Volume 43

Hakusensha may view Berserk having an ending (any ending) as more marketable in the long-run than an incomplete series, regardless of sales. In my opinion that's a pretty myopic perspective, given the fairly recent implosion everyone saw with Game of Thrones' final season.
 
So you think that it would take something really "big" to happen for them to actually change something? Like VERY low sales or the rising discontent for the story's prosecution? Or is everything gonna be the same until the end?

I think it would take a negative reaction so big that news outlets talked about it for them to consider doing anything that would require a public statement. Either that or actually losing money on the endeavor. However I do think declining sales as well as clear and persistent criticism could drive them to end it earlier rather than later. Not to cut it short, but rather to make sure it doesn't drag on (which it has indubitably been).

In my opinion that's a pretty myopic perspective, given the fairly recent example of property implosion everyone saw with Game of Thrones' final season.

I agree completely. If they shit the bed too badly, the bitterness that will come out of the fans who kept their hopes up until the end will smack them so hard in the face they won't even understand what's happening.
 
That's not the point though. It's about the trajectory of the sales for the new volumes and the message that sends concerning the readers' reception of the Continuation.
I know it's not the original point of our conversation, just sharing my opinion of what should be their reasoning to continuing this nonsense.

Hakusensha may view Berserk having an ending (any ending) as more marketable in the long-run than an incomplete series, regardless of sales.
This! As long as it put money on their pockets

In my opinion that's a pretty myopic perspective, given the fairly recent implosion everyone saw with Game of Thrones' final season.
I see Berserk future to be similar to the one of Shingeki no Kyojin. Until the last chapter everyone was hoping, but with the final it imploded.
 
I see Berserk future to be similar to the one of Shingeki no Kyojin. Until the last chapter everyone was hoping, but with the final it imploded.
AoT didn't implode though? The ending might have been divisive, sure, but it's still a very highly praised manga in its entirety. There's also the fact that the anime still had a ton of hype for the final season, even after the manga's ending. It doesn't even compare to what we have seen in the continuation, which is two full volumes of butchered characters and worlbuilding, and will only get worse by the end.
 
So you think that it would take something really "big" to happen for them to actually change something? Like VERY low sales or the rising discontent for the story's prosecution? Or is everything gonna be the same until the end?
It would take the continuation harming the manga's reputation to the point where sales of the legacy volumes decline as well. Which may very well be something that happens when it reaches the ending, and it turns out to be terrible and is panned.
 
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AoT didn't implode though?
Yes it did, I'm talking about this

The ending might have been divisive, sure, but it's still a very highly praised manga in its entirety.
As Berserk will ever be! The only difference is that it's easier for us to separate where it started to go down. While with AoT being fully finished by Isayama it was a more homogeneous story, but the ending is really controversial, even if I believe it's still an amazing manga overall.

It doesn't even compare to what we have seen in the continuation, which is two full volumes of butchered characters and worlbuilding, and will only get worse by the end.
That's exactly what I mentioned above, it's easier to point where it started. And for us we know that all of this is not canon anymore, and what make most os us wanting it to end is the disrespect of keeping calling this Berserk.

It's not the same situation sure, I said that I predict the general fandom to react similarly when it reach it's end, because it'll obviously not be good, and people are still obviously hoping that it will(I talk about general public).
Different reasons for a similar symptom, kinda comparable.

But that's already out of the scope of this thread
 
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