Sequel Anime & Manga To Classic Series

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I think creating sequel Anime & Manga is a good thing. You can only do so much with Battle Shonen, so creating too many new stories would be even more repetitive. With that said, I think that they should put forth more effort into sequels. It's quite sad whenever GT is better than Super and Boruto. Your thoughts?
 

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Not all sequel manga/anime are bad but they need to do a damn fine job of expelling the old generation and their OP powers that they acquired near the end of their original storylines. Super is bad because Toriyama doesn't remember shit and frankly is traumatized from having to work on Slump and Dragon Ball with only less than 6 months of hiatus in between (and most of it was spent gathering research and concept materials for DB) for 15 years. He simply doesn't give enough of a fuck about Super's storyline to do much more than panel corrections for Toyotaro and as for the anime, it's pretty much a rule of cool Bleach meets Dragon Ball at this point - good for spectacles like in the late ToP or episodes 57 and 66, but not good for much else.

Boruto is terrible because Kishimoto was just a shit writer to begin with and had no talent, and the only reasons Naruto took off was due to him at least writing Part 1 Naruto convincingly (based on his own experiences as a kid who got bullied for being a recluse with horrible grades who did nothing but draw in a corner), and the editorial board helping him immensely by not making Kakashi a ripoff character of Himura Kenshin, by cutting down on the type of annoying Hunter x Hunter style exposition for every technique and so on - and even then the manga went completely down the shitter after Jiraiya's death/after the Pain arc at the latest. His Samurai 8 manga was an absolute flop too, and showed what an unsupervised Kishimoto can't help but create :punk

One Piece is without a doubt getting a sequel series after it ends due to its popularity, I just hope that Oda has more participation in it and he has a competent artist who understands his work better than Toyotaro understands Dragon Ball. Kubo is apparently doing a sequel manga himself similar to Watsuki doing Kenshin Hokkaido-hen, but I ain't touching that or Boruto with a 10 foot pole :ha :ha

At this point I would prefer a Slam Dunk or Yu Yu Hakusho continuation. Just make a miniseries centered around the Shohoku HS Basketball Team's endeavors against Kainan, Shoyo and Ryonan in the Winter Qualifying championships, running side to side with Sakuragi's rehabilitation with him joining in whoever is Shohoku's final opponent - perhaps as Rukawa's stand-in when he is defeated against Sendoh. Yu Yu Hakusho was always asspull after asspull after Toguro's death so spinoffs probably won't ruin it and Togashit obviously has no motivation to continue HxH anyway, he can probably do the story with someone else doing the art (and probably far better than his usual scribbles a la Greed Island's last chapters, half of the Chimera Ant arc).
 

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What you asking? Which ones I'd like a sequel for?

I'd say Serial Experiments Lain's spinoff will be popular, maybe the most watched of all time. AKA real life when VR takes over.

Otherwise I'd be interested in a Death Note sequel I suppose, but I'm not desperate for one. It could be interesting with modern social media or just taking place in another part of the world. But the original ended so nicely, maybe they should leave it.

The only show I really think needs a sequel is Baccano! Initial D could be a cool one to do a modern and maybe foreign spinoff of, but I don't think it would be easy because the creators would need to have an in-depth knowledge of the current street-racing scene, either in Japan or elsewhere.

Before Super I'd have said DBZ.
 

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I suppose I should have made myself more clear in my opening post. In other words, what do you think of Anime & Manga sequels as a whole? As for me, I think they have great potential, but have terrible execution most of the time.
 

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Oh, yeh many sequels take a turn for the worst. In a lot of cases the series should have ended already or sometimes the author might burn out, plus the longer it goes on the harder it is to keep the plot together, to juggle all the different characters and the ending phases of the story are always difficult.

I didn't see the opening post and thought SHC started the topic, my mistake.
 

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It's all good.

That's why there's always different authors in American Comics. Not to mention Toriyama, Kishimoto, etc, can still be behind the writing, but can also let others illustrate the sequels.
 

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The best sequel series find a way to completely marginalize the existing characters. Either it takes place long enough afterward that they're old or you depower them somehow. Nostalgia and callbacks are fine, but your new protagonists are already fighting an uphill battle as characters from your audience.

Like Boruto wasted so much time before finally making Naruto and Sasuke not be instant win buttons.
 
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The best sequel series find a way to completely marginalize the existing characters. Either it takes place long enough afterward that they're old or you depower them somehow. Nostalgia and callbacks are fine, but your new protagonists are already fighting an uphill battle as characters from your audience.

Like Boruto wasted so much time before finally making Naruto and Sasuke instant win buttons.
Didn't they apparently nerf Sasuke and Naruto with a rusty Swiss army knife? Like, to the point that Naruto lost all his Tailed Beast powers and Sasuke is one-armed and deprived of his Rinnegan?

Honestly should've happened sooner, or Salada could've been killed and Sasuke could've just died resurrecting her to write him out of the story, with his last action being to immolate his own body to prevent his Rinnegan from being stolen.

Not that anything short of Orochimaru and Kabuto being executed for their crimes could make me even consider watching/reading Boruto though
 

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Yeah I meant the opposite of what I said. Yeah they nerfed them hard finally.

The naruto and sasuke fight against momoshiki was fun though.
 

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Yeah I meant the opposite of what I said. Yeah they nerfed them hard finally.

The naruto and sasuke fight against momoshiki was fun though.
You ever watch Rose of Versailles? I feel like that 1970's series was lowkey an inspiration for most one-eyed male swordsmen in manga like Guts and (currently) Sasuke, right down to the missing left eye and the long emo hair to cover the missing eye lol.
 
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