Love your comment - think you nailed it - but then many of the longer ones do exactly that - it becomes just another case case of "Oh yeah, well I have not shown you my TRUE power yet", then they pull something else out of their butts, er... out of nowhere, then the other side does the same.
IKR, when all their friends and associates were in deep doo, getting their arms hacked off and their cells raped, why didn't these Sooper-Hyper-Sexed-Up-Speshul Powers make an appearance then?
*Sigh* that just seems to be how it works out - it seems to be a very common trope, that those extra powers only come out to lengthen the battle time, and to 'draw out the tension' (plus the more chapters they publish, the longer the mangaka stays employed and does not need to move on to something new? maybe??)
It isn't just the mangaka though. It's also the publishing company. They are as stuck in the formula as Kubo seems to be, a weird sort of co-dependency.
Truth, and then there are the fans who do not wan the story to end ... just like when Naruto ended, so many people complained that they wanted more ... (and excuse any typos, I seem to be having keyboard/cursor issues - it jumps around when I least expect it *eye rolls*)
The jumping cursor! I've had that. Still do. If it's a laptop, that's your motherboard. Time to save up for a new one.
It's a desktop iMac - apparently the problem is common, but it only causes real problems on facebook, the rest of the time, it's not too bad, and I can't afford $2800 to replace it at the moment.
True the author was great at the beginning but then it's like he suddenly dried up and just does what he wants with the story without much reason and trusts that the fans will eat it up.
Man, the plot for Bleach disappeared down its buttcrack so long ago, I can't even keep track of who's who anymore. Is there any point to all of this, or is it just another whizz-bang-explosion fight?