In fact, the entirety of Studio Gainax may count as this.

Hideaki Anno, though this may have been due to a Creator Breakdown.

It got even better: even with the 3 bonus chapters it got in Jump Giga, it still won't stay dead: the last leg of its run would be played out in the manga's own app, but who knows how long that would take.

Also at the end of episode 367, Gintoki explains how Gintama ending will end up as a scam. only for the very last page to have Gintoki say it's jumping ship to Jump Giga, with a note on how it was impossible to end it at that point.

For months, the Gorilla kept saying the manga would be ending in Jump at chapter 698.

Followed by a trailer for the second movie that focused on Gintoki's past.

And then a real movie of the Benizakura arc came out!.

only to afterwards state that no one would be stupid enough to give them a movie. For example, they advertised a movie trailer of the fan favorite Benizakura arc. Cue fans asking the Gorilla to return their tears. Until the post credit scene, which shows that the Elizabeth that left is only a temp. It started off with a tear-jerking scene of Elizabeth leaving his friends behind, with a longer credit song to mark it as a saga, making it greatly resemble the Four Devas arc.

The Renho arc helped introduce Sorachi's trolling style to anime viewers.

Ch 238 showed a bunch of dialogue that seems to imply Tae and Gin became a couple - but then at the last page it showed it was someone else who sounds like them.

There are even terms stating that 'Gorilla is playing with the crotch of the readers again'.

On the other side of the Pacific, Hideaki Sorachi of Gintama fame is seen as an even greater troll than Kubo.

He's also said that he responds to online character-bashing by increasing the page time for the characters being bashed. He also admitted in interviews that the reason he gave Hisagi a ' 69' tattoo on his face is because he wanted a Double Entendre that parents would too embarrassed to explain to their kids. For some, Kubo may be on his way to graduating from Trolling Creator to Magnificent Bastard, considering how many people complain or bitch about Bleach and yet they keep reading it no matter what.

Tite Kubo's tendency for ' Plotkai' as fans call it in Bleach has given him the title of trolling god via Memetic Mutation.See Torch the Franchise and Run for details.) (That last one was actually him trolling the publishers.

Or the whereabouts of Negi's mother Arika. Also, he resolved the plot with The Lifemaker possessing Nagi.oh wait, no, a few chapters later it's revealed that's actually her identical twin sister. Fans panicked, went nuts, and generally shat brix. Then she showed up in the Magical World out of nowhere as a demon lord on the side of the bad guys. Akamatsu claimed he'd reveal the secrets around her in the final arc. For most of the series, the character of Zazie was a total mystery, with no development or Backstory whatsoever, although something was clearly up with her. Not to mention the whole 'Zazie's identity' thing he pulled.* Well, he did deliver on the promise, he just didn't say that it was. Followed by messages on Twitter saying a sequel is probably coming. Just look at how he ended the manga after years of Ship Tease galore. Ken Akamatsu of Negima! Magister Negi Magi.In retrospect, this may also double as Torch the Franchise and Run for the author. Fans eagerly waited four months only to find that this epilogue was nothing more than a few panels of the boys dreaming about the Wet T-Shirts Contest with neither background explanation nor conclusion.

The final serialized chapter was released on December 2017 with an abrupt Downer Ending, with the author promising a 'much improved' epilogue on the release of the final volume (April 2018). Akira Hiramoto of Prison School with respect to that manga's ending.

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