How do you cope with your favorite ongoing manga potentially ending?
I don't really have an issue with things ending as long as it's good. Even if it's somewhat disappointing, as long as it's not bad it's usually fine. And then I just find something new to pick up to follow while continuing to talk about that series I liked. Learn to let go.
>>287921065based and wabi-sabi pilled
>>287921026Ending is a good thing. Tell the story you want to tell and wrap it up before it starts to drag. There's a reason all of the shounentrash that drags on for many hundreds or thousands of chapters is considered entry-level slop.
>>287921026I hope everything I read ends. After a certain point, a work becomes worse the longer it’s kept alive.
Why do people want manga to run forever? The only reason manga goes for over 10 volumes is money anyway.
>>287921026The same is going on with pic related. Luckily both this and Touge Oni are masterful and the latest chapters have been incredible for both. I feel like more focused stories with a clear ending in sight are always better, though I will obviously miss the characters dearly. You just keep them in your heart when you remember how good the story was.
>>287921206They get attached to looking forward to the story as a positive thing in their lives and then miss it / miss the characters.
>Touge Oni has been on-going since 2018 and is probably gonna end at 10 volumesI get weekly shounenbabs get triggered when something doesn't run for 20+ volumes and start crying axed, but bi-monthly* manga is a completely different beast.*I don't even think Touge Oni's releases are regular enough.
>>287921230Yeah, but that's bad. That's not liking a story for its themes or artistry, that's wanting it and its characters to be safety blanket. Even a nigga like Urobuchi talked about it, he said that these days people don't actually want stories, they want fantasy friends to get attached to.
>>287921206Putting a hard limit is stupid. Especially because chapters can vary wildly in length. Some 4koma with 4 page chapters reaching even 10 volumes is crazy while a monthly series with 70 page chapters (like Beck) will only be at maybe 30 chapters by the time it gets to 10 volumes.
>>287921257I agree with you, don't get me wrong. I didn't know Urobuchi talked about it. Though it is not really the fan's fault, it's just another symptom like how one of the most popular genres is a copy paste legion of stories about neets or wageslaves dying so they can be reborn in a better world.
>>287921026I recognize my age.Realize how much time I've spent reading it. Working on it. Re-reading it.Look on 4chan and these kids don't know about it. Saw an episode of its anime and said, "okay."People don't share what makes them happy, anymore. Just crave more. It passes. You sink. You hope.
>>287921026hoping it ends well
>>287921026Sex with the miko hag
I don't like Never ending Manga, especially now in the age of the endless scroll, one of its features that it feels long for the sake of it, not because it has a big story to tell, even stories that are only 3-4 years long can feel like they are stretching it.When you can perceive the invisible hand of the editor, or the autor wanting things to stand still, to me it breaks the 4th wall, immersion and the story de-evolves into just being a product to be consumed like a commodity, like is fast food rather than art.I liked this article on endings, an excerpt>In his essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin wrote that the novelist “invites the reader to a divinatory realization of the meaning of life by writing ‘Finis.’” He continued, “What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about.” We needed stories to end so we could make sense of them. We needed characters to die so we could make sense of ourselves.https://archive.is/20190428124624/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/arts/the-end-of-endings.htmlI don't like the sort of audience it cultivates, I am not someone who reads high brow literature, I mostly stick to romcoms but at times the way people accept things is maddening. Like when I see something like Ruri Dragon be a slice of almost nothing, or when it starts a plot point, abandons it the next week and hardly anyone comments on it like they already forgot.
>>287921026No need to cope, translations are way behind and learning enough runes to read it raw will take me years.
>>287921206They found what they like and don't benefit from having to look for something to replace it.
>>287921026Glad, both because things should end at some point and also because I'm the kind of guy that mostly reads already completed works anyway so I'm inherently inclined to get impatient if it seems like the story is going on too long for my tastes
>>287921461Thank you for sharing Anon
>>287921429She's 12.
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>>28792318912 year olds are not hags.
>>287922799Out of 10!
>>287921026It's better than a sudden axe.
>>287921026>How do you cope with your favorite ongoing manga potentially ending?I get extremely happy, good series end
>>287921214give me a break, bugle call shat the bed really hard with the future shit and is now in a lackluster finale, thrown out to die slowly in a quarterly magazine
>>287921026I love FGO's ending.
>>287926691>bugle call shat the bed really hard with the future shitI thought it was obvious
>>287926691The latest arcs (anything post village) are the best chapters in the manga
>>287921026Better than devolving into never ending trash like most Jump series.
>>287921026What need is there to cope?You get to finish the story and you get to remember it as a good story.If the manga I'm following all ended this year I would be able to look back and say "it was good" instead of going on to say "it used to be"
>>287921026>How do you cope with your favorite ongoing manga potentially ending?That is the good scenario. Imagine it not ending...
Having said that, i will kill myself once this ends.
>>287926691>>287927210I was joking by calling it the Great Filter, but what do you know, it IS working.
>>287929453But big Australian bazongas...
>>287926691It's really cute that both Touge Oni which the thread is about and The Bugle Call have those elements. I remember someone else complaining about it in Touge Oni last thread.>>287929803
>>287929803It's funny how divisive those arcs were, people legit dropped the manga over it while everyone who stuck around loved it, haven't really seen a middle ground
>>287935556People are really purist about these things and those arcs are very bold.
