Forum - View topicNEWS: Dr. Stone Manga Ends, Gets New Chapter Alongside Anime Special This Summer
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FireballDragon
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This series was incredible, just what I'd expect from the man who wrote Eyeshield 21. I can't wait to see what Inagaki comes up with next.
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MFrontier
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I wonder if the anime will turn into a full adaption.
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@ASAnime6
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blooperboy
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The fact that it now has a specific end point means that while the merchandising longevity is lessened, it could actually be done as a really good story. |
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Sariachan
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I'm going to miss it. Even if I felt the last couple of arcs were rushed, it still was one of my fave ongoing manga.
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ZelosZoidberg
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At first I thought the ending sucked but after having 3 hours past I think it's a pretty good ending to leave on. Just wished there was more depth to some of the other characters closures but they had so many by the end of it. The final thing they were building does get me "excited" though!
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Kyo Hisagi
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Still haven't finished it but a lot of people say the ending is kinda dissapointing.. what is with shonens and underwhelming/rushed endings nowadays? Almost any story receives kinda "meh" ending. I can't remember "really GOOD" ending in shonen title in the last 5 years or so. I would understand if series were cancelled but... Dr.Stone, Neverland, Shokugeki no Soma and Demon Slayer were doing pretty okay sales-wise.
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ZelosZoidberg
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1dbad
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Sad to see Dr. Stone go. One of the first titles I got into when I resubscribed to Jump back in 2017! It and We Never Learn!! were the first shonens I followed from their very first chapter.
That's actually the part of the ending I had an issue with. Otherwise the ending felt average to me.
It's because shonens live and die by their weekly rankings in the magazine. The closer to the bottom Japanese fans rank a title, the sooner they get rushed to a conclusion and/or outright cancelled. Ending a shonen is rarely a mangaka's decision. (And even the times it is the creator's call, poor rankings usually force them to make the final arc shorter than originally planned) |
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Aura Ichadora
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I gave the ending an 8/10, only because I didn't like some of the implications left behind by the final reveal of the chapter, but overall I loved it because it was open-ended enough to show that the journey would continue on. Sometimes that's the best type of endings, and for Dr. STONE, that fits really well.
spoiler[So super happy that we ended with Taiju and Yuzuriha getting married, as well. Series started with the attempt to confess; ending with the wedding is just the perfect bookend.] I look forward to the special chapter and the Ryusui OVA (I hope that Crunchyroll will be able to stream it once it comes out), as well as Season 3. I hope there will be enough momentum to the series to allow for the other arcs to be animated as well (my guess is that the next season will cover the Age of Exploration arc, but I also hope it'll be long enough to cover the Treasure Island arc). |
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iamthevastuniverse
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I felt I was just getting to know the story over the last few years tho all things must end for better or worse need to catch up on season two of the Dr. Stone anime.
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Fluwm
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Can't wait for Dr. Stone Z!
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kgw
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Uh, nope. Following Bakuman's authors (which, so far, hasn't been discredited), any manga with 100+ chapters are (now -see below) free to end whenever they like. Some stories might keep going 10, 20 years because they can add new enemies/challenges without any major problem: "Oh, you believed that THAT guy was the Final Baddie, but he was just a minor pawn of THIS other Baddie!", "Another island!" or "Another murder case!" But Promised Neverland, We Never Learn, Demon Slayer… and now Dr. Stone had a clear goal to achieve. Don't you think Shueisha would've loved any of this series carrying on forever? After all, they were bestsellers. But keeping series forever just because might be even worse, as it happened with YuYuHakusho when Shueisha didn't allow Togashi to finish it: so the series drag along a whole year, with pointless episodes until they changed their mind. The "axing" or "ranking" idea is fine when a series is just started. Nowadays the magazines are losing readers year by year: you cannot waste space with "meh" stories, when there could be a better one out there. But Shueisha or any publishing house "axing" a proven and long best-selling manga because something something rankings? Not buying it. Also, I think that then ending of KnY or Neverland were quite fine, ditto with Dr. Stone. And heck, We Never Learn spent what, half a year? with "alternate routes" to keep the manga going on until they run out of possible girlfriends for the main character. |
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1dbad
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I can believe that series that reach the 100 chapter benchmark are given more freedom, but it's still ultimately the rankings that decide when a shonen ends: https://www.cbr.com/shonen-jump-manga-titles-canceled/ Bleach isn't the only example either. Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi mentioned in an interview that he wanted the Memory World arc to go on longer, but declining weekly rankings forced him to wrap up the series sooner than planned. (Despite being a series with well over 300 chapters) |
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@ASAnime6
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