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NEWS: Shonen Jump's Sasaki: Bleach Manga Will End in Less Than 10 Weeks

Nakurawari wrote:

Kubo can't switch magazine on his own. Firstly, Shueisha owns Bleach, not him. Secondly, D.Gray-Man switched to a magazine also owned by Shueisha. If Shueisha wanted Bleach in a different magazine, they would be doing that instead of ending it.

Actually, Kubo does technically "own" Bleach. It's just that publishers like Shueisha are very beneficial to manga creators, as the publisher will handle stuff like licensing, which I'm sure some creators just don't want to deal with normally. For example, if Shueisha "owned" the manga that it has published, then Fist of the North Star's inclusions in Jump crossovers wouldn't be such a potential question mark, since Tetsuo Hara owns the rights to it, & Vertical wouldn't have been able to publish Prophecy, as that was published by Shueisha in Japan (& Vertical generally can't license Shueisha titles), but the creator himself asked Vertical to bring it over.

The shonen magic makers need to wrap it up and make a different series. New ideas constantly from your favorite artists usually yield in some awesome results.

Need my Ichigo x spoiler[Orihime] ending. Please, Kubo. Don't disappoint me.

Finally we have a legitimate timeframe of when it's ending. The countdown begins now. Wonder how Kubo will wrap it up and if we'll see a Boruto-esque continuation.

Years ago people were saying Bleach was canceled but they were going to let Kubo keep writing it for however long he wanted to finish it up. That was always nonsense to me because of stories like this that I saw all the time on ANN. When these magazines want a manga gone, you might get as little as like a month to wrap up whatever you have going. They don't let you linger on forever out of kindness.

Bleach has now officially stopped earning its keep.

Or if Kubo wants, he can pull a D.Gray-Man and switch magazines. Any magazine would be happy to have Bleach. Despite the hate, it is still a good selling series, still has fans, and still has legacy.

Calculus20 wrote:

Finally we have a legitimate timeframe of when it's ending. The countdown begins now. Wonder how Kubo will wrap it up and if we'll see a Boruto-esque continuation.

Probably not. Boruto exists because fan-demand for more Naruto was still incredibly strong when it ended. (Even if the final arc gets poked fun of a lot around here, the kids love it.) I don't think there's quite the amount of demand for more Bleach.

Mr. sickVisionz wrote:

Years ago people were saying Bleach was canceled but they were going to let Kubo keep writing it for however long he wanted to finish it up. That was always nonsense to me because of stories like this that I saw all the time on ANN. When these magazines want a manga gone, you might get as little as like a month to wrap up whatever you have going. They don't let you linger on forever out of kindness. Bleach has now officially stopped earning its keep.

Unlike most other series in WSJ though, Bleach was once a tentpole series and one of the Big Three. In the United States, it was one of the anime series commonly associated with anime itself. I think Kubo got this sort of leeway because of the clout he gained from the earlier parts of the series.

Ambimunch wrote:

Or if Kubo wants, he can pull a D.Gray-Man and switch magazines. Any magazine would be happy to have Bleach. Despite the hate, it is still a good selling series, still has fans, and still has legacy.

An alternative is that Bleach gets an epilogue treatment that allows Kubo to tell however much of the story he wants at whatever pace he wants. This is what's been going on with Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (also known as Nurarihyon no Mago): Supposedly, the author will write several long chapters that wrap the story up. It's been...two years, I think, since the weekly series ended, and only two chapters have gone up. I don't think the story has actually ended yet. (Either that, or I missed the ending.)

I am sort of sad to see Bleach to go, and would definitely enjoy this 74th volume being larger than normal (if Shueisha would even give Kubo that kind of treatment).

Years ago people were saying Bleach was canceled but they were going to let Kubo keep writing it for however long he wanted to finish it up. That was always nonsense to me because of stories like this that I saw all the time on ANN. When these magazines want a manga gone, you might get as little as like a month to wrap up whatever you have going. They don't let you linger on forever out of kindness.

Bleach has now officially stopped earning its keep.