User blog comment:Ricizubi/How long will One Piece be?/@comment-71.244.29.101-20121208040442/@comment-3119203-20121208050910

Rambling Alert.

Bleach is getting somewhere, you say. The question is where Bleach was going from the beginning. What is Ichigo's goal? To protect his friends? To destroy hollows? Free souls? Defeat Aizen? There has never been a single overarching goal Ichigo has been going after, at least not one that I remember. And if you want to talk about a series dragging on after its climax, Bleach is a perfect example. The scene right after Ichigo loses his powers and Rukia is fading away would have been a perfect time to end the series, but no, it just keeps sputtering on.

As for Naruto, I can see your point a little better. Naruto is moving towards his goal, but I feel like the focus of the series is more on retrieving Sasuke than the original purpose. Naruto hasn't even made much progress on Sasuke; now he just wants to destroy Konoha and they are destined to kill each other. Did it ever occur to you that Naruto's not gonna become Hokage if he dies before he gets there? Not to mention the pace of Naruto: I don't feel like anything significant has happened within the past 20 chapters or so (aside from Tobi's unmasking, which was freakin dumb). With the way things are going now, I wouldn't be surprised if Naruto drags on another 100-200 chapters, putting it at around 700-800 chapters. That's so much better than 1000, don't you think?

Finally, you say that if it goes beyond 1000 chapters, then they're just in it for the cash? I don't think you get it. Were there seven Harry Potter books "just for the cash"? No, there were seven because she couldn't have told the story so well in three. A story takes as much time as it needs to tell its tale, whether it be 150 chapters or 1000 chapters.

I have a question for you. Why does the length matter? The creators of all of these manga are making amazing amounts of money, so does it really matter what their motives are? As long as the story is good, and you have fun with it, then why do you freakin care? Bleach could have ended exactly when I thought it should and I still would have hated it because its storyline sucked. Shaman King had a little over 300 chapters (if memory serves me right) and its plot still felt rushed and bad. Point is, length is not an indicator of wellness.

I think you are taking people to literally. You say that everything comes to an end, and everyone knows that. But with the end of everything that is good comes sadness. And who wants to be sad? People like the feeling of a new chapter every week, things to discuss, and events to think about. I'm sad about the idea of the series ending because this wiki will most likely die along with it, along with all the people who used to come here. No one here wants to lose One Piece, so they want it to last as long as possible.

Note that when I say "as long as possible", I mean "as long as the series keeps giving me entertainment and makes me want to keep reading". I don't think anyone here wants the series to turn shitty and keep stubbornly going on for another 400 chapters, they want it to provide the solid entertainment value it has given for the last 600 (almost 700) chapters.

Alright, I'm done ranting for now.