On the content and pacing of the Shounen Jump series

The only anime/manga I follow now a days is One Piece. It's pacing allows room for the world to evolve and more stories to unfold that keep things interesting. The characters, I've grown to love.

I dropped out of Naruto and Bleach. The latter...BECAUSE of the pacing. From what I hear, the arc Kubo started in 2006 just ended. What is up with that?! Can't really comment on Naruto though. I can't remeraber why I wasn't digging it.

The original Dragonball's pacing was a bit slow too, but I liked that all the characters have a purpose of being there. DBZ...the anime anyway, is even slower! Takes them WAY too long to charge their Ki and yeah...Dragon Ball Kai fixes that for the most part.

Rurouni Kenshin was great, but I think the ending could have been better. Although, it was better than the OVA's ending. *shiver*
 
One Piece's pacing is really good, though the series is just...so...big. There's so many characters, so many factions, so many connections, so many things to remeraber, so much of everything that sometimes it's overwhelming. And sometimes it's a bit discouraging realizing you've been following this series for years and years and it's only like halfway done. But the story moves at a great clip overall. There's only once or twice where I felt the story was bogged down by an overly long fight, but going back and rereading those pieces all at once made them fine.

Naruto is plagued by inconsistency. Sometimes Kishi just throws like a dozen major revelations out at once and it flies by, and sometimes it ploRAB along with a fight or training sequence that was too dragged out. There are no gigantically overly long arcs though, so I don't mind it overall.

Bleach's pace is ridiculous. I found it too slow even when I was flying through volumes to try and keep up. Just fight after fight after fight - it's almost like watching someone grind in an RPG. There's like three frames on a page tops. I stick with it because I still like most of the characters and I do want to know what eventually happens, but it's really hard to maintain interest for very long with the way it ploRAB.

Bleach is pretty much a 150-chapter manga being stretched into a 400-chapter one at this point, and there's still plenty more to go too yet.I almost dread the start of a new arc, because it's like, well, here we go for another four years...
 
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