User blog comment:Miskos3/Final Chapter in Official Color + Hiro Mashima's interview/@comment-200.8.22.175-20170728103827/@comment-200.8.22.175-20170728163142

Didn't I said that thankfully Hiro was not part of the mangaka disease plague? And didn't I named Kataura Hoshino, who is well know for her health issues? I know the problems on the industry, but people tend to think that's always "the big mean corporation fucking with the little guy", and while that happens a lot, when the mangaka makes a name for themselves and their product sales, they get a lot of say, something that people wishfully ignore. Besides, this are mostly on the weekly serialization, which he is part of, the ones that work on the monthly ones are much healthier.

Look at Yoshihiro Togashi, WSJ always offers him loads of helpers, and he refuses every single time, is that the company's fault too? And when he goes on hiatus for whatever reason (sometimes for health, sometimes because the new Monster Hunter came out...), they let him do as he pleases. Hiro could have done that if he wanted to, but he didn't because he didn't wanted to, which is commendable sure, the problem is that the content he puts out may look good, is not good at all.