History EndingFatigue / AnimeAndManga

** 90% of the Pokémon movies have climaxes that make up half of the movie's running time. It's entirely possible to leave the room and get a snack without the story advancing.

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* This actually tends to be a ''very'' common problem for manga, especially {{Shoujo|Demographic}}. Sometimes the author adds in a note somewhere, flat-out ''admitting'' they don't know how/when to end it!

* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' either needed two fewer episodes or [[CosmicDeadline two more episodes]], depending on how you look at it.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s final arc went on for about three years, with the final battle going on for about two. It doesn't help that the actual main antagonist [[TheBigBadShuffle changed at least seven times]], with Tobi and Madara (and, to a much lesser extent, Kabuto, Orochimaru, and Sasuke) becoming the focus more than once each. And then the true final villain shows up in the form of [[spoiler:Kaguya, the Sage of Six Path's mom]]. And once the war is finally won, [[spoiler:Sasuke-- who had finally decided to [[BaitTheDog abandon his revenge obsession and also pursue the position of Hokage and protect Konoha like his brother Itachi had tried to do--]]declares that the only way to ensure this never happens again is to tear down the whole system by taking control of the Tailed Beasts and killing the Kage ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and the beasts as well once he's done]]).]] To be perfectly fair, the author had stated the manga's final fight would be between [[spoiler:Naruto and Sasuke]], but it still felt like yet another extension to an already bloated arc.

* ''Manga/Cyborg009'' had a rough road getting to an ending, to say the least. The "Underground Empire of Yomi" arc was originally intended to be the GrandFinale, but fan outcry about the end of the arc (which involved [[spoiler:both 002 and 009 dying after 009's battle against the Black Ghost leader]]) led Creator/ShotaroIshinomori to continue the manga and {{retcon}} it so [[spoiler:both of them were [[NotQuiteDead saved at the last minute]]]]. The manga then continued on for several self-contained chapters before Ishinomori attempted to give the manga another ending with the "Angels" arc, until WritersBlock led to him stopping midway through and taking a hiatus from writing. He would eventually return and restart the ending with the "Battle of the Gods" arc, but fan complaints about the arc being [[LostInMediasRes hard to follow]] and a particular controversial sex scene between 009 and 003 led to Ishinomori halting progress on that arc as well, leaving it with NoEnding. The manga would eventually return and continue on for several more {{Story Arc}}s before Ishinomori finally began planning a true GrandFinale for the manga, "Conclusion: God's War", only to [[AuthorExistenceFailure die before he could complete it]]. However, Ishinomori's son was able to use his father's notes to write out the arc and ''Cyborg 009'' would finally reach it's conclusion in 2014, ''50 years'' after the manga originally began.

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]] hits the climax at the end of the final battle with King Crimson/[[spoiler: Diavolo]]... And then we get a four-chapter long flashback centering around Spotlight Stealing character Bucciarati that does absolutely nothing for the plot, reveals nothing that we didn't already knew and reduces Giorno's [[spoiler: rise to the head of the mafia into a footnote]].

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'''s final battle went on for about two years. That's one battle taking multiple books to finish. It doesn't help that [[TheBigBadShuffle who the characters are primarily fighting against changed at least]] ''[[TheBigBadShuffle seven times]]'' [[TheBigBadShuffle from start to finish]], with Tobi and Madara (and, to a much lesser extent, Kabuto, Orochimaru, and Sasuke) becoming the focus more than once each. It also doesn't help that the "final" arc, the 4th Shinobi War of which this is the FinalBattle, began in early 2011, i.e. the war went on for over ''three years'', and Naruto was engaged in a single fight with Tobi and Madara for ''two'' of those years. And then a THIRD villain shows up in the form of [[spoiler:Kaguya, the Rikudou Sennin's mom]]. And once all of these are finally dealt with, with plenty of AlasPoorVillain and other denouement? [[spoiler:Sasuke--[[BaitTheDog who over the course of the battle had finally decided to abandon his revenge obsession and also pursue the position of Hokage and protect Konoha like his brother Itachi had tried to do--]]declares that the only way to ensure this never happens again is to tear down the whole system ([[{{Hypocrite}} like]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} Tobi and Madara]]'' [[{{Hypocrite}} had tried to do]]) [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor by taking control of the Tailed Demons and killing the Kage]] ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and the demons as well once he's done]]).]] To be perfectly fair, the author had stated the manga's final fight would be between [[spoiler:Naruto and Sasuke]], but this was jarring beyond belief [[spoiler:[[AmericansHateTingle especially when much of the readership had long since]] [[CreatorsPet gotten sick of Sasuke in general]]]].
** The anime was even worse in this regard when after the aforementioned final battle, began adapting the Konoha Hiden novels, before finally ending the series on episode 500 with [[spoiler:Naruto and Hinata's wedding]].

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Rather than following up the Magic World arc (which has been build up as the endgame arc) with an epilogue, the manga goes on for 20 more chapters, focusing on the characters going back to their normal lives, reminiscing of their adventures, tying up the loose ends, having one more comedic situation serving as a last hurrah to ''[[{{EarlyInstallmentWeirdness}} the manga's Harem days,]]'' dealing with Asuna's last duty and finally getting into the series' DistantFinale.

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]] hits the climax at the end of the final battle with King Crimson/[[spoiler: Diavolo]]... And then we get a four-chapter long flashback centering around Spotlight Stealing character Bucciarati that does absolutely nothing for the plot, reveals nothing that we didn't knew already and reduces Giorno's [[spoiler: rise to the head of the mafia into a footnote]].

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]] hits the climax at the end of the final battle with King Crimson/[[spoiler: Diavolo]]... And then we get a four-chapter long flashback centering around Spotlight Stealing character Bucciarati that does absolutely nothing for the plot, reveals nothing, and reduces Giorno's [[spoiler: rise to the head of the mafia into a footnote]].

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Rather than following up the Magical World arc (which has been build up as the endgame arc) with an epilogue, the manga goes on for 20 more chapters, focusing on the characters going back to their normal lives, reminiscing of their adventures, tying up the loose ends, having one more comedic situation serving as a last hurrah to ''[[{{EarlyInstallmentWeirdness}} the manga's Harem days,]]'' dealing with Asuna's last duty and finally getting into the series' DistantFinale.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Rather than following up the Magical World arc (which has been build up as the endgame arc) with an epilogue, the manga goes on for 20 more chapters, focusing on the characters going back to their normal lives, reminiscing of their adventures, tying up the loose ends, having one more comedic situation that feels like a last hurrah to the manga's Harem days, dealing with Asuna's duty and finally getting into the series' DistantFinale.

* ''Manga/{{NegimaMagisterNegiMagi}}'' features an interesting example. Rather than following up the Magical World arc (which has been build up as the endgame arc) with an epilogue, the manga goes on for 20 more chapters, focusing on the characters going back to their normal lives, reminiscing of their adventures, tying up the loose ends, having one more comedic situation that feels like a last hurrah to the manga's Harem days, dealing with Asuna's duty and finally getting into the series' DistantFinale.

* The ending of ''Anime/YuGiOhARCV''. The series-arching BigBad is defeated eight episodes before the show ends. The final arc consists of tying loose ends and giving closure to some of the characters. This is padded out with a superfluous plotline about the protagonists trying to remember the past after a CosmicRetcon. After that, the episodes follow a formulaic plot of "Yuya goes to X dimension and duels Y person." It really isn't helped by the plotline itself, involving trying to purify the spirit of the BigBad by making the baby he's trapped in smile, already being a tough sell for a lot of people.

** One of the many criticisms of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite' is its Decolore Islands FillerArc of a final season. With the main plot of the series (Both Ash's badge quest and dealing with Team Plasma) over and done with, and several months before ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' would have been released, there's nothing more for Ash to do except head back to Kanto... a goal that takes several episodes of island-hopping to accomplish, and unlike the Orange Islands series, there's no original goal or motive for him (or the audience) to invest in. After ''10'' episodes of pure filler, we finally get one episode that is actually important to the plot, that being a character [[EarlyBirdCameo from Kalos]] who plays a somewhat major role in the first few episodes of the next series joining the group for the small remainder of the series. Granted, we have to sit through another 6 filler episodes before Ash finally reaches Kanto.

* One of the many criticisms of the ''Best Wishes'' portion of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' is its Decolore Islands FillerArc of a final season. With the main plot of the series (Both Ash's badge quest and dealing with Team Plasma) over and done with, and several months before ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' would have been released, there's nothing more for Ash to do except head back to Kanto... a goal that takes several episodes of island-hopping to accomplish, and unlike the Orange Islands series, there's no original goal or motive for him (or the audience) to invest in. After ''10'' episodes of pure filler, we finally get one episode that is actually important to the plot, that being a character [[EarlyBirdCameo from Kalos]] who plays a somewhat major role in the first few episodes of the next series joining the group for the small remainder of the series. Granted, we have to sit through another 6 filler episodes before Ash finally reaches Kanto.
** Unfortunately, The XY series's ending fell victim to ending fatigue too. After the big climax of the series, there are still ''4'' episodes following it. Granted, important events do happen in these episodes, it's just that they're paced very slowly and they could have easily been merged together into only 3 or 2 episodes.
** 90% of the Pokémon movies fall victim to this too, as their climaxes tend to make up half of the movie's running time. It has become so bad that you can just leave the room and get a snack and the story still hasn't advanced.