User blog comment:XGlass Reflection/Episode 5 Review~ DON'T HEADBUTT A LADY!!/@comment-9096809-20130505184020/@comment-5070377-20130510171350

Hunter x Hunter isn't new. And Toriko is epic, but is it good? No, not particularly. It completely lacks characterization and character development, etc. It's OKAY at best. Being epic just means... well, it's epic! XD These guys can destroy mountains with punches and continent bust. Tommyrod vs. Toriko was BEAST! how Tommyrod gnawed Toriko's arm up too the stump and Toriko was bashing his skull in with a bloody stump; again... undoubtably epic. XD

And why are you bringing up series that are better then the big 3? When have ANY of us said the big 3 are the best? No one. You mention mangaka with multiple contributions, oh? you mean like Naoki Urasawa, Takehiko Inoue or Junji Ito? All these mangaka are obviously far superior to Eiichiro Oda, Tite Kubo and Masashi Kishimoto as well as their works because they made multiple series and all of them just brilliant, like Naoki Urasawa has a catelog of absolute brilliance like Monster, 20th Century Boys, 21st Century Boys, Billy Bat (still ongoing with 98 chapters presently), Happy!, Pluto, etc and Takehiko Inoue has Slam Dunk, Real and Vagabond and who doesn't know Junji Ito as the master of horror manga? I mean, Uzumaki gave me nightmares. Let's continue to Makoto Yukimura with Planetes and Vinland Saga or Itoshi Iwaaki with Historie, Heureka and Parasyte; or let's move onto Togashi Yoshihiro with YuYu Hakush or (of course) Hunter x Hunter or, in the same vein name authors who simply managed to recreate the exact same feel and tone without dropping the quality itself such as Hiroyuki Takei who wrote Shaman King then brought up Shaman King Zero and Shaman King Flowers. I mean, I don't know why you brought the fact you can name series better then the big 3, so can I? Naruto and Bleach aren't even impressive to begin, maybe mediocre at best. One Piece is only, just good (maybe a notch above good, you'll probably never find a plot more complex in shonen) at best. Then you have amazing or utterly brilliant series. Even naming mangaka better then those 3 though is easy to do.

If we're specifically talking about just shonen authors with one bit of work, who're better then the big 3 as well, do I really need to mention Nobuhiro Watsuka of Rurouni Kenshin? :/ I only tackled one point you made, the rest I chose to ignore as someone else can address that. XD

I will address the One Piece comment though, OF COURSE it has flaws. Big ones too, such as pacing or contradictory deaths which ruin impact (e.g. Pell, etc) but what makes One Piece so brilliant is the world building, character development and the plot itself which is quite complex and rich as well as other aspects such as consistency within its own writing.

Oh yeah, also to clarify something I don't think I said Hunter x Hunter, Gamaran or the other various series I mentioned were better then One Piece. All though only thing that stops Hunter x Hunter is those inconsistent releases and maybe the inconsistency or cop outs that Togashi sometimes delivers such as how Mereum got taken out. XD

P.S: Rurouni Kenshin followed by Shaman King are still the best shonen manga though, their characterization, etc is just TOO good. ^^