Did this show get cancelled?
or did they end end it
shareIt ended.
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MovieChat Forums > Samurai Chanpurû (2005) Discussion > Did this show get cancelled?
A general rule is that an anime series that lasts 26 episodes ends rather than gets cancelled.
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Watanabe likes to have the whole series story arch lined up before they start on the first episode. He did the same thing for the arguably better series, "Cowboy Bebop". 26 episodes, all planned out from the beginning, each episode like a mini-movie which connects to the whole adding a unique and varied flavor to the series.
Frankly, I wish American TV shows did this so they didn't drag on forever and ever until we grow tired of them and spend our time complaining about it. In essence, we never have to see it get old and die, like Jimi Hendrix, it goes out on top.
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American shows are really no different. Take a show like Lost, where all 6 seasons were written before production started (although Lost got a little ridiculous) or Avatar: The Last Airbender. Then there are serial television shows like sitcoms and crime dramas, that usually have a secular story taking place for each episode with a few major character setting advances here and there (Friends did this quite frequently).
There is a lot of bad Anime out there. In my opinion, it is the serial Anime that is terrible. This is generally a good rule for any story, though; to have a solid beginning, middle and end. Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Paranoia Agent, Death Note; all these Anime have great stories in my opinion and it's because they're planned and tell a complete story.
If you take an Anime like Bleach or Dragon Ball Z, something that's written season by Season or Episode by episode, you usually get something terrible and ridiculous. I tried watching a couple episodes of Bleach and I could not help but laugh at it. It is riddled with plot holes. There must have been ten problems with the story in each episode I watched. They way it tried to correct these plot holes was the quick fix technique. All of a sudden a character would have a new power, or someone or something would just show up out of the blue and save the situation. A lot of times, the crippled plot wasn't bandaged at all.
I don't think it has anything to do with American or Japanese. I think it has to do with good story telling. What makes good story telling is a complete story that is coherent and has a definite ending to work towards.
DBZ is one of the best shows.
sharelol, Lost obviously wasnt written beforehand. I dont even think the writers knew what they were doing until the 4th season when a fan came up with an explanation that kind of fit what was happening, so they dropped the other mysteries and focused on the ones that made sense with the weird time travel explanation. They have so many loose ends that went nowhere and arent even being discussed anymore.
I didnt mean to imply that its a difference between America and Japan as far as storytelling, I meant to say thats the difference between American television programming and some Japanese programming. Where as in Japan they are ok with finite storylines that only have 1 season, that would never fly in America unless is was a "miniseries" and not a TV show. Even if it was a miniseries, they would still want the ability to do a spinoff, just look at Band of Brothers.
Yeah, Lost definitely wasn't thoroughly planned in advanced. Until like the end of season 4, they weren't even sure how many seasons they'd get, so they had to really be careful with what they could reveal, and kept having to throw in new mysteries to keep it all going. I think it got pretty noticeably muddled in season 3-4. But it's definitely cleaned up in the last couple.
Apparently it was only originally supposed to be a short mini-series or something, I think, lol.
Personally, Im not a fan of most anime endings.
Pretty much every series I can think of - with the exception of Bebop - ended in a manner that I just didnt like.
Trigun ended right at a point where the story could have gotten incredibly compelling.
Full Metal Alch. ends... well, it doesnt so much 'end' as much as it throws the main characters into a cupboard (ie, our universe), locks the door and eats the key. Then it eats the cupboard. Now its started to leak from the backdoor, with the result being an adaptation of the manga that (to me at least) feels like a watered down, bizarro version of something I once enjoyed.
Neon Genesis Eva ended with the only two characters still 'alive' - the only humans still 'alive' infact - stuck on the barren hell of a wasted Earth, attempting to - in their (completely *beep* psychological states - murder/insult each other and waiting for the rest of humanity to re-gel or something; and thats the closest to a 'good' anime ending Ive encountered thus far (with the exception of Cowboy Bebop).
Champloo's ending just left me with alot of questions, mainly regarding the life expectancy of a 15 y/o girl (now traveling alone) being hunted by government assassins, and why wikipedia seems to thnk Fuu liked Mugen (when it seemed to me like she was diggin on Jin more often).
I will admit that Im guilty of the 'always wanting more' syndrome, but it feels like with anime that they make a point of putting you in that stance.
When a series just ends (without any real hope of a sequel/movie/extension) in what its own storytelling standards would consider a climactic event - the seperation of a close group, the reuniting of powerful brothers bearing opposite ethical beliefs, the main protagonists transported to another world - its pretty much impossible for you to NOT want more. Its a cliffhanger ending, but the worst kind - the kind where you never learn if they fall or climb back up.
Videogame companies have been doing this recently, but in their case its a shoddy attempt to leave room for a sequel. With the anime, it seems less like they are leaving room for something; and more like they are leaving you wanting something which they have no intention of providing.
Powertripping on fans to boost your own ego = not cool >:(
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