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We've all experienced them. Hero apparently gets killed. Wait a week. Heroine is drugged with creepy guy ready to rape her. Wait a month. Guy confesses suddenly to girl. Series gets canceled. Which series, anime or manga, and which cliffhanger really sent you up the wall? Also, are you the type to avoid these type of series or get painfully hooked to them?

Personally, I prefer to avoid them until they are completed. Sadly, I tend to be impatient and pick them up, hoping I'd have the willpower to stop during a more tame chapter or after a major story arc is finished.

For anime, my most memorable cliffhanger in recent memory would be the ninth episode of Kurenai.


For manga, Kodomo no Jikan.

I agree with you on the Manga cliffhanger, that was horrible @__@

And for anime, i guess.....well idk.

Er there are alot. In general, cliff hangers of xxxHolic come to mind.

Dunno for anime but as for specifics of manga: HnI Chapter 341


I'm sure there are moar but HnI being the current manga I'm reading, it's the freshest in my mind xD

And then there's chapter 16 of Viewfinder

-I'll add 'em as I remember lol.
Edit: Ouran Host Club Chap 61


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XXXholic cliffhangers hasn't been as painful recently as the Tsubasa Chronicle stuff for me though. Especially the most recent chapters.


Ouran has always struck me as the opposite of nerve racking. Everything was always so comedic that it's tough to take seriously. It's not like Unbalance x Unbalance where the author does his best to knock the wind out of you.

Example:


Then again, I read that chapter of Ouran and then a bunch of the chapters following it in one shot so the effect was likely diluted.

the hiatus in the first season of code geass between episode 23 and 24+25 (final episode), and then the ending of episode 25 of the exact same season

both were unbearable.

besides that... nothing comes to mind really.

Bitter Virgin - I don't really need to give any particular instance seeing as every chap ended in a cliffhanger. But nevertheless, the most painful would have to be when we waited like a whole year for the tankoubon to be released.

I can't remember anymore atm.

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Fire Candy. SO MANY QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED! T_T I won't say the ending wasn't badass, because it was, but the author could've done a better job finishing it.

Also, Blaster Knuckle had a horrid cliffhanger at the end, but made up for it because of its sheer awesome-ness. (Think Claymore, but with a Giant Bad-ass black guy instead of puny half-yoma girls.) XD

As for not completed series...

Skip Beat So painful waiting for the reaction of the director to her Natsu. T_T
Ubel Blatt ARRGH! They left off at such a painful part. Theres been more painful waits for this series, but this one is pretty bad.

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Well after Tsubasa took on such a serious tone during the second half of the story I haven't been all that into it. And I know normally Ouran is too comedic to take seriously but the ending of 61 kinda left me craving more xD.

Oooh I got another one btw
Tokyo Crazy Paradise

Also, the 5 month long hiatus's of Hunter x Hunter are pretty painful >.>

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King of Thorn has cliffhangers at the end of every volume and they are VERY painful. The way the author puts them makes it nearly impossible to think of what could happen next (its always so vague). He also throws them in at a perfect and unexpected time. It makes you want to keep reading it.
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I do agree with xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa's cliffhangers.

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Rabbit Doubt for me lately.
It's about to end!!! o____o

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Wow. There's a cliffhanger I'm glad I didn't have to wait long to get past. Only started reading that series after it was nearly done so I was just shocked instead of writhing in pain for an ungodly amount of time.

The ending of the first season of Code Geass. And I had to wait for a long, long time for the second season.

That's the only one I can think of right now.

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There aren't many series that I am reading while they are ongoing, or many that I have finished that way, so my selections are limited. There are a bunch of other series with huge cliffhangers, but I didn't notice so much, since the next chapter/volume was available. For those that weren't, though...

Immortal Rain

Especially since the author took
almost two years to get the
next volume published.

Volume 8:

Nabari no Ou

But that chapter was 80 pages, so the author is forgiven.

Chapter 50:


Vampire Knight

Chapter 39:

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I agree. The end of season 1 nearly killed me with thwe anticipation. I also agree with Alaena Night for Nabari no Ou and Vampire Knight. Cliffhangers like that make me wish I could read japanese.

I also add 07 Ghost Chapter 18 and 19


Number Chapter 3


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Itazura na Kiss. The manga. Have you SEEN how awful the cliffhanger that the author died at was?


Of course, the anime cleared it up, but still...