Naruto is ending November 5

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ZoddGutts said:
Naruto had it's moments in Part 1 (some emotional pull) which part 2 was never to really match.
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It's funny because while Part 2 definitely pales in comparison I wouldn't call it outright terrible until the Pain Arc (or at the very least, up until the infamous Sakura's Confession fiasco). It just sprung into a direction I didn't care for.

Same thing with Bleach, actually. Don't care for the Arrancar stuff that much, but it's not that bad until the Yammy "twist"/the Deicide BS.

Gantz post Buddha arc. Though that's Seinen.
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Ah, never read it. I'm currently on a mass WSJ binge (currently on Slam Dunk/Rokudenashi Blues), so idk if I'll ever get around to it.
 
Man, I was hooked with the fighting in the early chapters / episodes. I was enthralled through the chuunin exam, but for me the crazy power-ups just turned me off. I still follow what's going on, though. It'll feel weird not having new chapters coming out after so long.

Can we have a spin-off with Shikkamaru being totally analytical and badass, please?
 
KuwabaraTheMan said:
Glad Kishimoto is finally putting the series out of its misery. I used to be a huge fan, but it's really started to drag recently (especially in the last year or so). Glad the final battle won't be too long.
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I've actually liked where the series has been going for the past year or so?

When Madara becomes the So6P basically and kills Naruto and Sasuke. I like how the real So6P ties it all together with light & dark basically being re-incarnated with each new generation. I thought it made the whole Naruto vs Sasuke dynamic interesting. Not to mention between that we got 8 gates guy which was awesome to see. And I really liked the way they wrapped up the Kaguya fight with all of the original team 7 working together to get shit done. The fight itself wasn't amazing by any means but I guess it was the nostalgia with all of Team 7 working together and getting it done that made me enjoy it so much. And to wrap the series up with part 2 of one of the greatest fights ever? I think Kishi did well to finish the series with what was there. Here's hoping Naruto vs Sasuke 2 is great.
 
NHarmonic. said:
So he should rush the story and get them to Raftel already? Dude, even Silvers Rayleigh said it. The important thing is the journey, and that will be the key point when they'll have to decide what to do with the "One Piece". This just reads as someone who's tired of the current arc and maybe you have a point there, but wanting Oda to actually rush everything only for the sake of achieving the goal is quite perplexing...
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Who said anything about rushing there? My point I'd that it needs to feel like we're making progress towards Luffy's goal. Everything else is fine to have but make it feel like we're we're moving toward what the hero set out to do. As long as it feels like they're going somewhere I'll take anything that comes unless it's flagrantly bad.
 
Kishi wrote himself into a corner with Madara and Obito, hence shoehorning Kaguya with no context and the tragically long war arc. War should have ended with Obito, like 20 chapters wasted on Madara and Kaguya in the end for no reason.

5 weeks to end everything, INCLUDING the most highly anticipated fight of the series? Not a fucking chance.
 
Cloud Strife said:
Kishi wrote himself into a corner with Madara and Obito, hence shoehorning Kaguya with no context and the tragically long war arc. War should have ended with Obito, like 20 chapters wasted on Madara and Kaguya in the end for no reason.

5 weeks to end everything, INCLUDING the most highly anticipated fight of the series? Not a fucking chance.
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I'm still in awe at the Kaguya thing. Like...really? At least Madara had actual build-up.

Not really expecting good things for the ending, either.
 
Shouta said:
Who said anything about rushing there? My point I'd that it needs to feel like we're making progress towards Luffy's goal. Everything else is fine to have but make it feel like we're we're moving toward what the hero set out to do. As long as it feels like they're going somewhere I'll take anything that comes unless it's flagrantly bad.
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Don't want to keep derailing the thread, but dude, they're working towards that goal. Their alliance with law was made so they could go against the Yonkou, that you know, control the sea and islands of the new world. I don't get your point after all, Luffy needs to overcome this people and all the dressrosa conflict was built towards that...

OT

I still feel like it's too soon, specially with the fight going on and the possible epilogue... Though everything could tie up with the new movie?
 
BatDan said:
Nothing's been announced. We probably won't hear what it is for a couple weeks.
There's a chance that its "replacement" will be cancelled fairly quickly.

The way Jump works is that readers vote for what stays and what goes. They can have 13 new series a year, but only 2-3 will survive past 50 chapters.
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And two of those spots look like they will be filled by Hinomaru Zumou and Boku no Hero Academia. Both who have done well to keep themselves in the top 5.
 
ChosenPredator said:
wonder what will replace them
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A series about a young boy/girl with special albeit inert powers destined for greatness. This person/creature/mechanism will overcome adversaries through an indomitable spirit and a honeyed personality that turns foes into friends. Oh, and people will engage in inexplicable flight.

First day.
 
Cameron122 said:
so when is the next big shonen
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For Shonen Jump.
 
PeakPointMatrix said:
Did you miss when Naruto had to learn to expel the remnants of hatred from his heart in order to tame the Kyuubi's power? Or when he learned that the use of the Kyuubi's chakara was what hurt Sakura in his rage, leading him to learn he must never solely depend on it again? Or in a moment of weakness in his fight with Pein, he essentially gives up for the first time in the manga and nearly rips the Kyuubi's seal?

There was a lot more growth in Part 2 than your giving credit to.
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is largely the same. As in how he reacts is largely the same, his obsession with Sasuke is largely the same. He changes a bit, but it's nothing so significant that you can say he went extremely notable character development, as in how he reacts now is very different to how he'd react before. He's more assured of his strength is his biggest difference.
 
I'm actually legit sad about this....one of the reasons I got into manga/anime. it lost its way tho sadly after a while since Shippuuden. But yeah I'm gonna miss it big time


and HSD Kenichi aka GOAT also ended

so did Beelzebub

...horrible year for me as a manga reader/fan
 
Stopped reading Naruto around a year or so ago, said I was just going to wait till it ends. Guess I'll pick it back up then, Bleach is next, and I'll just keep letting One Piece stack. Only person who has me by the balls completely, is Togashi.

Gentleman Jack said:
Now do Bleach, from when Aizen enters the fake Karakura until he gets cut in half by Ichigo. :D
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Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura Town really did try my patience.
 
Cloud Strife said:
Kishi wrote himself into a corner with Madara and Obito, hence shoehorning Kaguya with no context and the tragically long war arc. War should have ended with Obito, like 20 chapters wasted on Madara and Kaguya in the end for no reason.

5 weeks to end everything, INCLUDING the most highly anticipated fight of the series? Not a fucking chance.
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I recall Kishi outright admitted that he made Madara too powerful, and had to talk with his editor on how to defeat him.

The answer? Bunny alien Ninja from nowhere! Only mentioned like 30 chapters before!
 
Gentleman Jack said:
Now do Bleach, from when Aizen enters the fake Karakura until he gets cut in half by Ichigo. :D
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Let's see. To the Bleach Wiki!
Aizen arrived in Fake Karakura in Chapter 315
The fight was interrupted by Turn Back the Pendulum for 12 chapters
And Ichigo defeated him in Chapter 421

The whole thing took about two years.
 
PeakPointMatrix said:
What was the biggest manga before NarutOnepiecBleach?
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Depends on what you mean by "biggest"
In terms of length, there's on-going series longer than One Piece. Kochikame, Jojo, Golgo 13, Detective Conan, Hajime no Ippo, and many others.

If by popularity, well...
Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Fist of the North Star, Jojo, Saint Seiya, all pretty popular in the 80s.
The early 90s had Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, and Slam Dunk.

One Piece premiered in 1997. Hunter x Hunter in 98, Naruto in 99.
 
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Goodbye old friend. 5 chapters is way too short but hopefully then can get a prologue in there somehow. I want to see hokage Naruto/Sasuke/Kiba or whoever they choose.
 
BatDan said:
Let's see. To the Bleach Wiki!
Aizen arrived in Fake Karakura in Chapter 315
The fight was interrupted by Turn Back the Pendulum for 12 chapters
And Ichigo defeated him in Chapter 421

The whole thing took about two years.
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Did some looking into it, Chapter 315 was early summer 2008
Chapter 421 was early autumn 2010

28-ish months. And that's just for the 'final battles' to resolve themselves with more than four months of just flackback chapters, and everything in in-universe time taking place over the course of probably an hour or two at most. Dang. And we're still going with a brand new cast of one-dimensional villains four years later.
 
I think it's about time.



btw, I just got into Attack on Titan. I watched the entire first season on Netflix. It was so good. Is Attack on Titan not as popular as the current big three being talked about in here? I think it's a good replacement for Naruto. The characters are far more compelling and realistic than Naruto's (Mikasa>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sakura), and I wish they would have done the Naruto anime in a similar way as AoT where they wait a while to catch up with the manga. The AoT anime is so consistent in terms of production.
 
Aguila said:
I think it's about time.



btw, I just got into Attack on Titan. I watched the entire first season on Netflix. It was so good. Is Attack on Titan not as popular as the current big three being talked about in here? I think it's a good replacement for Naruto. The characters are far more compelling and realistic than Naruto's (Mikasa>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sakura), and I wish they would have done the Naruto anime in a similar way as AoT where they wait a while to catch up with the manga. The AoT anime is so consistent in terms of production.
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It was the second best-selling manga of 2013 (behind One Piece)
In fact, it was the best-selling manga for the first half of 2014. It actually beat One Piece within that six month period.

It's so popular that Shueisha (Jump's publisher, they actually turned down AoT likely because the manga's art is really not good) has been trying more horror series lately. However, none of the gotten too far. Dying swift deaths.
 
Yeah Attack on Titan is actually really popular right now, but being a monthly series, and having the anime on hiatus means there's not as much content to discuss.
 
Shouta said:
Did you read Infinite's post earlier (I think it was Infinite, anyway). Basically, my problem with One Piece is that the show has this giant nebulous goal that they're supposedly going after but they're basically just going about with crazy hijinx/shit instead of stuff happening towards that objective specifically. Oda doesn't really ever paint what the big picture looks like despite having a start and end point. It's pretty frustrating as someone who started reading OP when it first was serialized in Japan. I've been with the series a long time and it still feels like it never really goes anywhere in regards to the premise it setup originally.

I don't really have a problem with all that gallivanting around but it's frustrating when you set goals and kind of mill about it. HxH does the same thing as OP does in fact, set the hero a goal and he then goes on adventures as a result. However, Togashi actually finished that and then is further expanding the story from there. =P Makes me wish Oda would fucking just let them get there and then springboard into bigger things >=|
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You could argue this but you can't quite say that nothing in One Piece is important to the main goal until the series ends. Oda time and time again somehow makes every little detail in One Piece relevant to "something" so to speak, and I have no doubt in my mind all the little plot-threads will eventually connect together and it'll also connect to the "One Piece" itself.

So all this "side tracking" you speak of seems very likely to me to be the pieces to the sum result.
 
Obviously there's other great manga too read, but wednesdays/thursdays are going to be weird, since i've been reading it since highschool.
 
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