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Does anyone know why the manga is on hiatus?

I'm wondering, because I just re-picked up on reading this manga since I just finished watching the anime. xD

The Peacemaker Kurogane series is on hiatus because now Tokyopop has the license to the manga. The series that ADV was releasing is actually the second part of the manga, and it's not the first time that the company has done this with their manga releases, but I imagine that it is possible that the confusion created by this release pattern affected the manga's sales. A good chunk of the anime was based on the first part of the manga, Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker, and ADV had already licensed and released most of the anime on DVD by the time they started publishing the manga in English. Peacemaker Kurogane is really only understandable without Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker if you have already watched the entire anime because Peacemaker Kurogane continues literally right where the anime left off.

So, in a nutshell, Tokyopop owns the rights to publish the manga in English now and they're releasing it under the name Peacemaker starting with Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker. The Peacemaker Kurogane translations won't continue until they finish the first season, but there are five volumes total and Tokyopop seems to be releasing them very quickly - Volume 3 is already out. :D