontinue it after a XXX amount of
time? Or does this differ from publisher to publisher? Or maybe even mangaka
to mangaka?

In the case of HOTD it already was on an extended hiatus, and the same thing
could just happen to [Yoshihiro
Togashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Togashi), the author of
[Hunter x Hunter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter), as he
is in quite bad health as well. But [Eiichiro
Oda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichiro_Oda), the author of [One
Piece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece), could also be next. In which
case supposedly nobody knows the ending besides Oda himself and the diseased
[Hinati Fujinami](http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/33654/20140818/one-
piece-ending-spoilers.htm).


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What happens to a series after its author dies?