ITT: Acceptable Shounen Powerups

>>142611522
none

>>142611592
\tred

>>142611522
pic unrelated I suppose

Kaio-ken was actually balanced due to the strain it put on Goku. Then Super Saiyan was just a straight up improvement that does the exact same thing but better without the downsides.

>>142611522
Training for a small amount of time until you turn gold/bald and one punch everyone.
Anything else is ridiculous.

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Technically seinen, but still.

>>142611522
You aren't even the intended audience you fuckhead.

If the intended audience still enjoys the manga whatever powerup is fine.

Read Seinen like a big boy, Jesus.

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>>142614720
Yeah, Terraformars for example

>>142614615
>get kicked by a horse
>power up
Fucking asspull.

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>>142611522

There are very few acceptable shounen powerups and the ones I can think of is the Nen from Hunter x Hunter - which by far is one of the most genius ways of explaining power level by dividing it into 6 grioups and by making your Nen specialized in one area you'll be having difficulty in other parts.

But by far the best example of powerup that I can cite is from Kamen Rider Blade, its not anime, but the card acquisition and progression system is amazing and showed how each Rider grew his power

>>142615154
Beat me to it

>>142615178
>Terraformars
Nikka...

>>142615154
>Shounen

That's a Seinen

>>142613950
>Shaman can put soul inside person
>Maybe I can put this in a weapon
>Oversoul
Seems pretty logical to me anon.

>>142611522
>tfw no Shaman King anime that follows the manga

>>142611522
Bankai

>>142616290
That's a thing that i am really curious about..

What is the difference between the anime and the manga?

>>142616333
After the tournament starts, pretty much everything except the main characters and setting

>>142614720
>You aren't even the intended audience you fuckhead.

This applies to all anime and manga since none of us are Japanese you nimrod

>>142615178
Terraformars' plot went fucking off the rails and full retard and not in an entertaining way

>>142616300
it was ok until eveyrone and their mom had one. it was supposed to manifest once every 100 years or something, then every scrub got one.

kubo a shit

>>142616486
>This applies to all anime and manga since none of us are Japanese you nimrod

/a/ in a nutshell

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>>142616506
>eveyrone and their mom had one
13 Captains, a few Ex-Captains and a handful of Lieutenants, but nice try.

>it was supposed to manifest once every 100 years or something
[citation needed]

>>142616591

>defending Bleach

Bankai was supposed to be rare but it became a normal powerup fuck you. fuck Bleach and fuck Kubo

>>142616506
Not really as far as I the only non-captains that got bankai are renji, ikkaku and rukia it took a while for Rukia to get it.
Ichigo alsi has bankai, but what doesn't he have.

Define "acceptable"

>>142616695
Here's your (You)

>>142616711

jfc rukia has a bankai? fucking kubo. rukia was supposed to be weak and when someone told me she killed an arrancar i was laughing my ass off and now she has a bankai? just fucking end this piece of shit bleach please lol

>>142616711
Ichigo's Bankai was fake, I don't think it counts.

>>142616767

amazing retort there champ

>>142616695
Dude except for the captains who are expected to have a Bankai to be captain, there aren't that many characterd with bankai.

>>142616774
>rukia was supposed to be weak
Because her Gigai was turning her into a human.

You're the worst kind of speed reader.

>>142614863
This would have been a great power up if Araki stuck to his original idea, but he retconed how powerful the world was so it ended up being an ass pull

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>>142616506
>>142616695
>>142616774
Ignore this underage ignorant baboon.

>>142616847
What original idea?

>>142616847
I always thought star platinum could always stop time and that the world had the power of all the stands the joestar family posseses.

>>142616887
post yfw you realize those were different posters

>>142616809
>expecting a serious reply to blatant shitposting

Thanks, "champ"?

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blew my mind

>>142616887

The only underage baboons here arethe people who still read Bleach.

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>>142611522
The best powerup.

>>142616980
And then he gets off screened. Although it makes sense now, Kubo was still trying to hide Zaraki's absurd powerlevel.

>>142617011
That's cruel, anon. They literally can't stop at this point.

>>142616980
This is the kind of shit only Kubo is ok to pull off.

>>142616887

the fact that you still read and defend bleach is pathetic itself

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GOAT power up

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>>142616942
originally the world was supposed to be the most OP stand that had the powers of every stand in the world. Hence because it can copy the powers of every other stand, it was supposed to be the reveal that it was pulling the time stop from star platinum

however because that was too op Araki retconned it to instead be lol Dio has the stand powers of purple hermit for his body and just has the world for his head which is the same type as star platinum

the original explanation made much more sense

All it took was 1 bleach post to derail this, thats some quality bait.

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>>142617011
Found the Narutofag. Still butthurt about all that copypasta?

>>142617236
This entire thread is obvious bait. No one can resist Shounenshit-posting.

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>>142617145
Which was cool and all too because it had some function to the plot besides making him stronk and also wasn't the end all be all in the process either, but then he gets another upgrade because he's the descendant of one of the strongest demons in the demon world and that's where you've got to draw the line.

YYH became DBZ-lite by the end of the Chapter Black arc.

>>142617145
I was so hype when I first saw this. YYH so unappreciated. It died too soon.

>>142617556
I dunno what you are talking about, YYH ended after black tournament.

>>142617556
Is there any Shounen protagonist who doesn't inherit some sort of special power from their secret bloodline? It's a pretty common trope no matter how you look at it.

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>>142616980
>Anytime anyone uses 0 like it's cool or badass

>>142617625

perfectly acceptable. it was part of his story arc and the tradeoff is balanced

>>142616980
Didn't Nel say that the Espada were single-digit at some point prior to that anyway?

>>142614004
Actually the first time Goku went super-saiyan is because he saw his closest friend get murdered right in front of his eyes, as a power-up he cannot control it's not without downsides since waiting for one of his friends to die every fight would be a big downside.
The fact that he could become super-saiyan at will after that is what's lame about it.

>>142617556

this. pissed off a good arc with DBZ-lite. they also did that with Bleach. nips has this huge boner for being special kind of shit lineage thing

>>142617625
goal body desu

>>142617823

Its accepted that once you unlock a power you can typically use it at will afterwards. The only other option is to have a lame ass arc where the MC fights below his ultimate potential because

>muh unpredictable power up

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Anything Black Star did.

>>142617624
Luffy?

>>142615257
Golden rectangle nigger. He aint got to explain shit.

>>142617988
Nah, he's part of the "D" lineage, whatever the fuck that means

>>142618020
technically not a lineage

>>142617038
>pillar squad just chilling and doing normal things

This always made me laugh

>>142617823

it certainly gives weight to the whole "SHOULD HAVE ENDED WITH FREEZA" thing

>>142615154
What is this?

>>142617918
Is this good?

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Negima had fairly good powerlevels throughout. Most people started out strong and grew a bit stronger across the series while the actual powerups all made sense.

>>142611522
Seventh Sense from Saint Seiya, also Shiryu's Excalibur for being such a great character moment.

Gon-san
Musou Tensei

>>142618114
His dad (who is presumably directly related to) is really strong though, but I guess it depends on what you mean by "inherit"

>>142618137
Boku no google

>>142611522
Kurapika being a Specialist. And Gon-san.

>>142618220

Luffy's family being strong doesn't really mean much as Luffy didn't inherit that power. He basically got training from hell from Garp.

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Unironically.

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>>142618140
Yes

>>142611522
Zatch Bell did the 'power of friendship' powerup pretty well

>>142618220
He didn't inherit any fighting power. He inherited a "will". Luffy is perfectly fine.

>>142618114
>>142618220
>>142618278
His dad is a D., and his granddad is a D. That's enough for me, though I'll admit that D. isn't a single lineage.

>>142617938

Bull shit. getting to just dance around in a powered up form like it's no big deal robs it of it's impact. Super Saiyan became a joke

>>142618397
see >>142618395

>>142618278
He got more training besides that too
But I think that his dad, brother, and grandfather all being strong isn't some coincidence, and so I consider it to be inherited, by more than just training and environment.

>>142618395
If "will" translates or manifests as fighting power, then it is the same.

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>>142618352
HEART POWER

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>>142618140
It has issues deciding if it's a comedy or serious battle manga - too many generic twists played with a straight face. And it sort of drags some of the jokes into the ground.

But it's worth trying regardless.

>>142618460
Doesn't "will" tie in to haki? I'll admit I haven't paid too much attention to One Piece in like a decade.

>>142618395
How is that any different? He's still 'special'.

>>142615154
Literally got a chub when that scene happened

>>142618397
I Bet Garp has a big D.

>>142618230
Google a shit.

>>142618477
I haven't been reading one piece for like 2 years now. Please tell me this didn't happen. Please tell me something this retarded didn't happen.

>>142618540
Why are you surprised?

>>142618540
Literally the only way he beat one of the warlords.and it took him two tries to do it.

>>142618540
>one piece
You can bet it did

>>142618540
Not like his previous forms were less retarded. Gear 3 looked like elephantiasis

>>142618304
I still kinda get weirdly nostalgic for the thread where that got posted first.

It was such a good shitstorm.

>>142618490

Not at all. It just means you're going to fuck up the celestial dragons.

>>142617038
YES

>>142618540
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_2XL1iP6ZY

>>142618490
Hmm...kinda? It's not that kind of will though. It's less "willpower" which is basically what haki works off of, and then there's "ambition". Luffy inherited ambition, not willpower.

>>142618495
He's not special in a way that makes a difference in a fight though. That's what we're talking about. Luffy is Luffy.

>>142617624
Kenichi.

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>>142611522
>Hagiwara will die before he finishes Bastard!!
7 pains was bullshit, though I'm sure it would have been acceptable if they didn't lose the fucking chapters leading up to it

>>142618673
>He's not special in a way that makes a difference in a fight though. That's what we're talking about. Luffy is Luffy.

If you say so? I think it's obvious that he's "special", anon. Feel free to justify it however you'd want.

>>142618540
It's something Luffy developed while training alone on an island populated with giant monsters. He needed something to match them in size and strength. It's supposed to look silly and be surprisingly effective.

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>>142618464
>But I think that his dad, brother, and grandfather all being strong isn't some coincidence

It is when Garp literally threw all of them in a forest and trained them. They're strong because of Garp. They didn't "inherit" anything outside of Garp being a hardass.

>>142618782
He had a master who was x1000 times stronger than anyone, though.

>>142617624
Also goku if you don't count being a saiyan a special bloodline.

>>142618839

Goku was the only one with a tail that could transform into a giant ape. I think that's super special power.

>>142618839
I do.

>>142616491
>Terraformars is not entertaiing

Nigger, the entire reason Terraformars sells so much is because it's fun.

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I really liked this when it happened.

>>142618738
I should really read this that looks rad as fuck.

>>142618761
I'm sorry what are we talking about here? Acceptable power-ups right? And somebody mentioned Luffy. Then somebody else mentioned D. and it being a "special snowflake" type of power up.

It isn't. It's plot related. Case closed.

>>142615154
>logical extension of his existant powerset rather than an asspulled new ability
>completely derived from hard work and training, which we see him start early on
>does not suddenly make him the strongest being in existence, merely gives him a competitive edge in a fight that he previously lacked
>takes 70% of the manga to fully manifest, and is his only major power up besides learning martial arts thanks to his friend magicking him into it - which was barely ever relevant in itself beyond giving a reason for his rival's motivation to surpass him

Truly the exemplar other battle mangas should follow for MC power ups

>>142618872
Every saiyan with a tail can turn into a giant ape what are you talking about?

>>142618949
>being this defensive

>>142618872

Didn't Vegeta transform too though? Like one time?

>>142618907
I liked it too. I don't see Kekkaishi being discussed often but I think it was a well-rounded manga.

>>142618957
see >>142615583

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>>142618815

yeah and? The question wasn't whether or not the hero got hax training. It was if he had stupid blood line bullshit or not.

Kenshin's hax because of training and skill, he's not an alien, he's not 1/3212 demon he's not the son of a dragon or some bullshit. He's just a regular guy.

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>>142619014

It was made in reference to ignoring Goku's saiyan heritage. Even if Goku wasn't a saiyan, he'd still be a snowflake.

>>142614615
>Technically seinen
Please kill yourself.

>>142619036
Hax nonetheless, plot armor too.

>>142619028
I never said it was shounen

>>142618990
I came here to argue. If you aren't going to argue, that's cool.

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it's not really the right genre but Kazuma from Kaze no Stigma actually completely sucks at his bloodline powers, got disowned for sucking and then went off and trained in a different kind of power and now can tapdance on everyone's face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVDZ33FTeLs

>>142618957
You forgot
>Moment of its reveal is fucking incredible, as is the (brief) subsequent fight

>>142619079

There's always going to be a certain amount of plot armor. The hero isn't gonna die for good in chapter 27 of long ongoing series.

>>142617146
The problem is, having his stand be "lol every stand" just makes less and less sense as the series goes on. He probably realized this and changed it when he knew he was going to be writing past stardust crusaders.

>>142619112
Thank you

>>142617624
Saitama

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>Shounen powerups, the show

>>142619166
I wasn't saying it was a bad thing.

>>142619036
Hell by the end Kenny is kind of a punk ass bitch especially compared to his son who is apparently a prodigy

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>>142619190

and somehow Star Driver was worse. Shit didn't even pretend the hero was in any danger

>>142614615
Evolving stands are truly the most bullshit of stands.

>>142619188
That's the joke.

>>142619190
>>142619237
>>>/m/

Mecha shounen is still mecha

>>142619218

Kenshin has a shitty physical build.

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>>142618919
Do it, especially if you like 80s-90s styled high fantasy.

MC is a bit of a gary stu but it's good fun

Gon-san itself is good but Killua's brother/sister is terrible

>>142619312

natural build aside you'd think he'd have bulked up more

>>142619284
???
They're replying to a topic with relevant anime, it's not like they started a new thread discussing mecha shit. Stop being such a faggot.

>>142619237
Yeah but Star Driver's a weird one. Real pretty show to watch with fun/cool fights but the actual show is a fucking mess of nonsense.

Does it count as a Shounen powerup if they train to get it?

>>142619531
Different genre, different tropes, at least in TTGL's case. Star Driver is a separate case entirely.

>>142618907
Mah nigga best MC

>>142619577
We talking normal physical training here or "x1000 Earth's Gravity" bullshit?

>>142619541
>Real pretty show to watch with fun/cool fights

I couldn't disagree more. For a fight to be fun there has to be tension. It can't just look nice.

>>142619689
Im thinking more like Naruto getting sage mode shit, or Luffy getting Haki

>>142619577
>>142619689

How come villains never train?

The hero will be hilariously outclassed and then train for a brief time and that's enough to put him on par with a villain who has often been training for longer than the heroe's been alive

>>142619742
Obviously?

>>142619689
Learning to control all the cells in their body to counter act the extra gravity

>>142619799
Yeah that sounds like something a normal person could do.

>>142619773
most top tier Villians normally live threw fucking hell anon what are you talking about

Beet

>Receive 7 legendary weapons
>No idea how to use them
>Slowly get stronger
>former owner of one of the weapons actually trains Beet to make the weapon stronger
>Discovers that the strongest weapon was his brothers

Beet was great can't wait for it's return

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>>142619773
Most villians actually do train, and when they do their villian shit in the story chances are they're already better than 99% of the people in that world anyway.
Freiza ruled galaxy's already
Hao actually did become king and trainef 1000 years in hell
Madara trained everyday
etc etc

Most major villians any MC fights are in their prime or well past their prime

>>142619984
>Hao grinded in hell for 1000 years
that cheap little fuck

>>142619984
Freiza was insanely stronger than anyone else till Goku though. Captain Ginyu his strongest warrior was less than 1% his strength. Only his father could even touch him and Toriyama confirmed Frieza was the stronger

>>142619965
Wouldn't being one of the few humans in a world dominated by animals be snowflake-ish?

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Unsealing your powers

>>142616333
It's possibly the least faithful anime adaptation ever made.

>>142620072
>snowflake
You're doing it wrong. This thread is acceptible powerups, everyone except maybe Rock Lee is a 'snowflake'.

>>142619247
>Evolving is bullshit of stands
>when Requirem is existing

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>>142611522
How would you classify this? It's not a powerup, that's for sure.

>>142620406
>lets him use more of his power
>not a power up
no nigger

>>142620365
Requiem is just turning a non-evolving stand into an evolving stand by cheating.

>>142620439
It actually lets him use less of his power. It's a power down.

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>>142619965
better power up, answer talker the fucking shit

>>142616333
gets apart from source even worser than the first FMA anime

>>142620581
didn't it turn in to mecha shit by the end

>>142618137
The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer. 65 chapters, I'm going to pick it up

>>142620439
He uses less of his power spread over his body.

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What about the power up of using an actual steel sword instead of a wooden fucking one?

>>142620539
Answer talker was good because it was foreshadowed in several characters. Apollo, Sunbeam, Riddles, and Dufort all had it, and then Kiyomaro got it and it only enhanced his already good tactics.

>>142620909
not really a power up the steel sword is weaker than the wooden one

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One of the few manga where power of friendship perfectly make sense.

>>142621010
man I can wait for his new manga so I can jack off to more intense eyes

>>142611522
i wanted to be a shaman king character so bad when i was in elementary school
i carried around a stick and called it my bokuto

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>>142620792
Enjoy the read.

>>142619113
He didn't train, he sold his soul to a god.

>>142618540
>Anything ever associated with Fluffy
>Not at least mildly retarded

Are we even reading the same manga

>>142611522
There were a bunch of later power ups that they had and then never really did anything with

Like, Chocolove had a powerup that he never ended up using because he stopped getting big fights, and then he might've even gotten another powerup after that.

Or I don't remember all the shit Yoh doing training in hell amounting to much. He kicked Hao's lackeys' asses again?

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A shounen leveling up in the most acceptable way possible.

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>>142620947
>Apollo, Sunbeam, Riddle
What?
When was that confirmed?

>>142622268
stay in your trap thread

>>142617963
>keeping up against Kishin by himself
>getting hit multiple times tanking for Maka
>there will never be another manga where a normal human surpassed gods and the protag without the help of anyone

>>142619058
It is. The demographic is decided by the magazine the work is published in, not the content of the work.

>>142622286
Over half the series was shit but god damn this one picture was beautiful. Even if the fight itself was pretty bad, the hype was still amazing.

>>142622644
He's not normal though, his clan is extremely powerful, it's pretty much in his blood. His eyes fucking have stars man, normal humans even in Soul Eater don't have that shit. The most normalfag people among the trio teams are Liz and Patty. Even Soul is a prodigy coming from a famed family.

>>142622768
>Even Soul is a prodigy coming from a famed family.
Seriously?

>>142617011
The fuck you say mate? I'll fucking fuck you up.

>>142611522
That shit was so weird.
First it's all about getting a powerful spirit, then it's all about straight up have more mana than your enemy tier number crunching, then that shifts to applying your mana better than your enemy, then mana is useless because people can nullify it and after that it's not useless anymore, but you have to use it indirectly to cause natural effects.

>>142619190
It fit the theme of the show.

>>142622768
His family is made of ninjas and thats it. None are reapers or weapons, just strong humans. Liz and Patt could fight by themselves if they were good, a reaper can't do much shit unless he has godly levels of power.
Even if you count black star as bein special, what he has holds no candle to witches, being the daughter of the strongest scythe, being the clone of the strongest being in the world and being whatever the hell Soul is.

>>142622450
>>142620947
I'm pretty sure it was alluded that Dr. Riddles had answer talker. I'm pretty sure I saw him having the ripple eye effect in a few scenes of the manga. Sunbeam and Apollo do not have Answer Talker though.

Is there any series about a guy who gives other people power ups?

Not the meaningless my friends get a +1 aura like Bleach, and not something like Negima, but something that just revolves around some dude whose jobs is to deliver power ups to other characters, maybe even going so far as to pull Indiana Jones type shit at the request of someone seeking a particular artifact

>>142622839
Yeah, a famed family of piano players.

>>142615154
>learned to do this while just digging a bunch of holes everywhere
Naw it's still bullshit, just really good bullshit

>>142623259
But Bleach is about that guy. Yhwach

>>142623119
>His family is made of ninjas and thats it.

A family of ninjas that were famed as the best assassins in the world and completely evil.

>Even if you count black star as bein special, what he has holds no candle to witches, being the daughter of the strongest scythe, being the clone of the strongest being in the world and being whatever the hell Soul is.

He's definitely less special than Maka+Soul, and less special than Kid, but his partner is also part of a ninja family almost as famous as his own and she's far more competent than Liz and Patty.

It basically comes down to ambition + partner advantage. It doesn't invalidate him being the underdog who achieved godhood, but he's no more impressive than say, Chocolove who ended up the strongest out of the 5 Shaman Rangers despite the MC being the literal twin of the strongest being in the series.

I mean in the end, let's face it, the difference between Excalibur and everyone else is the same as Hao and everyone else in Shaman King. The only difference was that Excalibur wasn't the villain. Okay he wasn't the active villain. After all even Asura would have killed himself if he tried to mess with Excalibur.

Kid also didn't really have any ambition to rule with an iron fist unlike his dad. He never minded not being the strongest. He was the third wheel basically in a shonen, the guy that gets hyped up early but loses steam later on. It was basically Maka vs Blackstar, and Maka was never all that competent outside of resonance syncing.

>>142622839
Yeah you just gotta pay attention. His brother is world famous and his entire family is prestigious as fuck, he's basically the black sheep cause he's the most 'normal' but that's just because he plays the piano differently than his brother and has his own unique rhythm. His piano skills are half the reason him and Maka could even go nuts.

>>142615298
Hxh has the same power up bullshit every shounen has.

I have no idea why his fight against Patou gets a free pass

>>142620606
Which one!? Even the spirits in the manga started looking like fucking robots.

>>142623899
Drakon... had a hard life...

>>142611522
>inb4 being dead makes you more powerful

>>142614720
Seinen is just Shonen with more blood

>>142616333
nice trips

shaman king anime and manga are very different
even the most faithfully adapted chapters contain a lot of differences and the anime goes on filler mode when they reach Patch Village(tournament arc) and has a really mediocre ending which doesn't fit the series at all

the anime is a fun watch on it's own but it's a far cry from the manga

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>>142623932
True that

>>142623975
Later on didn't the final boss have a big laugh because he was so damn OP that no matter how many times people got wished back to life they couldn't become remotely as powerful as him?

And he was right, they never did.

>>142617624
The guy on the OP for once

>>142617963
Fuck this faggot
He was literally Naruto with blue hair but 10 times more annoying

>>142611522
>here Ryu, climb this mountain in Izumo while I tell you the myth of Suanoo and Yamata no Orochi
>it's just a myth though, the eight-necked serpent extending across valleys and hills is probably a metaphor for the wild rivers of the area, it never really existed
>his ghost powers up into Orochi anyways
>doesn't amount to much in the end
I dunno man Shaman King had weird and pointless powerups. And yet I like how they were handled.

>>142621240
>yoh was such a cool motherfucker
>always wanted to be that chill
>still do

i know that feel breh

>>142624009
Maybe if you only read like 2 genres.

>>142622089
>Or I don't remember all the shit Yoh doing training in hell amounting to much
He gained his Byakko oversoul
And he said that he could have trained in hell to become stronger than Hao if he wanted to

>>142623401
>implying that everyone still isn't under the influence of Kyoka Suigetsu

>>142624256
this
the whole manga was horrible tho, not only him

>>142624594
Yeah, but he used it maybe two or three times and I'm not sure he couldn't have just used the giant sword instead one of those times.

>>142624172
Hao was full of it all the time and did that constantly

Yoh said he could have become stronger than him if he trained in hell but decided to instead save him

>>142624372
>doesn't amount to much in the end
Not really
He got through the Shaman Fight rounds with that shit and he was still a noob so that's something

>>142624877
Valid point

>>142624732
>Yeah, but he used it maybe two or three times
Because Takei was such a lazy fuck and was too lazy to draw battles so he often skipped them
It's the reason we didn't see Byakko Yoh vs Kurobina Hao

>I'm not sure he couldn't have just used the giant sword instead one of those times.
Byakko was stronger Spirit of Sword...it was basically an upgrade

>>142615154
Probably in my top 2 manga desu

>>142624990
>Because Takei was such a lazy fuck and was too lazy to draw battles so he often skipped them
Yeah, I'm not sure if he was rushing to try to end around 300, if there was pressure for him to wrap it up quick, or if you're right and he just was lazy

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>>142623259
World Trigger wasn't very flashy about it, but it did it.

One of the MCs sucks at combat so he started taking on the roll of a mass debuffer/ally buffer instead.

>>142624727
Yeah agreed
Soul Eater was all flash and no substance

And come to think of it Soul Eater was a bad Shaman King ripoff

The powers functioned similar to Shaman King
Soul's design is sort of similar to Yoh's
Black Star has Horo Horo's hair(too bad he doesn't have his likeable personality)
Death the Kid is a bad ripoff of Tao Ren
Stein is a bad ripoff of Johan VIII and Kakashi(from Naruto)

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Is the clown reviving himself an acceptable power up?

>>142625120
>that image
>let's just make the strong guy even stronger instead of becoming more skillful ourselves!
That's a fucking horrible strategy.

Just pick anyone out of Medaka box.

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>>142625190
>likeable personality
Horo Horo kinda became a dick from when he kicked the lego dude's ass onwards. We got some of his dark backstory at the same time but it really seemed like a big change to me.

>>142625064
Nah he just didn't like drawing battles
The series increasingly started to focus more and more on the plot,philosophy and it's various twists and started to downplay the battle aspect of the series

He also said that Shaman King later on lost it's originality with the usage of common Shonen tropes(maybe WSJ forced him to make it more cliche) which I agree with

He also got lazier though
After the first 100 chapters or so the art really goes through a noticeable decline...you can see how how generic and stale it becomes after that and it continues to decline more and more 'till the end(so did the plot/writing on the middle of the manga but that's another story)

>>142625509
Eh I didn't really notice much of a change

>>142625230
Its not a rejection of being more skillful, its accepting that it makes more sense to put your efforts toward making things work better logistically for your strong guy. The in context power up is the MC becoming better at creating a more advantageous battlefield for the ace fighter to wreck shit, instead of just trying to become stronger than every one else in a short amount of time.

>>142623259
I'm sure that a fair number of battle harem light novels qualify.

>>142616862
Pretty much a classic powerup right here.

>>142628440
Man that first fight with Gaara was so fucking hype
Nostalgia man
Is Kishi doing another series?

>>142619058
It is you stupid fuck

>>142619868
Already back anon. We got a new chapter last month.

>>142620947
am I the only one who thought that Answer Talker was just a bullshit way to make combat analysis a shonen power. They even got rid of it at some point because of how ridiculous it got.

>>142617038
Best fucking chapter of Beelzebub, i was so hyped

>>142619331
>a bit of a gary stu

A bit is an understatement.

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>>142617624

>>142617038

>stuffs his ears as well

Best supporting cast

>>142617624
Osamu from World Trigger since everyone ,their mom and their pet has higher power level than him and only has standard issue weapons.

>>142617556
Everyone including Togashi wanted it to end at the Dark Tournament. Chapter black was complete dogshit and the only OK part of the final arc was the anime original ending at the beach.

Didn't Shaman King changed the power ups all the time?

First the just put the soul in the weapon, Then put the soul in their body, Then in their weapon again but it was fucking big this time, Then they fused or some shit. I don't even remember

LISTEN UP MY NEN

>>142619965

You know, there's no reason to put a source in the filename when Google gives you the result instantaneously.

>>142625230
The problem is that that the leader is both weak, unskilled and untalented. It'd take him years to get anywhere near good enough and he doesn't have the time for that, so it makes more sense for him to focus on strategy and creating overwhelming advantages for their ace.
That's not to say that he's abandoned self-improvement, but since he won't git gud anytime soon, he'll get better results by putting a focus on supporting his teammates for now.

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>>142620909
If youre going to try to make up a fake powerup from gintama, why not just use the real one we got

>>142618304
This was bullshit though. It was said that anyone who opens all gates could be as strong as all the kages combined for a short while. But madara beat all kages combined not long before this happened, and without the powerup which made him practically invincible. They had to nerf him badly for this fight that honestly served no purpose at the end.

>>142619190
>Getter Robo
>Xabungle/Dougram
>Shounens
Kill yourself you typical Gainax viewing retard.

>>142618304

>Takes incredible work and dedication to pull off

>self sacrificial

So right desu

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LISTEN UP MY NEN

>>142619237
>Shit didn't even pretend the hero was in any danger
So it was better

>>142615298
>King Form
Best upgrade in Kamen Rider.

>>142617146
>the original explanation made much more sense

wow, that's funny because when I first saw stardust it seemed like the natural progression was going to be that Dio's stand named "the world" would just be every stand at his command but at like a super short range or something. Still thought it was great, but I can see why you disliked it. Original idea was more fitting with the insanity of the rest of the series.

>>142617120
It wasn't ok.

>>142617891
goodluck

>>142624137
So just read the next couple of chapters and haven't read any previous ones. Am I supposed to like Sinbad? I don't know the circumstances but it seems like he failed an obligation to the kingdom he was allied with and fucked off for a year to make his own company while this princess and her vassals spent that year on the run and being broken down emotionally and physically. But then he shows up, gives them shelter and now everyone is trying to get the princess to not hate his guts. I'm getting a mary sue vibe from him, any weight to that?

>>142620534

it's a power up in that he gains mastery over his skill

>>142618907
source?

>>142617038
Fucking this.

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>>142619143
While its awesome, the power reveal is second to this one,

>>142618738
Holy shit this art
berserk btfo

>>142619312
Yup, by the end of the series Kenshin need to retire as his slim build cannot withstand the supposedly for buff body owner Hiten Mitsurugi.

>>142634139
boku no killyourself

>>142634660
What's the source you motherfucker

>>142619431
The coat that being passed down through Hiten Mitsurugi master actually shows the required body build to use the technique.

Kenshin realize his body to slim to wear the coat properly but rather than ponder about it he shrugged it aside as a joke.

>>142634770
Fuck. The actual powerup is the next page but who cares. This is the reason anyway.

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>There will never be another chapter of Beelzebub
>We will never see best girl win

>>142618812

Well:

He's a D. A bloodline thing, there's probably a few hundred of them. It's not a magical power up as yet. But I assume it will give him 'the right' to things down the track (a biometric sensor).
He's one of 7? characters with CoC. Now it's not a perfectly unique power, it primary use is OHKOing mooks. It's also the thing that demonstrates 'this fucker is INCREDIBLY ARROGANT AND IS NOT A JOKE TO FIGHT'.

We don't know if CoC is in any way hereditary, it could be. So that makes you question if his family line was even more super special and 'the real bloodline descended from the king of D's (if and only if garp and dragon both have it).

We know Luffy was a shit weak kid, that strength is pure product of his environment and activities at a young age.

VoaT. A weird power we've seen show up a couple times, maybe lineage of D's only? But non of the others have as of yet done it (maybe monosuke? fish princess)

>>142619218

Reflections is not canon anon.

>>142620101
and then dieing next chapter..

>>142634718
Kekkaishi by Tanabe Yellow,

Really good manga if you marathon it. A very well rounded manga that causes to slightly lack of edge that causes the manga to have slice of life feels to it, despite being a full blown shounen

>>142630673
yeah boruto...

>>142634878

Kenshin's son is shown in the epilogue of the manga

>>142635024
The only thing wrong with Bort so far is it's just a recap

A new nigga is drawing it I'm giving him a chance

>>142617038

I remember Jump being quick to shuffle that under the rug. Kinda sad, because it was a pretty good comedy

>>142635032

He's not shown using a sword at all though in the manga.

>>142621805
My wonderment with shounenfags who bitch at luffy gear 4th.

It's from crazy world of One Piece and a technique that developed by idiot hero Luffy.

While gear 4th is beyond from my expectation its still within the route that i expect it would be. It'll be Silly, powerful, and weirdly cool. In that order.

Creating edgy bishounenly cool techique would be the last thing i expect from a character whose eye is literally just a dot.

>>142635195

I think it's in the OVA or some extra that shown Yahiko passing down Sakabatou to Kenshin son.

I only heard about it from my friend, never seen the extra chapter or possibly ova that shown it.

>>142617146
That actually sounds not half bad if he could have found a way to make Dio not stupidly broken with that. Was the reason stands started appearing in the first place ever explained?

>>142615154
Anime when?

>>142635399

The OVA was Reflections, which had Kenshin dying and shit, and is non canon.

>>142635250
I just think it looks silly is all. Not a fan of armament Haki getting colored black/purple, and the tattoos are silly. Although I get the effect they are going for.

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Would you count this as a shonen power up?

>>142618189
What power ups you talked about? All I know is that those cards from the pact are literal magic rocks.

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>>142635589
Damn are the webms of this scene godly

>>142622768

Didn't he literally become a 'combat god' or something. Not just in name or because of his parentage/training, but because he performed so fucking well he became one of the god archtypes (like how shingami is order, wrath for exaclibur etc)

>>142635589
I fucking love the anime, but the manga looks really cool too.

>>142617658
>and the tradeoff is balanced
until it gets fixed one half-arc later and there are no repercussions

also his friend comes back to life

>>142619025
Well, it's a completed, decent series.

No updates and not much to bitch about leads to little discussion

>>142619113
Making a contract with a God makes you OP anon.

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>>142617556
>but then he gets another upgrade because he's the descendant of one of the strongest demons in the demon world and that's where you've got to draw the line.
As much as I love YYH, I'm pretty glad that the series decided to hang up the gloves after DEMON YUSUKE. For fuck's sake, that shit pisses me off to this very fucking day. When I first watched the Three Kings arc, I hated it.
Now that I watched it again, I like everything about it, EXCEPT for the fighting. It's just so goddamn boring.

I don't even know why I clicked on this thread, most shonen power ups only succeed in boring me or pissing me off.

While on the subject, It sure is great that Goku managed to combine SUPER SAIYAN BLUE with KAIOKEN after all this fucking time, because good ki, bad ki, and all this horseshit.
Do you remember when Dragonball was good? The trend-setter? For fuck's sake.

>>142618540
Are you really surprised that One Piece ended up doing something that ended up making Luffy look ridiculous?

I mean, you don't have to like the design, but really, are you surprised? If anything, this happened, because Gear 2 was basically Kaioken

>>142622286
>>142622718
I'd probably go with Rigaldo fight's power up myself

Mother fucking lionman looks up at his impending death and says "MAGNIFICENT"

>>142637224
How about you stop reading shit? There are plenty of good examples in this thread.

>>142637332
I was making fun of myself, no need to be so defensive. Even if, just because I'm not a fan of them, doesn't mean that they're automatically terrible, just my particular preference

>>142617038
rip beelzebub, shouldve just stick with romcom

>>142617624
Seiya

>>142620101
and then he died like a bitch

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LISTEN UP MY NEN

>>142632860

wasn't taijutsu the one thing that could fuck madara up though?

>>142618540
>2 years

get out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64

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>>142634603
>berserk btfo
??

>>142634991
tanks

>>142624512
He's an amazing MC for a shounen. We need more chill fuckers in shounen.

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>>142617963

>>142639272
That's Seinen

>>142639226
Yes only taijutsu and the sage chakra thing were able to damage him

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In a manga full of reality warpers and plot armors, his Devil Style is acceptable.

>>142622644
Read some chinese shit. There is whole jenre around MC supporting gods themselves.

>>142639022
Anime soon

>>142623259
Does LH/Shiroe count?

>>142623259
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere. Toori's main plan was getting access to the Musashi's power supply so he could simply channel it to all his classmates.

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>>142611522

>>142633790
Your vibes are sort of correct. The mangaka (a woman, surprisingly) behind magi originally designed Sinbad to be her ideal man. I really liked the part when he became a slave and actually showed weakness

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>>142616980
>Yammy
I remember when I saw the spoilers for it in a thread back in the day I thought they were fake and it was too dumb to happen

>>142644526
I started reading the original series and Sinbad is a heck of a lot more likeable in there. I read through what you mentioned and it was interesting to say the least. Haven't read a manga series in a while that dealt with slavery as brutally as this one did. That seems to be a pretty heavy theme with Magi as well though seeing as an entire nation was almost sold into slavery
Still it gave me a single page of big tittied djinn so I'm locked in for the ride.

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>>142625120
Spider in of itself is a pretty acceptable power up since no one really knows how the wire trick works at the moment

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Quite a satisfying battle overall. The fact he didn't use it properly when he first got the power up and only got the hang of it on the second attempt was pretty nice as well

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>>142615298
Why did they make him suffer in the sequel novel?

Who thought this was a good idea?

>>142615154
The most overrated piece of trash manga I've ever read. It was mediocre at best. Also retarded.

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>>142644113
>he will never plug you up with ether
>you won't get to fight as a normal student to help them make their dream possible
why live

>>142617011
Didn't you know tons of underaged shitfucks use /a/? Bleachtards are among them.