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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1937335" data-attributes="member: 151">Bad example, though, don'tcha think?  I mean, he lasts a long, long time.  The Cyborg 009 team was supposed to stop after the second volume...but fans demanded their return, just like Sherlock Holmes.  And I can't think of anyone who would be satisfied with the Beserk Anime series ending point...thank goodness the manga continued on for a long point past it.  And let's not forget Go On Forever Yamato, Dragonball (in its many forms) or Gatchman.  "Jo's dead!  No he's not, he's a cyborg!  Now he's dead!  Wait, he survived!"  Should I even mention the 'G' word? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Personally, though, I think some manga and anime are a little TOO eager to dispatch their characters once and for all.  It's almost fashionable.  They don't call him "Kill 'em All" Tomino for nothing, you know.  Some series have been good about avoiding this, though.  For example in Last Exile, [spoiler]I was really happy when it turned out that Mullin Shetland survived.  I wasn't bummed about Alex, because as Scorch told me "He died the way he wanted to, screaming with his hands tight around the throat of his enemy."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/spoiler]  The big problem is that American comics, by and large, suffer lots of different writers and artists, and often poorly transition between them.  How many writers and artists did Lone Wolf and Cub have?  Just one of each, for its entire run.  How many writers and artists has Green Lantern had in the last two years?  You see what I'm talking about.  Compare the turnover on say, Flash, versus Dragonball over it's entire run from the early 80s to the early 90s.  Dragonball, in all its forms, had one creator.  With the exceptions of Baron and Waid, Flash has had significant periodic turnover during the same span of time.</blockquote>

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