When Long-running Mangas End · 8:38am Aug 19th, 2016
This month, a manga I've been enjoying and following for a while has finally wound down. It's been quite a ride really, a lot of highs and lows and pretty awesome moments. It does feel a bit melancholic when a story I like finally draws to a close.
I'm, of course, talking about Akagi. Now, the author's done a really annoying job of creating entire chapters out of drawing single tiles, but we're clearly down to the final play. It may be a foregone conclusion, but just seeing the scene where Akagi wins is gonna be great. The author's other manga One Outs ended quite a while back and it was pretty solid too. I preferred One Outs because I, at least, partially understand baseball. I know next to nothing about mahjong, but Akagi is written in such a way that you still get a sense of brilliance in Akagi's plays.
Oh, and Bleach puttered to its end too, I guess. I gave up on it after the Soul Society arc, but, like Naruto, I was fascinated with the last few chapters just to see how it ended. Of course it has to tease some kind of spinoff by introducing the next generation like Naruto did. Fuck off, Kubo Tite. I hope you know that tite means penis here in the Philippines.
4158237 Long running ones that keep going are fun too. Check out Hajime no Ippo. It's been going almost thirty years now~
The last comic that gave me a similar feeling was Dominic Deegan. It ran for about eleven years and was apart of my daily routine to check the latest update. Watching it come to a conclusion was rough.
But I got to meet the creator a few times at several conventions. He even signed some of my physical copies of the print editions I purchased XP.
Its tough to see the final pages of a series you're attached to. But nothing gold can stay.