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On rare occasions, a seemingly [['''Orphaned Series]]''' may be resurrected, either by the original artist or by another taking it over. Fans may wait for years in vain for this to happen, but it almost never does.

The more extreme [[Schedule Slip|Schedule Slips]]s blur the line. See also [[Dead Fic]]. Compare [[Vaporware]], which is something the creator claims ''not'' to have given up on -- buton—but almost all the fans have.

* ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'' has been on hiatus since December 20th20, 2002, due to Yoko Matsushita suffering a hand injury. Her art style has changed somewhat since because of this and she did work a little more on the manga afterwards. However beyond brief periods of "SHE'S GOING TO FINISH IT!" now and then, there's been nothing else beyond a few chapters after volume 11, all of which are finally being put in a 12th volume. Fans are just pretty much begging to hear how she planned to end the series now.

* ''Sokora Refugees'', a manga-inspired (in both art and story) comic, was super-popular before its abrupt end after two volumes. The comic's site, after two years in operation, stopped updating in November of 2006 and died completely a few months after. The artist mentioned the author had some personal issues after a few weeks of no new strips.

** ''[[Planetary]]'' gets off on a technicality. Fifteen issues between early 1999 and late 2001, hiatus until late 2003, and then another eleven issues between late 2003 and the end of 2006. Ellis turned in the script for the final issue, #27, in mid-2007--so2007—so technically, ''he'' finished in 2007--but2007—but another two years passed before its release. John Cassaday completed drawing the interior in April 2009, Laura Martin colored and inked by June, and Cassaday finished the cover in July. The issue hit stores on October 7, 2009, with the final collection in March 2010 (hardcover) and December 2010 (paperback). 27 issues in ten years, with the last issue alone taking three...''but it was completed''.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' was originally intended to be a trilogy of trilogies, with the Original Trilogy being in the middle .<ref>(although at the time he was Original Trilogy, [[George Lucas]] only had a vague idea of what the stories of the Prequel and Sequel Trilogies would be)</ref>. Lucas ceased making ''Star Wars'' altogether after ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', wanting to do something new -- itnew—it wasn't until over a decade later that he'd begin work on the Prequel Trilogy. However, at that time he decided to abandon the Sequel Trilogy entirely and leave ''Star Wars'' as a six-film series.

* Before being released, 6 episodes for ''[[Shenmue]]'' were planned. The first episode was critically acclaimed, but [[Flop|floppedflop]]ped financially, so they decided to make the series shorter, by merging episodes 2,3,4 AND 5 into a single episode, leaving the series with only 3 episodes. But ''[[Shenmue|Shenmue II]]'' (still universally acclaimed as an awesome game) [[Flop|floppedflop]]ped even HARDER than the first one, plans for future games have been abandoned. There were some small games now and then, but no ''[[Shenmue|Shemue III]]'' at sight. The author has stated in 2010 that he wanted to make [[Shenmue|''Shenmue III'']] and [[Sega]] green-lighted it, but he couldn't get financial support for it. The worst part? ''[[Shenmue|Shenmue II]]'' ends in a [[Cliff Hanger]]!

* ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]'' eventually simply stopped, after about eight of the thirteen [[MacGuffin|treasures of rule]] were collected. A lack of budget and [[Channel Hop|Channel Hops]]s were the responsible issues, here.