How to tell when a manga volume is complete?
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With novels, I find them in the release calendar as "final", or when I open a specific series I can easily tell that, say, eight parts of the last volume are out, out of twelve total.
But I never found a way to tell how far along a manga is - the chapters seem to be only added as they're released, and the calendar never lists a final chapter for them... I've missed several volumes because they got quietly completed, then equally quietly expired.
I know I can check the expiring manga list and read them closely before the expiry date, but isn't there some other easy way to find a volume is complete?
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@Pieta
you count the chapters or pages. A manga volume has a set amount of chapters, depending on the page length per chapter. For example, 30-pages chapter usually have 5 chapters per volume. or around 150 pages. It may differ from one publisher to another. -
@ShimizuA said in How to tell when a manga volume is complete?:
@Pieta
you count the chapters or pages. A manga volume has a set amount of chapters, depending on the page length per chapter. For example, 30-pages chapter usually have 5 chapters per volume. or around 150 pages. It may differ from one publisher to another.That's good if you're looking at a single volume and wondering if it might be complete. Not so much if you're wondering which volumes did complete recently.
I guess there's the "new digital releases" on the front page, but those are usually quite delayed. Checking Endo and Kobayashi 1, the last chapter released 21.3. while digital is 19.4. so that's almost a month later.
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Looks like nobody knows (or cares, even). I wouldn't have expected that - my inability to quickly find out which mangas are complete is definitely my #1 complaint about the site.
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The best suggestion I have is to check the manga expirations topic; a given volume will be complete at least a week before it expires. https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2337/expiring-manga-volumes-jan-2023-july-2023
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@myskaros I have that one perma-open! (:
It's still a pretty rough guess; Endo&Kobayashi expires today (and I've just read it because it popped up in that thread) but the last chapter was published almost two months ago. If there was a way to check for volumes by date of completion instead of date of expiry it would be swell.
