What are YOUR top 3 Shonen Jump Manga?

For me I have to make 2 top 3 lists.

1st are my top 3 favorite WSJ manga that have fully completed their runs:

1. Death Note- Yes, I liked both arcs and I found the entire manga to be enjoyable for the most part.
2. Rurouni Kenshin- Basically my favorite battle-oriented shounen manga, period.
3. Dragonball- Its a timeless classic that inspired/influenced most of the modern battle-oriented SJ manga that are currently running in the magazine.

2nd are my top 3 favorite WSJ manga that are currently still running in the weekly serials:

1. Bakuman- Its an absolutely great concept, and its really interesting. It also gives us readers an idea of how tough it is to write for WSJ (and it gets bonus points from being from the very same author of Death Note).
2. Hunter X Hunter- Great material, for the most part, but Togashi really annoy me with his long-ass hiatuses.
3. One Piece- I don't adore it as much as certain other TZ merabers, but its still a really good and entertaining manga, and its easily my favorite manga of the big 3 (being that its the only one of those 3 that I actually ENJOY reading ).
 
Heh, most of what I've read is shonen. I need to expand a bit.

Rurouni Kenshin - Such an amazing series. I don't know what I was thinking when I thought the anime was a bit better. There was a lot of things in the manga I wasn't aware of during my first read, mainly because I started ended up skipping the Kyoto arc thinking that I didn't need to read that arc. (Boy was I wrong)

Samurai Deeper Kyo - Even though Yuya is an annoying character, I do like character interaction in this series. Extra bonus for being a samurai series. I also like the creators take on characters that we're suppose to be real people from way back when.

Death Note - While I don't like Light or Matsuda I did enjoy seeing everyone else. I also enjoyed the 2nd half of the series too. No, Near or Mello are not great enough to be like L, but they did enough to keep things intense and entertaining, which is surprising too, because it's not an action series, and I'm an action first type of person.

I didn't list Hunter x Hunter because I'm only on chapter 75 and I think I need to read a bit more of it before completely saying it's a favorite.

Honorable mention

One Piece - I don't dwell on it like a lot of people but I really like the characters in this.
 
One Piece, Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho. Great characters, great action, good humor and the occasional bit of depth and sadness. Everything you need from a Shonen Jump series.
 
1. One Piece
2. Death Note
3. Eyeshield 21

Of course One Piece blows the other two out of the water, but Death Note is one of my favorites, and Eyeshield 21 is impressive for being such a stereotypical Shounen. Hiruma is just awesome,and somehow the games turn out to be entertaining even though the formula of which they follow is nearly always the same.

Maybe that really isn't a flaw in Eyeshield 21? Real life sports games sure aren't entertaining when they're a blow out. Maybe the author noticed that, but it would be nice to see a blow out game every now and then, you know?
 
1) One Piece
2) Dragonball
3) Yu Yu Hakusho

One Piece should be self explanatory, see my signature. Dragonball is one of the forebarers of the modern day Shounen manga, and Yu Yu Hakusho is Bleach, but better and more cohesive.
 
I'll go with these 3

1. One Piece- Currently my favorite Jump Series of all time. The characters are likable, the art style is pretty sweet, the story blows me away every week as I anticipate next week chapter.

2. Dr Slump- While I do like Akira Toriyama works, I do enjoy Dr. Slump more over Dragon Ball. Really the comedy in this is a little immature, but then again, Toriyama was never mature man to begin with. Arale proves to make me laugh with her misunderstanding on how the human world works.

3. Death Note- My favorite thriller. Sure you know that Light is doomed to fail soon, but you want to see how he does that, also L is awesome.

Honorable Mentions:

Dragon Ball- Really was a great series that set the way for all Shonen out there today. While I do prefer the parts where Goku was a kid, the later parts still entertain me.

Kinnikuman- Crazy Japanese wrestler/kaiju scene really appealed to me.

All the Akira Toriyama One-Shots- Really like the short stories of Kajika, Cowa, and Sand Land that Toriyama did. Shows that he still has it.
 
If were going with manga still in publication..Mine are


1. Case Closed (technically shonen sunday..but still shonen)
2. Claymore
3.Naruto

going with stuff thats finished
1. Dragonball/DBZ
2. Dr. Slump
3. Ruroni Kenshin
 
Dude, how is Yu Yu hakusho anything like bleach? Only thing they have in common is the existance or a soul society and shinigami, but I'd hardly see that as enough to call them similar, they are completely different manga.
 
Hmmmm....If I was to do honorable mentions, then they would be:

Yu Yu Hakusho- Not as good as the anime adaptation that improved on its story even more, but it was still great on its own, and it is the whole reason for why the anime even exists, so this is what started it all. I also enjoy it more than HXH, personally, but the reason for why I didn't list it in HXH's place is due to the manga's extremely rushed ending, which ticked me off quite a bit. The anime really improved on the Three Kings arc by miles, IMO. Still, I'd take YYH over most modern WSJ series, any day.

Hikaru no Go- An extremely fun and addicting manga that made what originally seemed like a boring concept extremely interesting. That, and it had likeable characters. My one problem with it is that it ended up being way too formulaic and predictable, but sometimes that's not such a bad thing, and this manga sure does prove that point.



I have to agree with this. In all honesty, I have mostly viewed Bleach as being an extremely generic, derivative, and very formulaic shounen series that just goes by what we've already seen in a lot of shounen manga, rather than just YYH or any one manga alone. Its really a shame that Tite Kubo couldn't continue with his other series, Zorabie Powder (which I felt at least had some more substance and unique-ness to it), and instead got his long-running series to be Bleach which is basically like standard battle-shounen 101, to me, personally.
 
Currently...

1) One Piece
2) Rurouni Kenshin
3) Dragonball

That would probably change if I read more Bakuman and Hunter x Hunter.
 
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