what was that i can't believe i just read that. is the mangaka still alive? I think he died and his 5 year old cousin with down syndrome finish the manga for him.

School Rumble Z better be a "lost years" kind of thing. This ending just sucked major ass. Where's my damn feeling of closure?

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Where did that little juicy bit of info come from? Not the one about the author continuing the series but that the release date will be on the 8/20?




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Last page of the Townsocks translation, I quote: "School Rumble Z will start in magazine special vol. 9 on 8/20! See you there!"

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One of greatest misunderstandings is that publishers forced it. People are you blind? Up to chapter 281 it was ok and then in two chapters the ending? Do you SERIOUSLY think that any publisher would force to make a conclusion in TWO chapters?

Even Shounen Jump famous for their willingness to cut the manga very fast do not do that. There is always a note to mangaka if the series should be wrapped up, it depends on publisher on how much time they give mangaka to wrap things up, but as far as I know the publisher where SR was posted gives mangas a good enough time to wrap up the series.

So it was Jins fault. It is either of the two:

1) he was noted by the magazine a lot of time ahead but just ignored it on purpose until it was too late.

2) it was actually planned to end this way. It is Jin after all...

So please, think before you are going into pure rage against publishers. In this particular case - it is NOT their fault but the mangakas own screw up.

Well or not screw up as maybe Jin planned to make such bad ending so just that he would earn more money with SRZ, for which SR and it's crappy ending should work as an adveryisement.

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Well i mean...WTF It ends like Utter Uber Major Crap just to tell us "see SR again in September on that magazine, tee-hee~"...
But again we're speaking about ENDING a MANGA here: what a downfall, i really really HATE that useless mangaka now. I'm uberly pissed off, publishers or whatnot, its as bad as it is for us readers, plain and simple.
Mx0 ending was pure bliss in confront of SR ending, and ive said it all.

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When it comes to bad manga endings.... this one takes the cake.

So bloody disappointing.

and WTF's up with School Rumble Z..... they gonna pilot mecha?... or are they gonna become saiyans?!

Bah!!.... welcome to the Trash can, SR.

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Again, i am pretty sure that publishers have little to do with it. As I said it is either jin ignored publishers notes to wrap up the series untill it was too late or he himself planned to do it...

I think that second reason is more realistic. Think - a new license will get Mangaka more money, and the shitty ending of such popular manga as SR will though cause a great wave of negative reactions from readers will also make masses of them interested in his new project SRZ which will also be reflected in Jin's income.

For me it seems like Jin simply fucked up the fans just to get more money, not really caring about the manga itself (as the time skip in ch 282 basically kills any good story line as if SRZ will focus on what happened during the skipped time it is clear that no real character development happened and Harima still stays on same tunnel vision, if it will talk what happens after SR then bringing all characters would be problematic as many of them finished school already.)

Anyways, if you want to blame someone - blame mangaka and not publishers. It was him who screwed up the ending as it seems.



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283 chapters+0 conclusion+crappy ending=crappy series. I don't care about School Rumble Z right now, for this few years reading this manga, I have to say I'm really dissapointed. My overall rating for this series goes down drastically.

that is a perfect equation... i agree with the results, after so many volumes to have such an ending.... its just terrible.

he should have kept the story line and simply end it in scz, now things are kind of messy

Perhaps I was unfairly putting the blame on the publishers. No, I was unfairly putting all the blame on the publishers. Truth is the mangaka does have fault in the way this manga ended. If he knew there was going to be a continuation in SRZ, he definitely could have ended SR in a better way than this. For example, instead of giving us that BS time skip, he should have just ended it at 281. That way he would be able to continue the storyline in a good fashion in SRZ. I mean, can it really be SR if everyone already graduated and is either working or going to college. School Rumble can't be School Rumble if the characters aren't in school, right? So, the mangaka definitely should have ended this manga in a better way.

If you look at it from a business stand point, then the publishers have no blame. However, I'm not a business man, I don't care about the business aspect of manga (just like I don't care about the business aspect of medicine and hospitals). All I know is that the publishers probably did have something to do with the magnaka ending the series early. Now, that doesn't mean that the mangaka should have ended the manga as poorly as he did, but in my eyes the publishers still deserve a little blame. I know the common phrase, business is business. Well, to me, that saying means nothing but, "We don't care about you or anyone else, we just want to make money." This is a discussion best left for another time, but this is the type of mentality that makes the world such a corrupt place.

SR was already going too long, there was no known note to the public that SR will be closing down so how can you be so sure that publishers have had their role in it?

And even if they did, they have had told that to Jin way way WAY ahead than two chapters, even shounen jump give three times more of time to wrap things up.

What was the point of Jin starting the plot line with Eris engage thing or Harima moving to live with Yakumo? It seems so abrupt that it sems like publishers are at the fault but publishers ALWAYS announce BEFOREHAND if the series is planned to be cut, and Jin probably knew that (IF it was planned to be cut at all, as we have not heard of such news at all) at least one and half volumes before the last chapter.

For me, considering that we have no info about publishers cutting SR (and we usually have info if series are planned to be cut) it seems like it is all Jin's blame this time. It is either he knew about the deadline but ignored it or he did it his own way to get new license and thus increase income with new contract for SRZ, which seems much more likely to me.

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well if i were the publishers i wouldn't publish the last two chapters. I would just end it at 281 and tell the mangaka to go f*** himself for giving me that last two chapter of BS for me to publish.

So many bad rushed endings this year. The idea that there would be a School Rumble Z boggles my mind. Makes me glad I only read this series in passing.

..It would be so funny if Z was a new story with new people.(or the same characters just new story--how they call it a spinoff ?). Yea and good idea with mechas. It should be a "mecha pilot academy rumble".