It depends from story to story. Stories that have a clear plot from the start aren't stories that you should keep dragging out. Examples of this are Death Note, Battle Royale and Basilisk. From the start you get more or less the idea what it's all about, that it's not a plot that can keep going forever unless you want to kill the story.
Then you've got stories that have no clear plot, only some vague impressions with no clear contents. Those are stories which you should keep going for a while. Examples of this are One Piece, Naruto and Fairy Tail. You know from chapter one that Luffy wants to become the Pirate King by finding the One Piece, however after 625 chapters we know as much about OP as we knew in the first chapter xd we've gotten loads of information about dozens of characters, amazing adventures etc. it's still as awesome as it's ever been, but we still don't know anything about what OP is _O-
Because the plot is pretty clear, but so vague, you have a lot of space to write about anything. Oda used that space to create the entire One Piece world, its different races, powers, islands etc. he has lots of space to write his story.
It's similar for Naruto, though less extreme as in OP. We knew from chapter one that Naruto had the Kyuubi in him and that he wants the people to acknowledge him. It was not something you could just force, from the start it was clear that this was something that needed quite a while to be explained fully. If you don't take your time with that you kill the story.
Then you've got stories that really just have no straight direction whatsoever and then it can go both ways: or they prolong too long or they suddenly cut it off. An example of the first one is To-Love-Ru. From start to end it was like things we're just made up as they go with no direction. Then they suddenly stop, the series end, but they make a successor with the same characters starting from where the first series ended. It's called To-Love-Ru Darkness. However unlike the first series it has a certain direction, so the first part, which was around 160 chapters, was the intro .-. though why they concider it two different manga's is a mystery to me.
An example of the second one is Mx0. I liked that manga, it had no clear goal, but it had a lot of potential. Then suddenly they end it.
I like both long and short stories as long they fit the plot. What I absolutely loath is, like in Mx0, that they suddenly end the story without giving a clear ending to all the different character problems or to the story itself. A while back I read Rave Master, Hiro's work from before Fairy Tail. It wasn't bad, but I hated how they ended it, he really didn't bother to clear out all the characters their final status, even the main character just got one panel. I hope he's not going to do that with Fairy Tail.
...and then you've got Bleach, God save us all from that one X_x
Then you've got stories that have no clear plot, only some vague impressions with no clear contents. Those are stories which you should keep going for a while. Examples of this are One Piece, Naruto and Fairy Tail. You know from chapter one that Luffy wants to become the Pirate King by finding the One Piece, however after 625 chapters we know as much about OP as we knew in the first chapter xd we've gotten loads of information about dozens of characters, amazing adventures etc. it's still as awesome as it's ever been, but we still don't know anything about what OP is _O-
Because the plot is pretty clear, but so vague, you have a lot of space to write about anything. Oda used that space to create the entire One Piece world, its different races, powers, islands etc. he has lots of space to write his story.
It's similar for Naruto, though less extreme as in OP. We knew from chapter one that Naruto had the Kyuubi in him and that he wants the people to acknowledge him. It was not something you could just force, from the start it was clear that this was something that needed quite a while to be explained fully. If you don't take your time with that you kill the story.
Then you've got stories that really just have no straight direction whatsoever and then it can go both ways: or they prolong too long or they suddenly cut it off. An example of the first one is To-Love-Ru. From start to end it was like things we're just made up as they go with no direction. Then they suddenly stop, the series end, but they make a successor with the same characters starting from where the first series ended. It's called To-Love-Ru Darkness. However unlike the first series it has a certain direction, so the first part, which was around 160 chapters, was the intro .-. though why they concider it two different manga's is a mystery to me.
An example of the second one is Mx0. I liked that manga, it had no clear goal, but it had a lot of potential. Then suddenly they end it.
I like both long and short stories as long they fit the plot. What I absolutely loath is, like in Mx0, that they suddenly end the story without giving a clear ending to all the different character problems or to the story itself. A while back I read Rave Master, Hiro's work from before Fairy Tail. It wasn't bad, but I hated how they ended it, he really didn't bother to clear out all the characters their final status, even the main character just got one panel. I hope he's not going to do that with Fairy Tail.
...and then you've got Bleach, God save us all from that one X_x
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