Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3297904-20150222153307/@comment-945885-20150225160648

Lulcielid wrote: It didn´t feel rushed for me, not in a single bit, most people confuse unresolve=rush.

Rushed or not its mostly JUMP fault not Kishimoto, they are the ones that decides when(issue N°# of JUMP, the manga could have ended in mid 2014 or december if they wanted) NARUTO would end (while Kishimoto decides at what point end the plot or not), as well as how many pages long the last chapters could have been (if they wanted chapter 700 could have been as long as 70 pages or as short as 5 pages). It was definitely Kishimoto who wanted to end it, especially considering he ended it at 700 chapters (7 being such a meaningful number in the series and all). Shueisha doesn't just end a long-running hit series. They would happily ride out the serialization until it was getting consistently poor results in reader surveys, at which point they'd cancel it for something new, just like every other series.

No, Kishimoto wanted to end it, and they let him. They even gave him two chapters in one issue, one in full color, which is (by the way) unprecedented.

And if it had been 70 pages long, btw, Kishimoto would have needed like a month to draw it, and it would have messed up the tankobon numbering since it would be too long to fit in volume 72.

The simple fact is that Kishimoto decided he wanted to end it at 700, and did the best he could to wrap it up. Yes, it was a bit rushed, but this also gives the franchise material to keep running in other types of media, while giving Kishimoto the opportunity to do something new.

And the fact is that mangaka can only ever plan so far ahead; most manga end fairly abruptly, because they're otherwise designed to be serialized indefinitely. So, one day there's a convenient stopping point like the end of an arc, and the next thing you know there's a finale and some falling action and it's done. That's just how it is. TV shows are usually the same.