Naruto comic to end in November
Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump’s website announced on Monday that Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto manga will end in this year’s 50th issue of Shonen Jump on November 10.
Kishimoto has been serializing the ninja manga in Shueisha’sWeekly Shonen Jump magazine since 1999, and Shueisha will publish the 71st compiled book volume in Japan on November 4. Viz Media will publish the 67th volume in North America on Tuesday. The series ranked 4th among the top 10 Shonen Jump titles in terms of volume sales in 2012.
The series has spawned multiple anime, anime film, OVA, and game adaptations. The Naruto Shippūden anime is still ongoing, and a film titled The Last -Naruto the Movie- is slated to open in Japan on December 6.
However, no word has been released on how this will affect the long running anime series or how much longer the TV series will last. Naruto Shippuden currently tops out at over 380 episodes (The first series, Naruto, aired 220 episodes between 2002 to 2007). The series, like many other long running manga based anime shows, often uses “filler arcs” or storylines created solely for the show so that the TV series would not spoil the comics. It is unclear if any more filler episodes or arcs will be used once the manga series ends.
Source: ANN
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs