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First of all, I have to say I read this on some scanlated site. But there are
quite a few page that look unfinished.

Here are some of the rough page I found. Top pictures, From Historie 80 and
94. Bottom Pictures, Historie 82, 96, and 97. (Click to enlarge pictures)

[![Historie 80 Unexpected Battle 3 Page
08](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YDIcMm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YDIcM.jpg)[![Historie
94](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4YDkum.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4YDku.jpg)
[![Historie 82 Secret Order
\(2\)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a2FyPm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a2FyP.jpg)[![Historie
96](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pqlIDm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pqlID.jpg)[![enter
image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qq4Epm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qq4Ep.jpg)

Noticed that [the building on first panel are finished but on second panel it
was just a rough shadow drawing](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qq4Ep.jpg). If they
want a shadow building they can do it better.

At first all panel are finished but later, probably after chapter 80, they
begin having unfinished drawing. Hitoshi Iwaaki other manga series
[Parasyte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasyte) doesn't have this kind of
drawing style.


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Why do some page contain a rough sketch?


Sometimes the reason is difficult to be known unless there are
interviews/official statements from the author. It might be due to author's
health condition (very often), private matters, etc, **but in the end, it's
almost always due to the deadline of manga magazine**. If they can't make it
on time, then they either have to postpone until next edition, or _send what
they currently have_.

There are steps that mangaka have to do to get a chapter done (see also [What
are the steps involved in making a professional
manga?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13620/what-are-the-steps-
involved-in-making-a-professional-manga/13621#13621)): storyboard, sketching,
inking, finishing. While storyboard might take the longest time (according to
that post), without it, there's nothing to be published. After that, they have
to do sketching and inking, which also might take time depends on their skill
(anecdotally, while watching live streams of mangaka, _this usually takes the
longest time_ ). The finishing is usually not that critical and can be done
quickly and easily.

Other examples of unfinished chapter being published:

  * [Bastard!!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2250): serialized in _Weekly Shonen Jump_. On chapter 51, the last 2 pages only consist of text inside panels due the deadline.

![pg. 18](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IgjRYm.png) ![pg.
19](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWgZrm.png)

  * [Cherry Gale Kin](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=128589): serialized in _Monthly Comic Comp_ On January 1991 edition, which is the last chapter, page 13 only consists of underline sketch, and there's no final _tankoubon_ that included that chapter.

![Cherry Gale Kin vol. 1, page 5](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kcewhm.png)
![Cherry Gale Kin last chapter, on Monthly Comic Comp. ed.
1991-1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQo9ym.png)

**Left** : _Tankoubon_ vol. 1, page 5. **Right** : Monthly Comic Comp. ed.
1991-1, page 13

  * [Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=550): serialized in _Monthly Shonen GanGan_. On November 2005 edition, which is the last chapter, some of the panels were only drawn in pencil sketch. However, they were fixed in the _tankoubon_ version.

* * *

Reference: [Unfinished chapter published in manga magazine (in
Japanese)](https://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/4239192.html)


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