[Discussion] So many Manga's coming to an end!!

[Caliburn]

I know what you mean, the same thought went through my mind each time a great series ended, but in the end it depends on how you look at it.

Series like Fullmetal Alchemist and Katekyo Hitman Reborn ended quite a while ago, we're talking about years. There are continuously series that end, for instance Gamaran, Code Breaker and Psyren are series that started and finished while I was already immersed in reading manga (I started 5 years ago).

I know it feels weird when a series you're close to is about to end, but at the same time new series are released all the time and every series starts as a 'lesser' one as you call it. When I started reading Fairy Tail it was definitely at the time what you define is being lesser, but by now it's one of the most popular series. Each manga needs to have a growth period. For instance Nanatsu no Taizai and Shokugeki no Souma are two manga I picked up while they were only a few months old, but by now they are approaching being serialized for 2 years. There will always be new series to take the places in from the old ones. A series of which only the first chapter got released today might be the most popular series in three years.

Fair is fair Shonen Jump's triumvirate of Naruto, One Piece & Bleach is something outside category. You can say whatever you wish about what some of them have turned into, but in the end they have been the 'poster boys' of the Japanese manga industry for nearly a decade, but they have to end someday.

HSDK is also a series that's close to me as it's one of the very first I started reading. Even though I've expected it to end a few months by now, it's still sad to see it go.

 

[WoldOfFingo]

I know what you mean, the same thought went through my mind each time a great series ended, but in the end it depends on how you look at it.

Series like Fullmetal Alchemist and Katekyo Hitman Reborn ended quite a while ago, we're talking about years. There are continuously series that end, for instance Gamaran, Code Breaker and Psyren are series that started and finished while I was already immersed in reading manga (I started 5 years ago).

I know it feels weird when a series you're close to is about to end, but at the same time new series are released all the time and every series starts as a 'lesser' one as you call it. When I started reading Fairy Tail it was definitely at the time what you define is being lesser, but by now it's one of the most popular series. Each manga needs to have a growth period. For instance Nanatsu no Taizai and Shokugeki no Souma are two manga I picked up while they were only a few months old, but by now they are approaching being serialized for 2 years. There will always be new series to take the places in from the old ones. A series of which only the first chapter got released today might be the most popular series in three years.

Fair is fair Shonen Jump's triumvirate of Naruto, One Piece & Bleach is something outside category. You can say whatever you wish about what some of them have turned into, but in the end they have been the 'poster boys' of the Japanese manga industry for nearly a decade, but they have to end someday.

HSDK is also a series that's close to me as it's one of the very first I started reading. Even though I've expected it to end a few months by now, it's still sad to see it go.

What I do notice though is that Long running anime shonen nowadays are becoming less frequent. Series like Nanatsu No Tazai or Magi are made into seasonal anime so fast that those weekly anime series are coming to an end. There are still enough though but it's just the way I feel how it will be in the future

 

[Totsuka No Tsurugi]

Gintama is in it's final stage as well

Says who ? the current arc in the manga is only an opening for a greater arc that soon will take place after all this madness over.

 

[Caliburn]

What I do notice though is that Long running anime shonen nowadays are becoming less frequent. Series like Nanatsu No Tazai or Magi are made into seasonal anime so fast that those weekly anime series are coming to an end. There are still enough though but it's just the way I feel how it will be in the future

Well that's also depends on how you look at it as were there by default that many really long series to begin with? I always had the feeling many magazines have some kind of policy in regards of how long a series should roll, using a trial period. The first part of the series is used to see how successful it becomes. In the case it is very popular, they let it continue to serialize, but in the case it doesn't (and with that I mean not especially popular) they let it serialize for a number of volumes and let it end on an acceptable moment. For this to work the first part of a series has to be written in a very special way so that it provides enough room for potential future volumes, but doesn't leave to many plotholes in the case they decide to not let it continue after a certain point.

I once read that Fairy Tail was supposed to end after the Phantom Lord arc, but that they kept on going because it was so popular and this concept is especially noticeable in Naruto. They divided the series into two parts, but Naruto Shippuden has a far more linear plot than the first part of the series. Kishi could have gone into a number of directions in the first part, but it's only in the 2nd part he made some firm decisions about where he wanted to go. If Naruto hadn't been that popular, the time skip could have been a good point to end it.

It might also be a simple matter of zeitgeist, that they now prefer series that last a medium amount of time, while in the past they had an affinity for long running series. It has been like that with many things.

 

[fiend]

Well that always happen, old ones end and many new ones start.
I recall when Rave Master the first manga I read regularly ended for me it was a sad moment, same happened when FMA, Sket dance or Nurarihyon ended but the sadness reduced and it became a routine, but I always found a new one or started an old gem and enjoyed it.

I have always felt that when the starting few which you are attached to end it depresses you the most, then you just become accustomed to it.

At least these manga are ending after completing their stories, with HXH and Bezerk I have the fear that they might end on a cliffhanger =D.