What is up with these endings? MHA and JJK getting shafted?

japan follows jo-ha-kyu a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo-ha-ky%C5%AB

Many popular manga have rushed endings. See Slam Dunk or Yu Yu Hakusho for example.

@deg DBZ had a graceful ending, they defeat Buu, everyone celebrates, timeskip, new tournament, Uub is Buu’s reincarnation and Goku has one final character moment teasing out his inner power then leaves with him to train in Goku fashion. It was great, perfect closure. Why can’t more Shonens give us that? I miss Toriyama he definitely bucked a lot of trends to deliver a truly revolutionary story. These new mangakas seem to be slaves to their kooky editors who hate timeskips where characters leave adolescence and hate non-anti-climactic endings for whatever reason.

@Krystopher I disagree with DBZ having a good ending. It ends with Goku fucking off to train Uub, a character whose only followup would have been the non cannon GT series hardly anyone likes, if Super never became a thing. And they didn't even do much with him in that from what I remember. Would have been a total waste of the character.

Speaking of Super, it's existence kinda retroactively makes the ending even lamer imo. All the fights and power ups in Super lead to them ending up in a normal ass tournament just so Goku can find a kid who might be stronger than him some day. I don't know much about Super after the anime, but somehow I doubt Uub will take Goku's place after whatever training he receives.

Its better to end them than drag them on like boruto,even my favorite Gintama ended so I'm used to top selling manga ending surprisingly..
hopefully detective Conan never ends..

@FanofAction I hate Super and wish it didn’t exist, it is completely unnecessary filler and has very little to zero artistic value. They don’t even try to explain the transformations anymore.

@Krystopher Did they before though? I mean..I guess they kinda did, but also not really from what I remember. They never really explained why a race that could turn into big monkeys could also turn blonde with varying lengths of hair. They just mentioned there was some kinda legend saying they could. Freiza was the worst example though. Again, this is entirely from memory, but I don't think they ever explained anything about why his forms looked the way they did.

@FanofAction The legend was the explanation, but SSG was just the same explanation recycled, “actually there was 2 legendary super saiyans but one was red and stronger and had God ki which is ki but stronger and different color!” then Ultra Instinct was just kaioken “technique of the Gods” recycled. Gohan Beast has absolutely 0 explanation. At least with GT Super Saiyan 4 was the combination of Super Saiyan and Great Ape into one form, which was at least somewhat creative and followed the principle of chekov’s gun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun

@deg DBZ had a graceful ending, they defeat Buu, everyone celebrates, timeskip, new tournament, Uub is Buu’s reincarnation and Goku has one final character moment teasing out his inner power then leaves with him to train in Goku fashion. It was great, perfect closure. Why can’t more Shonens give us that? I miss Toriyama he definitely bucked a lot of trends to deliver a truly revolutionary story. These new mangakas seem to be slaves to their kooky editors who hate timeskips where characters leave adolescence and hate non-anti-climactic endings for whatever reason.

Particularly when it comes to just Japanese Anime and completely disregarding source material if one had a source to begin with, looking back most Japanese Anime from the 80s, 90s, and even in the 2000s have always had perceived bad endings or just inconclusive adaptations.

Taking just a few examples like "Cowboy Bebop", it's unclear what exactly happened in the end to the main character where the viewers are simply left with a feeling of ambiguity.

Even the ending to "Samurai Champloo" is left up to interpretation to what exactly happened in the final moments where the end just cuts off to the trio going their separate ways.

Even going as far back as "Akira", despite it not being a full blown adaptation of the manga source, the way the movie concluded was less than spectacular.

While the original "Berserk" series from the 90s wasn't exactly the end, the way things concluded wasn't ideal and simply for the longest time thought of as just a tragedy and for those who didn't follow the source material at all just making most wonder what exactly really happened in the end.

A super classic example of disappointing beyond belief is "Neon Genesis Evangelion". Where I won't even get into how it ended... I will just say the ending simply just sucks balls.

Even when a Japanese Anime series has a definitive conclusion like "The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent". While it concludes in a happy way, it came across as rushed to some degree and to some viewers as unsatisfyingly too convenient and very predictable.

In conclusion all viewers will simply not always be happy how things end no matter how an Anime fully concludes or finishes.

Japanese Anime simply has a long history of being either inconclusive, incomplete, or simply having full blown series just end in less than stellar ways.