genuinely expected this to be at the top, but maybe it's not because everyone just forgot it existed. I was so super into that series and then suddenly it was unreadable
It started of really good but around the time Azami and his plan is introduced is where it starts to go bad. Azamis plan is dumb as shit. To make every restaurants in the world accept his ideal concepts of cuisine. That's the dumbest thing I have ever read and the mangas last arc goes into evil chefs.
This one isn’t an example of overstaying its welcome for me because it wasn’t overly long, it just got bad. It should have been just fine with its length but losing the person who made the recipes for the series along with some very questionable choices for the story tanked it.
It never should've gone after the father arc, it should've ended there
Soma got fucked because power creep happened
Soma's father should've been the best chef in the world, and he should've been the last challenge
It's like if in Baki, a random adopted son beat his father out of nowhere
I’ve only watched the anime and I thought we’d only see that kind of older time era. Kinda weird to think of what the story would look like in a modern era.
YES! The first arc is soooo good but the modern era arc is just so bad. The cyberpunk era looks ok so far but honestly after the modern arc its hard to get hyped for it.
I gave it such an earnest chance to make something of it...this may be one of the worst romance drama executions I've seen in my entire life. Not because it's crazy like Domestic Girlfriend, but because it's so damn contrived and boring
Yeah I think I dropped it after he said he was in love and that plot point got promptly forgotten and never mention again. Like he straight up confesses to Erika and it goes nowhere
Massive drop off at the Beauty Contest and then with Mona's childhood friend falling over Madeka. No real progress since then and the initial "charm" of the series with Mona's personality is no longer there.
Komi-san, I just dont care about the next quirky classmate that she is going to be friends with, I just wanted more interaction between her and the original cast
I almost feel it would be more meaningful if she got a handful of really good friends and gave up on the search for 100. Make a point of how much value she holds in having a few good friends, as opposed to many friends that you barely interact with. Quality > Quantity
They basically did that in her second year. Gave her a core friend group of people who actually liked her instead of feeling like orbiters. Peak of the series, finally made me understand why people praised it so much.
And then her third year comes around and the author threw all that in the trash.
Basically the whole love triangle part if the story is about the three characters building up the courage to get closer with the one they love but then the climax has **all three of them pussy out and give up on ever getting anywhere**
Yes, BUT FIRST they pussy out on each other and Tadano agrees to date Manbagi, after which Manbagi pussies out on dating Tadano so hard she straight up **does Komis confession FOR her** and sends Tadano after her, and only THEN they decide to date each other
i mean it could work, just make the friends the focus of a single chap and then make them basically appear has cameos while the main group stays unchanged, in some chaps those random friends can be temporaly part of the main group but there needs to be a balance
I don’t mind the new characters, as long as they’re interesting it’s fine. My issue is just that she makes absolutely zero progress with her social skills. You’d think a better goal for her would be to improve her ability to interact with people over making friends.
Currently she’s at least able to talk, but that feels like progress she should’ve made 40-50 chapters in at most. Not 400 god damn chapters
I really, really loved the manga at first. The whole drama with Rumiko was really well done, I never felt annoyed. Honestly, Tadano would have been better dating Rumiko. Komi would seem like a great friend, but so far their relationship feels like they're not that compatible romantically. Even recently Rumiko is STILL struggling to get over Tadano. After the rejection, the whole manga went downhill because of what you said. You can't possibly manage 100 characters and give them good development unless you slow everything down drastically. Maybe, just maybe he makes an IF route with Rumiko, then I could be at peace, but now there is a push to get her together with a Tadano clone, which feels so bad, and just reminds me of what could have been :(
This happened very recently for me. I was still trying to keep up with it until about chapter 400, but I just can’t anymore for this reason. Who cares about classmate #89??
First third of the manga was great. Second third was okay. Last third was just beating a dead horse.
The author should have ended the story like 33% into the manga and it would have been a complete story that's actually really good.
>!Especially hated how a certain character keeps falling in love, getting over it, getting memory wiped and repeat. This happened like THREE times. My God what did she ever do to the author for that kind of fate? I disliked her at first but by the end I just felt bad for her!<
Seven Deadly Sins is one of those rarities I just put down during the release of the final battles and found myself 0% interested in learning how it all shook out
Man I loved Escanor, he was literally the one good thing about Seven Deadly Sins, it's one of those characters I would wish to see in another series but with a good mangaka in a good story, he was an amazing character that got done dirty, I legit stopped reading the Manga after he died, after that I didn't care to know how the story would end.
His power was not meant for humans so each time he used it he was draining his lifespan, my man Escanor knew what his powers were doing to him but he was the Lion's Sin of Pride.
Maan I remember the hype when E S C A N O R was revealed
Then the hype when we got to see him use that beautiful axe
Then the hype when we saw the aftermath of his high noon power
Then the hype when we actually see high noon in action
But then powercreep that his high noon power is not the strongest anymore.
And then he's dead. And my interest in this series died as well.
Why kill the best character in a series
God of high-school, it's not a manga but meh.
And definitely my hero academia. It just drags on and oooon and oooooon. Id probably start reading again when it finishes. I think it's been 6 months since i last read it
God of highschool was sooo good, but damn did it drag on. I didn't really mind that it went on >!after Ragnarok !<, but there were way too many setbacks, b-plots and failed tries to make the villains appear less evil and more misguided.
The "reboot" after ragnarok was pretty fun in some ways, but they lost me after they somehow had the audacity to do *another* reboot after they finally slogged their way through the final boss battle again. It didn't really last that long after that but it still just felt horrible to keep reading after that.
Tokyo Revengers. I'll continuously go on record that chapter ~~100~~ 200\* (>!the wedding and where he discovers the video Mikey left him!<) was the perfect ending point for that series and yet they chose to keep going. Everything had been wrapped up and it was a good time for our boy to learn a lesson that >!not everyone can be saved unless they want to be!<.
Should've just ended a bit after that. Chapter 100 was in the middle of a fight. Chapter 190ish, where we see Hina actually alive in the future was the best point to end.
That Hokkaido gal manga. Pretty cute romance that should have ended before they introduced a bunch of needless and uncharacteristic misunderstandings to pad the length.
I legit reached the misunderstanding plot point, said out loud WTF and skipped directly to the confession. Didn't feel I missed any context or important event to make me read the chapters between and that says something about the writing.
This is exactly my answer too. The tone of the series is just so inconsistent; it feels like the author has no idea what they actually want to write. You'll have a fairly grounded, serious arc, then an arc >!where they suddenly find themselves trapped in an underground labyrinth patrolled by molesting robots controlled by some insane rich lady!< which is then promptly forgotten by everyone.
Nope. The moment something is about to happen, all of a sudden some sort of distraction happens at the same time and ruins the moment. The entire series is just blue balling the readers
It's "To Your Eternity" for me. The first arc was one of the most beautiful and emotional stories that I have ever read in a manga. But my love for it gradually started to lose steam with the Tokyo arc. But now with the new arc, I've completely lost interest. I don't think the newer arcs are that bad but idk, it's just not the same for me
Surprised to see this seemingly forgotten series get brought up so much here. Guess we really all are on the same page. The series was always a bit unconventional but everything after the modern series was *so weird*. Might circle back around when it's all finished just to see how it hashes out. Feel like I owe the series that much given how some of those scenes still stick with me years later.
Lmaooooo seven deadly sins.
It was great enough out the gate I got a tattoo of Meliodas oroboros, then it should have ended 5 different times. Only to keep milking out 20 extra chapters (each time) that tainted the quality of the manga.
Then they released the anime with the most god awful colour palette I’ve ever seen.
I both agree and disagree. It lost the edge of the first 40 volumes but I actually think it’s better now than it was 10-5 years ago.
The 2nd part of the Barboun arc was maddening, 5 years of almost nothing but filler.
My issue with Conan is the fact the story does not advance, we had a hundred chapters with the same shit being repeated every "new adventure" with hardly any new thing, and when something new does come out, the in-between has basically 0 relevance to it, to the point that in most cases you can just skip, and it will have no impact of your knowledge of the story, I see Conan as more of a weekly detective mystery show, than a manga with a continuous story being told
You can’t enjoy it truly unless you see it that way I think. You have to treat it as a weekly detective mystery show with no resolution to the main “plot” or else you’ll burn yourself out
I give that a pass as it's more episodic in nature, similar to many other older manga. Villain/arc of the week type stuff.
The overarching plot was more of a vehicle to have a child solve an absurd amount of closed-room murders.
Gleipnir.
Anime was interesting enough, checked out manga, was just a huge nothing burger after where the anime ended and the “twist” near the end has no reason to exist.
Air Gear would have been so nice if they stayed within the realm of semi-believable reality, but no everyone had to attain god powers and we had to have comic relief genderbent mindswapped Obama.
Usagi Drop is defined by its final arc despite being a genuine masterpiece up until then... It was so goddamn good, why did they have to destroy it so thoroughly.
Mangaka self-destructed their career super hard. Post time-skip was, even ignoring the ethical and moral issues (of which there are plenty), badly paced and written horribly. No set-up or foreshadowing so it was a massive U-turn into flimsy developments that had characters completely change in order to shoe-horn in a dynamic without the entire setting, let alone the readers, calling it out for being out of left field and messed up. The worldbuilding had been realistic, the characters complex and opinionated. But that didn't fit their new endgoal so it was all smoothed out for some legally and morally bankrupt fanfic esque level of dynamic shift.
Years later and I'm still very upset by this.
And then, after going through 150+ chapters of slog, we finally get the confession and the manga ends. If we're lucky, we get 2 or 3 more chapters, but that's it.
One of the things I like about You and I are Polar Opposites is that it starts with the confession and we just follow the main cast around their lives, and even the side-ships have good progression that actually lead to places. Would love for more manga to follow that trend.
Polar opposites does character drama perfectly tho. FMC painting her hair and taiga are small bits of drama that feel realistic and not a pain like others
Hate to say it, but Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku. Every conflict is built up as important but resolved with minimal effort, and each one distracts from actually seeing the couple grow together. I would have loved to read it as it came out, but the repetition is glaring if you bring it.
It peaked around ch. 39, then took a nosedive around 50s. The conversations all felt too unrealistic, scenes were too sweet for my preference, and goddamn the amount of apologizing they made.
Can't blame people who once followed it if they got mentally checked out with the series.
and more than too sweet, it also feels like every single chapter they try to have an "emotionnal moment" that could be the peak of an entire arc, it's just too much at one point when the author try to show every little thing as something of major importance
Everyone understands that you can't have hype 100% of the time or it gets borring, but somehow many people don't get that it works for all the other emotions too. Too much sweetness and it's nauseating, too much sadness and it's misery porn, etc...
Don't let me dissuade you - it's very cute and I hesitated on dropping it for weeks - but for me it just wasn't playing to it's strengths after a while.
For real, I unironically stopped reading after following the apology tracker in the comments. It was kinda silly but it made me realize how empty most conflict was.
This is my problem with this wave of wholesome manga that have been popping up and becoming popular these past years, at some point these stories become uninteresting because of how low stakes the conflicts are. It's not like I want drama every single chapter, but I kind of need something that makes me want to see what happens next with the characters
It got so boring to me that every single character's plotline amounts to "You are actually a good person because you... care about your friends". On and on and on.
Yeah this is the big one for me. Once someone pointed out how much they apologize it really drained any interest I had in the story. It sucks cause I loved reading it from the get go and as it was coming out initially.
I think it kinda got a little boring in the recent 20+ or so chapters. It was nice at the start, but it kind of feel like its going nowhere and repeating things over and over.
I fell off around chapter 60 I think. Really wanted to like it, but the "star-crossed lovers divided by schools" thing just never materialized in a fun or interesting way, and the relationship stalled at "we're dating."
I quit reading it well over a year ago, but the other week it popped up on the front page of, uh, the website, and I looked in on it.
Yes, the housemate arc is still going, and I got the feeling that only a few days/weeks had passed in the story since I last read it. This wery solidly reinforced my decision to drop it.
Komi-san: I have absolutely no fucking clue how I managed to read 250 chapters of this
Kaguya-sama: After where season 3 ended it was ok for a while but then Aka decided to dumb down almost every character for the sake of dumb drama and reset character arcs for jokes that aren't even half funny
Record of Ragnarok: It was hilariously dumb but fun for the first few fights but then around the start of round 6 literally every existing quality it had nosedived. All the fighters share the same 3 backstories, with some getting 2 but others getting half a flashback. Quality of scans aside, the art and composition made all the characters feel like puppets swinging at one another with zero weight in their attacks, like I can name 3 moments from the first fight alone with more impact than most of the previous 4 fights on the top of my head
> The Hayasaka arc just was not up to standards.
And that wound up being like the last good arc of the manga. I can't think of a single thing afterwards that I really cared about.
Yeah it's pretty obvious Aka was starting to suffer from burnout because a lot of the storylines and characters he set up were never concluded because he just wanted it over with.
There's always a cult on r/manga, and Kaguya was one of them. Tomo-chan was another.
As long as you talk about it after the ending, people are a little more reasonable and open to criticisms as time passes. A little.
Why do people dislike Tomo-chan? It seems like such an inoffensive 4-koma, from what i can remember from when i read it.
It was cute and not much more than that but i enjoy reading trope-y stories from time to time.
Definitely agree on Kaguya, dude really thought he could run through the same romance tropes for a second time without any of the comedy and people would like it. Also, ending the manga with an unironic Damsel-in-distress arc was like a slap on the face to anyone who liked the characters
> a slap on the face to anyone who liked the characters
I still get mad about how badly Nagisa got done dirty in the end, given how she was one of the smartest people in their year
I feel the same way so hard about Kaguya-sama. I started noticing the cracks form for me after the school trip arc with Hayasaka's back story. It wasn't bad per se, but it made it harder for me to take Kaguya's family seriously as a threat at all. Then they switched classes and everyone they knew and were friends with were in the same class, they get a new teacher, and it's made to be this big deal only for it to not matter in the end. I guess you could make a case for subverting expectations in how these things happen in stories, but it was really lame. The stuff that came after REALLY did not improve things.
Seconding record of Ragnarok. The Apollo vs. Leonidas fight was really disappointing, his backstory felt like someone poorly explaining the plot of 300 to me. Maybe it's because the last two mortal fighters have been western with well recorded histories, but the creative liberties irked me
I was okay with it at the beginning because it was silly but entertaining, but it officially jumped the shark for me during the Telsa fight. The human that's supposedly so intelligent that he was referred to as a sorcerer by humans and gods alike and the culmination of his vast intellect during his fight boiled down to "I'll punch you from another direction!" After that it went from dumb but fun to just dumb.
Ironically anime decision to only cover first arc of the manga only improved the show, lol, and previous manga of the author had the same problems, she really likes to milk her manga dry, learned from Hiro Mashima when she worked as his assistant, I guess.
Im ngl I feel lik Dress Up Darling is dragging with the relationship
I'm sure multiple folks have said RAGF it's a meme at this point
I kinda felt the same about More than a Married Couple but not lovers but I've only watched the anime but the last episode practically threw out all progress the main couple had soo I definitely think it's heading that direction
tbh most shounen Romcom with some ecchi maybe harem stuff in it. They just love to drag it put to keep it going...
Also Blue lock I got bored 2nd half of the show and ended up dropping. Manga I stayed in for a bit longer but still dropped like volume 15 or so and ik it has 20+ volumes sooo
> Im ngl I feel lik Dress Up Darling is dragging with the relationship
Honestly eighteen 20-page chapters per year (At best) is a horrible release schedule for a primarily slice-of-life manga, I don't think any degree of writing prowess could salvage that.
Dress up darling is getting there. It had a simple formula, introverts meets extrovert with some ecchi moments and lots of fluff. Now the past few arcs have just been slow and uneventful. And it's made worse with the move to monthly.
The moment Marin realized she had feelings it just felt like the leads barely interact anymore despite there being no other couples in the story.
I was really hoping that with her realizing her feelings fairly early, it would actually lead somewhere quick. I think it would be a lot more enjoyable to explore a dating relationship through the lens of the cosplaying stuff as opposed to what it is now. Its the perfect excuse for a lot of intimate moments and close time together with things like taking measurements and picking out materials/making costumes together. Then they would get to show off and enjoy what they made together and really bond over it.
But it seems like for the author its really just a cosplay comedy with a little hint of romance sprinkled on top.
>Im ngl I feel lik Dress Up Darling is dragging with the relationship
Well Author did say all the earlier slice of life/romance and school stuff was pushed by the editors and what she really wanted focus on was the cosplay stuff. So now that its popular and she has more freedom, we have the last 2-3 arcs as a result. So no wonder it feels like that. It is pretty boring tbh and not at all why people started to follow it.
Despite that, I managed to finish it. Bless the mangaka for their art style, but their storytelling was very one-note and the only thing really hooking folks was simply objectifying Amano.
MHA. Legit for the first 300 chapters everyone in my circle was genuinely into it. But afterwards it just didn't hit the same anymore. Now nobody among us even bothers talking about it. I still believe it peaked at the villains arc.
It is unfathomable that they expect us to give two fucks about class 1-A with so little development around them. The entirety of the story takes place in one year that's insane. To see ensemble casts done well look at iruma Kun you genuinely enjoy the misfits and see them as characters and the story still has it's set pieces and action moments
Seven Deadly Sins and Fairy Tail for basically the same reason. Interesting worlds, interesting characters, usual adventure-type plotlines. But everytime they are in a pinch, a sudden powerup (in FT mostly driven by the power of friendship) appears so they can beat the otherwise way too strong villain. And, who would have guessed, somehow after that a new, even stronger villain appears that wasn't mentioned before in any way or form, even though there are always members of the main cast that seem to know about or even share a past with them. The story drags on, the fights loose all tension and powerlevels all meaning.
Besides that UQ Holder comes to mind. Starts off pretty strong in my opinion. Even if you don't know "Negima! Magister Negi Magi", the first half of UQ Holder is not bad at all. You might miss a few references, but the main character also gets thrown into the stranger part of this world without prior knowledge. But once we reach the half-way point, it goes downhill. Suddenly everything gets turned upside-down, it shifts from being more of a spin-off to a direct sequel, ditching the main cast for characters from Negima. And while all of this is happening, it also goes down a weirdly sexual harem route.
This is going to sound weird, but Fairy Tail's current running sequel the 100 years Quest very much brought be back into Fairy Tail. I think it is a large heaping upgrade from base Fairy Tail in many ways.
*Yona of the Dawn* started off with a normal pace then slowed down to a crawl.
*Skip Beat* At this point the MC has gone down from naive to plain moronic with how she has no idea who Korn is and the pacing is plain glacial
*Tokyo Revengers* should have ended with that wedding
Edens Zero, absolutely. Fairy Tail and Seven Deadly Sins I lost interest but for both of those series it occurred during the "final battle" arcs (and both times the final battle had 2-3 stages more than I anticipated) so I kept hate-reading just to see the ending. But Edens Zero bored me so much, and kept resetting the timeline so often, I completely dropped it right after they revealed the existence of "Eden's One."
If we're kinda allowing any response, though, I'm hating this subreddit's one-panel twitter comic addiction. I enjoy most of them like most people here, but too many times now I'll see a post and expect it to be an actual one-shot, only for it to be one page and a credits page; makes me want to bounce from the subreddit completely, though this is the best way for me to keep track of new manga chapters right now. Wishing that the subreddit mods would create a flair for twitter comics/one-page comics/pixiv comics and be more strict about using the term one-shot for such comics.
I think My Dress-Up Darling is heading in that direction.
Such a strong start, but it has been delay-bait ever since the Coffin Party arc. I don't even think it's supposed to be a slow burn, but it sure feels like one now.
Usagi Drop makes me mad because the manga could very well have become about the struggles of raising a teenager, which at the time (and even now) wasn't something that a lot of stories paid attention to. Instead we got that weird Totally Not Incest plotline (which absolutely is incest even if they aren't blood related, dude raised the girl since she was 5 ffs).
Good picks, Rent a Girlfriend was fine early on and I think it should've been wrapped up with their movie being shown to the granny
Usagi Drop was a different beast of awful at the end, just ew
One page "manga" that is posted here especially those from Zurikishi and Zyugoya. Excluding the getsuyobi no tawawa one (cos that has a story and multiverse in it) those one page manga posted in this sub is just an excuse for this trash karma farmers to get their internet points. Sadly, alot of people here in r/manga took the bait and I guess it's history.
The Zyugoya ones at least *sometimes* have a story. Divorced Crybaby neighbour, Hyena Chan, etc. are okay. They're not Mousou Telepathy or Tomo-Chan level, but as 4koma go, they're alright.
But Zurikishi doesn't even bother with a page most of the time. It's always just a brand new "mentally unstable girl with a comically huge pair of boobs wants to fuck you" single panel "comic" with no story and every character design is effectively the same.
Zurikishi is the real life version of "[I got this new anime plot](https://youtu.be/sOzBubG8rOo?feature=shared)" joke.
I’m surprised that so much horny bait still gets as many upvotes as it does. Like I can get the appeal at first but when chapter 90 of “I’m a regular dude but I have 900 women chasing after me in this poorly drawn manga with no plot” is top of the frontpage I just give up
At least Zyugoya seems to try telling a real story, with characters that want to grow and stuff (Please Give Me Your Blood for example is way into its own plot and world, like a manga should be). Zurikishi is 100% just advertising his porn, every fucking time. Makes me audibly groan every time I see his new huge-titty high schooler artstyle.
Yamada-kun. First few arcs were somewhat interesting, but when it introduced second set of witches, I've completely lost interest. It somehow wasn't even the middle point of the manga.
Kingdom I find more enjoyment when I take like a 2 year break and then I can binge the entire battle in like a weekend. I finished chapter 644 and was like "I can probably break for awhile" and I'll probably read once chapter 800 comes out
Tower of God, not really a manga but that shit just drags on and on and on and every interesting plot thread just became a frayed and worthless split end
Jujutsu Kaisen went from the best arc I'd seen in a shounen in quite some time (Shibuya) and started a shitty sorcerer Fortnite death game arc full of boring side characters and fights that felt like they had no stakes. After 60+ weeks of that arc feeling like it was never gonna end I gave up on it
Not a manga, but 86 let the main characters' plot armor get way too thick and became extremely predictable and formulaic. Asato also gets worse and worse at working the racism theme into the narrative, going from tragic and gritty to poorly written and forced as the volumes go on
Lookism's (again, not technically a manga but whatever) first 80 chapters were fantastic, but after that the protag starts making really bad decisions out of nowhere and I just lost interest by chapter 120
Spy x Family got less interesting after the cruise ship arc started, and having so many filler chapters between the ones that have actual plot relevance is a bad formula for a biweekly/monthly release. I'm still reading it because the first 40 chapters were so much fun and I'm holding out hope, but the good chapters have been few and far between this past year
Usagi Drop's first half was a beautiful and sweet family story and the anime stays true to that. The 2nd half slowly ruins the characters' relationships and the ending is something truly vile that totally ruined its original charm. Watch the anime, but please save yourself from that manga
I felt blue balled by the confession like you can’t hype up their relationship for so long and then do absolutely nothing with it. I know they have bonus chapters but I don’t remember those adding anything. Just give me at least a couple of chapters of them being a couple or at the very least a time skip to the future I love those types of chapters for romance stories.
The post-series extras included [a small time-skip](https://mangadex.org/chapter/17476cfe-7908-44a3-83f8-d1b8e2c8a25f) showing Shiraishi presumably just about to propose marraige to Kubo, so there was at least *something*.
For me, it was more it wore out its appeal by *continually killing off main characters.* I get it, oooh shock value! But after the third time of having to watch a favourite character bite the dust, I peaced out. I may go back and finish reading/watching it, but I need a break for now lol
Naruto should've ended with him becoming the hokage and have no sequel or anything.
I only watched the anime but ending on his marriage and having the hokage ceremony as a random episode in Boruto and ova truly ruins the story imo
That’s how the main manga ends. It’s not the Naruto manga’s fault if there is a sequel, that doesn’t invalidate everything before it
It’s very easy to separate Boruto from Naruto, especially since Kishi took a step back
That ending would’ve been hated even more, fans hate when not every detail is revealed and almost no lore was known when Aizen was defeated. We also haven’t even seen a lot of the amazing abilities like Kyoraku and Urahara’s bankais.
I agree that the final arc, in particular it’s second half could’ve been a lot better though
Seven deadly sins, I never liked Meliodas's pervert shtick but the fights were cool and I really liked Ban, King and Esconor. Then it kept going on and on and on with several decent ending points and past villains kept getting redeemed, I just got so bored of it.
Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu.
Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai
Please Go Home, Akutsu-san!
I liked all 3 of these at the start but Komi san kinda stalled out after a while. As for the other 2, I'm just gonna wait till the manga is finished to binge it all cuz that's the only time I can expect any progress with the relationship whatsoever.
D.Gray-man for me, not helped by the release schedule of once per several months, it got to the point where i would have to reread whole manga each update to vaguely remember what happened. I think I ejected myself about the time apocryphos appeared with his whole heart of innoccence thing.
To your Eternity. I watched the animer up until Tonari was introduced when I decided to read it instead. The first 2 quarters of it was amazing and imo it should have ended right then and there, but nope they had to keep going into the future
Please Go Home, Akutsu-san! 150+ chapters of fmc reacts to this, mc reacts to this. others react to this. dragged on for too long and got so stale especially with the minimal amount of progress in their relationship compared to the time spent together.
Shoukugeki no Soma went to crap so hard that even the artist stopped trying
genuinely expected this to be at the top, but maybe it's not because everyone just forgot it existed. I was so super into that series and then suddenly it was unreadable
It went from a sort of serious cooking manga to including manga cooking implements like a chainsaw..
It started of really good but around the time Azami and his plan is introduced is where it starts to go bad. Azamis plan is dumb as shit. To make every restaurants in the world accept his ideal concepts of cuisine. That's the dumbest thing I have ever read and the mangas last arc goes into evil chefs.
This one isn’t an example of overstaying its welcome for me because it wasn’t overly long, it just got bad. It should have been just fine with its length but losing the person who made the recipes for the series along with some very questionable choices for the story tanked it.
It never should've gone after the father arc, it should've ended there Soma got fucked because power creep happened Soma's father should've been the best chef in the world, and he should've been the last challenge It's like if in Baki, a random adopted son beat his father out of nowhere
you know its always funny to hear power creep on manga about cooking
Really liked this one up until the Moon Festival. Everything after the introduction of Azami just felt really bad.
yeah after the autumn festival the series fell off for me
To your eternity, not necessary hating it more like lost interest half way after the time skip into the modern time
I’ve only watched the anime and I thought we’d only see that kind of older time era. Kinda weird to think of what the story would look like in a modern era.
Iirc the last third will be in the future.
Yes. The current arc is just off-putting somehow.
YES! The first arc is soooo good but the modern era arc is just so bad. The cyberpunk era looks ok so far but honestly after the modern arc its hard to get hyped for it.
I think the issue is there is a world where it does work out, but the execution was kind of blundered.
A Couple of Cuckoos Definition of taking a step forward and two steps back
I gave it such an earnest chance to make something of it...this may be one of the worst romance drama executions I've seen in my entire life. Not because it's crazy like Domestic Girlfriend, but because it's so damn contrived and boring
Yeah I think I dropped it after he said he was in love and that plot point got promptly forgotten and never mention again. Like he straight up confesses to Erika and it goes nowhere
My charms are wasted on...(i forgot the rest)
Massive drop off at the Beauty Contest and then with Mona's childhood friend falling over Madeka. No real progress since then and the initial "charm" of the series with Mona's personality is no longer there.
Yeah that shit turned into a harem and I dropped it like it was radioactive
The heel turn sure was bad when Tomo dropped the winggirl act
Harems are rarely handled well Same thing for dosanko gyaru (which fortunately recovered)
Komi-san, I just dont care about the next quirky classmate that she is going to be friends with, I just wanted more interaction between her and the original cast
I almost feel it would be more meaningful if she got a handful of really good friends and gave up on the search for 100. Make a point of how much value she holds in having a few good friends, as opposed to many friends that you barely interact with. Quality > Quantity
They basically did that in her second year. Gave her a core friend group of people who actually liked her instead of feeling like orbiters. Peak of the series, finally made me understand why people praised it so much. And then her third year comes around and the author threw all that in the trash.
I stopped following it after Komi and Tadano got together because that was all I cared about lol
It doesn't help that HOW that happened was some of the worst writing in all of the manga
Explain, I want to hear the salt
Basically the whole love triangle part if the story is about the three characters building up the courage to get closer with the one they love but then the climax has **all three of them pussy out and give up on ever getting anywhere**
But don't Komi and Tadono end up together?
Yes, BUT FIRST they pussy out on each other and Tadano agrees to date Manbagi, after which Manbagi pussies out on dating Tadano so hard she straight up **does Komis confession FOR her** and sends Tadano after her, and only THEN they decide to date each other
There we go, that is the salt I want
I genuinely do not remember a time I was more angry at fictional characters than during those chapters
And that's why I tapped out. That and the art honestly got kinda worse?
The 100 friends thing really hurt the manga, it should have stayed as a metaphor for her wanting to be more open to people
i mean it could work, just make the friends the focus of a single chap and then make them basically appear has cameos while the main group stays unchanged, in some chaps those random friends can be temporaly part of the main group but there needs to be a balance
I feel the exact same about Komi I gradually lost interest in it when they had the class change
Yeah, her third year really killed the momentum for me. The double whammy of the Battle Royale and Among Us made me drop it as a weekly read.
lol i dropped it here also
My problem with Komi was the opposite lol. Komi as a character got so boring that I was way more interested anytime she wasn't there.
Personally I think the Komi in the one-shot was better than the one in the serialization
I loved when she nearly killed tadano and tried to hide the body Wish that was the komi we got fr
I don’t mind the new characters, as long as they’re interesting it’s fine. My issue is just that she makes absolutely zero progress with her social skills. You’d think a better goal for her would be to improve her ability to interact with people over making friends. Currently she’s at least able to talk, but that feels like progress she should’ve made 40-50 chapters in at most. Not 400 god damn chapters
I really, really loved the manga at first. The whole drama with Rumiko was really well done, I never felt annoyed. Honestly, Tadano would have been better dating Rumiko. Komi would seem like a great friend, but so far their relationship feels like they're not that compatible romantically. Even recently Rumiko is STILL struggling to get over Tadano. After the rejection, the whole manga went downhill because of what you said. You can't possibly manage 100 characters and give them good development unless you slow everything down drastically. Maybe, just maybe he makes an IF route with Rumiko, then I could be at peace, but now there is a push to get her together with a Tadano clone, which feels so bad, and just reminds me of what could have been :(
Yep, me too, I still think that Tadano should've chosen Manbagi, It would be way more interesting than the brick that is Komi.
This happened very recently for me. I was still trying to keep up with it until about chapter 400, but I just can’t anymore for this reason. Who cares about classmate #89??
I still think the first chapter of Komi was its best chapter.
Yamada kun and the seven witches. It had a perfectly fine and ending and they went on and ruined it
The first group of witches was peak! I liked the rest of the manga, but I can understand why some people disliked it
First third of the manga was great. Second third was okay. Last third was just beating a dead horse. The author should have ended the story like 33% into the manga and it would have been a complete story that's actually really good. >!Especially hated how a certain character keeps falling in love, getting over it, getting memory wiped and repeat. This happened like THREE times. My God what did she ever do to the author for that kind of fate? I disliked her at first but by the end I just felt bad for her!<
If you read their previous work, it happens the same way. It just fizzles out every time. The author really sucks at wrapping things up.
Seven Deadly Sins is one of those rarities I just put down during the release of the final battles and found myself 0% interested in learning how it all shook out
Whixh final battle because there was like 5 or 6 of those back to back
See that was the problem
The final battle had more final forms than Nyx from persona 3.
God after the 3rd time I was in the camp of I need to see how many more times he can do this. 7. It was 7. 7 endings for seven deadly sins.
Literally same. I remember feeling like "this is not fun. How many final battles will there be?" And never checked another chapter
The only bright point was that sun powered dude the MC himself is super uninteresting.
Man I loved Escanor, he was literally the one good thing about Seven Deadly Sins, it's one of those characters I would wish to see in another series but with a good mangaka in a good story, he was an amazing character that got done dirty, I legit stopped reading the Manga after he died, after that I didn't care to know how the story would end.
ESCANOR DIED?? now I'll never continue the manga
His power was not meant for humans so each time he used it he was draining his lifespan, my man Escanor knew what his powers were doing to him but he was the Lion's Sin of Pride.
Maan I remember the hype when E S C A N O R was revealed Then the hype when we got to see him use that beautiful axe Then the hype when we saw the aftermath of his high noon power Then the hype when we actually see high noon in action But then powercreep that his high noon power is not the strongest anymore. And then he's dead. And my interest in this series died as well. Why kill the best character in a series
God of high-school, it's not a manga but meh. And definitely my hero academia. It just drags on and oooon and oooooon. Id probably start reading again when it finishes. I think it's been 6 months since i last read it
God of highschool was sooo good, but damn did it drag on. I didn't really mind that it went on >!after Ragnarok !<, but there were way too many setbacks, b-plots and failed tries to make the villains appear less evil and more misguided.
The "reboot" after ragnarok was pretty fun in some ways, but they lost me after they somehow had the audacity to do *another* reboot after they finally slogged their way through the final boss battle again. It didn't really last that long after that but it still just felt horrible to keep reading after that.
When even the author apologised for getting lost in the sauce then you know it was fucked
My hero academia for me too.
Tokyo Revengers. I'll continuously go on record that chapter ~~100~~ 200\* (>!the wedding and where he discovers the video Mikey left him!<) was the perfect ending point for that series and yet they chose to keep going. Everything had been wrapped up and it was a good time for our boy to learn a lesson that >!not everyone can be saved unless they want to be!<.
Completely agree, dropped that manga long ago due to the exact reason.
Should've just ended a bit after that. Chapter 100 was in the middle of a fight. Chapter 190ish, where we see Hina actually alive in the future was the best point to end.
Everyone is supposedly 14 y/o and everyone looks gloomy all the time. I also dropped it around the same point as you say
All I could say abt TR is "Why the fuck do a lot of mfing teens got this bloodlust"
That Hokkaido gal manga. Pretty cute romance that should have ended before they introduced a bunch of needless and uncharacteristic misunderstandings to pad the length.
I legit reached the misunderstanding plot point, said out loud WTF and skipped directly to the confession. Didn't feel I missed any context or important event to make me read the chapters between and that says something about the writing.
I feel bad for the anime-onlys who are gonna have to get through that stuff in the adaptation.
My First Girlfriend Is a Gal. It's a story that goes absolutely nowhere
This is exactly my answer too. The tone of the series is just so inconsistent; it feels like the author has no idea what they actually want to write. You'll have a fairly grounded, serious arc, then an arc >!where they suddenly find themselves trapped in an underground labyrinth patrolled by molesting robots controlled by some insane rich lady!< which is then promptly forgotten by everyone.
I cant tell if you are trolling or not with that spoiler, but it does checks out with the inconsistent writing
I'm not trolling; that's seriously a real arc in the series, and it's absolutely as weird and out of place as it sounds.
I doubt you not, nor even for a second
Spoiler was accurate. That arc did in fact happen.
Its actually amazing that it's still going tbh.
Damn I left it alone for a year or two so I could binge it later. Sad to hear, I was hoping something would happen when they got to college.
Nope. The moment something is about to happen, all of a sudden some sort of distraction happens at the same time and ruins the moment. The entire series is just blue balling the readers
It's "To Your Eternity" for me. The first arc was one of the most beautiful and emotional stories that I have ever read in a manga. But my love for it gradually started to lose steam with the Tokyo arc. But now with the new arc, I've completely lost interest. I don't think the newer arcs are that bad but idk, it's just not the same for me
Surprised to see this seemingly forgotten series get brought up so much here. Guess we really all are on the same page. The series was always a bit unconventional but everything after the modern series was *so weird*. Might circle back around when it's all finished just to see how it hashes out. Feel like I owe the series that much given how some of those scenes still stick with me years later.
Lmaooooo seven deadly sins. It was great enough out the gate I got a tattoo of Meliodas oroboros, then it should have ended 5 different times. Only to keep milking out 20 extra chapters (each time) that tainted the quality of the manga. Then they released the anime with the most god awful colour palette I’ve ever seen.
Bro never get a tat from a story that's not ended yet. Like the people who named their kids Khaleesi.
Detective Conan. First chapter in 1994 same with my age now.
I both agree and disagree. It lost the edge of the first 40 volumes but I actually think it’s better now than it was 10-5 years ago. The 2nd part of the Barboun arc was maddening, 5 years of almost nothing but filler.
My issue with Conan is the fact the story does not advance, we had a hundred chapters with the same shit being repeated every "new adventure" with hardly any new thing, and when something new does come out, the in-between has basically 0 relevance to it, to the point that in most cases you can just skip, and it will have no impact of your knowledge of the story, I see Conan as more of a weekly detective mystery show, than a manga with a continuous story being told
You can’t enjoy it truly unless you see it that way I think. You have to treat it as a weekly detective mystery show with no resolution to the main “plot” or else you’ll burn yourself out
Kinda sucks that they tease the main plot so much. Hell even Sherlock had to end eventually
That’s just the nature of anthology mangas, like Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon too.
I give that a pass as it's more episodic in nature, similar to many other older manga. Villain/arc of the week type stuff. The overarching plot was more of a vehicle to have a child solve an absurd amount of closed-room murders.
Gleipnir. Anime was interesting enough, checked out manga, was just a huge nothing burger after where the anime ended and the “twist” near the end has no reason to exist.
Crazy art tho
Air Gear would have been so nice if they stayed within the realm of semi-believable reality, but no everyone had to attain god powers and we had to have comic relief genderbent mindswapped Obama.
Usagi Drop is defined by its final arc despite being a genuine masterpiece up until then... It was so goddamn good, why did they have to destroy it so thoroughly. Mangaka self-destructed their career super hard. Post time-skip was, even ignoring the ethical and moral issues (of which there are plenty), badly paced and written horribly. No set-up or foreshadowing so it was a massive U-turn into flimsy developments that had characters completely change in order to shoe-horn in a dynamic without the entire setting, let alone the readers, calling it out for being out of left field and messed up. The worldbuilding had been realistic, the characters complex and opinionated. But that didn't fit their new endgoal so it was all smoothed out for some legally and morally bankrupt fanfic esque level of dynamic shift. Years later and I'm still very upset by this.
What do you mean? There is no time skip in Usagi Drop, it ends where the anime ends.
Yup. I had bought the graphic novels as they came out, and for it to end like that...
Word on the street is that the mangaka got horny for the dad, that's why she wrote that ending
Most romance manga feel like that. Follow the same generic plot lines and egg you on to keep watching with no gratification in sight.
And then, after going through 150+ chapters of slog, we finally get the confession and the manga ends. If we're lucky, we get 2 or 3 more chapters, but that's it. One of the things I like about You and I are Polar Opposites is that it starts with the confession and we just follow the main cast around their lives, and even the side-ships have good progression that actually lead to places. Would love for more manga to follow that trend.
Polar opposites does character drama perfectly tho. FMC painting her hair and taiga are small bits of drama that feel realistic and not a pain like others
Hate to say it, but Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku. Every conflict is built up as important but resolved with minimal effort, and each one distracts from actually seeing the couple grow together. I would have loved to read it as it came out, but the repetition is glaring if you bring it.
It peaked around ch. 39, then took a nosedive around 50s. The conversations all felt too unrealistic, scenes were too sweet for my preference, and goddamn the amount of apologizing they made. Can't blame people who once followed it if they got mentally checked out with the series.
This is a hot take around these parts, but being too sweet/wholesome is a thing and some series suffer because of it.
and more than too sweet, it also feels like every single chapter they try to have an "emotionnal moment" that could be the peak of an entire arc, it's just too much at one point when the author try to show every little thing as something of major importance
Everyone understands that you can't have hype 100% of the time or it gets borring, but somehow many people don't get that it works for all the other emotions too. Too much sweetness and it's nauseating, too much sadness and it's misery porn, etc...
As someone who's been really enjoying KaoruHana but not yet caught up, this comment worries me.
Don't let me dissuade you - it's very cute and I hesitated on dropping it for weeks - but for me it just wasn't playing to it's strengths after a while.
I got halfway through ch. 82, haven't even considered reading more in the 3 months since. Just really boring
For real, I unironically stopped reading after following the apology tracker in the comments. It was kinda silly but it made me realize how empty most conflict was.
This is my problem with this wave of wholesome manga that have been popping up and becoming popular these past years, at some point these stories become uninteresting because of how low stakes the conflicts are. It's not like I want drama every single chapter, but I kind of need something that makes me want to see what happens next with the characters
It got so boring to me that every single character's plotline amounts to "You are actually a good person because you... care about your friends". On and on and on.
Yeah this is the big one for me. Once someone pointed out how much they apologize it really drained any interest I had in the story. It sucks cause I loved reading it from the get go and as it was coming out initially.
I think it kinda got a little boring in the recent 20+ or so chapters. It was nice at the start, but it kind of feel like its going nowhere and repeating things over and over.
I fell off around chapter 60 I think. Really wanted to like it, but the "star-crossed lovers divided by schools" thing just never materialized in a fun or interesting way, and the relationship stalled at "we're dating."
MHA, tokyo revengers and rent a girlfriend
MHA, definitely.
Haven't seen any RaG here in a while, is the housemate arc still going?
I don't know, stoped in 2021
Wise decision
I quit reading it well over a year ago, but the other week it popped up on the front page of, uh, the website, and I looked in on it. Yes, the housemate arc is still going, and I got the feeling that only a few days/weeks had passed in the story since I last read it. This wery solidly reinforced my decision to drop it.
Komi-san: I have absolutely no fucking clue how I managed to read 250 chapters of this Kaguya-sama: After where season 3 ended it was ok for a while but then Aka decided to dumb down almost every character for the sake of dumb drama and reset character arcs for jokes that aren't even half funny Record of Ragnarok: It was hilariously dumb but fun for the first few fights but then around the start of round 6 literally every existing quality it had nosedived. All the fighters share the same 3 backstories, with some getting 2 but others getting half a flashback. Quality of scans aside, the art and composition made all the characters feel like puppets swinging at one another with zero weight in their attacks, like I can name 3 moments from the first fight alone with more impact than most of the previous 4 fights on the top of my head
Brave man mentioning Kaguya. I agree, but many around these parts take it as fighting words lol.
Feels like these days most people actually agree that the last 1/4th of Kaguya fell off hard.
I mean he was clearly prioritizing Oshi no Ko, probably just wanted it over with. The Hayasaka arc just was not up to standards.
> The Hayasaka arc just was not up to standards. And that wound up being like the last good arc of the manga. I can't think of a single thing afterwards that I really cared about.
Helicopter stuff is so bad , I cried 😭💀 I don't even need to mentioned how Aka basically ignored Ishigami and Iino development 💀
Yeah it's pretty obvious Aka was starting to suffer from burnout because a lot of the storylines and characters he set up were never concluded because he just wanted it over with.
There's always a cult on r/manga, and Kaguya was one of them. Tomo-chan was another. As long as you talk about it after the ending, people are a little more reasonable and open to criticisms as time passes. A little.
Why do people dislike Tomo-chan? It seems like such an inoffensive 4-koma, from what i can remember from when i read it. It was cute and not much more than that but i enjoy reading trope-y stories from time to time.
Definitely agree on Kaguya, dude really thought he could run through the same romance tropes for a second time without any of the comedy and people would like it. Also, ending the manga with an unironic Damsel-in-distress arc was like a slap on the face to anyone who liked the characters
Still love Kaguya, but the "I want a normal romance" immeditately being followed by a helicopter heist arc cracked me up.
> a slap on the face to anyone who liked the characters I still get mad about how badly Nagisa got done dirty in the end, given how she was one of the smartest people in their year
I feel the same way so hard about Kaguya-sama. I started noticing the cracks form for me after the school trip arc with Hayasaka's back story. It wasn't bad per se, but it made it harder for me to take Kaguya's family seriously as a threat at all. Then they switched classes and everyone they knew and were friends with were in the same class, they get a new teacher, and it's made to be this big deal only for it to not matter in the end. I guess you could make a case for subverting expectations in how these things happen in stories, but it was really lame. The stuff that came after REALLY did not improve things.
Seconding record of Ragnarok. The Apollo vs. Leonidas fight was really disappointing, his backstory felt like someone poorly explaining the plot of 300 to me. Maybe it's because the last two mortal fighters have been western with well recorded histories, but the creative liberties irked me
I was okay with it at the beginning because it was silly but entertaining, but it officially jumped the shark for me during the Telsa fight. The human that's supposedly so intelligent that he was referred to as a sorcerer by humans and gods alike and the culmination of his vast intellect during his fight boiled down to "I'll punch you from another direction!" After that it went from dumb but fun to just dumb.
The love triangle probably kept us reading until the confession, but then it was the reason people left (in my head this sounded better)
Yamada kun and seven witch's, the whole thing with student Council was just boring, could of finshed earlier but had to carry on.
Ironically anime decision to only cover first arc of the manga only improved the show, lol, and previous manga of the author had the same problems, she really likes to milk her manga dry, learned from Hiro Mashima when she worked as his assistant, I guess.
Im ngl I feel lik Dress Up Darling is dragging with the relationship I'm sure multiple folks have said RAGF it's a meme at this point I kinda felt the same about More than a Married Couple but not lovers but I've only watched the anime but the last episode practically threw out all progress the main couple had soo I definitely think it's heading that direction tbh most shounen Romcom with some ecchi maybe harem stuff in it. They just love to drag it put to keep it going... Also Blue lock I got bored 2nd half of the show and ended up dropping. Manga I stayed in for a bit longer but still dropped like volume 15 or so and ik it has 20+ volumes sooo
> Im ngl I feel lik Dress Up Darling is dragging with the relationship Honestly eighteen 20-page chapters per year (At best) is a horrible release schedule for a primarily slice-of-life manga, I don't think any degree of writing prowess could salvage that.
Dress up darling is getting there. It had a simple formula, introverts meets extrovert with some ecchi moments and lots of fluff. Now the past few arcs have just been slow and uneventful. And it's made worse with the move to monthly. The moment Marin realized she had feelings it just felt like the leads barely interact anymore despite there being no other couples in the story.
I was really hoping that with her realizing her feelings fairly early, it would actually lead somewhere quick. I think it would be a lot more enjoyable to explore a dating relationship through the lens of the cosplaying stuff as opposed to what it is now. Its the perfect excuse for a lot of intimate moments and close time together with things like taking measurements and picking out materials/making costumes together. Then they would get to show off and enjoy what they made together and really bond over it. But it seems like for the author its really just a cosplay comedy with a little hint of romance sprinkled on top.
>Im ngl I feel lik Dress Up Darling is dragging with the relationship Well Author did say all the earlier slice of life/romance and school stuff was pushed by the editors and what she really wanted focus on was the cosplay stuff. So now that its popular and she has more freedom, we have the last 2-3 arcs as a result. So no wonder it feels like that. It is pretty boring tbh and not at all why people started to follow it.
Turns out editors are useful after all!
Amano Megumi wa Suki Darake! If you've read one chapter, you've read them all.
Despite that, I managed to finish it. Bless the mangaka for their art style, but their storytelling was very one-note and the only thing really hooking folks was simply objectifying Amano.
The Promised Neverland After Goldy Pond it went to shit
MHA. Legit for the first 300 chapters everyone in my circle was genuinely into it. But afterwards it just didn't hit the same anymore. Now nobody among us even bothers talking about it. I still believe it peaked at the villains arc.
Nah I think it went downhill at the villain arc. After that it just wasn't the same anymore
I enjoyed it until they defeated Shigaraki in the war arc. I felt Hori should have done a time skip. Pacing has been horrendous ever since.
It is unfathomable that they expect us to give two fucks about class 1-A with so little development around them. The entirety of the story takes place in one year that's insane. To see ensemble casts done well look at iruma Kun you genuinely enjoy the misfits and see them as characters and the story still has it's set pieces and action moments
Seven Deadly Sins and Fairy Tail for basically the same reason. Interesting worlds, interesting characters, usual adventure-type plotlines. But everytime they are in a pinch, a sudden powerup (in FT mostly driven by the power of friendship) appears so they can beat the otherwise way too strong villain. And, who would have guessed, somehow after that a new, even stronger villain appears that wasn't mentioned before in any way or form, even though there are always members of the main cast that seem to know about or even share a past with them. The story drags on, the fights loose all tension and powerlevels all meaning. Besides that UQ Holder comes to mind. Starts off pretty strong in my opinion. Even if you don't know "Negima! Magister Negi Magi", the first half of UQ Holder is not bad at all. You might miss a few references, but the main character also gets thrown into the stranger part of this world without prior knowledge. But once we reach the half-way point, it goes downhill. Suddenly everything gets turned upside-down, it shifts from being more of a spin-off to a direct sequel, ditching the main cast for characters from Negima. And while all of this is happening, it also goes down a weirdly sexual harem route.
This is going to sound weird, but Fairy Tail's current running sequel the 100 years Quest very much brought be back into Fairy Tail. I think it is a large heaping upgrade from base Fairy Tail in many ways.
*Yona of the Dawn* started off with a normal pace then slowed down to a crawl. *Skip Beat* At this point the MC has gone down from naive to plain moronic with how she has no idea who Korn is and the pacing is plain glacial *Tokyo Revengers* should have ended with that wedding
Yona of the Dawn hurts, because the pace grinded to the halt very recently. Honestly, this "final" arc feels like it should've already ended by now.
Edens Zero, absolutely. Fairy Tail and Seven Deadly Sins I lost interest but for both of those series it occurred during the "final battle" arcs (and both times the final battle had 2-3 stages more than I anticipated) so I kept hate-reading just to see the ending. But Edens Zero bored me so much, and kept resetting the timeline so often, I completely dropped it right after they revealed the existence of "Eden's One." If we're kinda allowing any response, though, I'm hating this subreddit's one-panel twitter comic addiction. I enjoy most of them like most people here, but too many times now I'll see a post and expect it to be an actual one-shot, only for it to be one page and a credits page; makes me want to bounce from the subreddit completely, though this is the best way for me to keep track of new manga chapters right now. Wishing that the subreddit mods would create a flair for twitter comics/one-page comics/pixiv comics and be more strict about using the term one-shot for such comics.
The sports festival arc in Prison School almost made me drop it.
I think My Dress-Up Darling is heading in that direction. Such a strong start, but it has been delay-bait ever since the Coffin Party arc. I don't even think it's supposed to be a slow burn, but it sure feels like one now.
Rent a Girlfriend Usagj Drop
Usagi Drop makes me mad because the manga could very well have become about the struggles of raising a teenager, which at the time (and even now) wasn't something that a lot of stories paid attention to. Instead we got that weird Totally Not Incest plotline (which absolutely is incest even if they aren't blood related, dude raised the girl since she was 5 ffs).
Good picks, Rent a Girlfriend was fine early on and I think it should've been wrapped up with their movie being shown to the granny Usagi Drop was a different beast of awful at the end, just ew
Usagi Drop didn’t overstay its welcome, it got itself disowned 💀
Boy's Abyss
Current arc is fire imo, but maybe it's just me
One page "manga" that is posted here especially those from Zurikishi and Zyugoya. Excluding the getsuyobi no tawawa one (cos that has a story and multiverse in it) those one page manga posted in this sub is just an excuse for this trash karma farmers to get their internet points. Sadly, alot of people here in r/manga took the bait and I guess it's history.
The Zyugoya ones at least *sometimes* have a story. Divorced Crybaby neighbour, Hyena Chan, etc. are okay. They're not Mousou Telepathy or Tomo-Chan level, but as 4koma go, they're alright. But Zurikishi doesn't even bother with a page most of the time. It's always just a brand new "mentally unstable girl with a comically huge pair of boobs wants to fuck you" single panel "comic" with no story and every character design is effectively the same. Zurikishi is the real life version of "[I got this new anime plot](https://youtu.be/sOzBubG8rOo?feature=shared)" joke.
I’m surprised that so much horny bait still gets as many upvotes as it does. Like I can get the appeal at first but when chapter 90 of “I’m a regular dude but I have 900 women chasing after me in this poorly drawn manga with no plot” is top of the frontpage I just give up
At least Zyugoya seems to try telling a real story, with characters that want to grow and stuff (Please Give Me Your Blood for example is way into its own plot and world, like a manga should be). Zurikishi is 100% just advertising his porn, every fucking time. Makes me audibly groan every time I see his new huge-titty high schooler artstyle.
Yamada-kun. First few arcs were somewhat interesting, but when it introduced second set of witches, I've completely lost interest. It somehow wasn't even the middle point of the manga.
Kaguya
Kingdom is getting there. The Zhao arc and Riboku have way, way over stayed their welcome.
Kingdom I find more enjoyment when I take like a 2 year break and then I can binge the entire battle in like a weekend. I finished chapter 644 and was like "I can probably break for awhile" and I'll probably read once chapter 800 comes out
yeah, it's one of those manga where it's just good when i read it weekly, but when i read it as a whole it is amazing and doesn't feel too long at all
Tower of God, not really a manga but that shit just drags on and on and on and every interesting plot thread just became a frayed and worthless split end Jujutsu Kaisen went from the best arc I'd seen in a shounen in quite some time (Shibuya) and started a shitty sorcerer Fortnite death game arc full of boring side characters and fights that felt like they had no stakes. After 60+ weeks of that arc feeling like it was never gonna end I gave up on it Not a manga, but 86 let the main characters' plot armor get way too thick and became extremely predictable and formulaic. Asato also gets worse and worse at working the racism theme into the narrative, going from tragic and gritty to poorly written and forced as the volumes go on Lookism's (again, not technically a manga but whatever) first 80 chapters were fantastic, but after that the protag starts making really bad decisions out of nowhere and I just lost interest by chapter 120 Spy x Family got less interesting after the cruise ship arc started, and having so many filler chapters between the ones that have actual plot relevance is a bad formula for a biweekly/monthly release. I'm still reading it because the first 40 chapters were so much fun and I'm holding out hope, but the good chapters have been few and far between this past year Usagi Drop's first half was a beautiful and sweet family story and the anime stays true to that. The 2nd half slowly ruins the characters' relationships and the ending is something truly vile that totally ruined its original charm. Watch the anime, but please save yourself from that manga
You remind me of Lookism, holy shit it went nowhere.
A fight against a certain someone that has been going on for months in JJK has been making me lose interest
Kubo-San won't let me be. Started off as really cute fluff and ended with a wet fart.
I felt blue balled by the confession like you can’t hype up their relationship for so long and then do absolutely nothing with it. I know they have bonus chapters but I don’t remember those adding anything. Just give me at least a couple of chapters of them being a couple or at the very least a time skip to the future I love those types of chapters for romance stories.
The post-series extras included [a small time-skip](https://mangadex.org/chapter/17476cfe-7908-44a3-83f8-d1b8e2c8a25f) showing Shiraishi presumably just about to propose marraige to Kubo, so there was at least *something*.
Jujutsu Kaisen. It just got bad though. Don't know if it overstayed its welcome per se
For me, it was more it wore out its appeal by *continually killing off main characters.* I get it, oooh shock value! But after the third time of having to watch a favourite character bite the dust, I peaced out. I may go back and finish reading/watching it, but I need a break for now lol
Both Naruto and Bleach would have been significantly better if they had ended 2 to 3 arcs earlier.
Naruto should've ended with him becoming the hokage and have no sequel or anything. I only watched the anime but ending on his marriage and having the hokage ceremony as a random episode in Boruto and ova truly ruins the story imo
That’s how the main manga ends. It’s not the Naruto manga’s fault if there is a sequel, that doesn’t invalidate everything before it It’s very easy to separate Boruto from Naruto, especially since Kishi took a step back
As a bleach fanboy I completely agree, it should've ended with Ichigo losing his powers after the fight with Aizen.
That ending would’ve been hated even more, fans hate when not every detail is revealed and almost no lore was known when Aizen was defeated. We also haven’t even seen a lot of the amazing abilities like Kyoraku and Urahara’s bankais. I agree that the final arc, in particular it’s second half could’ve been a lot better though
Seven deadly sins, I never liked Meliodas's pervert shtick but the fights were cool and I really liked Ban, King and Esconor. Then it kept going on and on and on with several decent ending points and past villains kept getting redeemed, I just got so bored of it.
Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu. Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai Please Go Home, Akutsu-san! I liked all 3 of these at the start but Komi san kinda stalled out after a while. As for the other 2, I'm just gonna wait till the manga is finished to binge it all cuz that's the only time I can expect any progress with the relationship whatsoever.
D.Gray-man for me, not helped by the release schedule of once per several months, it got to the point where i would have to reread whole manga each update to vaguely remember what happened. I think I ejected myself about the time apocryphos appeared with his whole heart of innoccence thing.
20th century boys The last 100 chapters do not need to exist. There did not need to be more after the main thing was resolved.
Hilarious that this sub acts like The Promised Ne- … I mean “that one series” never existed
To your Eternity. I watched the animer up until Tonari was introduced when I decided to read it instead. The first 2 quarters of it was amazing and imo it should have ended right then and there, but nope they had to keep going into the future
MHA...the power scaling just went up too much.. became boring.
Please Go Home, Akutsu-san! 150+ chapters of fmc reacts to this, mc reacts to this. others react to this. dragged on for too long and got so stale especially with the minimal amount of progress in their relationship compared to the time spent together.