Shonen

Is spiraling in bad writing the fate of all shonen (not only "battle shonen")? This is particularly evident in WSJ, but happens pretty much in all magazines.
Seriously, I think I could only name a couple of series that are still safe or that ended without being utter garbage.

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Chances of bad writing increases with every 10 chapters and added characters

Why are you being a pretentious literary critic on weekly manga that go by rule of cool?

The writing generally has to be simple enough not just because the audience needs to be able to understand it, but because writing/drawing a chapter of a manga every week while juggling a particularly complex story is hard. You can only plan so far in advance, and if you don’t end it quick, you’ll have to make stuff up on the fly while being really busy.

It is an inevitability with almost all long form media, no matter where they stem from or what medium they actually belong to.

It happens even with relatively short stories though.

One Piece is better than your favourite manga and will still be loved and read by millions for thousands of years

This is just the consequence of serialization. It happens with every artistic medium from every part of the world.

cope

This. Long running series + weekly schedule + rookie author with no real outline for his story since he doesnt know if it gets popular

...And every le stronger than previous one new enemy.

Shonen by its very nature is simple. Every conflict is resolved with willpower and violence. The problem isn't coming up with stuff on the fly, the problem is making conflict resolution believable when you're having the protagonist punch hard for the 72818th time.

What's be the ideal story length in volumes in your opinion?

That's just battle shonen though.

what's the problem with resolving conflict with violence?

because doing so makes dumb people feel smart

It's too limited in what it can do narratively, making it unsuited especially for long form shonen. The author can come up with all the creative attacks he wants but it stops being interesting when readers realize everything is just going to be solved the same way.

>every
If every time something seems a bit more complicated it's still solved with mc punching someone and having everything turn out fine it can feel boring and fake after a while. Obviously it's fine sometimes but battle shonen frequently has literally everything solved with fights and that gets old.

yeah, but the very premise of battle shonen runs antithetical to resolving things in a "creative" way. like what else could you show to solve conflicts? have them talk no jutsu the opponent?

>all this cope
It's really simple, some people can draw fast as fuck and others can't.
That's why murata and mashima can pump out hundreds of pages a month and others break their bodies with a shit tier 17-19 pages a week.

any capitalist publisher will by necessity push their authors to make their works have wider appeal to reach the lowest common denominator.

Not having conflict be external would be a way but I guess that also runs antithetical to what a battle shonen is.