The future of the big three.

Miki-Miki-Fanboy said:
I think the Shounen world should just end with them.

AnarchicSloth said:
I think they will just die off or new ones will replace them. fairy tail seems like the next in line but I personally think all of them are pretty mediocre (except for one piece because I haven't seen it and I refuse to criticize something I haven't watched)

Shadow-Samaaaa said:

Not gonna happen. The shounen magazines are still going strong, Shounen is the most popular demographic of anime and manga, deal with it. Both manga of OP and Bleach are still ongoing. So is HxH's manga. I personally think moe-shit should just end, but it's not gonna happen.

deadleeserious said:
Oda will still be writing One Piece when Earth has become a post-apocalyptic landscape and he's the only person left alive (presumably in a bunker that resembles the below deck Thousand Sunny)

The HXH manga is starting to pick up again and will likely have a second season provided there aren't too many hiatuses, Fairy Tail is still around, Gintama is still going strong, Toriko is very popular in Japan, shounen will be fine without Naruto and Bleach for a while I'm sure. There are new titles all the time, something will take their place eventually.

ScazoN said:
When Naruto ends, Shounen no longer has a future.



;_;

Miki-Miki-Fanboy said:

i never said anything about Moe shit, in fact i would like the Moe/harem shit to die already, but i want to see more mature anime rather then dumb dues ex machina, although there are good shounen anime they are few and rare. that's why i said that

FloatsBoats said:
The future is bright as long as Togashi keeps writing. We may just have to wait a couple hundred years.

Shadow-Samaaaa said:
There are plenty of good seinen anime/manga out there. And I never said that you said anything about moe-shit, I was just stating my opinion about moe.

deadleeserious said:
Oda will still be writing One Piece when Earth has become a post-apocalyptic landscape and he's the only person left alive (presumably in a bunker that resembles the below deck Thousand Sunny)

The HXH manga is starting to pick up again and will likely have a second season provided there aren't too many hiatuses, Fairy Tail is still around, Gintama is still going strong, Toriko is very popular in Japan, shounen will be fine without Naruto and Bleach for a while I'm sure. There are new titles all the time, something will take their place eventually.

deadleeserious said:
Gintama is still going strong

Shadow-Samaaaa said:
I seriously hope, if there are replacements, that HxH will replace Naruto since Fairy Tail is a generic, predictable shounen.

AnarchicSloth said:

HxH probably will replace them if it returns but people are complaining about the manga author's long hiatuses so it may not live long enough to become as big.

romagia said:
the traditional 'big 3' won't be replaced ever cause its a term used to refer just to naruto bleach and one piece which were the best selling mango with long animu adaptations when the term was coined

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/01/one-piece-tops-2013-manga-sales-in-japan
snk, magi, kuroko manga outsold 2 out of the big 3, so in that way they you could consider them the new big 3, but the big 3 still have a way longer anime which makes them stand stronger
toriko, fairy tail, gintama and hxh are the only best selling mango with 100+ eps anime newer than the big 3, and thus similar enough to them to be put in the same category
but since fairy tail is the only one that is ongoing and won't end anytime soon, it's the only one that can actually compare to the big 3, in terms of both manga and anime
but it will never replace them

AnarchicSloth said:
I'm sorry, I used the wrong words. I should have said "next big three" instead. I hope that clarifies what I meant. Also I hope magi does become as "big" as the three (confirmed fanboy)

romagia said:
manga-wise, magi, snk and kuroko already beat naruto, and like 10 more titles outsold bleach in 2013, but anime-wise i don't see them getting even getting a very long ongoing adaptation like the original big 3 because of changes in the industry

-Riptide- said:
Pokemon will be the last anime standing.

ExtraZero said:
Bleach will last 10 more years as stated by Kubo.

Ryukatsuka said:

No it won't.

And fun fact: It was Ichigo's VA Masakazu Morita who said that instead of the falsified rumor claiming it was Kubo. He was joking too might I add. It was in an interview where he asked Kubo if the story was going to continue for a few more years, Kubo nodded and said "Something like that yes" and then Morita shouted "Hey everybody, Kubo just said it's going to continue for 10 more years!"

Laughs were had, context was lost.

NeoAnkara said:
Mathematically it could last for at least 5 year since (if I'm not mistaken) Kubo say that last arc will be longer than Arrancar arc.

aboe said:
the toriko manga is prime big 3 level

tsudecimo said:
Goodness the ignorance here.

There is nothing to replace. It's a western term specifically made for those three titles. It doesn't get updated, changed or anything.

And the future of Shounen manga is not gonna get affected if Naruto ends, or if even One Piece ends, seeing as it's the most popular manga demographic, and there are always next big manga from Shounen magazines (Attack on Titan, AssClass, Magi, KnB, etc)

kurosaki344 said:
As many of us are aware, Hunter x Hunter(2011)'s Anime is ending, Naruto is being said to end "soon" and Bleach is slowly entering it's final stages. Once it's all said and done, this will be giving One Piece the glory of being the one that still stands, but in modern society, there will always be differences in opinions, so there will always be those who will be liking something than others just for that sole purpose. What series do you think will replace those that are soon to end? How much do you think that the Shounen world will change?