If Dragon Ball Were Serialized Today, It Would Get Cancelled Immediately

6 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:11:15 ID:TsA1
If it gets boring, they’d just throw in a tournament arc to save it, so it’s safe.

10 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:13:05 ID:fuWV
They’d just boost the popularity with some Bulma fan service.

13 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:14:37 ID:TsA1
>>10
Invisible Man vs. Yamcha was truly top-tier fap material.

11 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:13:14 ID:WzDe
Honestly:
One Piece >>> Naruto >>>>>>>>> Dragon Ball

14 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:14:46 ID:RKXL
The beginning of One Piece isn’t that great story-wise either, but Luffy always says cool stuff and there are tear-jerker moments, so there are points that make it popular.

18 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:15:54 ID:kZf4
This is legit.
It would definitely get cut around the Rabbit Boss arc if it were now.

If you didn’t read it in real-time, you definitely won’t get it, but until the Red Ribbon Army arc, it was seriously boring and unpopular.
It felt like reading a generic fairy tale for kids.

21 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:16:04 ID:WzDe
It’s way too overrated.

23 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:16:42 ID:oyqx
Toriyama’s art is the main appeal, so if he had a modern editor to update his style, he could still be a rising star and draw something that hits.

24 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:17:09 ID:bogD
Even if it got canned in Jump, it would probably get picked up by Kodansha or someone and become a legend.

25 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:17:14 ID:UGE5
Actually, there aren’t many manga that would survive if serialized today. Kinnikuman, Fist of the North Star, JoJo, Saint Seiya… they’d all get the axe.

27 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:18:39 ID:WzDe
>>25
Saint Seiya might actually be a hit if it came full circle.

28 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:18:41 ID:bogD
>>25
For JoJo, I feel like it would be rated even higher now than before. It’s a miracle it didn’t get cancelled when it first started.

29 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:18:55 ID:zZkj
>>25
JoJo is on its 9th part now for a reason.

30 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:19:11 ID:ibhL
Honestly, wasn’t it just successful because Torishima (the editor) forced him to do it?

34 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:20:32 ID:nqaK
>>30
Toriyama kept trying to make the villains look ugly, but the editor kept rejecting them and forced him to make characters like Freeza and Cell’s final forms look cool. He really understood what the readers wanted.

31 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:19:51 ID:TsA1
Osamu Tezuka would probably be told his art is too shallow if he were around today.

33 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:20:08 ID:pBn0
Mashirito was too great.

37 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:20:51 ID:7VRr
Of course. Old manga were simple and had fast pacing; comparing them to today’s standards is just pathetic jealousy from losers.

38 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:21:27 ID:WzDe
>>37
If we’re talking pacing, Demon Slayer exists.
Checkmate.

41 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:22:07 ID:4Wo6
If “Sakigake!! Otokojuku” were running now, it would get cancelled after 3 chapters due to complaints.

48 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:23:53 ID:UGE5
>>41
Not even 3 chapters, it would be out on the first page of chapter 1.

49 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:24:11 ID:4Wo6
>>48
LOL

50 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:24:21 ID:kHLs
>>48
It’s unfair how funny this is.

42 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:22:35 ID:8Kar
It really would be cancelled. Simple fact: once something is a big hit, it becomes the new standard for the next generation. If you try to release the “standard” work that *created* the standard, it’s just gonna get cancelled.

43 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:22:46 ID:TsA1
If “Barefoot Gen” were serialized now, the author would probably be executed.

45 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:23:36 ID:VFVQ
Seeing The Seven Deadly Sins being popular abroad, I think it could still work today.

46 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:23:39 ID:Yesf
It’s great that Jump+ exists now. They say even when Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk were at their peak, stuff was getting cancelled left and right back then.

57 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:26:13 ID:oyqx
Oishinbo would definitely be out too.

58 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:26:57 ID:HusD
Freeza, Androids, and Cell arcs are actually fun, so it might survive.

64 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:31:55 ID:4WYf
The beginning is seriously boring.

66 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:33:30 ID:TsA1
It gets real from Mercenary Tao.

72 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:40:55 ID:QLU2
Being able to draw what fits the era is a mangaka’s skill. At the end of the day, they aren’t artists, they are businessmen.

74 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:45:27 ID:RKXL
If he could draw what fits the era, Daima would have been a lot more fun…

75 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:46:14 ID:GvWk
And the art looks like some old battle manga style I’ve seen before anyway.

79 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 15:59:37 ID:SwQs
In the end, isn’t whether something is fun or boring just up to the editor?

87 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 16:30:42 ID:CqEP
Everything up to the Saiyan arc is boring, so yeah, it’d get cancelled.

88 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher 26/07/01(Wed) 16:31:29 ID:CqEP
It’s boring, but I want to appreciate it as a classic.

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