Author Topic: WHY A MANGA "MUST" END ? (Read 4190 times)

GiovaneDinamitardo · « **on:** October 25, 2009, 07:45:27 PM »

I cannot make me a reason: why a manga "must" end?

I don't know if for you is the same but here in Italy a comic ends for 3 reasons:
- Sells too little;
- From the beginning we understand that the story tends to an end;
- The author dies.

For the rest, a comic doesn't end: the best known in my country (Tex Willer), started running shortly after the end of World War II and still is the most sold and read in absolute (Mickey Mouse is even out ranking).

Ok, I know that if Urusei Yatsura was not finished probably we woundn't know masterpieces like Ranma and Inuyasha, but there are about 30 years that Monkey Punch stories about Lupine III, and each one is a success.

Again, why a manga ends?!?

UruseiNeo · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2009, 07:53:54 PM »

Rumiko traditionally does this to her manga, not providing a true ending. Looking at the anime for Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and (before it started continuing again) InuYasha, these anime were not fully concluded.

GiovaneDinamitardo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2009, 10:05:41 PM »

You're right about UY and Ranma 1/2, not for Maison Ikkoku and Inuyasha.

Strange: those are the only 2 manga who have both a "final-final" and, most of all, an HAPPY FINAL !!!

But my question remain the same: WHY A MANGA "MUST" END ?!?

The stories of Go Nagai have all the same "fil rouge", so we know that, at the end, the good will win the evil.

On the contrary, why other stories like "Ace" (Jenny the tennis girl), or "Attack" (Mila & Shiro, 2 hearts into volleyball), or someone else that I'm forgetting "had" to be ended ?!?

And why a saga like Gundam never ends ?!?

UruseiNeo · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2009, 11:00:01 PM »

Didn't say Maison Ikkoku was one of those inconcluded, and I said that the ANIME for InuYasha was not concluded, but that assumption was before they started making the anime again.

Actually I'm a little confused, your topic asks why manga must end, then u go into asking why UY DIDN'T end.

GiovaneDinamitardo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2009, 11:51:08 PM »

back IT: why a manga must end ?

cata · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2009, 04:36:51 PM »

Honestly, I think Rumiko gets bored of her own work. That's why some of the Mangas she made ended so abruptly when it comes to the ending itself, I think.

gatulon · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2009, 05:45:21 PM »

This means that any manga-maker gets bored about its own creation ?!? ???

Kroptik · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2009, 08:06:29 PM »

It can also mean that either the auther wants to try a new approach with a different style, or there's no more ideas to "explore" for those characters.
And finally, whenever anyone writes a story, they usually have an idea on which direction to take it. If that was already achieved, any stories from there on will become boring for the auther if there isn't a fresh new idea to keep the series going.

cata · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2009, 11:07:27 PM »

I kinda made a story (I didn't draw a story or wrote it) and it's all in my head. The only drawings I made were of the 8 main characters. During the last couple years I had so many ideas and so many stories that I made in my head (I know them all lol) and now I don't even know what else to do because I feel like everything is already done. Maybe that's what happens sometimes to artists.

SonicDaMan · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2009, 11:43:32 PM »

I 110% agree with ya there. Pretty much anything good in terms of entertainment in general always end at some point, because nobody likes to watch a "(insert name here) rip-off" or anything that seems too "cliche" or "unoriginal".

UruseiNeo · « **Reply #10 on:** October 27, 2009, 12:20:15 AM »

Quote from: cata on October 26, 2009, 11:07:27 PM

I kinda made a story (I didn't draw a story or wrote it) and it's all in my head. The only drawings I made were of the 8 main characters. During the last couple years I had so many ideas and so many stories that I made in my head (I know them all lol) and now I don't even know what else to do because I feel like everything is already done. Maybe that's what happens sometimes to artists.

made a story in ur head?

EIGHT main characters???

many stories over the past couple of years?????

OMK... I think I might have a split personality... and one of them is Cata 0.0

lol, honestly though, I have a similar position in my head (but 8 main characters, the odds?)

cata · « **Reply #11 on:** October 27, 2009, 06:13:25 PM »

Hey, we're just 2 great minds who think alike. xD

(still it might be a bit creepy Oo)

Yeah there are 8 main characters and they're females and sisters. xD

Kroptik · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:08:14 PM »

8 females? I thinK Falling might want to read that.

If I remember right, Neo's story was about some mythical swords...

UruseiNeo · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:10:10 PM »

yes, that was the key aspect of the story.

Another reason a manga could end is cause the ideas have run dry :p

GiovaneDinamitardo · « **Reply #14 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:15:44 PM »

So a SINGLE manga-maker it's a LIMIT ?!?

Example: in Italy many people has drawn Tex Willer during 60 years and many writers have written his story (any year, in summer, the editor release a "giant" cominc realized by a famous designer: in this way it becomes an honor and an hommage for both), I think that the same happen for the X-men.

Do you know if something like this has never happen in Japan ? ???

UruseiNeo · « **Reply #15 on:** October 27, 2009, 10:37:46 PM »

What do u mean by single manga-maker it's a limit?

GiovaneDinamitardo · « **Reply #16 on:** October 27, 2009, 11:16:40 PM »

To finish the fantasy is "human".

But it's more difficult that more than a person could finish the fantasy !!!

I can see that in Japan any manga maker draw on his own the story that has imaginated but it's rare that he realize the scenario made by someone else !!!

However I found an excelent exception: Myazaki has realized some stories of lupine III (character invented by Monkey Punch) and, above all, the film "Cagliostro's Castle".

Well, by all accounts they are the best adventures ever undertaken by the character !!!

I fully understand that, for example, a sullen and anxious as Ootomo Katsuhiro cannot draw the stories of Lamu (known to be playful and cheerful), but really a creator of manga never leaves that others can write a script for him?

Urusei0Yatsura · « **Reply #17 on:** November 02, 2009, 12:49:46 AM »

Other reasons why a manga ends is because the manga-ka runs out of ideas for that creation or feels that it would go into decline if they carried on.

A manga which has seperate stories that last only one or continue over a few releases does not have to have an ending. Manga that has a long story that carries on over lots of releases normally requires an ending.

A manga which carries on over lots of releases does not necessarily have an ending, it could just keep going on.

Reasons why a manga-ka might not end a series: the manga-ka may be encouraged to the editor; they may not have any new ideas so stick with the same creation; they could like the creation so much they never want it to stop or they could feel under pressure from or be under actual pressure from the fans to continue.

Urusei Yatsura is a manga that has lots of seperate stories lasting one to a few releases, despite this it still has a proper ending (although I personally disagree, if you have read the last part of the manga or seen The Final Chapter you will know what I mean). Trigun is an example of an anime that has a long story that ends and Black Jack is an example of a manga that has a seperate story with every release.

spotless · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2009, 04:46:15 AM »

a manga must end because everething that has a beggining has an ending.
nothing is forever.
of course i would like to see something new from urusei yatsura , but it's only a dream.

Urusei0Yatsura · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2009, 04:54:28 PM »

There is a new OVA coming out on DVD, but I'm not sure when. I wonder if any videogames will follow its release as I feel that it is too much to hope for a remake of Urusei Yatsura anime.

SonicDaMan · « **Reply #20 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:59:14 PM »

January 29th

cata · « **Reply #21 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:24:05 PM »

Less than a month! Yay!! =D

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