Manga 'Bakuman' To End Next Week

by dtshyk
Apr 18, 2012 1:11 AM | 154 Comments

According to Weekly Shonen Jump, Bakuman will end in the magazine vol.21 & 22 combined issue to be released on April 23rd. The comic books volumes 18, 19, and 20 will be released in May, June and July, respectively.

Source: Scan of Weekly Shonen Jump

Series End

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Oh ! Finally they will get married ! *O*

Apr 23, 2012 8:49 AM by Biishoujo

thanks god

finally

i love it but at the end it start to be weak ...

at the start it was great

but i think thy out of ideas

i think they planing of end it long time ago

but it become popular and get stretched

it was kind of ad for shonen jump to make them look cool

Apr 21, 2012 8:04 AM by almozayaf

i kinda crave to see what happened to the other mangakas..especially to team Fukuda

Apr 20, 2012 7:41 PM by gailyambot

It's so sudden... I wonder if they had planned it or if the editors forced them?
It feels mysterious :/

Apr 20, 2012 4:21 PM by Acrata

...But shouldn't there be 177 chapters then instead of the 176 it says on the MAL entry? I'm confused ~.~

Edit: Oh, I get it now ._. That's quite unexpected, though...

Apr 20, 2012 4:07 PM by Face_Faith

Xynz01 said:
an early release lol. I wonder if that guy is a staff from WSJ lol

No.
It works like this.
WSJ has a print run of around 3 Million. The official street sale date is usually Mondays(sometimes Saturdays).
To be able to sell WSJ in whole of Japan on Mondays it must be shipped long before that to the stores. Copies of WSJ arrive at the early locations(stores) on Wednesday. Some stores, even though they are not supposed to and could lose their license to sell Shueisha products, sell WSJ already on Wednesday, some sell only to their best customers, some to family and friends. However those couple of hundred people have already access to WSJ 5 days before its official release. Some of those people post spoilers and some of those people(usually against money) become so called early raw provider for scanlation groups. So scanlation groups, even those without an early raw provider (because raws hit the internet usually 2 days before the official street release) usually release the chapters way before the Magazine is released in Japan.

Apr 20, 2012 11:58 AM by Josl

an early release lol. I wonder if that guy is a staff from WSJ lol

Apr 20, 2012 7:09 AM by Xynz01

ahh gotta love redhawk XD they must have access to someone in jump what a handy connection

Apr 19, 2012 9:04 PM by Corpse69

well since this is happening i better start reading it soon

Apr 19, 2012 5:34 PM by Kurosawaki

King_Zero said:
Why is it said 23rd April, when Red Hawk just released the last chapter now? O.o

Because the chapter willö be released on the 23rd April in Japan. Red Hawk got a raw provider that has acces to the magazine before it is even sold.

WSJ is in Japan usually released on Mondays. We evil pirates are getting the chapters 5 days before the Japanese get them.

Apr 19, 2012 5:43 AM by Josl

Maybe they learned from their mistake and know when they should end their story. I'm sure people know what I'm talking about :p

Apr 19, 2012 5:37 AM by Valaskjalf

Why is it said 23rd April, when Red Hawk just released the last chapter now? O.o

Apr 19, 2012 5:12 AM by Vigyk

last chapter there was all that you would expect from ending of bakuman... But chapter every week will be missed

Apr 19, 2012 4:59 AM by eso18

So thats it :) It finished perfectly :) I m eagerly awaiting for their next work mmm

Apr 19, 2012 4:48 AM by Justinijan

I'm gonna miss it so much .______________.

I'm glad it'll be a happy ending for Saiko and Azuki

Apr 19, 2012 3:49 AM by Kanekas

Oh wow, I knew it would be soon, but not next week.
I will miss reading Bakuman every week T_T

Apr 19, 2012 2:44 AM by Samurai_

Good to know they won't drag the story longer and end it in a bad way.
I will miss Bakuman, it was a really great read. :')

Apr 18, 2012 11:34 PM by onoda

I figured it would end soon as soon I was looking through the chapter titles on the manga websites. It's been a great read and just when I finally got caught up to it last week.
And I just recently started buying the volumes this month.

Apr 18, 2012 11:20 PM by animelly

i could tell it was ending with them geting there goal

Apr 18, 2012 8:47 PM by imperlast

Now i can finally pick it up again!

Apr 18, 2012 8:17 PM by Ale1190

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