I know this might sound like I am glancing over all the hard work of mangakas but I’m really not, just venting my despair… x)

How are you people able to follow a story and not go mad when the chapters are sometimes ~ so. damn. SLOW ~ to release ?
I had read a manga 5 years ago, it was 22 chapters at the time, but for some reason it stuck with my mind and I finally decided check and re-read it again a few days ago.
Half a day, 53 chapters(*) later and I was already done reading it. I’m now just dreading having to wait 5 more years for it to maybe finish. Or follow the drip of releases. I think it’s one of those monthly releases (maybe less since there ~40 new chapters over 5+ years).
Do you guys follow releases ? Do you not ?
I personally almost never do…
One funny thing I notice I do when I know I’m getting close to the the last chapters of a manga I like. In my manga reader, I ignore the chapter number and just click my “Next Chapter” button praying to god it won’t be the last one 😂
Again, not a critic of the author(s).

  • Actually discovered while making this post that there are 8 chapters for me to read YOSHAAAAAAA
  • Old Sage Rick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    14 days ago

    You read a lot of stuff at once, and you wait for a good chunk of it to be done before you begin with a chunk

    • fork@feddit.onlineEnglish
      8·
      14 days ago

      This. I have 48 titles currently listed in my “reading” category. Maybe only a quarter of them get updated regularly within a month. The real challenge is remembering wtf is going on in some of them when they do update.

      • GreyCat@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        3·
        14 days ago

        Yeah that’s my thing as well, I used to have tracked titles for which I would get notifications for but I think I did just not enjoy reading chapter by chapter and I stopped at some point.