Started watching Attack on Titan during lunch today. I was spurred on by my kid who was complaining after I turned WiFi off that she couldn't watch it.
I plan to watch Attack on Titan. If there is all this hubbub, I have to watch it at some point. However, I'm not going to start until it's all done.
Guess you will not be watching it ever? (The manga is still in production)
Even Dragonball Ended. I hopefully have a lot of years left to live. Even One Piece will end. I don't think Attack on Titan is quite on the One Piece level. The manga will end, and the anime with it. If the manga somehow does go on forever, the anime will still likely end at a comfortable place, like the Hajime no Ippo anime.
One Piece is longer than either Dragonball or Bleach, but Bleach is longer than Dragonball, Doraemon or Sazae-San. All of them are topped by Hajime no Ippo, btw.
The answer to the question depends on what Steve means. If he means that manga that still have new chapters being published regularly, then neither Doraemon nor Sazae-San count anyway, as both have completed their original publication run. The anime for Sazae-San is still running though and is closing in on 7000 episodes.
According to Wikipedia, the longest manga series ever is still being published. It's Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1976, weighing in at over 1700 chapters and 185 volumes. It had an anime series from 1996 to 2004.
Golgo 13, Dokaben and Abu-san are actually older than Kochikame but have fewer volumes published.
If the manga somehow does go on forever, the anime will still likely end at a comfortable place, like the Hajime no Ippo anime.
It certainly seems like the manga series has a designed ending, but I have a hard time believing that stopping in the middle wouldn't be somewhat frustrating on this one. There's no sign yet of smaller arcs within the story, and there are lots of mysteries about the world and characters.
I've watched the first four episodes of Flowers of Evil. The rotoscope effect is appropriately creepy. The show is scarier than its plot, characters and setting would seem to support.
Finished up episode 8 of Attack on Titan. The twist was not a really a surprise but still interesting nonetheless. I'm going to take a guess that others in the squad are going to have that same power if they don't already. Series could use some kind of master mind villain . Titans still look goofy as hell. The noble elite are fat cowards. Merchant class are greedy and self serving. Steam punk spider man crew are finally shaping up to something other than Titan feed.
Caught up with Attack on Titan. It definitely got beyond my initial qualms and is pretty darn good. I had a feeling that the thing that happened in episode 5 would not be the last word on the matter, and that suspicion was raised even more in the episodes leading up to this one. Still interested to see how the explanation and development of that plays out, though. There's clearly way more up with the titans than the humans know, and I can't wait to find out what that is.
I forgot how crazy Ringo actually was It's awesome how many small things that hint at events that won't even start till episode 18 happen very early on. There are even some scenes that last two seconds that show stuff that won't even be introduced until episode 20 or so.
Just caught up on this week's anime. Gargantia basically info-dumped what's going on with the Hideauze and Alliance, and we finally got some of that Urobuchi darkness going as well as some good nuance that is going to make everything tough to resolve. As far as I'm concerned, it's had too many missteps in both delivery and concept to go down as a great anime series, but I still like what it's trying to do and I'm certainly interested to watch the ending now.
Attack on Titan introduced a cool new character - I can see why he's a fan favorite on Twitter - and we got some great action scenes again, but the decision to skip the other characters into their new predicament wasn't a great one, particularly considering that it looks like they'll be in the same spot again for much of the next episode.
Maou-Sama had a really slow episode with not many laughs and with next week apparently being a beach episode I'm afraid it's running out of steam. I'm still enjoying the sheer amount of lying and working at cross-purposes in a lot of the conversations but somebody needs to make a move soon.
I was really liking the beginning of Attack on Titan, but these last three episodes have really done nothing for me (episode 9 being the worst culprit so far). I'm going to give it a few more weeks to re-impress me before I lose faith in it completely.
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Speaking of AKB, it was a good ending and only had one truly terrible episode out of 26. Not bad. Very good!
Also, thanks to Jennifer and Constantine's panel, I found Inferno Cop. It's 2 minute episodes and it needs to crossover with Axe Cop right now!
The answer to the question depends on what Steve means. If he means that manga that still have new chapters being published regularly, then neither Doraemon nor Sazae-San count anyway, as both have completed their original publication run. The anime for Sazae-San is still running though and is closing in on 7000 episodes.
According to Wikipedia, the longest manga series ever is still being published. It's Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1976, weighing in at over 1700 chapters and 185 volumes. It had an anime series from 1996 to 2004.
Golgo 13, Dokaben and Abu-san are actually older than Kochikame but have fewer volumes published.
I forgot how crazy Ringo actually was
It's awesome how many small things that hint at events that won't even start till episode 18 happen very early on. There are even some scenes that last two seconds that show stuff that won't even be introduced until episode 20 or so.
Attack on Titan introduced a cool new character - I can see why he's a fan favorite on Twitter - and we got some great action scenes again, but the decision to skip the other characters into their new predicament wasn't a great one, particularly considering that it looks like they'll be in the same spot again for much of the next episode.
Maou-Sama had a really slow episode with not many laughs and with next week apparently being a beach episode I'm afraid it's running out of steam. I'm still enjoying the sheer amount of lying and working at cross-purposes in a lot of the conversations but somebody needs to make a move soon.