| A lot of magical girl anime fits really well into the found family subgenre |
| There is a "TON" anything from Orange, Re;life, Natsume’s Book of Friends, Devil is a Part Timer, A Place Further Than The Universe, Your lie in april, Honey and Clover. Grand blue, to even sports like Haikyu, Kuroko no basket, and mecha/Super Robots like Gurren Lagann, macros but if were talking strictly shonen here as in battle shonen or long ongoing adventure jump serializations, then the numbers go down considerably. Also, I do think the idea of friendship is often overused in shonen but its also not used to great effect as much as other genre's in my opinion and the writing often goes through some major hurdles. Its hard to find something akin to the same level of poetic heroism and strong almost Shakespearean level monologue as one piece has. Oda is just in a different league when it comes to writing shonen manga and making these powerful messages and feelings of dramatics hit every tone in your body. Fairy tale pretty much screams this but it’s not one I would personally recommend with your expectations for one piece because the writing in FT is often not well executed and full of alot of convenient plot inconsistencies. It does not even reach the same plateau as one piece in that regard. Hiro Mashima's 2nd work Eden Zero is pretty interesting and much improved and its kind of like one piece in space but I have not read enough of it to really base a full accurate opinion on the quality of the work. I personally would pick something that has a bit better writing and characters such as Naruto (original) which has a very strong emphasis on camaraderie and bonds about children growing up in a world full of adversity, learning the ninja way as they are in constant peril by villains, and eventually learn to cooperate together in order to overcome the insurmountable obstacles that lay before them. Naruto was a series that truly taught me alot about the world itself and the interesting life lessons. It’s very interesting in that regards and by the time you finish it, you will feel like you lived to watch this boy grow from an adolescence to a full adult. The development of the MC it self imo is definitely greater then luffy. I have always considered one of the weaker aspects of OP is luffy just does not change at all aside from becoming more bad ass. Naruto actually does grow and mature as learns about him self, his role and world it self through the course of the story. However the dynamic shifts quite heavily in shippuuden with it being more akin to something like Dragon ball Z. (A clash of Superpowers rather than the more grounded ninja aspect like in part 1) so this depends on your preference. So, you will have to check it out and see how you enjoy it if you haven’t already, it’s quite a very popular series and manga. Also, the grandaddy of all shonens, Dragon ball and Z, both have a very heavy focus on friendship, bonds and the like. Um Inuyasha and yu yu Hakusho are also pretty great recs. Great classic shonen series and both have a bit more of a romantic element to them unlike one piece which is pretty much devoid of all romance except for "romantic adventure" :P. Rurouni Kenshin is also pretty great. Other recs: Soul Eater Law of Ueiki Full metal Alchemist Brother hood Hitman Reborn Trigun Outlaw Star Neon Genesis Evangelion Zatch Bell Shaman King Demon Slayer (More about blood relations though) This is really off the top of my head. In order to provide you a more though out recommendation list, I would have to take some time and look into alot of shows. It’s hard to remember them all. I don't specifically know which larger shonen's really hit the same notes as one piece as I don't think anything really has impressed me that much but closest, I think of would probably be Hxh at least in terms of the writing it self, but i would not recommend it for your what you’re looking for. There is some level of bonds and friendship portrayed in the series but often short lived due to the fact that characters don't stick together that much. |
ArtimesGamerAug 19, 2023 7:23 PM
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| HxH does decently well |
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Berdserker said: I feel like Fairy Tail does this pretty well Agreed on Fairy Tail. Mashima`s other work does it well too like Edens Zero and Rave Master. |
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| There are a lot of Shonen that do this, but I'll go with Gintama. |
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| When you realize that the whole straw hats relationship is fake and BS as they know each other for only just over half a year. |
elderonn said: When you realize that the whole straw hats relationship is fake and BS as they know each other for only just over half a year. What you're saying is the logic that applied to 1000+ anime I seen... Anime is still fiction btw |
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xkazutox said: Yeah and there are bad pieces of fiction.elderonn said: When you realize that the whole straw hats relationship is fake and BS as they know each other for only just over half a year. What you're saying is the logic that applied to 1000+ anime I seen... Anime is still fiction btw |
| Seriously though how can anybody be invested in the straw hats relationship. It is so forced and fake. Can anybody explain it to me? Like how much do you need to suspend your disbelief to actually like their bonds?! |
Hacker075 said: elderonn said: Try Spending every hour of your day for half a year on a boat with a group of people and you'll see how a bond can form in such a short time.When you realize that the whole straw hats relationship is fake and BS as they know each other for only just over half a year. If you seriously think that you wouldn't experience anything akin to that, then please seek therapy as you appear to be antisocial to a dangerous degree my friend. A wan piss fan tells me I am anti- social… the irony. |
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Seriously though how can anybody be invested in the straw hats relationship. It is so forced and fake. Can anybody explain it to me? Like how much do you need to suspend your disbelief to actually like their bonds?!
| @elderonn one piece is not about relationships. Wrong choice of words by the OP. It is about comradery. Friends who stick together and support each other through all the adversity they face, that is pretty much what defines shonen and it kind of originates from super sentai tropes. In any case, OP is different in that only is the case with the straw hat crew, other characters in the series have there own individualites, moral code, idealogies, goals and agenda's, etc. So the OP world feels like a real pirate world in that sence. But I will say I like the most recent deveopments with sanji, i think he is probably the most developed character outside of luffy in the entire crew so I hope oda in the future provides some equal growth and change for all of the remaining straw hat members. |
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