@Narutossss:
Okay place yar bets! what's gonna finish first? OP, HXH or berserk. I say HXH will end first.
Muira has said that he feels he's about 60-70% done, so he might only have 8-10 or years to go…
OP keeps pushing back its halfway point, but it certainley FEELS like it has to be at the midpoint right now, especially with the red line marker and this epic conclusion to all the buildup. So its it's probably got about as much time as has already been put into it... 10-12 years. Really it depends on how many more 2 year arcs like Skypeia or Water 7 we get, since those really halt the forward progression.
HxH really feels like its just beginning. The Spider arc has only just begun, and thats just a secondary thread! And this ant saga has taken nearly 5 years already with all the hiatuses.... but then, Gon can find Ging at any time and end it in a hurry if needs be, or even with just a walk into the sunset "and they had many more adventures..." ending.
I'd say Berserk has the best chance of finishing first at this juncture, if all series keep the pace they have been, but HxH has the best chance of ending first. (especially given how he totally half-assed the ending to Yu Yu Hakusho, there's a precedent.)
@Hiroy:
This is bad omen, but I don't even think Berserk would finish. It's kinda hard to see and ending with the amount of updates the manga has.
What? With 10-20 chapters a year? Its basically a monthly comic. It just happens to be in a bi-weekly magazine. There's been slow and steady plot progression, and most years 2 volumes come out, which isn't all that much slower than a regular manga series. And they're finally nearly to elfheim. I've been reading the series for over a decade and it has a LOT more volumes than it once did. 10 years ago the flashback was still the majority of of the series.