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Dec 10, 2017 5:44 AM
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For me, its Akame ga Kill. I hated the later parts of the manga. At first, I was reading it because I liked it, but then I only continued for the art and to see how it ends.
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Dec 10, 2017 8:34 AM
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Naruto. The last 200 chapters (Fourth great ninja war arc+) were garbage, only continued reading cause I know i'll never finish the last 200 episodes of the anime xd
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For me, its Akame ga Kill. I hated the later parts of the manga. At first, I was reading it because I liked it, but then I only continued for the art and to see how it ends.

Akame Ga kill yeah i guess that count.

Naruto was okayish to play nonsense i guess. Same with person above i didn't even bother to touch the anime version anymore.

Tripeace, it's rather axed.

Prison school, it's not exactly final arc because its being going downhill in after the 2nd prison arc.

Dragon rioting, also axed.

Gokoku no Brynhildr almost like an insult to the reader too much plot hole, nonsense ending, asspulling everything to a single arc, adding another male character to the harem, wow.. i should really rate this shit 1/10.

The World God Only Know, it's okay but i felt the last arc really lackings and i still have no idea about it. Sure best girl win but i prefer an open ending with the other girls being that desperate even hardly be able to move on.

Nisekoi or Nisetard, dragged too much, basically 80% of the total chapter are useless fire to input more harem members and the same bitch we obviously know win.

Fairy tail, Aka the asspull Nakama Power.

There might some Manga i didn't even add to my dB list but probably not worth mentioning.
Dec 10, 2017 8:55 PM
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Claymore. All that buildup and wasted. Dragons, really?

I enjoyed the anger and suffering, with the few moments of hope throughout it. Then it just went POOF.
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Fairy Tail. I was fine with it until the final arc where I started criticizing some of the writing. This is kind of a big deal because I'm not much of a criticizer myself and just read to enjoy. If I noticed there were issues, then that means the quality went downhill enough for me to recognize them... Other than that, no major complaints with other mangas, even Naruto was alright all the way through the end.
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Dec 11, 2017 3:33 AM
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Magi was great up until the final arc but that one was just bleeeeh
Dec 11, 2017 3:56 AM
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Many to bothering to name them all. Japanese are very good to get new ides and plot in the beginning and in the middle. But to many then just start to drag on and then fall flat at the end.
Dec 11, 2017 9:26 AM
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Kyou Kara MA no Tsuku Jiyuugyou! It literally went from being the best (10/10) to being the worst (1/10) manga I've ever read. They pretty much messed up everything in some sort of desperate attempt to make the abusive tsundere shine and trying to add fujo-baiting and fujo-pandering towards the end. That was so unnecessary, they should have just followed the original LNs, they were well written.
Dec 11, 2017 1:41 PM
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Magi was great up until the final arc but that one was just bleeeeh

I think the reason why a lot of people think magi final arc is trash is because of the last 30 chapters being too convulted and the first half of the final arc being mostly about politics.
Dec 11, 2017 6:27 PM

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Boku wa mari no naka. So much wasted potential.




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Dec 12, 2017 12:33 AM

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Magi. Not really a shitty arc but not a good one for me.
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Claymore, the last arc is just power slugfest that dragged on forever with asspull as the conclusion
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Angel Densetsu, I was expecting for more character development but it relied on creating characters for reaction show, nevertheless it was still good but kinda disappointing.
Dec 13, 2017 7:23 PM
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I'm also going to add in reborn because the ending for the manga was atrocious
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Naruto. Just when I thought that the manga will end soon, hell no, there was a cheap twist that got added just so that the chapter adds up perfectly to 700

Bokura no Hentai didn't have the punch that I expected it to be. It was cute, nonetheless
Dec 14, 2017 12:34 PM

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Inuyashiki's finale was pretty lackluster in my opinion, also the pacing seemed pretty shit. It's even worse that I considered it my favorite manga for a while when I was reading it.
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Recently? Inuyashiki for sure. It's ok if you don't have enough ideas for a ten volume manga, it doesn't have to be ten volumes. It seems like he had a really solid idea of where to go at the start, then he just didn't know where to go after a while.
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Bleach. The manga started out great and I was hooked on it, but the beginning of the end was the Fullbringer arc. The Thousand Year War arc sunk it into oblivion, but lots more crap could only be piled on when we would be hearing about what was going on between Kubo and Shueisha. An unfortunate end to what was a great manga.
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Naruto.
It started going downhill once the ninja war started. To me it seemed like Kishimoto stopped caring about the story and the characters completely. Especially regarding Naruto himself.

And I think I'll go with Doubt as the runner up. The "plot twist" was so predictable and the fact that
didn't make things any better.
Fruits Basket disappointed me as well, but at least the characters in Fruits Basket are supposedly happy in the end.
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StrangerMist said:
I'm also going to add in reborn because the ending for the manga was atrocious


oh god, your giving me middle school flashbacks LMAO your totally right tho.
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I read a manga called Peephole recently. The first half was pretty good. The whole point was for the main characters to kill themselves. At the halfway mark they do. Except the managa keeps going, and turna out they both somehow survived killing themselves and it just wasn't any good anymore. It ruined the entire point of the manga. Ot should have ended with them killing each other. And then one of the characters the main characters killed was suddenly alive again, but it was really his twin brother or some bullshit. It was dumb.
Dec 19, 2017 9:26 PM

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Bleach and ST&RS.

I really enjoyed Bleach except for the final arc which is unfortunate. I don't think it was necessary to continue Bleach after Ichigo's abilities disappeared. It seems like it was forced to continue writing the series for the remaining half of the manga.

ST&RS was a series that I enjoyed the first half of before aliens appeared...

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Dec 28, 2017 3:00 AM

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Plz tell me you are talking about FT


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Half Prince and I am a Hero
Jan 12, 2018 6:16 PM
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Plz tell me you are talking about FT

FT sucks ass and is the worst battle shounen I've ever seen. I dropped that steaming pile of trash at around chapter 300.
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Air Gear: no sense at all toward the end
Bleach: till vol20 was a great shounen, then it slowly became garbage
Shamo: I recall that the author had to end it quickly, so it feels like it was cut in the middle
Naruto: I still don't get why the character of Kaguya was introduced
Jan 13, 2018 12:04 AM

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The original Shaman King, before it get KanZenBang. It was disastrous and abruptly ended for god knows the reason what.

Also, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga had a very rushed ending.
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Top of my mind, they would be:

- Inuyashiki
- Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul
- Bleach




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Gantz (I thought the last arc was okay, but near the end it dropped quick)
Prison School (honestly, it dropped after the first arc)
Kuragehime

I'll agree with Naruto
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Bleach (The whole last arc was a rushed terrible mess.)

Naruto (Fuck that ending and the terrible end couples. And no, I'm not just a "butthurt" shipper. I'm a guy who spent 15 fucking years reading it. Watching these 2 character's realtionship be developed and then Kishimoto fucks it up royally. Even Kishimoto's wife hated it so that really says something.)

Fairy Tail (Bad ending. I loved Rave Master so that made it hurt a lot more.)

Kuzu no Honkai (Dumb ending.)

I am A Hero (I don't know what the author was thinking. It was like an axed ending, but it wasn't axed.)

Prison School (That ending was just bad. Apparently it was a "joke" ending and we are getting the real one in April, but I'm not holding my breath.)

Onani Master Kuroswawa (Terrible plot twist made the rest of the manga terrible.)

Mahou Tsukai Kurohime (After the plot twist, it became terrible.)

Ciguatera (The last like 10 chapters completely changed the tone and it became really bad.)
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recently i finished
- Brynlhdr of the Darknesss, axed on half of the series , asspulling character, plotholes, and lots of nonsense
- Knight of Sidonia, It wasnt that bad but it still felt like rushed and the ending shouldnt exist in the first place
- Prison School, obviously axed especially after last few volume that fills literally shit, then author had to asspull that ending lol.
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naruto and inuyashiki
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Bleach became bad around the end of invasion of Hueco Mundo, then became absolute trash after Aizen's defeat.

Defense Devil's last parts could have been written better, it looked like the author was rushed since the plot suddenly accelerated.

Fairy Tail and Nisekoi aren't supposed to be mentioned here, those were pretty bad even before they were halfway through.

Hayate no Gotoku. Many of the chapters after Athena was freed from Midas were either filler or just plain uninteresting.
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Kuragehime. Was fantastic for the most part but the last few volumes felt waaaaay too rushed and messy.
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Claymore, sadly. It went downhill after the time-skip, and the ending felt very tacked on. It's unfortunate, because Claymore used to be the bee's knees. I completely disagree with anybody mentioning I Am a Hero, though. That ended in the most natural and organic way possible. It wasn't an action manga, it was about Hideo, and his character arc was terrific.
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Magi: what even happened there, it was a mess (and anime watchers probably would never expect it to turn in that direction tbh)

1/2 Prince: idk, the final arc was ok but then they decided to continue it further for some reason and it got worse

I mostly read ongoing anime though, so idk
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Three words.

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Well, there is one *but manhwa, not manga* that at the end surprised me. I can't say that I hated the end of it, but I didn't liked it either. The ending was just very surprising, more like shocking, and I didn't expect that at all when I first started it, and it also took me a while wntil I precessed what actually happened. The art was not something too good, and the story was pretty normal, but it caught my attention towards the middle and the ending, and when I read the last few chapters, I just couldn't believe it. The final chapter was the cherry on the top. It just gave me the feeling that I hate it and love it at the same time. I didn't quite liked the ending, and it was very shocking, but I guess if that's what the one who made it wanted to be, I guess I don't have to question that. The manhwa I'm talking about is The Flowers of Evil.
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Well, there is one *but manhwa, not manga* that at the end surprised me. I can't say that I hated the end of it, but I didn't liked it either. The ending was just very surprising, more like shocking, and I didn't expect that at all when I first started it, and it also took me a while wntil I precessed what actually happened. The art was not something too good, and the story was pretty normal, but it caught my attention towards the middle and the ending, and when I read the last few chapters, I just couldn't believe it. The final chapter was the cherry on the top. It just gave me the feeling that I hate it and love it at the same time. I didn't quite liked the ending, and it was very shocking, but I guess if that's what the one who made it wanted to be, I guess I don't have to question that. The manhwa I'm talking about is The Flowers of Evil.

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Kuroko-chan said:
Well, there is one *but manhwa, not manga* that at the end surprised me. I can't say that I hated the end of it, but I didn't liked it either. The ending was just very surprising, more like shocking, and I didn't expect that at all when I first started it, and it also took me a while wntil I precessed what actually happened. The art was not something too good, and the story was pretty normal, but it caught my attention towards the middle and the ending, and when I read the last few chapters, I just couldn't believe it. The final chapter was the cherry on the top. It just gave me the feeling that I hate it and love it at the same time. I didn't quite liked the ending, and it was very shocking, but I guess if that's what the one who made it wanted to be, I guess I don't have to question that. The manhwa I'm talking about is The Flowers of Evil.

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Area D kind of inserted a new MC near the end (not even a spoiler, bro) and I just... couldn't. It was decent/interesting for 120-ish chapters and then there's a new main character with new motives and new background that's somehow connected to all of this but hasn't even been mentioned in 120-ish chapters before it?! No can do. I can't get used to that, for the remaining few chapters, no sir. :/

Also, Rosario + Vampire. Anime was overproduced ecchi crap, manga seemed to be better as it's more of a battle shounen type with only slight ecchi and then it all went downhill near the end with the power of The Mighty Asspulls.
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naruto lol i dont even care to think about other mangos
especialy that chapter 700 was the biggest cringe of my life, i regret spending so much time watching/reading naruto
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Inuyashiki fell down pretty quickly.

Does Fairy Tail count?




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Inuyashiki fell down pretty quickly.

Does Fairy Tail count?

Lol fairy tail was garbage from the start.
My breaking point was the end of the magic games arc.
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Muuwi said:
Inuyashiki fell down pretty quickly.

Does Fairy Tail count?

Lol fairy tail was garbage from the start.
My breaking poont was the end of the magic games arc.

Same, I was really enjoying it up to the Grand Magic Games. From then it just felt like more and more recycled material...

I heard he had wanted to stop at Fantasia and honestly I would have accepted that.




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Having finished reading I am a hero, I can add that to this post. Not that the real ending was awful, but the conclusion to the story was an honest cop out.
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i was not a huge fan of Shinsekai Yori's final arc with all the weird mole rats or whatever, i pretend it wasn't part of the series
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I'm sad to say that Genshiken Nidaime(starts at chapter 56) was way less entertaining than the first one. Last arc feels really dragged.

Eyeshield 21 at the end as well, but I feel like he was forced to continue this one.
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Prison School. The second to last arc was horrible and dragged out. The last arc started to pick itself up but still lacked the feeling of first few great arcs. The ending was rushed and we never really got any final closure on the characters.
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Fairy Tail. I was fine with it until the final arc where I started criticizing some of the writing. This is kind of a big deal because I'm not much of a criticizer myself and just read to enjoy. If I noticed there were issues, then that means the quality went downhill enough for me to recognize them... Other than that, no major complaints with other mangas, even Naruto was alright all the way through the end.

This is true. I think most people will agree that Fairy Tail really went downhill. The plot just keeps on getting... I don't know, ridiculous? The villains are getting more ridiculously and unnecessarily strong too but the protagonists still managed to win due to even more ridiculous reasons. The endless trolling at the end didn't help too.
I mean yeah maybe it's just to keep them both in character (Natsu most especially) but damn, my NaLu heart was not quenched!
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