Hitsuji Gondaira/Author Comments

Every issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump has a place in the contents page for comments from the author. These are all the ones from Hitsuji Gondaira since the start of Mission: Yozakura Family's serialization.

* Comments from 2019 Issues
* Comments from 2020 Issues

* **Weekly Shonen Jump #39 - August 26, 2019:** "Hello to those who know me and those who don't! I'll do my very best!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #40 - September 2, 2019:** "I got my brother to draw the background on the chapter title page. He's superfast at drawing forests and trees. Give me those skills!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #41 - September 9, 2019:** "I didn't notice the mosquitoes in my room because of my earplugs and ended up being bitten all over."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #42 - September 14, 2019:** "Kaldi's cold brew coffee is so good! I'm drinking it like crazy as if it was barley tea. Maybe that's why I can't sleep."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #43 - September 21, 2019:** "My nephew is about two years old and is super cute, but the way he moves around and acts is totally like an old man."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #44 - September 30, 2019:** "I’m happy it’s cooled down after a hot stretch. Every year I catch a cold from the lingering summer heat, but I was okay this year."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #45 - October 7, 2019:** "Satoko Miyahara's final poses in her new routines for both short program and free skate are so cool. I also like the musical arrangements."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #46 - October 12, 2019:** "If God appeared before me, I think I’d make the same wish as Doburock in their comedy skit. Please give me a giant…"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #47 - October 21, 2019:** "I believe that Griffin in Men in Black 3 showed the colonel the future of his son, J."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #48 - October 28, 2019:** "Pocahontas and Belle are really great Disney heroines, but the best is, of course, Esmeralda."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #49 - November 2, 2019:** "Jason Browns's free skating makes me cry, but Keegan Messing's short program makes me cry even more. Uh-oh!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #50 - November 11, 2019:** "Yuzuru Hanyu and Alexandra Trusova are too good! Also, my brother had twin girls! Good luck and congratulations!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #51 - November 18, 2019:** "I'd like to thank my editor for the gifts of herb tea and the Anne of Green Gables merchandise. He knows my girlish tastes well!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #52 - November 25, 2019:** "I want some friends who also love Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World. Nobita's genealogy is Phoenix-level amazing."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #1 - December 2, 2019:** "Is there anything greater in life than the catharsis of pulling out a big booger or a giant piece of earwax?"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #2 - December 9, 2019:** "A cardboard planisphere is pretty good. Not that I can see much in Tokyo with all the bright lights though."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #3 - December 16, 2019:** "My only joy in life is depleting my editor's Line app points by bombarding him with Kuro-chan stamps."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #4-5 - December 23, 2019:** "Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen were amazing, but my personal MVP was Kévin Aymoz in the kiss and cry area."

* **Weekly Shonen Jump #6-7 - January 3, 2020:** "There’s such a big difference between me—who far from being married, has zero experience in the romance department and is on the verge of gaining magical powers—and my main character!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #8 - January 20, 2020:** "When I watch the Heidi anime, I almost always cry at the scene with Peter’s grandmother. I want to go to Switzerland."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #9 - January 27, 2020:** "My introvert power level is 530,000, and my editor worried about me so much at the New Year’s party that he turned into ash at the end of the night."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #10 - February 3, 2020:** "I finally got to see The Hobbit Trilogy: Extended Edition. Radagast and Bombur just get better and better."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #11 - February 10, 2020:** "I want to become a Tolmekia soldier from the Nausicaä manga and die protecting Princess Kushana."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #12 - February 17, 2020:** "The line 'Sure, after you are dead' in The Moomins is so harsh that it always cracks me up."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #13 - February 22, 2020:** "When I think of Chopin's Ballade No.1, Yuzuru Hanyu and The Pianist are battling it out in my mind."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #14 - March 2, 2020:** "I'm enjoying watching the energetic Mister on the new Dodesho episodes. Director Fujimura's snoring is the worst."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #15 - March 9, 2020:** "I'm a little late, but Shakira's halftime show was amazing! Her hips truly do not lie. It's art!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #16 - March 16, 2020:** "Not that I have any influence, but I'm rooting for the Canadian World Park in Ashibetsu. I hope it can recover."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #17 - March 23, 2020:** "The purple crystal I have on my desk soothes me. Human society is difficult, so I want to be reborn as a stone in the next one. Like a fluorite."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #18 - March 30, 2020:** "What a performance by Muramoto and Reed to the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto in the PyeongChang Olympics. I still rewatch it."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #19 - April 6, 2020:** "Thank you so much, Shirai Sensei! I'm glad to have a comrade! Let's both serve Her Majesty!"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #20 - April 13, 2020:** "Miyuki Nakajima's Kannonbashi. I love it and listen to it all the time. Gooseberry."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #21-22 - April 27, 2020:** "I've been reading through Dragon Quest wikis to relax before bed these days. Especially the info on the classes in DQ VII."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #23 - May 11, 2020:** "I remembered that I can get my PC to flash in seven colors, but I got bored soon after turning it on. I was so excited when I bought it…"
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #24 - May 18, 2020:** "I'm having fun collecting money printed in the last year of the Heisei era and the first year of the Reiwa era. Very enjoyable to line them all up."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #25 - May 25, 2020:** "The way Mike's mouth moves when he sings 'My Way' in Sing seems so real that I get emotional."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #26 - June 1, 2020:** "I'm not a fan of gross stuff, but the food in the show Hannibal looks good. Perhaps because Mads is so sexy."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #27 - June 8, 2020:** "I've been listening to the original PlayStation start-up sound on heavy repeat. My brain even re-creates the Capcom logo in my mind."
* **Weekly Shonen Jump #28 - June 15, 2020:** "I really like those characters like Futaro and Jintaro who are clearly villains, but you can't help but see their sadness in their face and posture."