I could swear "Heroes Studies" sounds like an MHA Spin-Off
I certainly would argue that people shouldn't have had a reason to be saying it's ending for a year now. A year ago it was in the middle of big arcs that clearly weren't aimed at fully resolving the lingering plot threads, and the series' ranking was staying far enough from the bottom with enough other series ending that there was no real danger of it ending. Thirty weeks ago it returned to the stand alone slice of life chapters and short arcs it'd been doing until the big arcs started alongside the anime. Which rather than them being purely fluff, Tadahiro's scattered developments and minor world building that have later been relevant in them. Seventeen weeks ago the series finally did something that showed what time of year the series had reached since the previous mention of what month it was. It turned out that the two previous big arcs and all the other miscellaneous events only took place in less than a month. Since then maybe a month and a half at best has passed in series. In short, the series spent the last year doing a couple of big arcs, before returning to the same ambling pace it had before it started doing back to back bigger arcs. All without any sign of possibly ending until recently. So no, people should not have been saying for a year that it looks like the series could end at any time.
I know this idea may be a little too far out and experimental for Jump, but what if Kubo's next manga goes the silent route? No text bubbles, just drawings.
We had a proper mini-serious arc again finally that wasn't over in one chapter, that's what people have been asking for since ch 10.
I always felt GotW was meant to be a one-shot. It established the setting, build up the mystery, gave us The Reveal and then ended on a bittersweet but hopeful note. Immediately after reading it, I thought "That was really nice, but I kind of can't see it getting more interesting after this."
I do believe Kubo can pull it off better than Kishimoto (who attempted that with an important chapter in Naruto). Don't necessarily think people would enjoy it though.
I would love to see a short story like this.
Read Jigokuraku
Definitely on my list as well.
I agree. A change of tone definitely helped the manga. But also the focus on Taiyo and his family, which personally gave me the impression that the story finally moves on instead of wasting time with "psychopath of the week".
I wonder if that's true. I mean, if you really enjoy a series, would you stop doing so just because you know it's not popular and could be axed? If you just skimmed through it before, why would you suddenly be invested then? I think the real reason people started to enjoy Yozakura (again) is because the story developed in the direction they wanted (as you said), but also because they heard other people praising the series and gave it another chance.
How is Agravity "looking to succeed" when it ranks in the bottom 5 every week?
General editorial comments, word of mouth on social media, and the Amazon rankings all point in that direction. Some not even that bad TOC places means very little.
>Amazon rankings for volumes not even released yet
Didn’t it get additional pages (like Undead is about to) because it’s being well received? The TOC isn’t absolute. I could see Agravity Boys getting a fan base like Gintama due to the men’s designs.
