Cliffhangers

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  1. Neiri

    Neiri Well-Known Member

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    Which fiction's cliffhangers are most annoying?

    Is it when there is a danger of the scene that justify the adding pr changing of genre (from comedy to drama , slice of life to tragedy)
     
  2. otaku31

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    Thrillers, obviously. There can be no greater dismay than when nail-biting suspense has you on the edge of your seat and... :sushi_hide:
     
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    Bad Storm no thought, head empty

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    thriller and action. thriller was already explained but in action, circumstances could change abruptly hence it's also a prime genre to put some cliffies. It's not really used for changing genre imo.
     
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  4. Lissi

    Lissi 『Queen of Lissidom』『Holy Chibi』『Western Birdy』『⚓』

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    Cliffhangers right before someone jumps off a cliff/hits a super important shot in volleyball/gets hit by a car :blobsalt:
     
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  5. Munimuyi

    Munimuyi Chili <33

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    Same thing with what the others said ~
    Thriller and action
     
  6. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    when couple almost kiss then.... kabedon then.... when one of lover caught other suspect on cheating....
    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    DAAAAAAAAAAASAAA!

    tbh nothing can beat drama cliffhanger tho~ cuz drama heavily emphasis on feeling~
     
  7. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    The only cliffhanger that bothers me, is the cliffhanger that comes at the end of the last translated chapter or the last released book~

    I don't particularly care for cliffs if I can read the next chapter right away, and I care equally for all cliffs if I can't~
     
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  8. Nimroth

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    There is however also the type of cliffhanger where the author leave one character hanging off a cliff and then switch to another character for a pretty long while.
    Which isn't necessarily bad in itself, but it can become so if the author then forget to resolve it properly later.
     
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    NovelSchemer Well-Known Member

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    When the main character's gonna do something awesome or cool then it suddenly cuts off.:blobexpressionless:
     
  10. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    Ah... Yeah, when a cliff is left and then the PoV changes, it is pretty annoying alright! >.<

    Like, solve the cliff already!!! >.<
     
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    ToastedRossi Well-Known Member

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    I like cliffhangers and I like stories crafted around cliffhangers so I don't find any of them annoying. Hell, one of the best Romance novels out there punctuates the main relationship with a bunch of near misses which aren't conventional cliffhangers, but functions in a very similar way.

    But really the cliffhanger to beat them all is "Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain". The book ends in a literal cliffhanger and leaves it as a question for the reader whether the protagonist will survive. There is no conclusion to this and even though there is a follow up book, this book is a prequel!
     
  12. bkwusa

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    I would imagine the worse would be R18 novels... I'm sure I don't need to explain. :blobspearpeek: