Mainstream shonen's author works

MoonlightShadow

MoonlightShadow

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I haven't done full through reseach about this but anyway.. i'll just write it haha.. (yea bit lazy)

So.. about mainstream shonen's author.. that would be Akira Toriyama, Eichiro Oda, Masashi Kishimoto and Kohei Horikoshi. Well i do get the impression that they are only good with their notable work, like.. what is Akira Toriyama other work than DB? it's only gag series like Dr.Slump, same with Kishimoto, what his notable work beside Naruto? the same with the other two

So from what i see they don't have anything worth than their notable work. Well.. this could be good for most people but i prefer author who write numerous good work rather than one
 
Toriyama is famous for doing work on video games, like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. He’s also put out a few other short her series.

Also these guys work for Weekly Shonen Jump, so they probably are tied up writing one series weekly for xxx years, so it’s difficult having an ongoing weekly series and put out multiple others.

The other guys you’re more into probably have a mo they series, where it’s more manageable to have multiple ongoing series, or their main manga didn’t last very long.
 
Star_Of_Hope said:
More like their other works will be compared to the popular one, for these authors.
People can be picky
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Okay. But my actual point on this thread is those authors seems like 'one title wonder' author to me, they might be busy with their big title but after it finished their other works is not so good and.. to be honest, it looks minor
 


Okay. But my actual point on this thread is those authors seems like 'one title wonder' author to me, they might be busy with their big title but after it finished their other works is not so good and.. to be honest, it looks minor
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I see
I do get that but if it's another author, then the same work would have gained more popularity. That's what I believe
 
Star_Of_Hope said:
I see
I do get that but if it's another author, then the same work would have gained more popularity. That's what I believe
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Yea.. i prefer author who capable to make numerous quality series than a big one like them
 
White_Tiger_Of_Lunar_Mountain said:
Yea.. i prefer author who capable to make numerous quality series than a big one like them
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I see
Just one work can make them world famous. Don't you think that's something?
 
White_Tiger_Of_Lunar_Mountain said:


Okay. But my actual point on this thread is those authors seems like 'one title wonder' author to me, they might be busy with their big title but after it finished their other works is not so good and.. to be honest, it looks minor
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[quote="Grungie" pid='201822' dateline='1591252830']
It depends on how you look at it for “one title wonder”. Some of it is more you don’t care for their other series, but plenty of others do. 

Also I’m pretty sure it’s tiresome keeping up with a weekly series for several years. You spend 6+ years of your life dedicated to one series, maybe you’re burned out from doing that again and just keep it to a few shorter ones.

It might seem minor in hindsight, but if you think about it, some of these series were done weekly for over a decade. Think about how rough that is.
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i can see why keeping track of a long series can be hard grungie
but i think whitey got a point. none of these authors have a decent other work to showcase.
 
Blackangel said:
i can see why keeping track of a long series can be hard grungie
but i think whitey got a point. none of these authors have a decent other work to showcase.
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[quote="Grungie" pid='201839' dateline='1591257211']
I wouldn’t say none of them do, I thought some of Toriyama’s other work was fun.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare an artist who has a decade + long weekly series to an artist who has several shorter series that come out monthly, or less.

I’m sure it takes the same amount of work, but I don’t think you guys think it takes the same amount of work. I think you guys are looking at some of this in hindsight, and are not familiar with the work involves.

I would say one hit wonder would make more sense if we were taking about artists who only had one notable series that was pretty short. I would say that’s massively different than drawing Naruto for 20 years.
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i know a little of how authors get sick while doing all the hard work.
but for a great author like that, it wouldn't be too hard to come up with another series after that. something like kishimoto can do after naruto ended. not trying to criticize anyone here. i am trying to understand this as well
 
[quote="Grungie" pid='201842' dateline='1591258090']
I don’t think Kishimoto is a good example, because Boruto is a continuation of Naruto.

I’m getting similar vibes from you guys that I see from people complaining about Youtubers who have monthly (or less) content as opposed to having weekly content and using that as a qualifier of quality. The monthly content takes longer to produce, but you’re responding “yeah, but they have weekly videos”.

I’m not going into quantity vs quality, I’m going into creator investment time.
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boruto is not being written by kishimoto, anymore grungie
we are just complaining a little because we got nothing better to do and everything is on hold and we don't find popular works much these days. sorry if it's a nag
 
Blackangel said:
boruto is not being written by kishimoto, anymore grungie
we are just complaining a little because we got nothing better to do and everything is on hold and we don't find popular works much these days. sorry if it's a nag
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[quote="Grungie" pid='201848' dateline='1591258544']
Idk, maybe you guys need to branch out of “popular” works. You can find real gems just by digging below the top layer.
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i think so too
but those are very rare and half of the time, i get distracted a lot by the art work.
 
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