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** Season 4 ''also'' turned out to be a split-cour season. Made worse by the fact it's also titled "The Final Season". (Then the 2022 second half will be the "Final Final Season"... we guess.)
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** Season 4 ''also'' turned out to be a split-cour season. Made worse by the fact it's also titled "The Final Season". (Then Season 4 Part 2 ultimately didn't finish out the 2022 second half will be story, leading to two special episodes (both over an hour long) actually concluding the "Final story roughly 3 years after ''The Final Season"... we guess.)Season'' started
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** The first season had 17 episodes, with the first three airing on the same day. The final two episodes were delayed for six weeks before being aired together.
** The second season began airing in April 2020 before being delayed for five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming with the fifth episode in October.
** The third season was split-cour, with the first 13 episodes airing from July to September 2021 and the second part resuming a full year later in October 2022. Because the second part was 17 episodes long, its final four episodes were also delayed for another six weeks before resuming broadcast in February 2023.
** The second season began airing in April 2020 before being delayed for five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming with the fifth episode in October.
** The third season was split-cour, with the first 13 episodes airing from July to September 2021 and the second part resuming a full year later in October 2022. Because the second part was 17 episodes long, its final four episodes were also delayed for another six weeks before resuming broadcast in February 2023.
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** The first season had 17 episodes, with the first three airing on the same day. The Its final two episodes were delayed for six weeks before being aired together.
** The second season beganairing in April 2020 and aired four episodes before being delayed for five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming with the fifth episode broadcast in October.
** The third season was split-cour, with the first 13 episodes airing from July to September 2021 and the second part resuming a full year later in October 2022.Because And because the second part was 17 episodes long, its final four episodes were also delayed for another six weeks before resuming broadcast finally being aired in February 2023.
** The second season began
** The third season was split-cour, with the first 13 episodes airing from July to September 2021 and the second part resuming a full year later in October 2022.
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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', from Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, the author of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', was featured regularly in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' for several years. Nowadays the series is on hiatus much more than it is not, with roughly one collected volume coming out every year and a half or so (JC titles typically put out six or seven volumes in that same amount of time). Delays have been attributed to [[IncurableCoughOfDeath illness]], which [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-07-04/yoshihiro-togashi-addresses-his-health-problems-in-art-exhibition-message/.187362 was addressed by the author himself in 2022]]. The fact that unlike almost all mangaka he mostly worked without assistants (aside from occasionally his wife, [[Manga/SailorMoon who's a very successful mangaka in her own right]]) until [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-08-30/hunter-x-hunter-yoshihiro-togashi-ive-decided-to-increase-my-staff/.189157 he decided to increse his staff]] probably doesn't help either.
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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', from Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, the author of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', was featured regularly in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' for several years. Nowadays the series is on hiatus much more than it is not, with roughly one collected volume coming out every year and a half or so (JC titles typically put out six or seven volumes in that same amount of time). Delays have been attributed to [[IncurableCoughOfDeath illness]], which [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-07-04/yoshihiro-togashi-addresses-his-health-problems-in-art-exhibition-message/.187362 was addressed by the author himself in 2022]]. The fact that unlike almost all mangaka he mostly worked without assistants (aside from occasionally his wife, [[Manga/SailorMoon who's a very successful mangaka in her own right]]) until [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-08-30/hunter-x-hunter-yoshihiro-togashi-ive-decided-to-increase-my-staff/.189157 he decided to increse increase his staff]] probably doesn't help either.
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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', from Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, the author of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', was featured regularly in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' for several years. Nowadays the series is on hiatus much more than it is not, with roughly one collected volume coming out every year and a half or so (JC titles typically put out six or seven volumes in that same amount of time). Delays have been attributed to [[IncurableCoughOfDeath illness]], to the author being [[WagTheDirector kiiiiinda hard to work with]] or to him and his [[Creator/NaokoTakeuchi wife]] spending time with their children. The fact that unlike almost all mangaka he works without assistants (aside from occasionally his wife, [[Manga/SailorMoon who's a very successful mangaka in her own right]]) probably doesn't help either.
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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', from Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, the author of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', was featured regularly in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' for several years. Nowadays the series is on hiatus much more than it is not, with roughly one collected volume coming out every year and a half or so (JC titles typically put out six or seven volumes in that same amount of time). Delays have been attributed to [[IncurableCoughOfDeath illness]], to which [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-07-04/yoshihiro-togashi-addresses-his-health-problems-in-art-exhibition-message/.187362 was addressed by the author being [[WagTheDirector kiiiiinda hard to work with]] or to him and his [[Creator/NaokoTakeuchi wife]] spending time with their children. himself in 2022]]. The fact that unlike almost all mangaka he works mostly worked without assistants (aside from occasionally his wife, [[Manga/SailorMoon who's a very successful mangaka in her own right]]) until [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-08-30/hunter-x-hunter-yoshihiro-togashi-ive-decided-to-increase-my-staff/.189157 he decided to increse his staff]] probably doesn't help either.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
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** Disaster struck again during season 3 in the end of Fall 2018 however, when it was suddenly revealed to be a split-cour. The fanbase had absolutely no warning this was going to happen, and the second half of the season aired 6 months later in Spring 2019.
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** Disaster struck again during season 3 in the end of Fall 2018 however, when it was suddenly revealed to be a split-cour. The fanbase had absolutely no warning this was going to happen, and the second half of the season aired 6 months later in Spring 2019. It was particularly devastating to fans of the manga, who knew that the first cour was to end right before what was, at the time, considered to be the best story arc in the series.
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* Creator/KentaroMiura, the creator of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', was ''legendary'' for this. When he was on schedule, new tankobon volumes of the manga come out roughly twice a year, not out of the ordinary considering the magazine it's published in, but he took hiatuses a lot – most notoriously, he ended one hiatus to start another one just ''two months'' later. And Berserk is a ''chapter-a-month series''. These breaks were [[http://berserk-confessions.tumblr.com/post/18084538410/i-have-a-lot-of-respect-for-kentaro-miura-after likely necessary]] to stave off [[CreatorBreakdown breakdowns]].
** On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdown might have soured him on the series: it's harder to make depressing stuff when you're happy, and ''Berserk'' has been [[WorldHalfEmpty an express elevator to Hell]] since it started.
** On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdown might have soured him on the series: it's harder to make depressing stuff when you're happy, and ''Berserk'' has been [[WorldHalfEmpty an express elevator to Hell]] since it started.
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* Creator/KentaroMiura, the creator of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', was ''legendary'' for this. When he was on schedule, new tankobon volumes of the manga come out roughly twice a year, not out of the ordinary considering the magazine it's published in, but he took hiatuses a lot – most notoriously, he ended one hiatus to start another one just ''two months'' later. And Berserk is a ''chapter-a-month series''. These breaks were [[http://berserk-confessions.tumblr.com/post/18084538410/i-have-a-lot-of-respect-for-kentaro-miura-after likely necessary]] to stave off [[CreatorBreakdown breakdowns]].
**breakdowns]]. On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdown might have soured him on the series: it's harder to make depressing stuff when you're happy, and ''Berserk'' has been [[WorldHalfEmpty an express elevator to Hell]] since it started.
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** Creator/MediaBlasters falls pretty much in this as well when it comes to their anime releases. Even a good portion of them end up never actually coming out (''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', for example).
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
* Creator/MediaBlasters can take years to release content when it comes to their anime releases. Even a good portion of them end up never actually coming out (''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', for example).
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* Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
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** Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
** Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
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* ''Manga/WorldTrigger'': Starting in 2015, Ashihara took a break from publishing a chapter every four to five weeks due to the pain from the cervical spondylosis he developed in his neck. The series was transferred to ''Jump Square'' in December 2018 after a two year hiatus, where he publishes anywhere between 0 to 2 chapters each month depending on his health.
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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has suffered from this as a whole with the original light novels: there was a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). The biggest one was for the twelfth volume, which came out in November 2020, ''[[SequelGap nine and a half years]]'' after the previous one. In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release. Unfortunately, the constant delays of the light novels would be a detriment to the series, since the lack of material to adapt was partly what [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise as an anime property]].
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** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
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** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
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* ''VideoGame/Idolish7'': The anime adaptation has never had a complete season air uninterrupted, most often due to having odd season lengths that don't quite fit into a standard 13-episode broadcasting cour:
** The first season had 17 episodes, with the first three airing on the same day. The final two episodes were delayed for six weeks before being aired together.
** The second season began airing in April 2020 before being delayed for five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming with the fifth episode in October.
** The third season was split-cour, with the first 13 episodes airing from July to September 2021 and the second part resuming a full year later in October 2022. Because the second part was 17 episodes long, its final four episodes were also delayed for another six weeks before resuming broadcast in February 2023.
** The first season had 17 episodes, with the first three airing on the same day. The final two episodes were delayed for six weeks before being aired together.
** The second season began airing in April 2020 before being delayed for five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming with the fifth episode in October.
** The third season was split-cour, with the first 13 episodes airing from July to September 2021 and the second part resuming a full year later in October 2022. Because the second part was 17 episodes long, its final four episodes were also delayed for another six weeks before resuming broadcast in February 2023.
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* In 1975, ''Manga/SazaeSan'' [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-05-09/sazae-san-anime-delays-new-episodes-for-1st-time-in-45-years-due-to-covid-19/.159400 reran old episodes of the show]] due to the oil shock increasing production costs.
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** Season 4 ''also'' turned out to be a split-cour season. Made worse by the fact it's alao titled "The Final Season". (Then the 2022 second half will be the "Final Final Season"... we guess.)
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** Season 4 ''also'' turned out to be a split-cour season. Made worse by the fact it's alao also titled "The Final Season". (Then the 2022 second half will be the "Final Final Season"... we guess.)
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* Several Creator/ToeiAnimation productions got delayed after their server was hacked in March of 2022.
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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', from Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, the author of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', was featured regularly in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' for several years. Nowadays the series is on hiatus much more than it is not (picking up the FanNickname" Hiatus × Hiatus" in the process), with roughly one collected volume coming out every year and a half or so (JC titles typically put out six or seven volumes in that same amount of time). Delays have been attributed to [[IncurableCoughOfDeath illness]], to the author being [[WagTheDirector kiiiiinda hard to work with]] or to him and his [[Creator/NaokoTakeuchi wife]] spending time with their children. The fact that unlike almost all mangaka he works without assistants (aside from occasionally his wife, [[Manga/SailorMoon who's a very successful mangaka in her own right]]) probably doesn't help either.
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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', from Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, the author of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', was featured regularly in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' for several years. Nowadays the series is on hiatus much more than it is not (picking up the FanNickname" Hiatus × Hiatus" in the process), not, with roughly one collected volume coming out every year and a half or so (JC titles typically put out six or seven volumes in that same amount of time). Delays have been attributed to [[IncurableCoughOfDeath illness]], to the author being [[WagTheDirector kiiiiinda hard to work with]] or to him and his [[Creator/NaokoTakeuchi wife]] spending time with their children. The fact that unlike almost all mangaka he works without assistants (aside from occasionally his wife, [[Manga/SailorMoon who's a very successful mangaka in her own right]]) probably doesn't help either.
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* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' was originally supposed to start its fifth season, ''XV'', in April 2019. It was pushed back to July 2019.
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* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s author, Creator/KenAkamatsu, takes breaks lasting from a week to upwards of three weeks every now and then, claiming to be doing research. While he's almost as famous for his ShownTheirWork moments as he is for inducing [[TropeOverdosed trope overdose]], [[MemeticMutation a lot of fans joke]] that his "research time" is spent [[MaleGaze researching his wife]]. In truth, as he has gotten older his drawing speed appears to have decreased and thus it takes slightly more than a week to draw one week's chapter, leading to a rough schedule of 3-4 chapters and then a break.
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* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s author, Creator/KenAkamatsu, takes breaks lasting from a week to upwards of three weeks every now and then, claiming to be doing research. While he's almost as famous for his ShownTheirWork moments as he is for inducing [[TropeOverdosed trope overdose]], JustForFun/{{trope overdose|d}}, [[MemeticMutation a lot of fans joke]] that his "research time" is spent [[MaleGaze researching his wife]]. In truth, as he has gotten older his drawing speed appears to have decreased and thus it takes slightly more than a week to draw one week's chapter, leading to a rough schedule of 3-4 chapters and then a break.
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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to. Interestingly enough, the latter episode did wind up airing before the movie's release overseas-in North America, for instance, the episode aired two months before the film's release.
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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to. Interestingly enough, the latter episode did wind up airing before the movie's release overseas-in North America, for instance, the episode aired two months before the film's release.
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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has suffered from this as a whole with the original light novels: there was a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). The biggest one was for the twelfth volume, which came out in November 2020, ''[[SequelGap nine and a half years]]'' after the previous one. In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release. Unfortunately, the constant delays of the light novels would be a detriment to the series, since the lack of material to adapt would be partly what [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise as an anime property]].
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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has suffered from this as a whole with the original light novels: there was a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). The biggest one was for the twelfth volume, which came out in November 2020, ''[[SequelGap nine and a half years]]'' after the previous one. In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release. Unfortunately, the constant delays of the light novels would be a detriment to the series, since the lack of material to adapt would be was partly what [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise as an anime property]].
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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has suffered from this as a whole with the original light novels: there was a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). The biggest one was for the twelfth volume, which came out in November 2020, ''[[SequelGap nine and a half years]]'' after the previous one. In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release. Unfortunately, the constant delays of the light novels would be a detriment to the series, since the lack of material to adapt would be partly what [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise as an anime property]].
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* The series of light novels of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' have suffered of it as a whole: it had a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). The biggest one was for the twelfth volume, which came out in November 2020, ''[[SequelGap nine and a half years]]'' after the previous one. In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release. Unfortunately, the constant delays of the light novels would be a detriment to the series, since the lack of material to adapt was part of the reason [[FranchiseKiller the anime part of the franchise died out]].
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* The series of light novels of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' have suffered of it as a whole: it had a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). That, and the fact that the author once confirmed that the eleventh novel was not going to be the ''last'' volume...
** In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release.
** In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release.
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* The series of light novels of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' have suffered of it as a whole: it had a hiatus of four years in between the releases of the ninth volume (April 2007) and the tenth and eleventh ones (May 2011). That, The biggest one was for the twelfth volume, which came out in November 2020, ''[[SequelGap nine and a half years]]'' after the fact that the author once confirmed that the eleventh novel was not going to be the ''last'' volume...
**previous one. In a similar vein, the second anime season got a release for summer 2009, when it was originally announced in 2007 for a Fall 2007/Spring 2008 release. Unfortunately, the constant delays of the light novels would be a detriment to the series, since the lack of material to adapt was part of the reason [[FranchiseKiller the anime part of the franchise died out]].
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* Creator/KentaroMiura, the creator of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', is practically ''legendary'' for this. When he is actually on schedule, new tankobon volumes of the manga come out roughly twice a year, not out of the ordinary considering the magazine it's published in, but he takes hiatuses a lot – most notoriously, he ended one hiatus to start another one just ''two months'' later. And Berserk is a ''chapter-a-month series''. These breaks are [[http://berserk-confessions.tumblr.com/post/18084538410/i-have-a-lot-of-respect-for-kentaro-miura-after likely necessary]] to stave off [[CreatorBreakdown breakdowns]].
** On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdown may have soured him on the series: it's harder to make depressing stuff when you're happy, and ''Berserk'' has been [[WorldHalfEmpty an express elevator to Hell]] since it started.
** On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdown may have soured him on the series: it's harder to make depressing stuff when you're happy, and ''Berserk'' has been [[WorldHalfEmpty an express elevator to Hell]] since it started.
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* Creator/KentaroMiura, the creator of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', is practically was ''legendary'' for this. When he is actually was on schedule, new tankobon volumes of the manga come out roughly twice a year, not out of the ordinary considering the magazine it's published in, but he takes took hiatuses a lot – most notoriously, he ended one hiatus to start another one just ''two months'' later. And Berserk is a ''chapter-a-month series''. These breaks are were [[http://berserk-confessions.tumblr.com/post/18084538410/i-have-a-lot-of-respect-for-kentaro-miura-after likely necessary]] to stave off [[CreatorBreakdown breakdowns]].
** On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdownmay might have soured him on the series: it's harder to make depressing stuff when you're happy, and ''Berserk'' has been [[WorldHalfEmpty an express elevator to Hell]] since it started.
** On the other hand, coming ''out'' of a CreatorBreakdown
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date scheduled for January 23, 2021... only for it to be delayed AGAIN, with a new release date of March 8, 2021. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. ''2009''. The current target ultimate release date for the fourth and final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, '''March 9, 2021''', thanks to Anno's involvement a combination of Creator/HideakiAnno's [[CreatorBreakdown depression]] rearing its ugly head again, his preoccupation with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to making ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' during the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with interim period, and a new release date scheduled for January 23, 2021... only for it to be delayed AGAIN, with a new release date of March 8, 2021.[[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic world-altering pandemic]]. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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** Season 4 ''also'' turned out to be a split-cour season. Made worse by the fact it's alao titled "The Final Season". (Then the 2022 second half will be the "Final Final Season"... we guess.)
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date scheduled for January 23, 2021... only for it to be delayed AGAIN, with no new release date as of yet. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date scheduled for January 23, 2021... only for it to be delayed AGAIN, with no a new release date as of yet.March 8, 2021. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to.
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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to. Interestingly enough, the latter episode did wind up airing before the movie's release overseas-in North America, for instance, the episode aired two months before the film's release.
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date scheduled for January 23, 2021. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date scheduled for January 23, 2021.2021... only for it to be delayed AGAIN, with no new release date as of yet. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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* After an almost-three-year hiatus from June 2010 to March 2013, the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' series started releasing new chapters. Unfortunately, the series went on another hiatus following February 2014 (when chapter 87 was published). The series finally returned in May 2017... only to go on another hiatus in August 2018 (after chapter 101 was published). The series is currently running again as of September 2019.
* The ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' manga began in 1997 and updated fairly regularly until the release of volume 11 in 2003. Then there was a full ''seven years'' between volume 11 and volume 12- it wasn't released until 2010 (apparently due to problems with author/artist Yoko Matsushita's health).
* Digital Manga Publishing is ''infamous'' for this, as it can take ''years'' for them to release volumes. It's gotten to the point that many have assumed that they lost the licsenses when they actually haven't.
** Creator/MediaBlasters falls pretty much in this as well when it comes to their anime releases. Even a good portion of them end up never actually coming out (''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', for example).
** Creator/MediaBlasters falls pretty much in this as well when it comes to their anime releases. Even a good portion of them end up never actually coming out (''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', for example).
* ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'':
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
* One reason for the AdaptationInducedPlotHole and somewhat abrupt ending of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'''s anime while the manga was still in progress? Creator/NatsukiTakaya broke her left arm. Her ''drawing'' arm.[[note]] The ''other'' reason for the abrupt ending was that, because the anime was produced while she was recuperating, Takaya was able to be very involved in the anime's production. This resulted in a lot of micromanagement and meddling, which thoroughly pissed off director Akitaro Daichi. Takaya didn't appreciate the pushback.[[/note]]
* Newer fans of ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' tend to think this is what happens with Yoshiki Takaya however he consistently puts out one book a year and has never once put out an issue each month for an entire year. He did once have a hiatus to finish up another of his works from before ''Guyver''.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
* One reason for the AdaptationInducedPlotHole and somewhat abrupt ending of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'''s anime while the manga was still in progress? Creator/NatsukiTakaya broke her left arm. Her ''drawing'' arm.[[note]] The ''other'' reason for the abrupt ending was that, because the anime was produced while she was recuperating, Takaya was able to be very involved in the anime's production. This resulted in a lot of micromanagement and meddling, which thoroughly pissed off director Akitaro Daichi. Takaya didn't appreciate the pushback.[[/note]]
* Newer fans of ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' tend to think this is what happens with Yoshiki Takaya however he consistently puts out one book a year and has never once put out an issue each month for an entire year. He did once have a hiatus to finish up another of his works from before ''Guyver''.
* ''Manga/HibikisMagic'' was published in a monthly magazine for twelve years... but due to Rei Izumi's health-issues, in this time it only released 29 chapters (34 if one includes the bonus-chapters). It took seven years between the release of volumes 2 and 3, but finally finished with volume 4.
* ''Manga/MagicOfStella'' contains an InUniverse example. Ayame, the writer for an {{doujin|shi}} game group, has a chronic problem of keeping up with deadlines, to the point that the group leader Shiina keeps {{blackmail}}ing her to keep her on line.
* The English dub of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''[='s=] final six episodes of Season 4 ended up getting delayed by a month and a half due to the coronavirus outbreak. Thankfully, Funimation solved that problem by having the actors perform in their home studios.
* The English dub of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''[='s=] final six episodes of Season 4 ended up getting delayed by a month and a half due to the coronavirus outbreak. Thankfully, Funimation solved that problem by having the actors perform in their home studios.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s author, Creator/KenAkamatsu, takes breaks lasting from a week to upwards of three weeks every now and then, claiming to be doing research. While he's almost as famous for his ShownTheirWork moments as he is for inducing [[TropeOverdosed trope overdose]], [[MemeticMutation a lot of fans joke]] that his "research time" is spent [[MaleGaze researching his wife]]. In truth, as he has gotten older his drawing speed appears to have decreased and thus it takes slightly more than a week to draw one week's chapter, leading to a rough schedule of 3-4 chapters and then a break.
** Akamatsu also took a lengthy hiatus about 3/4 of the way through ''Manga/LoveHina'', so this isn't new territory for him.
** Akamatsu apparently finally admitted an inability to keep any sort of weekly schedule anymore when he announced ''Manga/UQHolder'' would shift from a weekly magazine to a monthly one, mentioning his age as an involved factor online.
** Akamatsu also took a lengthy hiatus about 3/4 of the way through ''Manga/LoveHina'', so this isn't new territory for him.
** Akamatsu apparently finally admitted an inability to keep any sort of weekly schedule anymore when he announced ''Manga/UQHolder'' would shift from a weekly magazine to a monthly one, mentioning his age as an involved factor online.
* The English dub of ''Manga/OnePiece'' has twice been hit with long hiatuses between releases. A 16 month gap between Seasons 3 and 4, and a long 25 month gap between Seasons 9 and 10. The latter is only slightly alleviated by the release of dubbed TV Specials and ''Anime/OnePieceStampede''.
* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** Because of the ''R/S'' arc's EndingFatigue, ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' had a schedule slip for a long time, with Gen IV starting while the Gen III arcs had yet to conclude, Gen V starting while the Gen IV arcs had yet to conclude, and Gen VI starting while the Gen V arcs had yet to conclude. [[ArcFatigue The scheduling for BW2 aside]], Kusaka finally fixed this problem in Gen VI, as both arcs from that generation concluded just in time for Gen VII to start.
** Since ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' came out, the manga has had trouble with schedule slips. Due to lack of multiple magazines to release the chapters, story arcs are now significantly shorter than before. (SMUSUM arc being a definite victim of this).
* ''Anime/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'' was supposed to premiere on April 2nd, 2011, but due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the show premiered a week later.
* Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** Because of the ''R/S'' arc's EndingFatigue, ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' had a schedule slip for a long time, with Gen IV starting while the Gen III arcs had yet to conclude, Gen V starting while the Gen IV arcs had yet to conclude, and Gen VI starting while the Gen V arcs had yet to conclude. [[ArcFatigue The scheduling for BW2 aside]], Kusaka finally fixed this problem in Gen VI, as both arcs from that generation concluded just in time for Gen VII to start.
** Since ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' came out, the manga has had trouble with schedule slips. Due to lack of multiple magazines to release the chapters, story arcs are now significantly shorter than before. (SMUSUM arc being a definite victim of this).
* ''Anime/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'' was supposed to premiere on April 2nd, 2011, but due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the show premiered a week later.
* Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', the ContinuityReboot of the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' franchise, was announced during July 2012's 20th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration for a Summer 2013 release. That got pushed back to Winter 2013, then even further, until its ''actual'' July 2014 debut. Then the third season didn't air until almost a year after the second, and the next arc would be adapted into a pair of movies which were originally going to be released in September 2020, but were delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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* The ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' manga began in 1997 and updated fairly regularly until the release of volume 11 in 2003. Then there was a full ''seven years'' between volume 11 and volume 12- it wasn't released until 2010 (apparently due to problems with author/artist Yoko Matsushita's health)
* ''Anime/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'' was supposed to premiere on April 2nd, 2011, but due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the show premiered a week later.
* Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
* ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories''
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'''s author, Creator/KenAkamatsu, takes breaks lasting from a week to upwards of three weeks every now and then, claiming to be doing research. While he's almost as famous for his ShownTheirWork moments as he is for inducing [[TropeOverdosed trope overdose]], [[MemeticMutation a lot of fans joke]] that his "research time" is spent [[MaleGaze researching his wife]]. In truth, as he has gotten older his drawing speed appears to have decreased and thus it takes slightly more than a week to draw one week's chapter, leading to a rough schedule of 3-4 chapters and then a break.
** Akamatsu also took a lengthy hiatus about 3/4 of the way through ''Manga/LoveHina'', so this isn't new territory for him.
** Akamatsu apparently finally admitted an inability to keep any sort of weekly schedule anymore when he announced ''Manga/UQHolder'' would shift from a weekly magazine to a monthly one, mentioning his age as an involved factor online.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** Because of the ''R/S'' arc's EndingFatigue, ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' had a schedule slip for a long time, with Gen IV starting while the Gen III arcs had yet to conclude, Gen V starting while the Gen IV arcs had yet to conclude, and Gen VI starting while the Gen V arcs had yet to conclude. [[ArcFatigue The scheduling for BW2 aside]], Kusaka finally fixed this problem in Gen VI, as both arcs from that generation concluded just in time for Gen VII to start.
** Since ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' came out, the manga has had trouble with schedule slips. Due to lack of multiple magazines to release the chapters, story arcs are now significantly shorter than before. (SMUSUM arc being a definite victim of this)
* Newer fans of ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' tend to think this is what happens with Yoshiki Takaya however he consistently puts out one book a year and has never once put out an issue each month for an entire year. He did once have a hiatus to finish up another of his works from before ''Guyver''.
* One reason for the AdaptationInducedPlotHole and somewhat abrupt ending of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'''s anime while the manga was still in progress? Creator/NatsukiTakaya broke her left arm. Her ''drawing'' arm.[[note]] The ''other'' reason for the abrupt ending was that, because the anime was produced while she was recuperating, Takaya was able to be very involved in the anime's production. This resulted in a lot of micromanagement and meddling, which thoroughly pissed off director Akitaro Daichi. Takaya didn't appreciate the pushback.[[/note]]
* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', the ContinuityReboot of the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' franchise, was announced during July 2012's 20th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration for a Summer 2013 release. That got pushed back to Winter 2013, then even further, until its ''actual'' July 2014 debut. Then the third season didn't air until almost a year after the second, and the next arc would be adapted into a pair of movies which were originally going to be released in September 2020, but were delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* ''Anime/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'' was supposed to premiere on April 2nd, 2011, but due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the show premiered a week later.
* Due to DistancedFromCurrentEvents issues related to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the penultimate episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' was postponed. WordOfGod expressed relief at the delay, as the earthquake cost the staff precious time that would otherwise have been used to make the episode. Eventually it was announced that the last episodes of the anime would air together about a month later (although this was apparently well after the episodes were completed). The last volume of the manga adaptation and the {{Prequel}} manga ''Oriko Magica'' were also delayed, the latter being moved from April to May.
** Creator/StudioShaft is notorious for this, really; ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'''s last few episodes being delayed caused a fair amount of backlash. At least ''Madoka'' was delayed for understandable reasons.
* ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories''
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' was licensed by Viz. It was scheduled to run over 16 volumes, which should've been a layup. Instead, the 11th volume was delayed from August 2008 to April 2009, for ''eight months'', solely because of a scene where the villain, DIO, read a book while threatening to kill Jotaro. Why was this a problem? Well, in the manga, this book was just unreadable scribbles... but in the second OVA series based on this part, the writers copy-pasted text from the Qur'an into the book without knowing what it was[[note]]Since DIO is established to be in Egypt by this point, they chose some random Arabic text for authenticity without checking what exactly it meant[[/note]], and the resulting protests caused Viz to halt all sales of ''all'' [=JoJo=]-related material, manga and anime alike, until they could be checked for other such errors. The author of the series, Creator/HirohikoAraki, has [[InvertedTrope never missed a deadline]] in 27 years (over 100 volumes of work), though.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'''s author, Creator/KenAkamatsu, takes breaks lasting from a week to upwards of three weeks every now and then, claiming to be doing research. While he's almost as famous for his ShownTheirWork moments as he is for inducing [[TropeOverdosed trope overdose]], [[MemeticMutation a lot of fans joke]] that his "research time" is spent [[MaleGaze researching his wife]]. In truth, as he has gotten older his drawing speed appears to have decreased and thus it takes slightly more than a week to draw one week's chapter, leading to a rough schedule of 3-4 chapters and then a break.
** Akamatsu also took a lengthy hiatus about 3/4 of the way through ''Manga/LoveHina'', so this isn't new territory for him.
** Akamatsu apparently finally admitted an inability to keep any sort of weekly schedule anymore when he announced ''Manga/UQHolder'' would shift from a weekly magazine to a monthly one, mentioning his age as an involved factor online.
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** Because of the ''R/S'' arc's EndingFatigue, ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' had a schedule slip for a long time, with Gen IV starting while the Gen III arcs had yet to conclude, Gen V starting while the Gen IV arcs had yet to conclude, and Gen VI starting while the Gen V arcs had yet to conclude. [[ArcFatigue The scheduling for BW2 aside]], Kusaka finally fixed this problem in Gen VI, as both arcs from that generation concluded just in time for Gen VII to start.
** Since ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' came out, the manga has had trouble with schedule slips. Due to lack of multiple magazines to release the chapters, story arcs are now significantly shorter than before. (SMUSUM arc being a definite victim of this)
* Newer fans of ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' tend to think this is what happens with Yoshiki Takaya however he consistently puts out one book a year and has never once put out an issue each month for an entire year. He did once have a hiatus to finish up another of his works from before ''Guyver''.
* One reason for the AdaptationInducedPlotHole and somewhat abrupt ending of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'''s anime while the manga was still in progress? Creator/NatsukiTakaya broke her left arm. Her ''drawing'' arm.[[note]] The ''other'' reason for the abrupt ending was that, because the anime was produced while she was recuperating, Takaya was able to be very involved in the anime's production. This resulted in a lot of micromanagement and meddling, which thoroughly pissed off director Akitaro Daichi. Takaya didn't appreciate the pushback.[[/note]]
* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', the ContinuityReboot of the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' franchise, was announced during July 2012's 20th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration for a Summer 2013 release. That got pushed back to Winter 2013, then even further, until its ''actual'' July 2014 debut. Then the third season didn't air until almost a year after the second, and the next arc would be adapted into a pair of movies which were originally going to be released in September 2020, but were delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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* Digital Manga Publishing is ''infamous'' for this, as it can take ''years'' for them to release volumes. It's gotten to the point that many have assumed that they lost the licsenses when they actually haven't.
** Creator/MediaBlasters falls pretty much in this as well when it comes to their anime releases. Even a good portion of them end up never actually coming out (''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', for example).
* After an almost-three-year hiatus from June 2010 to March 2013, the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' series started releasing new chapters. Unfortunately, the series went on another hiatus following February 2014 (when chapter 87 was published). The series finally returned in May 2017... only to go on another hiatus in August 2018 (after chapter 101 was published). The series is currently running again as of September 2019.
* ''Manga/HibikisMagic'' was published in a monthly magazine for twelve years... but due to Rei Izumi's health-issues, in this time it only released 29 chapters (34 if one includes the bonus-chapters). It took seven years between the release of volumes 2 and 3, but finally finished with volume 4.
* ''Manga/MagicOfStella'' contains an InUniverse example. Ayame, the writer for an {{doujin|shi}} game group, has a chronic problem of keeping up with deadlines, to the point that the group leader Shiina keeps {{blackmail}}ing her to keep her on line.
* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to.
* The English dub of ''Manga/OnePiece'' has twice been hit with long hiatuses between releases. A 16 month gap between Seasons 3 and 4, and a long 25 month gap between Seasons 9 and 10. The latter is only slightly alleviated by the release of dubbed TV Specials and ''Anime/OnePieceStampede''.
* The English dub of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''[='s=] final six episodes of Season 4 ended up getting delayed by a month and a half due to the coronavirus outbreak. Thankfully, Funimation solved that problem by having the actors perform in their home studios.
** Creator/MediaBlasters falls pretty much in this as well when it comes to their anime releases. Even a good portion of them end up never actually coming out (''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', for example).
* After an almost-three-year hiatus from June 2010 to March 2013, the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' series started releasing new chapters. Unfortunately, the series went on another hiatus following February 2014 (when chapter 87 was published). The series finally returned in May 2017... only to go on another hiatus in August 2018 (after chapter 101 was published). The series is currently running again as of September 2019.
* ''Manga/HibikisMagic'' was published in a monthly magazine for twelve years... but due to Rei Izumi's health-issues, in this time it only released 29 chapters (34 if one includes the bonus-chapters). It took seven years between the release of volumes 2 and 3, but finally finished with volume 4.
* ''Manga/MagicOfStella'' contains an InUniverse example. Ayame, the writer for an {{doujin|shi}} game group, has a chronic problem of keeping up with deadlines, to the point that the group leader Shiina keeps {{blackmail}}ing her to keep her on line.
* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime had this as a result of the Pokémon Shock incident where children got seizures from the "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode. [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep038.html This website]] lists a few episodes that had their airdates changed around as a result of the incident. This caused some continuity errors in the show, like Ash still having a Charmander in "Snow Way Out!" and "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral", an episode which set up the plot of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', airing long after the film's release in Japan rather than the week before like it was originally intended to.
* The English dub of ''Manga/OnePiece'' has twice been hit with long hiatuses between releases. A 16 month gap between Seasons 3 and 4, and a long 25 month gap between Seasons 9 and 10. The latter is only slightly alleviated by the release of dubbed TV Specials and ''Anime/OnePieceStampede''.
* The English dub of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''[='s=] final six episodes of Season 4 ended up getting delayed by a month and a half due to the coronavirus outbreak. Thankfully, Funimation solved that problem by having the actors perform in their home studios.
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date still yet to be announced. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
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* The ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. The entire series was supposed to have finished up back in '''2009'''. The current target release date for the final installment? ''Winter 2015''. Well, that time has come and gone, and now no one knows when it's coming out, thanks to Anno's involvement with ''Film/GodzillaResurgence''. The Final movie has since been announced to be released in '''June 2020'''. And even '''''that''''' release date has been thrown into question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred earlier in the year, with a new release date still yet to be announced.scheduled for January 23, 2021. It's almost impressive how fans haven't yet joked about how the final movie should be renamed "You Can (Not) Rebuild [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]".
