What will you do when your favorite manga ends?

I mean think about it,

• Negima (rather abruptly) ended two months ago.
• Air Gear is ending in five chapters
• Bakuman just finished this week
• Naruto pretty much is in its final arc right now.
• Bleach has just entered its final arc

All or these manga that I and many of you have invested, well lets face it, years into are coming to an end, so then what do you do then?

Most of my favorites weren't things I had invested years into. Largely because they were short things. When they ended I sort of felt a twinge of sadness, reread them in full, and moved on. Some of my others have already been finished.

I wonder how I will react to all the Sailor Moon manga being published in English once again. Probably with a celebration likely involving booze.

edited 19th Apr '12 12:39:24 PM by Aondeug

Reread, keep tabs on the writer for their next series, move on.

Reflect over how much I liked the series, read bad epilogue fanfictions, get obsessed with something else.

With 5 mangas nearing their end, do you find it just a tiny bit suspicious?

No.

I just read something else. There's tons of great works out there.

I will still remember the series I've read fondly (or not-as-fondly), maybe read a fanfic or two, chat with the fanbase, use the series as inspiration/information for my own stories... There's just lots of stuff to do, and in a way the story never really ends.

EDIT: Regarding your list, dude, try out some of the newer manga! Toriko, magico, Nisekoi, Ao no Exorcist, Soul Eater, Denpa Kyoushi...

edited 19th Apr '12 8:10:41 PM by fillerdude

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is also ending as well as quite a few others are rumored to be ending.

Like Ah My Goddess (Nothing confirmed yet, though).

It's probably good to notice most of the ending or rumored to ending anytime soon (Shueisha's Bleach and Naruto look like they're still going to kick on for a while, especially Bleach) are Kodansha manga.

Look forward to new manga coming out. Read some visual novels. Fill my time in other ways.

Probably pick up another, similar manga. Definitely keep my eye on the author, though. If Oda does anything, I want to be there to watch.

Pick up a book.

Gantz is on its final arc, and Oku went public and expressed his wishes to finish the series this year.

Anyway, on topic, just move on, it's not like I've read every manga ever made.

Commit sudoku.

edited 19th Apr '12 11:04:39 PM by ashnazg

...Sudoku? o_6

Obviously I'd have no choice but to kill myself.

Like I said, a meme. But perhaps a lesser-known one. (Although oddly appropriate here...but I guess sudoku would be a poor substitute for manga.)

A little more seriously though, I think a quote from Dont Take It Personally Babe It Just Aint Your Story sums it up well (leet-speak mostly removed because it annoys the shit out of me, though I can't be arsed about the capitalizations):

"i mean, normally, that's the thing to do after watching something awesome. downloading the osts, making wallpapers, talking about the foreshadowing at the start, all that shit. and i mean i do like the music, and there are probably some great wallpapers, but it just feels like... you know that feeling? that really big empty one you get at the end of a show or book you really like? and you just do all those things in some sort of effort to cling onto it however you can? what the fuck is UP with that?

i mean eventually you either find something else to fill that gap or you turn into one of those single-minded fangirls right? isn't that kind of ridiculous?

you know what the feeling reminds me of? it's fucking love. you fall in love for twelve episodes, then your heart gets broken, and then you listen to the soundtrack on repeat all day so it doesn't feel like it's over. isn't that kind of bullshit?

tl;dr, man i don't even know. it just seems kinda fucked up."

edited 20th Apr '12 1:49:44 AM by ashnazg

Eh. I still have new anime coming out every new anime season so I can watch that to fill the void.

When Fullmetal ends... oh wait

Well, after Dragon Ball's grand find- fuck.

Well, Cardcaptor Sa-oh shit

If Silver Spoon ends, i'll save up money to go to Hokkaido, cause that manga convinced me to do so.

If TWGOK ends, than i'll sigh of relief, and say, took ye that long?!

If Detective Conan ends... BAH HAHAHA, who the fuck am i kidding?

If Pokemon Special ends, i'll be too busy crying, cause Nintendo pulled the plug on their number 3 franchise.

edited 20th Apr '12 3:30:00 AM by eternalNoob

Detective Conan.... Ending?........... Sec I need to get up off the floor..... Ok my side hurts too much from laughing.....

edited 20th Apr '12 5:00:31 AM by Raso

1. Pokemon is Nintendo's #2 franchise.
2. The publisher would be the one who decides whether or not to pull the plug, not Nintendo.

Technically, the series could go on under another publisher if Nintendo wants so, right? I mean, you try and go pick a legal fight with Nintendo over Pokemon rights and see how it goes for you...

While that's true, they'd most likely have to call it something other than Pokemon Special.

It's also possible that Pokeon Suprassed Mario as the number 1 Nintendo franchise sometime ago. There hasn't been any data on numbers of copies sold in a while now.