I know I joined the despair group after the new about TG ending was announced, because there being drama behind the scenes between the mangaka and the people they work for is usually a guaranteed way to give a manga a rushed terrible ending, but… the more I think about, the less likely I find this reason to be, do we have even any proof of that apart from Ishida making a couple of posts he deleted about how manga should be free?
Ishida ending the manga here when it realistically only needed like 20 or so chapters to reach a satisfying conclusion is a joke, like quitting the marathon 100 meters before a finish line. It would’ve only taken him the rest of 2018 to finish TG and that’s not a long time taking all things into consideration. It really seemed like the 206 chapter theory was correct based on the hints we’d gotten so at this point it would seem like that idea was just got cancelled, because the manga ended prematurely, the chance of being the ending Ishida wanted to give is low, because it is far from satisfying and vast majority of the fandom seems to agree. There is no way his manga got axed like what happens to mangas with low sales and Young Jump would’ve obviously wanted to keep TG going since it sells well, therefore the only one who could’ve made it end so prematurely would be Ishida himself.
Would he have had disagreements with the higher ups and them restricting what he wants to do with the manga? Why would Young Jump let it get so bad that he quits when there’s the second cour of the anime coming out in October? This anime is just a glorified advertisement for the manga so it would be strange if the manga just ended now instead of coming out at the same time and ending at the end of December like the anime, like it would’ve been with 206 chapters. This instead is just a terrible marketing choice. And would Ishida be happy with quitting so close to the finish line and not properly wrapping his manga up? What disagreements could he have had? Ishida has said that he has free reigns to do what he wants with his manga before and popular mangakas like him are usually treated with respect instead of being thrown around by editors. What could’ve an editor have forced him to do that makes the end result look like this?
There of course could always be something going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about, but I seriously don’t believe it when TG was so close to its ending anyway. Ending it 20 or so chapters early when there’s the second cour of the anime coming out in October seems like such a strange decision that I doubt Ishida or the higher ups would want this, the fans don’t want this, nobody wants it. Only reason I would see Ishida quitting now is if he wanted to finish the manga on a different platform, but even that would be a bit strange. Anyone got any ideas why TG could end like this, because I got absolutely nothing, everything is just way too illogical. I honestly believe we’re just repeating the end of part 1 again, the series seemingly ending at the climax with everything unfinished and all questions left unanswered. Back then it at least made more sense than now since it would’ve been a tragedy. I do believe we’ll get a something like this, which wraps the manga up. Calling it :re now that the whole plot with Kaneki and Furuta is over wouldn’t be fitting so I assume it’s just going to get a new name and continue where the last 3 chapters left us off, perhaps with a minor time skip. It’s not unusual for mangas to get an epilogue/continuation like this as a separate entity either so it wouldn’t just be Ishida being extra with wanting his manga to look like a trilogy or something that consists of three acts.
Anyway, this was just me rambling, but the tl;dr is that I don’t believe that TG is over for real, because it doesn’t make any sense to me no matter how I look at it. It doesn’t even look like the typical scenario where a mangaka rushes their ending and quits or the higher ups ax it. They’ve already tricked us with the ending of part 1 so I expect this to be the case again. This is just my opinion though, but I’ll wait and see what happens, because I’m pretty sure we’ll get a bit more than just three chapters.
To add more to this, isn’t there usually an announcement beforehand about what volume the manga ends on or a date or something? We were told we’re currently in the final arc months ago, but now we only get a date 3 chapters before the supposed end, it’s way too sudden and suspicious. This decision to end :re now will have to be a bit older than something decided yesterday, it just doesn’t work like that.
This is basically the same situation as Gintama for example: we are told that we’re in the final arc -> a big important announcement about the climax is made -> people panic about the manga ending -> the climax and the big final boss battle happen -> what actually follows is something that might as well be an arc of its own and wraps everything up in a satisfying way (and this has been going for 17 chapters already) I assume they’ll soon make the announcement about the specific end date/volume. Based on the ending of chapter 176, it seems like the last three chapters will be about Kaneki vs Rize and I’m quite certain it will end at the final chapter kind of like the Utsuro thing in chapter 668 of Gintama. So it is the “final boss battle” before the resolution.
I know this doesn’t prove anything, but I thought it was funny that even the color covers/pages released during the climax are almost identical with an optimistic caption about future and moving on
I don’t know, I feel like this Kaneki cover is intentionally teasing the resolution that we will get to see. Also it’s kind of funny that TG:re got the cover now when usually a manga gets its color cover with the final chapter to celebrate the ending, not three chapters beforehand.
Like, TG is not ending yet.
(I might look like this when rambling about this, but trust me, I’m serious)
Thank you…my beloved tragedy that I am absent from[x]
that line from Kaneki on the cover illustration makes so much more sense now.
he no longer looks at his life as a tragedy because it was worth it all to find happiness in his life.
So “thankyou” to the beloved tragedy that he is no longer a part of, because it brought him to a place where he belongs with all his loved ones.
Don’t you love how the first TG ended up with Kaneki’s tragedy while things were going fine for Furuta (he was a laughing Clown), when now in :Re it’s the other way around?
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