User blog comment:Monkey d strawhat/Top 5/@comment-53539-20120125101337/@comment-3569609-20120125114846

I quite disagree with the longer ones not being as good as the short ones. It can sometimes be true (example: Hajime No Ippo) but the longer series generally have advantages over the short ones such as major characters dieing, major characters with more personality, more varied characters or multiple and more complicated plots, also the end usually has a bigger value (I don't know if you read it, but Full Metal Alchemist is an example of such a long masterpiece which has all those points).

I'm sure I will be getting tons of hate comments now, but I see the same in Naruto and Bleach (although I agree the quality isn't top notch it still remains a very good manga).

Also short stories usually lacks the plot or have way to rushed moments e.d. Psyren which was a good manga, but it had a huge buildup with no payoff and the ending was very rushed.