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Has anyone else whose still reading Black Clover just not feeling it for this final arc?
It feels like the dude is really racing to the finish line which makes like every chapter thoroughly unsatisfying and the art has taken a serious drop in quality as well. I know it's a quarterly publication now but I wish Yuki Tabata would really take his time with it like he did in the previous arc, I would have preferred if he took like 5+ years writing a good final arc as opposed to like 2 where he tries to finish it as quickly as possible.

It's not like he can't do it, D. Gray Man has been publishing irregularly for like 10 years at this point and Katsura Hoshino refuses to speed it up at all. It's actually questionable whether or not she'll finish the series before dying but I'd honestly prefer it to remain good and never finish to rushing it to an ending, making the final arc shit and staining an otherwise good series.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
It's actually questionable whether or not she'll finish the series before dying but I'd honestly prefer it to remain good and never finish to rushing it to an ending, making the final arc shit and staining an otherwise good series.
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Honestly as much as I love the manga medium, endings have to be one of the biggest points of contention I have with it. There are so many ways to end a manga badly, between rushing it (as you said looks like could be happening with Black Clover), dying or retiring before you get to it (Berserk for the former, Chaosic Rune for the latter), having editors demand changes that fuck with it (Negima - that's a whole fucking saga in its own right), or just plain not knowing where to go with it and meandering too long (Claymore).

Unrelated point, anybody know any good series that are straight adaptations of western works? I know Howl's Moving Castle is based on a European novel, I'm just curious if anyone knows some others I should check out.
 
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Namekian George Floyd said:
Has anyone else whose still reading Black Clover just not feeling it for this final arc?
It feels like the dude is really racing to the finish line which makes like every chapter thoroughly unsatisfying and the art has taken a serious drop in quality as well. I know it's a quarterly publication now but I wish Yuki Tabata would really take his time with it like he did in the previous arc, I would have preferred if he took like 5+ years writing a good final arc as opposed to like 2 where he tries to finish it as quickly as possible.
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Isn't the author basically a mess healthwise right now? Yeah, he's speedrunning through, but most Black Clover fights are "Asta screams, slashes, baddie assplodes" anyway, so cutting the back and forth in half I don't consider it much of a hassle. I would like to see the other black bulls do more things, but honestly, if Tabata is a mess, better to manage to close it fast than have it meander for a decade.
Isle of Carl said:
Honestly as much as I love the manga medium, endings have to be one of the biggest points of contention I have with it.
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A manga with a decent/solid ending is something to be cherished. The medium is fantastic at pitching ideas or concepts, it's horrible at finishing the execution. I used to get annoyed at how many have crap endings but at this point I just consider it a given and consider it a happy surprise when one sticks the landing. Also, the shit endings are extra fun to see pan out with series that I stopped giving a shit about, I had a ton of fun with Attack on Titan, Oshi No Ko, Jujutsu Kaisen and Boku no Hero all spilling their spaghetti at the end.
 
Isle of Carl said:
Unrelated point, anybody know any good series that are straight adaptations of western works? I know Howl's Moving Castle is based on a European novel, I'm just curious if anyone knows some others I should check out.
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Almost the entirety of World Masterpiece Theater. Anne of Green Gables being the best in my opinion.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
My Dress-Up Darling is ending.
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I’m late to this, but between this and Komi ending, it’s kind of unfortunate. My Dress-Up Darling used to get some unfair flak when most were complaining when the two leads were finally going to be romantic, but I personally loved the slow paced out style.

Either way, this is another one where I’m going to have to re-watch and re-read at some point in time. I do hope it ends on a right note.
 
The desperation for Karumi to nohomo with the Sovereign of Corpses is great. But it’s an Isekai, so it’s a given SoC was a girl.
 
ShitLurker said:
Isn't the author basically a mess healthwise right now? Yeah, he's speedrunning through, but most Black Clover fights are "Asta screams, slashes, baddie assplodes" anyway, so cutting the back and forth in half I don't consider it much of a hassle. I would like to see the other black bulls do more things, but honestly, if Tabata is a mess, better to manage to close it fast than have it meander for a decade.

A manga with a decent/solid ending is something to be cherished. The medium is fantastic at pitching ideas or concepts, it's horrible at finishing the execution. I used to get annoyed at how many have crap endings but at this point I just consider it a given and consider it a happy surprise when one sticks the landing. Also, the shit endings are extra fun to see pan out with series that I stopped giving a shit about, I had a ton of fun with Attack on Titan, Oshi No Ko, Jujutsu Kaisen and Boku no Hero all spilling their spaghetti at the end.
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I've been meaning to ask this for a while but kept forgetting-what are some manga you guys recommend which have solid endings?
 
McMitch said:
Anything by Kazuhiro Fujita, and by extension Makoto Raiko (Vecter Ball got cancelled but was still pretty good).
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I agree with this user.

I also suggest Kenshin, FMA, Assassination Classroom, Mob Psycho, Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa, The Fable, Spirit Circle, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dungeon Meshi, Golden Kamui, Kinnikuman, and other things that escape my mind at the moment.
I would also say Toriko managed to pull off a good ending despite being axed before reaching the final part, just never watch the anime.

Anime wise I suggest Gun x Sword, s-CRY-ed and Eureka 7, but never watch anything past the anime for Eureka 7.
 
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CeleryBread said:
I've been meaning to ask this for a while but kept forgetting-what are some manga you guys recommend which have solid endings?
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Gintama
Ashita no Joe
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
Spirit Circle
Melancholia
Voynich Hotel
Nick and Lever
 
CeleryBread said:
I've been meaning to ask this for a while but kept forgetting-what are some manga you guys recommend which have solid endings?
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Unironically Dragon Ball.

Corrector Yui sounds like it's short because it's only like 10 chapters, but it was allowed to have long chapters and it paced itself real nicely to allow characters to breathe.

Busou Renkin was also a fun read, I was surprised by it.

Fruits Basket has a satisfying end that there's a reason it's remained a popular shoujo for all these years.
 
Just rewatched Princess Principal and then i realised there were movies too so i watched them too (so far only 3 out of 6 and 4th one is coming on 23,May 2025) i personally liked it and will wait for more. (i have rather low bar to make me happy so that is that)
 
Flaming Carrot said:
Blade of the Immortal
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Blade of the Immortal has an ending. It isn't exactly solid.

The underground prison arc drags for far too long and the endgame is a complete mess with a wet fart of a resolution. Nothing get really a closure for the main characters (some secondaries get a good ending, like the bald killer for hire guy) and the story simply stops with a couple of perfunctory deaths. Maybe it could be argued that it's a good thing for the series to end in an anticlimax, but it felt like Samura was simply tired of it and let it go.

There is even a sequel series if I remember right, not written or drawn by Samura.
 
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