I read both.
Bleach went blank after defeating Aizen. The mangaka didnt know what to do after beating Aizen (no Bankai for Aizen, and here you are comparing it to Naruto?).
Kishimoto brilliantly planned the 4th GNW. Power creep is bound to happen in 500+ chapter series.
One Piece did it worse. I will accept power creep everyday over holding back characters that the author hyped 20 years ago.
Naruto's each and every protagonist and ANTAGONIST beats One Piece's pro+antagonists.
I have got some free time. We can do a character by character comparison and an arc by arc comparison. Lets determine rules first (personal opinions does not matter).
Then we can see which series come out on top.
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Exactly, power creep happens in every shounen. It is more weird for a power creep not to happen then it happening. Like I told the gaimon dude I had no issues with Madara low diffing the five kages. It brought tension and stakes. and it lived up to the expectations Kishi set for Madara hyping him up for several hundred chapters. My favorite part of Wano was when Kaido one shotted Luffy because it brought stakes and it gave Oda creditability that this is a unique pirate that Luffy has never faced. At that point of wano I was like finally Oda is meeting expectation that he himself set and then Oda put Luffy in a prison to train. Then Oda nerfed him because he didn't know how to defeat him. That is worse than any power creep.
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this fight is heaviliy carried by it's plot twist. I'd say is perfectly rated.
Most underrated fight imo is Zabuza vs Kakashi. It gets forgotten because the story scaled so much higher afterwards
What is your definition of rated?
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Yes those 70chapters turned the entire series to shit it’s like saying GoT is a masterpiece if you ignore s7 & s8.
To judge a 700 chapter story just on 70 chapters is stupid. You guys are overexaggerating just like the AOT ending. Yes Naruto and AOT ending was terrible but to judge the whole story on a bad ending is ridiculous. Stories are HARD to write especially when you have a one week deadline. The author being perfect from the beginning, middle and end is rarely if ever going to happen.
Also, GOT was terrible from season 3, but you guys kept eating it up. GOT used killing characters as the catalyst of their story, it had no other substantive plot. Saying "
winter is coming" or "
Dragons" every season doesn't mean it has a substantive plot. The red wedding was one of the worst writing I watched, completely pointless. They did that just for shock value, not for a narrative decision but you guys ate it up because their were death. Any person paying attention to the plot of GOT knew it was fool's gold.
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So we would compare arcs and characters totally unbiased? Yeah right, give me a break
Just because you like Naruto more doesn't make it the masterpiece you think it is. Power creep is the least of the problems Shippuden faced. Kishimoto spit in the face of all the themes and lore he set up in the first half. And let's not even bring up the side characters who all got shafted so that the series could become the god brothers manga
Side characters got shafted? My guy, Gara had his own arc, Itachi his own arc, Jiraya his own arc, Shikamaru his own arc, Sasuke his own arc and that was all PART 2 Naruto! Like lmfao like I said, you sure do love talking in generalities and literally providing zero examples