Forum - View topicUnfinished business?
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kamui85
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Does anyone think that releasing a series, that companies should know, don’t have endings is a waste of time? For example Funanimation and Tsubasa (I mean there are the OVAs but even like that it isn’t sure they’ll animate the hole manga) and Viz releasing the Yami no matsuei manga which doesn’t have an ending not to mention Clamp’s X/1999.
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Nom_Anor
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A majority of series don't have an ending. It's the nature of a genre based off a serialized material.
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kamui85
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and??? |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7994 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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...and there is also no way to know whether or not said series will get more of it's manga adapted into an anime or otherwise started up again, if anime original, years later. So they liscense what they can, make money off of it, and use that money to buy other series which may or may not have endings. End of story, it's all basic economics, if you don't want it because you know it's incomplete you just don't buy it and not give them your money if you feel strongly enough about it.
The real Darwin awards go to the Japanese animation companies' that start animation adaptions of manga which haven't been completed by the author. Really, dumb idea as proven NUMEROUS ammounts of times but nobody learns from such a simple mistake. 
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ikillchicken
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Well, it's definitely irritating when something has no ending. However, that far from makes it worthless. You can still very much enjoy the rest of the anime.
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fighterholic
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They bring the series to the fans as well as the companies in Japan bring the series to the Japanese fans. The thing is that the series are running, and there is no way to tell when the ending will come, since the series is a big hit and the manga creator keeps making new chapters. Tsubasa would be an example but there's also Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, and a whole bunch of others. It's when fillers come in that it is a waste of time to be showing stuff.
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dtm42
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Don't forget Hellsing, which caught up to the Manga after three episodes.
The two best examples I can think of for non-ending Anime are Berserk and His and Her Circumstances. The latter series was famous for its non-ending (literally the show was truncated), while the former is infamous for ending the season with huge threads untied (and no hint of a second season either). However, as the old adage goes, "It is the journey itself that is important, not the destination". The lack of an ending for a great show may be a sad affair, but at least it was a great show while it lasted. The fact that His and Her Circumstances lacks an ending doesn't detract from the high-quality, enjoyable work that made up the first two-thirds of the series. Berserk is a fantastic show, and can be enjoyed even with the cliffhanger ending. Solely concentrating on the lack of a tidy ending would be doing it a huge disservice. I do agree that there are few things better than a satisfying ending to a great show. And certainly, a bad ending - or a non-ending - is just an exercise in squandering potential. But, it isn't the end of the world if it doesn't end as it "should". Like tree plantations, Anime, by and large, exists to make a profit. Just as one must cut down trees before they reach their prime in order to turn a profit, so must Anime be finished hurriedly to free up resources for the next project. Tis sad but true. The sooner we all accept that, the better off our viewing experiences shall be. However, I will say that the ending is important in ensuing popularity/notoriety, and therefore longevity. Think Neon Genesis Evangelion. Think Trigun. Or Cowboy Bebop. I know what I just said two paragraphs ago, but I still hope that Code Geass can end well. Sunrise has a rather dubious record (think Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny, or most Gundam shows for that matter). If it pulls off the ending it is capable of, it will cement Code Geass' place as one of the best Anime ever made. |
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doctordoom85
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Personally, I thought Gundam Seed had a good ending, it just needed an "epilogue". But then instead of an "epilogue", we got another series, Destiny, which I thought was pretty poor.
But yeah, Bebop is my favorite anime, and the fact that it has my favorite ending of all time probably helps keep it at #1. I also loved both ending versions of the Evangelion series (TBH, I think I slightly prefer the anime one just because I personally found the final scene to be very uplifting, but the movie one was great as well). Anyway, when it comes to adaptations of series that aren't at the "HUGE" level in Japan (AKA not Naruto/Bleach/One Piece, since those will probably never be cancelled until they adapt the full manga), I generally get into the manga first and THEN check out the anime version. This helps the anime seem like more of a companion to the manga instead of the only version (like Tsubasa). Though I make exceptions, for example Bones is my favorite anime studio, so I'm watching Soul Eater before reading the manga (which thankfully has been licensed and is coming out next year. note: the manga that is, though I'm sure the anime will be licensed soon) because I feel confident they'll give it a good alternate ending like they did with FMA. |
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BrentNewhall
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Perhaps that's why. Neither SEED, Destiny, Cowboy Bebop, nor Evangelion were adaptations; they were all original stories just for the anime.
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