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Just started re-reading The Guyver from the beginning, since the books are just collecting dust on my shelf, when I started thinking about something that I'm sure must have crossed a few minds other than just mine. 3 decades into the story and we still don't seem to have an ending anywhere in sight. Still LOTS of things that need to be addressed too. ...and the whole epic story is dragging along at 10 pages a month. I'm just gonna come out and say this but, is anybody else worried that the story will ever be finished before Takaya dies? He's getting old. he's very slow. His editor needs to give the guy a kick up the bottom for real because considering how many new characters have shown up in the past few years, and snailpace at which this is going on, I'm finding it increasingly harder to stay hopeful that we'll ever get a proper ending due to some unforeseen complication on Takaya's part. I KNOW i'm not alone as some of the book reviews on Amazon.jp voice the exact same concern. more than a year between each volume release has filled the Japanese fans with worry too it seems... SO, what do you guys think? I don't wanna be a negative nancy but I'm not so confident we'll get a proper ending. Anybody feel like putting my mind at rest?

Its been a while since I posted but here are my thoughts. As mentioned earlier, there are other manga authors that are still continuing their works like Kentaro Miura, Yoshihiro Togashi, George Morikawa, and others who are famously known for their slow pacing or long hiatus periods. Guyver is no different, it has small periods where all the chapters that we have were done in a small period of time with long idle unproductive time in between. Since Guyver is Takaya's only major work, I believe he's just dragging the series out for reasons that he only knows (could be that that series is his life support for his career/reputation, or other more personal reasons). IMO I think that Takaya will finish the story in 20 years (give or take), and it would be very unlikely that anything would happen to him within that time that would prohibit him from doing so, and as others had previously stated, the series has developed so much, that Takaya will have good control over how he'll end it. With a lot of thought put into its development, Guyver will most likely end well considering the fact that Takaya has had so much time in working on it, plus its his magnum opus, Guyver is literally his life! (This is assuming however Guyver remains supported throughout that time and doesn't get dropped) I honestly love guyver and I've rechecked all of the previous chapters and I feel that the ending will involve some sort of Armageddon, in the since that the creators will arrive and in my opinion either them or their "enemy" will be the main villians and chronos/or guyver one's team will probably be humanities only resistance against them. From seeing how events have turned out, and previous hints, I feel that the story might head that direction (I could be wrong though). It would be interesting though if there was a thread started about important things that have to be answered before the series ends.

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I just love how Toho basically went, "Smeg, the @@@king Americans made another Godzilla again! Get the suits ready, QUICK!"

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