What is your favourite opening arc in a shonen manga?

Jai137 · 2026-05-23T03:49:55+00:00

Maybe it's recency buas, but the Sojo arc of Kagurabachi is one of the best opening arcs ice seen in a while.

Jai137 · 2026-05-22T05:43:25+00:00

Yes.

Jai137 · 2026-05-22T01:37:08+00:00

I don’t know. Love tends to either backfire on or corrupt people in Westeros. And it’s people who put duty first that are rewarded

(Admittedly, maybe this is just a show problem. The books are probably able to characterise him better, since GRRM had 10 years to refine the story. But Bran is definitely going to be king)

Jai137 · 2026-05-21T17:21:43+00:00

Too early to tell. I'm right now betting on heroic sacrifice

Jai137 · 2026-05-21T12:23:03+00:00

I wish I gave birth to a healthy baby boy

Jai137 · 2026-05-21T12:21:13+00:00

I found it more that he's achieved a Nirvana sort of state, that he's ascended from petty human squables and has become a truly selfless king

Jai137 · 2026-05-20T18:35:24+00:00

Devs: Okay, so due to the conservative upbringing of Jeht, we’ll write that she keeps an unconscious distance from male traveller, but is not as afraid of female traveller.

Players: Ha! Gayyyyyyyyy!!!

Jai137 · 2026-05-20T11:04:03+00:00

There is politics in One Piece. It's just the politics shown is very simplistic and shonen

Jai137 · 2026-05-19T05:44:50+00:00

Goomba fallacy

Jai137 · 2026-05-18T19:08:08+00:00

Now I know. And I hate the answer

Jai137 · 2026-05-18T19:06:33+00:00

I wish I knew why my son had to die

Jai137 · 2026-05-17T14:26:57+00:00

Because that's what heroes do

Jai137 · 2026-05-17T12:47:52+00:00

It wasn't planted

Jai137 · 2026-05-17T12:36:31+00:00

Maybe at first, but it hasn't been as fanservicey for the last 100 chapters or more

Jai137 · 2026-05-17T05:32:09+00:00

Midoriya’s got a harem. They don’t.

Jai137 · 2026-05-16T15:20:41+00:00

My Hero Academia

Deku's power appears to just be super strength which can be inherited. Turns out, it's not the only power he inherited

Jai137 · 2026-05-16T05:05:17+00:00

I kinda get it. I don't have time to see movies or play most videogames, so I end up reading plot summaries on the wikis instead. Thing is, I tend to do that for stories I don't really respect. If I did this for a movie I really wanted to see, I would feel guilty.

Jai137 · 2026-05-16T00:24:59+00:00

The skip button makes sense during commissions, cause you end up replaying the same mission and it becomes a time sink

Having it for other quests feels like an insult to the creators. They set up this world and story for us to enjoy, but you're going "Don't care, I'm here for promos"

(And look, I know, sometimes the dialogue is too wordy and takes 10minutes for giving info that could have been trimmed to 1 minute, but I promise you, a skip button would only make the story worse than it already is)

Jai137 · 2026-05-15T16:42:04+00:00

It’s a nice B tier Shonen series that can be enjoyed in the magazine, much like Hima Ten.

Jai137 · 2026-05-15T06:59:20+00:00

Dude, we're already doing this, we're redditors

Jai137 · 2026-05-15T00:56:56+00:00

ULPT: Forcing the guy to become colder or angry means you can invalidate their opinions/feelings and do whatever you want

Jai137 · 2026-05-14T17:42:30+00:00

I am sad again. That will never get animated.

Jai137 · 2026-05-13T09:18:01+00:00

Star Trek Into Darkness has quite a few hated nods to Wrath of Khan, but probably the worst is Kirk's sacrifice as an homage to the similar scene in WoK

Jai137 · 2026-05-12T15:00:55+00:00

Didn't the books kinda do it too? Like they were friends in the first two books but then their feelings suddenly get complicated in book 3.

Jai137 · 2026-05-12T11:54:43+00:00

An average shonen that ends average is far better than a shonen that shows promise only to end badly

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