Best shonen

We all agree that these three are the best battle shonen manga in the medium, right?

Magi and FMA are decent, HXH is overrated, incomplete and long over due

Magi "I must get over 50 replies"?

>no ippo
>no slam dunk
>no sports anything
what are you smoking?

Sports manga are not battle shonen

Yeah pretty much

Magi>>FMA>>>>>>>HxH

Finally someone with good taste in Sup Forums

FMA

>One Piece
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Magi wins because Alibaba is sexy.

What popular series hasn't been called overrated these days. The word means nothing.

Define "shonen". Why do people only include battle manga?

>One Piece

Seriously?

God, those designs are embarrassing.

They aren't battle shounen, but I give you props for good taste.

Read it carefully. I have specified battle shonen.

Those were the only battle shounen manga/anime I didn't drop halfway through, so I suppose they're the best in the genre.

Sorry but those are not battle shonen. Anyway, those are great spokon manga. Good taste.

tegami bachi is better than all 3 of those

one piece = hxh >>> fma >>>>>>>>>>>>rest of the crap

haha i'm being le ironic
have an upvote my friend

was this the logical conclusion to the battle shonen genre.

Gash Bell.
Maybe YYH and HxH.
The rest is shit and should be disregarded.battle Battle shonen anime needs to have a ban that halts any future production on it.

Naruto
Naruto: Shipuden
Naruto: Boruto
Datebayo!

80s delinquent battle shonens > World Trigger = HxH > FMA > One Piece > the rest
I don't remember a lot about Gash Bell or YYH because I saw those series like more than ten years ago.

>No Sangokushi
>No Dragon Quest: The Emblem of Roto
>No Gash Bell
>No Astro Boy
>No Trigun
>No Kekkaishi

>10 year old reads shounen battle manga for the first time

The real GOATs are Hokuto no Ken, Kinnikuman and Rokudenashi Blues. Back when WSJ was undisputed the best magazine for shounen battle manga.

>80s delinquent battle shonens
This man knows.

>tfw the Rokudenashi Blues translation is slow as fuck
I guess it's time to learn moonrunes.

Or French, they love it there. It's criminal that it's not available in English given how huge it was.

>people unironically think One Piece is on the same level of HXH or FMA

Magi has an incredible screenplay and an exceptional world-building. Fullmetal Alchemist is a very balanced series in all respects. HxH is not well written as Magi and FMA, but it has very good fighting.

I like Gash because it managed to meld long-running with proper conclusion. Most series seem to forget the definitition of an ending.

HxH and Magi are not top 3.

why is HxH so hyped? it has some cool characters but the world building is lacking and the story so far is just a 5 arcs long adventure, in which only 2 of them are actually really good

One Piece doesn't even compare to FMA, but it's certainly better than HxH

>people unironically have opinions that I don't share
Terrifying.

Magi has an incredible screenplay, very well written and an exceptional world-building. Magi is in top 3.

is magi still good?

dropped it after all the sameface in the Solomon arc and the EXTREME MAGIC

>incredible screenplay,
?

fma is stupid

It would make an excellent book, yes.

However, this is manga. The characters look too similar and likely as a result of that, the storytelling became messy and convoluted. A lot of people dropped it for this reason. It's not top 3.

this

>people unironically think HxH is on the same level as FMA

>fuck body up
>look for a way to fix them
>find out the govenment is doing some sketchy shit
>stop the government

??

>world trigger

>no hnk

I agree, FMA is quite shit in comparison, especially the ending

>dropped it after all the sameface in the Solomon arc and the EXTREME MAGIC
Well, that's a lot of ground to cover. Over 100 chapters. There will probably be some parts you love and other parts you won't be so keen on. I still like it. Especially after the recent developments with Alibaba.

Maybe it's the lack of a decent anime adaptation. I know it had two live-actions, but gaijin aren't interested on that.
It's pretty sad, Rokudenashi Blues is a great series and it has some of the best fights on manga.

Alibaba is probably the main reason I'll probably pick it up again

>Shonan Junai Gumi!
>Kyou kara Ore wa!!
You forgot these, user.

>HxH is incomplete and long over due
it had a gratifying enough midpoint, that I'm basically fine with it being a bit meandering from here on out

My man

> I can not read more than one line
> so it's not a nice manga
What?

Magi would've been perfect if it had kept its' adventure vibe, too bad the chick who made it decided to place all the World Building in Sinbad no Bouken and turn the main series into her Sinbad fap material

>Kyou kara Ore wa!!

Great shit.

Good taste.

HxH is fun.
It's a carefully crafted trainwreck with a great magic system and character designs.
To be honest, Togashi's writing is an adquired taste, but I enjoy his "unconventional" take on battle shonens.

>But I'm amazing!
Based Baba.

oh yeah it's fun, but it's just lots of people act like it's a masterpiece in every way when there's not much to it

HxH is not top 3.

I think reather than it being a masterpiece, it's a good example of how to make a formulaic battle shounen that doesn't grow old after a couple of arcs. It just has a good sense of adventure.
The anime version is pretty tedious though with all of the exposition around the fight scenes. I had to drop it after the Greed Island Arc because it got the point where any 10seconds of action were met with 10 minutes of explaining the "nen magicks" that you couldn't see during the fight.

>HxH
>formulaic
What?

If we're talking anime I can back up HxH, but the art quality of the manga is too inconsistent for me to say its one of the best.

Clearly it's not me who can't read since you couldn't comprehend that I wasn't complaining about wordiness at all.

Too much exposition and narration is a whole other ballpark and is more of a HxH trait anyway.

Follows the traditional shonen formula to a T.
>Nonsense mystical powers.
>Arcs clearly defined by locations or enemies.
>Tournament Arcs
>Named attacks that are shouted.
>Main character is naive, and can only be weaker than someone if it is made clear that he has the potential to surpass them
>story designed to go on as long asthe mangaka desires, with no set ending in sight
>main character is estranged from their father

I'm more interested in how you think it isn't formulaic.

It's a masterpiece only when compared to other battle shounen.

>only battle shounen he read was the big 3 and Dragon Ball

FMA was literally better in the fake anime than the real thing. The whole dad god thing was stupid.

"Dad's former wife" thing was flawless though

Killua is cute!

Why do HxH fags always place their "okay" series on such a massive pedestal?
What led to this widespread delusion?

People who prefer the 2003 ending to the FMA:B ending is one of my taste indicators.
You have good taste.

Literally the only magic battle shounen in the same tier as HxH is Gash Bell.
FMA went full retard on the second half.

go back to /r9k/ and stop crossboarding your shit memes

to answer your question though, I think it's because the manga got big in the US at a time where the biggest shows were Bleach and Naruto, and compared to those, HxH is like Shakespeare.

Alibaba is the best.

>I'm more interested in how you think it isn't formulaic.
Because arcs don't follow a formula? Do you know what that word means?

What you listed are mostly just contrived "tropes" that often aren't played straight and trying to make them fit your narrative, such as
>Tournament Arcs
You mean arc and the characters weren't interested in the tournament in the slightest or even came close to winning it, if you can list 3 other "tournament arcs" that are similar in that fashion i'd legitimately be impressed
>Nonsense mystical powers.
Literally one of the things that defines the genre, that's like saying a sci-fi movie is formulaic because it's set in space
>Named attacks that are shouted
Why the plural again? I'll admit it's been a long time since i read HxH but as far as i remember that only applies to Gon, and it's actually one of the restrictions on his attack
>Main character is naive, and can only be weaker than someone if it is made clear that he has the potential to surpass them
He's weaker than like 99% of the cast and he's definitely not naive, i remember scenes such as the one with Pouf and Knuckle where he deduced he wasn't being honest with little information

And my favorite
>Arcs clearly defined by locations or enemies.
That's the literal definition of a story arc, what the fuck were you even thinking when you wrote this absolute mess of a post

Magi is better written than HxH and Gashbell.

I'm happy he got a qt lion waifu. He'll miss out on wizard status though.

FMA is an all around good series that's pretty consistent in quality, but I'd still say JoJo and even One Piece have better peaks despite being way more hit and miss.

Magi is boring as fuck fujobait with tons of pointless infodumps.

I really wish this was unironic, as I still have to find a manga I enjoyed on the same level of HxH and that would bring me hope for the medium to not be a complete shithole.

>fujobait
The only actual faggot is Judar.

You're missing this jewel.

HxH had only two good arcs
first two were ok and the Greed Island was a fucking chore

basically the same track record as Naruto

Not him, but shonen that are more focused on the adventure than the fights are not that common to begin with. There are barely any one on one fights in the Hunter Exam, and the New New York arc just has one proper battle between one of the heroes and one of the villain group.

What I described is the formula people use to create a battle shounen.
The arcs do indeed follow their own formula as well (enemy introduction, initial setback, physical growth, victory). But quite frankly no matter what I say, you're just going to come up with some contrived argument against.
Several of the characters shout their attacks, and describe them at great detail literally in the middle of fights, if you haven't read it recently, don't talk out your ass.
HunterxHunter actually has 2 tournament arcs, not just the heavens arena. The Hunters exam is a modified tournament arc, which follows the fomrula much more closely. Taking a slightly new approach to a dormula doesn't mean it still isn't following the formula.

A formula is a collection of tropes. But you're a fucking retard, so just keep on thinking HxH is some sort of glorious pillar of shonen manga you fucking pleb.

>comparing HxH to a literal rip-off

Magi is so great no one reads it

I'm a simple man, i like delinquent shit like Crows series.

"series Naruto took from" does not "the best battle shounen" make

quite the opposite

fujos read it

Gash is good but too repetitive and boring battles
I like it alot when it is a comedy series

replace Magi with Gash bell
replace HxH with FotNS

>mods deleted my pepe image
WOW. this place is going to shit. whats next, this is bait images becoming a ban-able offense?
And I just know that mod is autistic liberal who equates pepe to "THE ALT RIGHT".

good taste

Early dragon ball, pretty fun adventure series with serious parts sprinkled throughout and the characters are likeable. Probably isn't the best though just my personal pick

fuck off, it's crossboarding, simple as that
you're the one being Sup Forumsitical

there are plenty of pepes and bait memes with anime themes that you can post, this is an "anime image board," you dig?

stupid frogposter
you know Sup Forums doesn't like crossboarders

>Sup Forums
>giving a fuck about politics
Mods deleted it because Pepe is cancerous as fuck.
Fuck off back to your favorite social network with your normalfag memes.

Ping pong the animation that is all