InuYasha Manga to End
After nearly 12 years of running in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, the time-traveling feudal fairytale manga "InuYasha" will finally be ending next week. It was announced in this week's issue that the next chapter, #558, would be the story's last. It easily became Rumiko Takahashi's longest running story, topping her last long-running series "Ranma 1/2," which only ran for a little over 8 years.
I don't know about you, but this piece of news about the manga ending came kind of quick & out of the blue. I really hope that this is Takahashi's planned ending of the series & that it'll be a REAL ending, instead of some sort of rushed, last minute ending. Japanese magazine executives have been known to pull stories out of their publications quite quickly if they feel readership has fallen. The Millennium World saga in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga was meant to be a lot longer then it wound up being due to a decrease in readers, for example. Let's just hope a similar fate hasn't fallen upon InuYasha, & that we'll get true closure to the series.
After all, the series has been doing nothing but running in circles for years now. Anything short of full closure would be unacceptable by this point, since I'm convinced everything that's happened in the manga could've easily be condensed to half the amount of chapters. & considering how badly the anime series ended 4 years ago, fans would be really pissed if the manga ended in a similar way. But speaking of the anime, who knows? Maybe the series can return now & finish up the story properly.
Source: http://www.furinkan.com/