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'Btooom!' Manga Reaches Completion

by removed-user
Dec 21, 2017 8:24 PM | 24 Comments
The February 2018 issue of Shinchosha's Monthly Comic@Bunch magazine has announced on Thursday that Junya Inoue's Btooom! manga will end in four chapters. The May 2018 issue of the magazine will publish the final chapter in March. The manga has previously announced that it has reached the final arc in 2014.

The psychological-action manga series began its serialization in Weekly Comic Bunch magazine in July 2009, before transferring as a monthly-releasing manga in January 2011. The series has released 24 compiled manga volumes, with the latest shipped on September 8. A 12-episode anime adaptation produced by Madhouse aired in Fall 2012.

Yen Press publishes the manga in English and plans to release the 20th volume on February 27 next year. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime for North American distribution and released it in a Blu-ray and DVD volume in December 2013.

Source: Comic Natalie

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I think it's time to re:start the show.

Dec 23, 2017 11:22 PM by S-quare22

It got so terrible after the anime that I dropped and sold vol 1-18 to some guy in Finland. Drawn out to the point the writing left Ryouta doing "beep-vweep" noises, sure he was playing the game, and with a subplot involving his step-father taking on the Illuminati.

TLTR: You REALLY don't want S2 of the anime.

Dec 23, 2017 6:26 PM by AironicallyHuman

Rayzer said:
Endlosschleife said:


There is about a 2% possibility that they adapt a completed Manga into an anime.
Just think of it - how many completed manga got an anime adaptation in the last 2 years? All i think is parasyte from 2014.
You forgot Ushio and Tora, Orange, ERASED, Kuzu no Honkai, etc. and just recently Inuyashiki?
Parasyte was old and finished years ago. F.Y.I. BTOOOM! and Parasyte are made by MadHouse.


Unlike those series Btooom was never popular in Japan to begin with. Manga sales aside, the anime sold terribly.

Dec 23, 2017 2:49 PM by MoonStar9

I use to read this manga a few years ago, but felt like it dragged on when it teased it could possibly end. Now that it's actually coming to an end it makes me feel a lot better knowing that if I start it again that I know when it'll end proper.

Dec 23, 2017 12:03 PM by Mell8

Endlosschleife said:
Klad said:
Is there any chance for a second season


There is about a 2% possibility that they adapt a completed Manga into an anime.
Just think of it - how many completed manga got an anime adaptation in the last 2 years? All i think is parasyte from 2014.
You forgot Ushio and Tora, Orange, ERASED, Kuzu no Honkai, etc. and just recently Inuyashiki?
Parasyte was old and finished years ago. F.Y.I. BTOOOM! and Parasyte are made by MadHouse.

Dec 23, 2017 4:44 AM by Rayzer

Klad said:
Is there any chance for a second season


There is about a 2% possibility that they adapt a completed Manga into an anime.
Just think of it - how many completed manga got an anime adaptation in the last 2 years? All i think is parasyte from 2014.

Dec 23, 2017 12:10 AM by Endlosschleife

never read the manga but I feel such a great sense of closure lol, might actually read it at some point now!!

Dec 22, 2017 8:32 PM by Dimethylanime

It is about time. The manga is good but they are reaching a bit in places and the story went all over the place a few times. Not good for a multi-pov story.

Let things die while they are still good reads.

Dec 22, 2017 6:18 PM by NakkiNyan

Guess it’s time for me to catch up. It’s been years since I saw the anime and last read a chapter

Dec 22, 2017 5:06 PM by Comic_Sans

Any chance of us getting a second season now?

Dec 22, 2017 2:47 PM by ghostcanine

It is about time to see it end. i always wanted to know what would happen to the people who sent them to that island ..By that i mean the ones who signed them up for it like the mc mother and those girls who got raped.

i would imagine both of those mc will have something to say when they get back.

Dec 22, 2017 1:19 PM by -ShadowClaw-

Too bad, I remember watching the anime for it when it was airing, it wasn't half bad.

Will pick up the manga when it finishes, and gets translated until the end hopefully.

Dec 22, 2017 10:24 AM by Ramkec

Is there any chance for a second season

Dec 22, 2017 7:05 AM by Klad

Everything ends the last years. One good thing it´s start for something new.

how many chapters behind are the scanlation?

Dec 22, 2017 6:00 AM by Sweanime

Great to hear it's reaching its conclusion, time to pick it up then.

Dec 22, 2017 1:46 AM by Lord_Odous

Time to start picking this up again then.

Dec 22, 2017 12:12 AM by Rayshift

Meh, this manga has dragged far enough. Not surprising it's ending soon but I'm actually glad it's coming to a close.

Dec 21, 2017 11:08 PM by Stark700

OH This was still ongoing?

Dec 21, 2017 10:38 PM by cure_potato

joe_g7 said:
shanimebib said:
Four years+ in final arc. Imagine if OP ever announces final arc. I think that will last for 22 years or something.
Btooom! is a monthly manga, so it's not surprising that the final arc is going on for years.


It's still more than 50 chapters.

Dec 21, 2017 10:32 PM by shanimebib

shanimebib said:
Four years+ in final arc. Imagine if OP ever announces final arc. I think that will last for 22 years or something.
Btooom! is a monthly manga, so it's not surprising that the final arc is going on for years.

Dec 21, 2017 10:25 PM by joe_g7

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