There has to be sprinkles of fantasy elements to make it possible so it doesnt look like it targets a very realistic aspect of certain groups
Black Cat.
Power scaling?? lool, everyone can make a power scaling like toriko. For worldbuilding, toriko was really appealing for it. Beautiful
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Not gonna lie imo, I want zipuman to succeed. As long it keeps going to the right direction, it can really be the kamen rider mha for japan instead of USA like mha
From a western perspective, I'm still shocked that we had a manga about high schoolers with guns trying to murder their teacher in a classroom setting (and that it became one of Jump's most popular ever series). At least from the surface it seems like such a hot take to have in a kids magazine in the 21st century (putting aside the half baked Japanese education system social commentary and nearly non existent character development/focus for most of the cast).
Assassination Classroom for sure. It has a very weird and weak premise and generic setting (imo), but with a unique touch to it (the teacher being an alien and the students being assassins)
I always took black cat more of the bounty hunter route, maybe a reread would be good for me
I have to say One Piece. A pirate manga is a little strange for a concept now that I thought about it.
Assassination classroom for sure! I also think that David manga too
Death Note. It's the most unique manga for me on WSJ, by far. Nothing remotely similar was able to exist there since then.
JoJo Bizarre Adventure part 1-6
It never started "bad" just a bit slow, the art for some were a bit confused too but overall it was fine and gets better each chapter specially with ch7.
I disagree on all of those except one piece. Even their twists and turns are relatively simple, which is not a bad thing in itself.
There were large complicated events with many different things going on at once and even for a simple fetch quest like some gourmet world arcs there was such a complex world built around just that one mission, modern series are simply simpler compared to it.
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Naw. Power scaling has many aspects to it and is not simply about upping the numbers, contrary to what you believe.
Bastard!! Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy.
Not Jump, but Magi dabbled heavily in distorted Abrahamic mythology towards the end (David, Solomon) (and often teased throughout).Bastard!! Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy.
It had some DnD stuff going on at the start and it was always just on the border of being a sienen. Despite the dark and gritty tone of the world and the events taking place it never took it self too seriously which ar first I found kinda jarring. Like, breaking the 4th wall while facing against monsters that ate literally killing everyone around them.
Im trying not to spoil here but when it gets to the later parts of the story when we see the ancient kingdom and how it was destroyed that threw me right off. I didn't expect any of that. I don't think I have ever seen a manga that actually has a plot tied in to the actual Christian Bible. Not some mythology that has loosely got some biblical inspiration or whatever. The actual bible. Being a Christian growing up in a Christian household I found that so sick
Sorry for rambling
I really would like to see more manga like Bastard though. The closest we have in jump in terms of the world is Black Clover since it's the only other fantasy I can think off. Though its norse mythology. And the closest manga to Bastard in recent times imo is Chainsawman cause they are both just barely shonen manga and are extremely hilarious without being a comedy and various other reasons... I'm gonna stop now.
Always found it kinda werid how it turned from wizard magic to literal Heaven vs Hell. Bastard!! is way more bizarre than Jojo is, I can tell you that.Bastard!! Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy.
It had some DnD stuff going on at the start and it was always just on the border of being a sienen. Despite the dark and gritty tone of the world and the events taking place it never took it self too seriously which ar first I found kinda jarring. Like, breaking the 4th wall while facing against monsters that ate literally killing everyone around them.
Im trying not to spoil here but when it gets to the later parts of the story when we see the ancient kingdom and how it was destroyed that threw me right off. I didn't expect any of that. I don't think I have ever seen a manga that actually has a plot tied in to the actual Christian Bible. Not some mythology that has loosely got some biblical inspiration or whatever. The actual bible. Being a Christian growing up in a Christian household I found that so sick
Sorry for rambling
I really would like to see more manga like Bastard though. The closest we have in jump in terms of the world is Black Clover since it's the only other fantasy I can think off. Though its norse mythology. And the closest manga to Bastard in recent times imo is Chainsawman cause they are both just barely shonen manga and are extremely hilarious without being a comedy and various other reasons... I'm gonna stop now.
Please enlight me with toriko such complex power scaling ☻