Yeah, something about the original I just watching again and again. It's among some of my most favorite anime to rewatch xD

Now you're really tempting me to watch some of the other Yugioh series... Though if we keep going on this topic, I'll be breaking into your anime territory in this thread, haha.

Hmm, maybe it gets repetitive? Episodes usually go the format with having a duel, the hero gets pushed to their limits, and then draws the right card when they need it. That's something I started to feel as I watched more of it. Though I stopped at 5Ds because I felt it was just getting too ridiculous. I remember hearing they ride on weird bike while battling.

lol yeah can't let this turn into the anime thread, when there's already one :P

Another long running Jump series is ending and this time its their longest running series

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-09-03/osamu-akimoto-kochikame-manga-ends-on-september-17-after-40-years-of-serialization/.106073

With all of these Jump series ending i get the feeling there is some stuff going on behind the scenes at Jump.

What?! Kochikame is ending?! But... that's been going on forever! It can't end ;_;

Ah man, not the manga with the unibrow dude that i only know about through Jump covers and Gintama references! :(

It could be that Jump's magazine sales have been down, and they're pushing to add fresh content to bring in new fans. Bleach and Nisekoi were waning in popularity before their final arcs started, and supposedly Toriko has been ranking poorly for a while now. Osamu has been around for a long time, and I'd be surprised if every young kid buying the magazine is reading it with the same fervor as One Piece, so they might have just decided to replace it with something fresh.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I found this image a few weeks ago, so suddenly this makes more sense. A bunch of authors drew tributes to this manga with their characters.

The mangaka of Glass Mask has said that series is ending "soon", as well. It began in 1975. Of course, that "soon" could be several years, considering the pace.

I wanted to read it but the old style shoujo art style is too much for me. However, the second anime adaptation was excellent. I loved it.

I see influences from Glass Mask all over manga and anime.

Late to the party as usual, but I very much enjoyed the links to the 'Hall of Anal Devastation'. I can honestly see some of the IchigoxRukia shippers points, despite being amused by their zealotry, but I still don't understand the SakuraNaruto people. Shit, I'm not even a shipper and knew it was going to be Hinata. C'mon, the only girl that supports and declares her love for an MC that is starved for affection since childhood? No shit, she was going to win.

I actually preferred Naruto/Sakura for a while, but realized early on where it was going on. I liked Hinata at first, but lost interest after the author shot her to near irrelevance for the majority of the story. Heck, even her own backstory arc shifted to make her cousin look more sympathetic than she was. The final straw for me was when Neji was killed off for no apparent reason other than to make her look good. After completely ignoring her for most of the story, throwing away another character just to build her up just felt awkward, clumsy, and objectively terrible writing.

Not that Sakura was much better of course. Pretty sure the author just didn't care about his female characters in general, based on Sakura's horrible conclusion, and how every female character ended up as a freaking housewife. Seems like I wasn't alone at least...apparently at some Jump festival, Chie Nakamura (Sakura's seiyuu) flat out told the author to "shut up" after he mentioned how much he loved Sakura's character. 

As much as I like shipping, I wish authors of these long running battle manga would stop trying to shoehorn romance into the story where it isn't really needed. It can be fine within limits, but Naruto and Bleach are prime examples of how it doesn't work if the author doesn't care to expand on the theme. We won't have to worry about that with One Piece at least.