Shinchosha’s Weekly Shinchō magazine announced on Wednesday that Tarō Yabe’s Oya-san to Boku (Landlady and Me) essay manga will go on hiatus.
The manga originally serialized in Shinchosha’s Shōsetsu Shinchō novel magazine beginning in 2016, and Shinchosha published a compiled volume last October.
Yabe posted a message last week announcing the death of his elderly landlady, the subject of the manga.
Within three months, the book had sold 200,000 copies, and has since sold 660,000 copies.