The Manga Ending in 2021:

It's been a momentous year in manga.  Berserk ended due to the author's heart exploding.

Kiniro Mosaic was already over, but published a bonus volume called 'Best Wishes' anyway.  The final volume of Kiniro Mosaic is coming out in English this August, but there's no word on that 'Best Wishes' epilogue. 

New Game will be ending within the year at its 13th volume, but there won't be any English translation until at least 2022.  

Zettai Karen Children is ending in about a month, but the translation is hopelessly far behind.  Will we ever see the ending to Zettai Karen Children?  I dunno.  Maybe when A.I. becomes advanced enough to perfectly scanlate raws for us. . .

As you can see, there's some problem or other for all of the above.  America can't innocently enjoy any of these results at least anytime this year.

I'm suspicious that Yuru Yuri and Kanojo mo Kanojo could be ending this year.  There doesn't seem to be enough room in the plot to write much more.  But who knows.

Broken Blade has effectively ended, in the middle of the story, since the author hasn't written any new chapters in forever.  At least that helped the translators catch up with the Japanese raws, so for what it's worth you can read the 'full' story.

The rest of my ranked manga has either already ended or doesn't seem to be ending any time soon.  I count series that haven't released any new chapters in forever as ended whether the author says it's on 'hiatus' or not.  For instance, Guyver ended in 2016.  Even though we've had five years to catch up the last two volumes of Guyver still aren't scanlated into English.  Ridiculous on all fronts.

SAO Girls Ops ended in January 2021 for Japan, but who knows when we'll get to see the ending.

Choyoyu's manga is ending soon, but I'm not sure if it fully adapts the light novels (which are finished).  If so that would be great.  Nevertheless, we won't be reading the manga ending in 2021.

Sounan Desu ka? is ending soon in Japan, as usual the English translation is far behind though.

I assume Chihayafuru is ending this year, but the translation of the series has suddenly fallen off a cliff, so that won't help us any.  Maybe it won't even end this year and keep dragging on the queen match forever. . .

This is such a bizarre year of complete inaction.  A twenty-year low in new great anime releases, a complete nullity in visual novel translations, no FF7 Remake Part 2, maybe Tales of Arise at the very end of the year if they don't delay it again, and zero manga endings.  So even while Japan finishes off important series after important series we're left gaping like fish out of water.  All of this is unprecedented.  It used to be that Americans got to see the final chapter of Naruto or Bleach on the same day Japanese did.  We were excited about manga and scanlated it instantly.  We've had a dozen opportunities to do that in 2021 and failed them all.  Where did the fans go?

Strangely light novel translations are going strong.  I'm now reading Silver Ruins, Black Moon book II (which can be found here: http://www.eugenewoodbury.com/moon/index.html)  Yesterday it was Hataraku and in a few days it will be Outbreak Company.  Why are novels still being translated when everything better than novels has been abandoned?  A caprice of some prankster God?  An insidious attempt to return the written word to the center of our culture to increase student literacy scores?

Every day they don't cancel the Olympics is another day closer to the Olympics actually happening.  At least no news is good news on that front.  But everything else about this year tries one's patience.