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Why deny Bleach is the most influential to New Gen Mangas, when the proof is directly from said authors?

This isn’t an attempt to take away nor downplay the other Big 3, but to give Bleach the recognition & respect as the others receive.

So, what's y'all opinion on this?

Side note i made this image in like one minute lol

Was Part 2 a mess compared to everything else he made? Yeah, unfortunately. But I still had fun from beginning to end with every single project he's ever made.

17-26 is amazing, Fire Punch is damn near perfect in my opinion, Look Back and Goodbye Eri just straight-up ARE perfect (in my opinion), and I've never fallen in love with a manga the way I did when I picked up Chainsaw Man for the first time.

I know Fujimoto gets slandered for how he handled Part 2, especially the ending. And yeah, that's very true. Compared to his other works, it's pretty bad. But honestly, I wasn't thinking about any of that while I was reading it. I was just having fun reading a story I've loved for years. Did I like the ending on my first read? No, I didn't. But I grew to like it more after some rereading over the past few months.

I'll always love Fujimoto's works, even with whatever flaws that may come with it. Because at the end of the day, he's an author and an artist who's made some of my favorite pieces of fiction ever.

I find it really fascinating reading up on what great people were doing before they became THE great people, sometimes even spying some elements that would become quintessentially them. Granted, I haven't read THAT many works of this kind, but enough to have two favorites.

• Baoh the Visitor (Hirohiko Araki, JJBA). It's a relatively short series Araki wrote directly before JoJo and, honestly, it has enough trademark bizarreness I tend to think of Baoh as "JoJo Part 0", which is exactly why I love it. It also has a cool OVA and its protagonist, Ikuro, appears in JoJo fighting games. Funny enough, Ikuro, in his empowered form, Baoh, carries a lot of similarities with Pillar Men, JoJo Part 2 villains.
• A Man Called Ribs (Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer). Out of one one-shots Gotouge has, this is one that wasn't even really intended to be serialized, but I find the protagonist, Abara, interesting, a blind exorcist guy who can only see shapes of humans' goodness and evil (he's also just a cute little goober). Gotouge's pre-KnY one-shots also take place in the same universe and it's kinda fun to see cameos between them. Pretty sure Abara inspired Douma in KnY with his odd disposition and the one-shot's antagonist inspired Daki with cloth-related powers.

Any fun pre-FAME work anyone can bring up? And I don't think Toriyama's Dr. Slump should count, since it was already kinda of a big deal, but if you like it, why not? Yap away!

Toei really thought this ep would make us watch Toriko.

Japanese teenage boys don't want to read battles anymore. They want to read about their crushes getting assaulted and/or fucked by other men

Edit: I forgot One Piece did it too