Sense of adventure

Many shonen manga lose there sense of adventure over the course of the series and focus on power levels, but one piece seemed to keep true to the adventure narrative despite what some people say.


>Dragon ball
No more exploring new lands, everyone is now married with children. w

>Jojo
After part 2 it just didn't feel like much of an adventure, 3 and 5 , 6 was enemy of the week
whilst 4 was mostly around moria,

>Yugioh
We didn't seem many new games after a certain point, it was cool seeing current trends and various forms of games in Kazuki Takahashi style

>Naruto
Aside from anime only filler and novels, it became focused on fights, and hardly any ventures to new lands . Honestly I would have liked to see more about the underworld and seedy dealings


>Gash Bell
It was always about the mamono battles, but after faudo, there was no sense of exploration anymore. Well it was near the end anyway

One piece on the other hand
>explore strange new lands on the regular
>Meet natives that can fend for themselves and aren't helpless
Samurai, Minks, Many of the colleseum figherers,t etc.

>powercreep
Unlinke many of the others we see high level dudes early on in the story, and our protagonists aren't potrayed to be the strongest dudes about.
i.e. Mihawk, Dragon in Lougetown, Dorry and Broggy with the elbaf spear.

>Long overarching side stories with build up
Poneglyphs, ancient kingdom shit, vegapunk stuff, military retaliation, etc.
I am not sure, the others just seemed to focus on the battle at hand and nothing else .

Attached: Zou_Arc.png (696x831, 321.9K)

One Piece is just a battle manga now user. I think you are just in denial about it. The sense of adventure has slowly died over the course of the timeskip, with Wano really waking people up to how different it has become compared to their nostalgic memories of reading One Piece years ago.

>No more exploring new lands, everyone is now married with children. w
That's wrong. After Goku got married with a child, he first visited the afterlife, then he went to another planet, few different races were introduced, Buu arc expanded the lore and the setting even more.

I love one piece, but the sense of adventure was lost since Sabaody

Attached: Goat.jpg (260x194, 10.62K)

>One piece on the other hand
>>[HEADCANNON]

Attached: hxhlaugh.png (923x599, 850.16K)

Initially, even the new One Piece arcs very much feel like adventures. It's just that they narratively become so long now that we are used to the location long before the halfway point. Though I think Wano did a good job mixing it up by having the country actually consist of different islands. Onigashima feels quite differently from the other islands of Wano.

Whole Cake Island was good

I mean the new world has been full of adventure
>punk hazard
Before we knew what was going on it seemed to be a hellscape populated by centaurs

>dressrosa
land of the living toys, albiet that was a devil fruit and the people were under martial law


>zou
an ancient city on the back of a giant elephant

>whole cake
an island where everything is living, and there are plenty of strange island where everything is made of food,
Make you wonder how plumbing is handled.


>Wano
Ancient japan land, albiet destitute and dire straights now, it's riddled with yokai, freaks samurai and all sorts of mythological beings

>After Goku got married with a child, he first visited the afterlife,
yeah, but there wasn't any exploration as much as running in a single line for a month,


>namek
didn't do much but fighting there

>buu
true, but they didn't go anywhere else

I know they're seinen, but what about SBR and JoJolion?

haven't gotten to reading those two yet.

One Piece has way less battles than it used to though

Naruto, Jojo and Gash Bell weren't focused on adventure in the first place. It's only in the beginning that Jojo's a battle manga, the later parts are a bunch of other genres (to varying points of success.) Yugi and Dragonball are the only ones that went from weird shenanigans with a loose theme to a single aspect focus that became narrower over time, and as notes, Toriyama never fully lost his desire to introduce random new characters and locales and jokes.

>After part 2 it just didn't feel like much of an adventure, 3 and 5 , 6 was enemy of the week
You realize the two aren't mutually exclusive right?

>be Mashima
>rip off One Piece, give it a space setting with fanservice
>the search for treasure is now a search for a space mommy goddess
>actually good themes for arcs, only they're on planets instead of islands (arcs involving human trafficking, former sex slave, virtual reality all build up to picking a fight with a loan shark that goes horribly wrong)
>these aren't expanded upon for maximum storytelling impact because pacing is too fast
Mashima's number autism led to a big boss getting defeated by chapter 100 while Oda's number autism is getting him to stall unbearably until 1000
Is there a mangaka out there who's not fucking autistic and has decent pacing?

Attached: 11.jpg (1242x1864, 637.67K)

Something something something, its about the journey not the destination something something The End.

The more I hear about Eden's Zero, the more I like it.

I am aware, everyone was traveling, but we never really got to take in the splendor of such places....


>Naruto, Jojo and Gash Bell weren't focused on adventure in the first place

Naruto, well they went on missions to various locales, i.e. land of waves, chunin exams...It would have been nice to see many places like that in the manga outside of konoha.

With gash, it was about the mamono battles sure, but there was quite a bit of travel as well.

With jojo's fighting against vampire dio and the pilliar men just felt like a fucking quest, while the 3rd enemies appeared while they were just making there way through real world countries.

>Oda's number autism is getting him to stall unbearably until 1000
Pacing's fine if you read it in one go. It's the weekly treatmill that makes Onigashima feel slow due to so much stuff happening at once.

So what you miss isn't adventure, it's travel. Also Jojo Part 1 has terrible sense of adventure, it's all battles with very little focus spent on interesting locales.

Most of the new world stuff is just neat setpieces. None of those settings have been explored as deep as say, skypiea. They are mostly just backdrops for clashes. Zou was cool though

>Many shonen manga lose there sense of adventure over the course of the series and focus on power levels
Pic related managed to do both, too bad it got a rushed ending.
Still very much worth reading though

Attached: 1561564654654.jpg (322x500, 129.58K)

How did this shit manage to get a promotional anime with OP and DBZ when it was so new?

The author was good friends with Oda

number autism makes me wonder whihc mangaka started doing this in their series

Jump rushed and thought it was the next One Piece when they saw the sells from one of its good arcs plus being friends with Oda. It was a good series but didn't need to be pushed as hard as it did and maybe then we could have gotten a better anime by ufotable like the OVA they did.

Blatant nepotism

Toriko was the last shounen manga that gave me the feeling of watching/reading and adventure.

The most adventurous shounen mange is still Full Metal Alchemist.

Did you read Phantom Blood? The Windknight’s Lot portion has the most “adventure” in the entire series, even if there are still battles.

This. Environmental hurdles got replaced by stronger enemies.

One Piece has 1 huge problem which is

TOO MANY CHARACTERS

let's not forget about shit story, shit art and shit pacing.