Why is this shit even in the Big 3?
Why is this shit even in the Big 3?
We are still talking about Bleach today. Fast forward a decade and no one will remember Demon Slayer. People barely remember it now.
No one talks about Bleach
The real question is why One Piss is in the big three instead of Fairy Tail or Hunter x Hunter
There was never a "Big 3", Bleach was never anywhere near as big or culturally impactful as One Piece or Naruto.
This so-called "Big 3" is just a Western term/fabrication, but to say, within the confines of Jump and Japan (the market that matters the most), Bleach was never a top three series. In fact, Bleach was only in WSJ's so-called "Big 3" for 4 years since its debut:
2004 and 2005 Big 3 were One Piece, Naruto, and Death Note
2010 Bleach was outsold by Hitman Reborn
2011 Bleach was outsold by Toriko
Isn't Demon Slayer more of a boob manga?
Not a real question at all desu
Many are saying this
I never watched or read Bleach. I used to be a One Piece fan but I lost interest since Dress Rosa and I only watched the Naruro anime not Shippuden and I also din't read the Naruto manga but I got spoiled most of the important story details like the Itachi vs Sasuke fight and Orochimaru somehow appearing out of nowhere there, the Pain arc, the Madara stuff and the bullshit with Kaguya.
I like to meme Bleach as being a masterpiece and being much better than Naruto and One Piece just to annoy Naruto and One Piece fans.
The fact is, none of the big three were ever good. Shitty themed knockoffs of DBZ.
outsold by Hitman Reborn
outsold by Toriko
Now that's just sad.
nardocucks and wanpissfags BTFO
They have little in common with DBZ. Bleach especially takes more from Yu Yu Hakusho.
There is no big 3. It's a term made up by w*stoids. Literally no japanese in their right mind unironically uses this term. Fuck your w*stern propaganda.
go back
People can't comprehend that the "Big 3" was a solely Western thing and that Bleach was never standing shoulder to shoulder with Naruto and OP in terms of sales and impact. The actual big 3 in Japan was DB/Naruto/OP with something like Slam Dunk and HxH off to the side.
big 3
Not a thing, it was big 1 and it still is that being one piece
Saying ds should be on the big 3 is like saying Kobe should be on the fab5. It's a time-sensitive trio.
Bleach is a YYK (DBZ inspired) ripoff then goes full DBZ
Naruto starts off as a HxH (literally Togashi’s take on Dragon Ball) ripoff then devolves into kamehamehas and super saiyan
One Piece is a Dragon Ball ripoff from day 1
I love Dragon Ball but I think it ruined battle shonen.
the Big 3
Explain this to me, Americans.
It didn't ruin anything, it set the standard
The global audience is bigger now, retard.
many
anime world
You don’t know what the big 3 actually means. DBZ can’t be in it because it predates it.
most people grew up watching/reading bleach
kimetsu is a zoomer manga
next question
No, he described exactly what the Big 3 was. The 3 most popular shonen anime when the medium was becoming mainstream in the west. Him mentioning DB was only in the context of Japan which is already moot since the "Big 3" as it is discussed here was just a thing in the west
I'd like to remind people just how terrible Bleach is to read by pointing out that Bleach is 72 volumes long while Dragon Ball is 42 volumes long. But wait, it gets worse! Bleach chapters tend to be about 18 pages long, while because Dragon Ball started as a gag manga, Dragon Ball's chapters are 15 pages long. Bleach is a slog to read because Kubo wastes as many pages as possible to stall for seemingly no reason. Bleach takes place over the course of a few years while Dragon Ball sees Goku go from kid to adult. Kubo is genuinely a terrible writer.
Big 3 refers specifically to three manga which saved a specific magazine in a specific time period of hardship for them, not the 3 best shounenshit manga or whatever or think it means.
It is strange that despite both being One Piece and Naruto way more successful than Bleach, it was Bleach that has been endlessly copied both aesthetically and structurally. Like no battle shonen tries the weird cartoony style of One Piece, but they love to copy Bleach's whole "Monster Hunting Organization" setup.
That's because Bleach is so ass that other mangaka read it and thought to themselves, "Man... This shit is SO ass. I could do better than that." No one looks at One Piece or Naruto and thinks they can surpass them. Bleach is piss easy to copy and surpass.
but they love to copy Bleach's whole "Monster Hunting Organization" setup.
That was in no way unique to Bleach nor is Bleach even what popularized it.
I dunno what it is but Bleach's aesthetic never really piqued my interest like Naruto and it's ninjas or One Piece and it's cartoony pirates, like it's always felt more by the books
Maybe not so much the concept in general but the particular way it did it with "Squads" and "Captains", like yeah YuYuHakusho (Which Bleach cribbed a lot from) had "Spirit Detectives" hunting monsters but they didn't operate in the same way Bleach popularized.
Dragon Ball is the exception of timetables among shonen.
See how Dresrosa from One Piece.
There were a lot of not!Narutos out there.
but the particular way it did it with "Squads" and "Captains",
How the Gostei 13 is structured, from character roles and story placement, is all taken from the Gold Saints in Saint Seiya, in fact the entire Soul Society arc is pretty much a modern retelling of the Sanctuary arc, so no, Bleach didn't stablish that either.
Mushoku Tensei didn't invent isekai either, but (most newfags are actually unaware of that) it was the one that set a standard for the entire isekai boom.
Sasuke retrieval arc also had a similar structure.
Bleach anime movies = 500 million yen
DS anime movies = 50 BILLIONS yen
literally no one cares about Bleach except the people that grew up withit