Manuel de la Fuente wrote: Isayama recently reiterated that he aims to end the manga in 2020: https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/12/28-1/hajime-isayamas-new-years-resolution-end-attack-on-titan
Though every time we calculate the number of the possible final chapter, the manga keeps continuing past that (I remember when we thought it was going to end in Volume 30, ha).
An October ending certainly looks like the most likely option now given the slow pacing of the latest chapters. The story surely won't end in 2 chapters and very likely not in 6 either, 10 chapters sounds more plausible.
As long as he keeps things interesting, I'm down for as many more chapters as it takes.
Reminds me of Eiichiro Oda, who originally planned for One Piece to only last 5 years. He's now been writing it for 22 and it probably won't end for another 5-7.
I'd personally be cool with more AOT after 2020. :D
We don't know which chapter will be the last, but Isayama has committed himself to finishing in 2020, and because each printed volume of manga is 4 chapters long, we know that it must end with chapter 126 in February (unlikely), 130 in June (more likely), or 134 in October (probably the most likely). Anything else would miss the 2020 window.
The only way I could see it NOT ending with any of those numbers/dates is if Isayama did what most mangaka seem to do and have an extended final chapter that is longer than the norm. I could swear the very first chapter was like that as well?
I remember when I 1st heard Season 4 would be the Final Season expected to release in 2020, my thoughts were that there was no way that could be right as the series didn't seem anywhere near ending. As the series is right now it still seems hard to imagine this as the final year for the manga. Volume 33 will most likely be the final volume, although I wouldn't be opposed to the existence of Chapters beyond 134 this October if it meant making the finale more fleshed out.
I personally want Season 4 to be the longest Season of Attack on Titan with the content from Volumes 23-26 filling 13 full episodes & the content from Volumes 27-30 filling another 12 episodes. Then volumes 31-end I'm hoping will be a further 10 episodes for at least 35 episodes total. I also think we should end up with 7 Colossal Editions, although it's weird that Colossal #5 hasn't even been announced yet.
@RuneLai
Where you get "verboten" from?
Penguinluver1431 wrote:
We don't know which chapter will be the last, but Isayama has committed himself to finishing in 2020, and because each printed volume of manga is 4 chapters long, we know that it must end with chapter 126 in February (unlikely), 130 in June (more likely), or 134 in October (probably the most likely). Anything else would miss the 2020 window.
The only way I could see it NOT ending with any of those numbers/dates is if Isayama did what most mangaka seem to do and have an extended final chapter that is longer than the norm. I could swear the very first chapter was like that as well?
Do you think Isayama might make a chapter thats longer than the norm?
Tdfern14 wrote:
@RuneLai
Where you get "verboten" from?
It's originally German, but the meaning carries over to English too. You can see the definition here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verboten
Tdfern14 wrote:
Do you think Isayama might make a chapter thats longer than the norm?
While he has gone over his standard 45 pages before, the last time he did it was back in the Uprising arc, and I believe it was early on in that arc as well. He hasn't done it since, which means it's been around 4-5 years since he has gone over 45 pages.
I could see him doing something like a shorter epilogue chapter that will go after chapter 130/134 (or whatever the final full length chapter is) which will make for a slightly thicker final volume, but I don't think he'll go over 45. A shorter epilogue could then be a volume exclusive or be packaged along with an essay or bonus illustrations in the magazine itself to meet page count.
The thing is his chapters are published in a magazine each month and the magazine has to plan for a certain number of pages. Going over page count causes trouble for the magazine since they have a layout they set up prior to publication. Especially when it comes to the physical print run, adding extra pages is not something the editor is going to want to do. A couple pages over might not be fine, but you're not going to see something like "double length final chapter" unless the editor (and Isayama) knows well in advance that someone else in the magazine is not turning in a chapter that specific month so they can reallocate that space. That would take an incredible amount of luck and timing.
@RuneLai
Its means "forbidden" huh? Look at you learning German huh?
Other than that, that is true I mean not to mention since Isayama runs for a serialized monthly publication magazine which has other series too, they need the space, unless those series all decided to go up for a hiatus for a month just to make room for AoT.
we shall see.