This week's poll was suggested by MaxieMan. Did you ever feel that it was too daunting to start a long series? What length is just too much?

I have a confession to make. Back in middle school, my friends tried to get me to start reading One Piece. There were maybe 5 official English volumes released. That's only around 50 chapters. I didn't pick it up, as I thought it was too much. As of today, there's 960 chapters. Still haven't read it.

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you prefer original works or adaptations?
Choices:
Original works - votes: 2211 (89.4%)
Works based on pre-existing fiction - votes: 200 (8.1%)
Works based on real events - votes: 62 (2.5%)
There were 2473 total votes.
The poll ended: October 26th 2019

One of the most lopsided polls we've ever conducted

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

Completely depends on the series.
I went with "There is no such thing as "too many"", as a series can go on for ages, without it being a problem, but...
There are many series that shouldn't have gone on, for nearly as long as they did.

There is no such thing as "too many". There were 4000+ pages waiting for me when I went through book 1-5 of A Song of Ice and Fire and it´s spin-off back in 2011 after S01. I did it in like 3 months. I powered through Dune 1-6 in about the same timeframe. IT the book (it´s a mess... HaHaHa) is over 1000 pages long but I just look at those sales.
The 127 volumes of Hajime no Ippo will fly by in comparison. JoJo is up there too. Seriously, reading them all is less of a timesink than one of King´s major door stoppers. So no, a too-long comic, tv show, etc doesn´t exist. Only ones that aren´t worth your time anyway do.

Good luck with The Wheel of Time Amazon. No really. It´s only the most ambitious tv show of all time if they go all in.

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Easy.

There is no such thing as "too many"

When I picked up One Piece, there were 400 scanlated chapters available.

When I picked up Detective Conan, there were around 600 scanlated chapters available.

When I picked up Hajime no Ippo, there were around 890 scanlated chapters available.

Also, dude, you should read One Piece, there's a reason it's the most-sold manga in history.

To start a new series, 300 chapters is too much for me now, but if I already following it even 2000 is okay as long as it's still good mmm...

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I will change this world mmm...
So the world can change me mmm...

It really depends on the genre and categories, as well as the specific series, but I guess 1000 chapters would definitely put a damper on my enthusiasm. The actual answer would be anything more than 500+ chapters, though.

The longest-running series I'm reading is Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken. I do wonder how many chapters total it has/is going to have...

There is no such thing as "too many"
Basically it depends on what I feel like I want to take the time to read. Started up 3x3 Eyes because I actually wanted something that was long-running. The only time the excessive chapter amount becomes a problem is when the story is already dropping in quality and it just isn't going anywhere in direction and flow.


I wasted an entire week binging the entire anime a couple years back, and it is a great series, BUT I ended up dropping it because:



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I said 300 chapters. Generally if a series gets too long it experiences a drop in quality and I lose interest. Shounen is my least favourite genre to begin with, so it has to be good to engage me, and shounen is almost always the genre of a series reaching 300+ chapters.

Novels and manga aren’t comparable IMO, since a basic (or at least predictable based on the first few chapters) level of quality can be expected from novels, whose authors aren’t coming up with new ideas weekly/adding new chapters and dragging it on just because it’s popular. Yeah a long novel takes a lot of time, but finishing War and Peace is easier than finishing a 500 chapter manga that becomes boring at chapter 200 because its mangaka ran out of ideas. That being said, I’ve never read a really long series of novels, so maybe they have similar problems with authors writing inferior sequels because initial books are popular?

Also wow, I googled Wheel of Time and see that it finally ended. I remember a friend reading those in elementary school and saying that they continued forever haha.

The Wheel of Time is actually one of my favorite fantasy series. I just hope Amazon's adaptation does it justice. At least it's complete, so it won't run into the same problems that Game of Thrones did at the end

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

Doesn't it completely depend on a bunch of specifics? Chapter length, plot, the way the author handles it, etc. I've read long oneshots which would be better as single volume works and vice versa, for starters. There are also works which end up being 200+ chapters but would have been better with 150–175 chapters, works which are 500+ chapters but would have been better with 700+, and works which are perfectly executed with 100+ chapters. The examples could go on and on. It completely depends on the individual work, so I find that I can't honestly choose any of this poll's options.

300+

Considering not a single manga I read that had more than 200 made it to my top list and only very few had above 100, the answer is rather obvious.

Adding the fact I read romances almost exclusively, if it's something with substantially more than 100 chapters it's pretty much guaranteed to end up bad. All these neverending Shounen were boring the hell out of me so they all ended up being dropped.

The biggest problem I have with manga length is, if it's substantially longer than 100 chapters there's usually a problem with either the story that's being told or the way it's being told. I consider Baby Steps a rather good manga for example but it just drags too much at times.

I haven't seen a manga with 200+ chapters without some kind of issue...

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I haven't read OP either. I watched the anime when I was in grade school up to the floating restaurant on the sea and that kicking chef, that was the last time I watch it. A Friend told me that was around chapter 45 in the manga.

I personally think 10+ vol is considered too much. I rarely read manga with 10+ vol, unless the anime was soo good and it made me to pick the manga out of the curiosity of the continuation, like SnK, Demon slayer, Promised Neverland.

This is how I feel about ONE PIECE , KENICHI STRONGEST DISCIPLE , KINGDOM , CASE CLOSED ... the main factors to me that are a turn off is ...

You have to start reading from a manga that was started over a decade ago ... so I automatically feel like it’s an irrelevant topic (at least the chapters I’m on) while Hundereds of thousands of manga are being release with more up to date references and just over all “in the now” ....

So to answer the question . For me , too much is about 75 chapters ... I just find it such an inconvenience to read a manga that started in 2001 and try to keep a decent level of excitement, knowing I missed the actual hype of it . It feels like I’m trying to force myself to fit in so I can know what every body is talking about.

Also for me to read 75 chapters , it has to be ongoing ... I am not really interested in reading completed series unless it’s just that amazing ... I like to be “in-the-now” but not spend too much effort getting there ...

Like many others here, the only long manga you appear to have read, are generic (and, generally, mediocre) Shounen Jump-style shounen manga. Basing ones opinion of all long series, purely on the likes of those, is ridiculous. (yes, they are the most common series, to get to such lengths, but...)

Also whilst, granted, manga usually have to be done weekly or monthly, whereas books usually have to be done as a complete book ...but both tend to have to be done to a deadline, either way. Book need to be a certain length, within that deadline, as well.
Not to mention that books being initially published one chapter at a time, in a magazine, used to be the norm. (dunno if some are still published like that, or not)

So why do you think you have any grounds, for saying how they compare to long manga, then?