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I just finished Hoshino, Me wo Tsubutte recently and jesus, I haven't seen something this shitty in years. Something that triggered genuine wrath in me. You become invested in the story, the characters, their development, only for the author to invalidate everything in a couple chapters. Wasted a few hours of my life reading this shit.

What are some that you can think off? Go ham with the spoilers since I doubt people will bother to look for them and you can't just say something is so shit you want to seize the author's means of production, I mean, manga license without explaining why.
Some off the top of my head: Prison School, Platinum End.

This post has been edited by Ass Spanker: Mar 19 2022, 00:43

Should we consider we want to "rip the author's head off" when we feel a manga got axed, and it may not be, or may be know not to be, the author's fault?

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Note that answering "no" allow someone to want to rip off a dead author's head due to his manga having a bad ending because finished by someone else, or just cut (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Should we consider we want to "rip the author's head off" when we feel a manga got axed, and it may not be, or may be know not to be, the author's fault?

Spoiler text - Highlight to read...

Note that answering "no" allow someone to want to rip off a dead author's head due to his manga having a bad ending because finished by someone else, or just cut (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

It fully depends on how you feel, no matter you think it's justified or not. This thread is to shit on badly written endings. Axed endings are bad, and badly written, but how bad they are can be quite varied, from normal boring axed endings, to absolutely seething rage triggering. I'm looking for more of the latter type.

This post has been edited by Ass Spanker: Mar 21 2022, 20:30

Karin: Chibi Vampire. After about 8 volumes of running around with her family the main girl permanently lost her memories of her entire family and everything that happened in the series in the last chapter.

the main girl permanently lost her memories of her entire family and everything that happened in the series in the last chapter.

It wasn't all that bad. She had basically become a human at the end, and her family believed it was best for her to forget everything about the vampire world. She also at least managed to end up happily married to the boy she was in love with the entire series.

I'm personally more annoyed with Nazo no kanojo X. In the very first chapter, the FMC declares that the MC will be her "very first sex partner". Yet, by the end of the series, they hadn't even kissed, let alone had sex.

Should we consider we want to "rip the author's head off" when we feel a manga got axed, and it may not be, or may be know not to be, the author's fault?

Yeah I found a lot of manga that ended poorly were because they had to rush an ending by the publisher.

It wasn't all that bad. She had basically become a human at the end, and her family believed it was best for her to forget everything about the vampire world. She also at least managed to end up happily married to the boy she was in love with the entire series.

It nullified most of the events and any character development, and her family loved her and visa-versa so it didn't make much sense for her brother to erase them. His reasoning that, "You're better off with false memories of being an orphan," makes no sense. She had plenty of good memories and it's not as though she had to remain part of the vampire world if she kept her memories, and she could have just visited them on New Years or something. It wasn't called for or even a believable ending, and I think the author just wanted to force a bittersweet melodramatic twist which was typical of vampire stories in the 2000s (and a lot of Japanese stories generally.)

I'm personally more annoyed with Nazo no kanojo X. In the very first chapter, the FMC declares that the MC will be her "very first sex partner". Yet, by the end of the series, they hadn't even kissed, let alone had sex.

I purged that one from my memory because it was so bad. The author promised fetish material from the first chapter and instead turned out to be an ultra-repressed "no sex before marriage" conservative who gave us fucking blue-balls after hundreds of chapters and about a decade of filler that went nowhere. Every chapter was a waste of ink. (At least Karin had plot development that was just marred by the ending.)

This post has been edited by sensualaoi: Mar 23 2022, 00:17

It nullified most of the events and any character development, and her family loved her and visa-versa so it didn't make much sense for her brother to erase them. His reasoning that, "You're better off with false memories of being an orphan," makes no sense. She had plenty of good memories and it's not as though she had to remain part of the vampire world if she kept her memories, and she could have just visited them on New Years or something. It wasn't called for or even a believable ending, and I think the author just wanted to force a bittersweet melodramatic twist which was typical of vampire stories in the 2000s (and a lot of Japanese stories generally.)
I purged that one from my memory because it was so bad. The author promised fetish material from the first chapter and instead turned out to be an ultra-repressed "no sex before marriage" conservative who gave us fucking blue-balls after hundreds of chapters and about a decade of filler that went nowhere. Every chapter was a waste of ink. (At least Karin had plot development that was just marred by the ending.)

Ouch. I'd forgotten how this series ended up; I wished it had progressed, as the art and general vibe were amazing and relaxing, and often quite sexy too. On a sort of unrelated note, I enjoyed reading Dome x Kanojo but the author really made some insane choices towards the end (the choice for the mc to cuck the second femc the specific way he did was very odd).

I don't know if you strictly mean manga, or if anime counts. I always hated the ending to the Gilgamesh anime. Spoiler alert: he dies, she dies, everyone dies.

I've never read it, but I'm sure the ending of the Bastard manga would qualify for me.
I mean the author at some point scrapped every character, even the main one, and the world too, and any remnant of storyline.
However he finished after that (I quitted, so I don't know) must give that feeling anyway.

Platinum End from Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba:

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The last few pages of the final chapter are literally "God" killing himself to prove something to another character, causing a chain reaction of every single living being on Earth vanishing and dying, causing a mass genocide. The chapter right before it was basically a "happy ending" for all characters. It's just a giant fuck you to the readers and every character in the story

Two examples I can think of off the top, are Claymore and Aoi Hana.

In Claymore it was just his sloppy moralizing and trying so hard to make the whole thing about the least intersesting and most worthless character in the story (Raki) catering to the worst otaku types.

Aoi Hana seemed like she became obsessed with Wandering Son and progressivism and was discarding Aoi Hana in an almost apologetic way.

It is true though, publishers and editors as well, have ruined more manga and anime than we'll ever know.

Platinum End from Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba:

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The last few pages of the final chapter are literally "God" killing himself to prove something to another character, causing a chain reaction of every single living being on Earth vanishing and dying, causing a mass genocide. The chapter right before it was basically a "happy ending" for all characters. It's just a giant fuck you to the readers and every character in the story

I checked out the manga after anime episode 1 because I had a bad feeling about it. Good thing I did so, else I would have wasted 24 episodes worth of time this (+ last) season.

This post has been edited by Ass Spanker: Mar 28 2022, 04:34

I got disgusted by School Rumble from seeing the last episode(s).
It doesn't help that in the last season, they released (first?only?) directly episodes 25&26 (or 24&25, well the last 2 anyway).
It may prevent me from ever rewatching it.
I'm not sure if I would read the manga, time (and opportunities) will tell (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

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Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin. Absolute character assassination(s) and betrayal of all the themes leading up to the ending arc. Can never read it again knowing what shit it leads to.

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I dropped at episode 10. Did read the entire manga (and its sequels) however. It's really self insert to the next level. The protag literally has the same name as the author. It can be difficult to find a good survival manga though.

Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin. Absolute character assassination(s) and betrayal of all the themes leading up to the ending arc. Can never read it again knowing what shit it leads to.

Quote, i really hated how they ruined a great (or at least enjoyable) manga.

It wasn't "rage inducing," but I was quite disappointed by the ending of Chobits (the print manga, at least).

I was actually 100% fine with the "no sex"/"pure love" thing, and even sort of liked it, but with the world basically ending around him (and because he needed to give an answer to Chii), Hideki was forced under duress into his response, which made it all feel somewhat artificial instead of heartfelt. Literally all they would have had to do was make the power go out due to her emotional state and then stop the destruction there, instead of flooding the entire fucking city/causing earthquakes/whatever else happened that I'm forgetting about.

Additionally, it felt like Clamp had a nice pace going, and then went, "oh, shit, we need to finish this thing up" and forced things to come to a head and explained everything way too quickly in just a couple chapters. Had it been stretched over a couple more chapters I think it would have been a little better.
I still like Chobits a lot because everything up to that point was pretty good (and I liked the thoughtful bits).

I didn't get really upset, but it just felt like a lame ending compared to what I was hoping for.
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I tend to avoid reading the ends of series I like, with the rationale that once I read them there will probably never be any more to read. On account of this, I have likely inadvertently dodged several terrible endings (as well as a few nice ones, maybe).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 6 2022, 20:35

I'm not sure I want to rip the author's head off, but Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei manga ending was crazy twisted weird disgusting yet positive yet whatever can't think of other words to qualify it, I would probably put it along with Evangelion ending that I saw (may have been retconned/rewritten/censored/remade/who know since then, in addition to my feelings possibly twisting it beyond its own twistedness)