However, the series had declined in popularity, largely due to the massive amount of filler, causing the studio to cancel the series. So essentially, fans stuck around for 366 episodes, slogging through filler episodes and some rough plotlines just to see Bleach unceremoniously axed. Bunny Drop's ending totally changes the story
It's just so heartbreaking when an anime gets cancelled before it's able to tell its whole story, leaving fans on a cliffhanger that won't ever have a resolution. Often times, only one season of an anime is made, ending in a cliffhanger and never getting a second season.
In fact, most get cancelled before their time. If you're looking for a collection of some of the greatest shonen manga all in one place, there might be no better place to look than Shonen Jump.
Rave Master 's manga ran for 35 volumes, to which the anime by Studio Deen corresponded with 51 episodes. However, these 51 episodes didn't cover the entire manga. It was canceled due to having a low amount of viewers and low disc sales. Gantz is mangaka Hiroya Oku's breakout series and is one of the must read seinen series of the medium.
For years anime and manga fans everywhere followed the tale of the new shinigami, Ichigo, eagerly awaiting an epic finish to this series. Sadly the anime was canceled and due to a myriad of problems the manga flopped in the end. Bleach 's issues are a showing of corporate wants and creator needs coming to an impasse.
Due to poor ratings, budget issues, or even unfavorable reception among viewers, some anime are canceled abruptly. This can result in endings that feel slapped together, that leave way too many questions unanswered, or that just seem to run out of steam. No matter the reason, the end product still hurts all the same.
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Sadly the anime was canceled and due to a myriad of problems the manga flopped in the end.
However, these 51 episodes didn't cover the entire manga. It was canceled due to having a low amount of viewers and low disc sales.
Gantz is mangaka Hiroya Oku's breakout series and is one of the must read seinen series of the medium. It's one of those series that is hard to explain as it starts pretty simple but branches off into multiple paths with many different plotlines to follow.
Ranma 1/2 is one of the most recognized anime and manga series there are. Even if you haven't actually experienced the series for yourself you've most likely seen its main character in one place or another.
The ultra-perverted anime and manga of Prison School were a good hit with the anime for the series' exaggerated anime perversion and over the top humor. It had a pretty successful first season as well as a pretty successful manga. Sadly pretty successful wasn't enough for Prison School as it was not renewed for a second season.
Rave Master is a highly rated manga by Hiro Mashima, the same creator behind the Fairy Tail series. It's a manga that starts off strong and ends strong as well. Sadly the same can't be said for this series' anime adaptation.
The popular anime and manga series Rurouni Kenshin (or Samurai X) is a victim of another anime adaptation curse. The curse of an anime adaptation surpassing its source material when it comes to speed. Once this series passed the manga it had to begin inserting its own original material instead of following the manga blueprint.
Due to plummeting ratings, Bleach was cancelled before its final story arc, the Thousand Year Blood War arc, which sees the Quincy return to oppose the Shinigami, was even animated. After so many episodes, it's incredibly frustrating that we didn't get to see the proper ending of the series.
10 Gangsta. Gangsta was an anime that had a lot of potential but it unfortunately fell short in the execution. Gangsta followed two "handymen", Worick and Nicolas, taking jobs for both the mafia and the police that no one else can handle.
After middle schooler Ganta Igarashi witnesses his entire class get murdered, he's framed for the horrific act and sent to Deadman Wonderland, a prison that also doubles as a theme park. While the anime had great animation, it rushed a lot of plot points and removed major characters entirely from the story.
If any anime on this list could be considered a "cult hit", it's Baccano!. The series was told from multiple points of view and set mostly in the United States during the Prohibition era. The series follows many seemingly unrelated events that end up merging together to create a much larger story about alchemy, suvival, and immortality.
Bubblegum Crisis was widely well received, with fans and critics praising its story and characters, but it was cancelled due to a contract dispute between the two companies that produced the series. Of the 13 episodes it had planned, only 8 were released before cancellation, leaving fans without any sort of conclusion to the story.
In Prison School , Kiyoshi Fujino and his four friends find themselves as the only male students in Hachimitsu Academy, the strictest girls' academy in Tokyo, after the school decides to start admitting boys. When the boys are caught peeping in the school's bathing area, they're given a choice: spend a month in the school's prison or be expelled.
For better or worse, anime is a business. As frustrating as it is, at the end of the day, it needs to be making money or there's no point dragging it out. So let's take a look at some anime that never got the chance to conclude its story properly.
The reason why it didn't receive one was that the anime ran out of material to adapt. The anime caught up to the manga, to say the least, and never received another adaption as it was not able to catch up.
It was perhaps left for the better that Bunny Drop did not receive another season, as manga readers despise the ending. What was a cute slice-of-life and coming-of-age story about Daikichi and Rin learning to live together naturally and opening up to one another made a hard turn at the end, resulting in viewers being warned to only watch the anime.
Though the manga ran for 13 years, the anime started and ended before the comics had come to its conclusion, a la Game of Thrones and its infamous final season. So eventually, the series ran out of source material, and with no basis for its finale, the anime concluded at the end of a major plot arc.
While the anime has a total of 101 episodes, the series fails to end on a high note.
The most significant difference between the show and its source material is that the manga reveals the backstory of the enigmatic Shiro, whereas the anime keeps her character a complete mystery.
Rurouni Kenshin is based on a long-running manga of the same name that saw 28 volumes released over five years. The anime ran for a total of three seasons, with 95 episodes by the series' end. As for the plot, Himura Kenshin is the anime's protagonist, a man trying to put his past as an assassin behind him as he defends the weak in Meiji-era Japan.
It was likely for this reason that the series was cast aside after only 12 episodes. While it's unfortunate that the Deadman Wonderland anime was canceled so early, continuing onward with a second season would've been a bit difficult due to the rushed storytelling of the anime adaption.
Highschool of the Dead ended due to a real-life tragedy. Highschool of the Dead is a zombie survival anime that focuses on a group of high school students who struggle against not only the numerous undead but also the rapidly decaying morality among those who've survived the initial outbreak.
The manga, however, keeps going on, which is little solace for fans of the series . After all, the anime leaves off with Griffin essentially trapping everyone inside a hellish world, where his "friends" are tortured and killed by demons at his behest.
The series never quite got to give fans the ending they deserved, despite running for 150 episodes. The series wrapped up one short year before the manga did, leaving fans forced to go to the manga if they wanted to get the ending of the story.
More often than not, the longest-running anime series tend to be shonen series, and generally action series at that. One Piece is near 1000 episodes, while series like Bleach and Naruto both went well over 300. Even a "short" series like Yu Yu Hakusho has at least one hundred episodes.
In fairness, it worked out a lot better than people thought, which is why it has over 25 million copies sold. The manga ran for about seven years, but the anime came along roughly half way through, did a basic adaptation and called it a day.
The Black Cat anime started in 2005, a year after the last chapter was published. They had a full manga waiting to be adapted and they gave it the minimum amount of episodes before moving on to something else, robbing everyone of one of the most creative shonen action series this side of Cowboy Bebop.
Negima was incredibly popular in the early 2000’s, gaining not one but two separate television series and a live-action show. However, it was never popular enough to get a good anime adaptation. The series starts out with the feel of another harem, which was expected of writer Ken Akamatsu, who at the time was best known for Love Hina.
Fortunately, Bleach: Thousand Year War is being animated now, bringing the franchise to the ending originally planned for it.
Yui Kamio Lets Loose is your classic story of boy meets girl– if your definition of "classic" involves the girl beating the everloving daylights out of the boy, and the boy trying to exact vengeance only to find out that girl becomes violent whenever her hair is untied. It goes from rom-com to battle manga and sometimes just gets surreal.
Zombiepowder. was an interesting supernatural western that could've gone on a lot longer, but it lasted thirty chapters before cancellation with an ending that was rather ambiguous. Gamma's journey across the unforgiving desert didn't have to end so soon.
Despite tons of swashbuckling action in the sky, Red Sprite lasted only twenty chapters before Shonen Jump gave it the ax.
Sadly, not every manga that runs in Shonen Jump is lucky enough to go on as long as One Piece or Naruto. In fact , a lot of them tend to get cancelled, and in some cases, they are gone way too soon.
If you're looking for a collection of some of the greatest shonen manga all in one place, there might be no better place to look than Shonen Jump. From Dragonball to My Hero Academia, Shonen Jump has been home to some of the most popular and recognizable manga in history, many of which established their legacies there.
It's a real shame too since Red Sprite had the potential to be a truly great battle manga with interesting themes, such as the consequences of progress. If it had more time, Red Sprite could've explored these themes. Sadly, it never will.
Despite pushing it quite a bit when it initially started, Shonen Jump cancelled Barrage abruptly at sixteen chapters and right after a big reveal in the story. What's even crazier is that this manga was an earlier works of Kouhei Horikoshi, the creator of the incredibly successful My Hero Academia .