If we’re talking strictly fights then Naruto, I guess. Rock Lee v Gaara, Naruto v Neji, Sakura v Sasori, Madara v Guy, many others I’m sure you could name; so many Naruto fights had intrigue and creativity in their execution and the stakes continually increased all the way up to the end, in my opinion. It had so many other problems though that I hesitate to call it a masterpiece, but damn it had some good fights - to the point that its successor Boruto is totally shit because Kishimoto did not design a world that could remain interesting in peacetime. Boruto is embarrassingly underwhelming in comparison.
Otherwise maybe YuYu Hakusho? It sort of reinvigorated/established tournament arcs as a borderline mandatory ingredient in the shounen formula.
Andrew Cooper
>Naruto Is this a joke post? Naruto is probably the worst battle shounen ever made. Terrible art, terrible designs, terrible fights.
dragon ball up till frieza saga is the pinnacle of shonen manga entirety of fullmetal alchemist hunter x hunter up till chimera ant arc. call me a normalfag all you want
Oliver Cox
>It had so many other problems though that I hesitate to call it a masterpiece Yeah, that's the problem
Christopher Morris
>Bastard!! if you're talking about anything other than the 1992 OVA you're a fag
Jonathan Cox
Baki unironically. Even the things about the series that I can admit are faults just add to the experience. It wouldnt be the same manga without them. So yes, Baki is a masterpiece even if it is imperfect.
Gabriel Wood
Yeah, Berserk
Charles Ramirez
the universal problem with shonen is fatigue. almost all of them start out decently strong with a good idea about the goal and how to achieve it but when you come back a few years later it's a doddering mess, with too many characters (bleach), power creep (dragon ball z), asspulls (naruto), or just too much scale (one piece)