[ SECRET POST #3883 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3883 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What characters had the worst story arc?

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of female characters in shonen manga have this problem where they get some nifty powers and could do some serious damage in battle, but the writing doesn't allow them to. The ones that currently come to mind are Orihime from Bleach and Sakura from Naruto. They both have some sweet abilities, but the writing never really allows them to grow and just makes them cry and depend on the protagonist instead of working with him. I get why that is since shonen's aimed at boys and all, but it's still frustrating.

Re: What characters had the worst story arc?

[feotakahari]

Look up "The Downfall of Bleach" by Y Ruler of Time. He gives a pretty good explanation of why Orihime's arc sucked so much.

Re: What characters had the worst story arc?

[ketita]

It was a pretty good vid, I thought.
Overall, I think it's a general problem that most stories that are long-running but not long-planned fall into. It's just difficult to keep things on track, and it's also difficult to accommodate the changing feelings of the writer.
Look at the mess Attack on Titan turned into, in part I think because the mangaka is not really interested in the story he started telling, so he's trying to turn it into this new story he's into now. Or Berserk, which I don't even know where it's going anymore...

Re: What characters had the worst story arc?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with all of this, I enjoy watching shounen for what it is so I can kind of gloss over it but sometimes I wonder why they give their female characters kickass powers only to come up with every excuse in the book to NOT have them battle. If you're going to do that you might as well not give your female characters power in the first place.

Sakura is particularly frustrating in the later years of Shippuden because she did all that growing and learned all that stuff from Tsunade but then half the time she still has to cry for Naruto to save her and/or cry about Sasuke.

And Bleach was bad with not only Orihime but Rukia as well, I remember being so excited when Rukia FINALLY got some powers back and was able to fight again because it felt like the majority of the beginning of the series was coming up with reasons for her to not ever be in any battle ever. By the time they came to Orihime's arc it was like they gave up even coming up with excuses to have a girl not battle.