Thread 281118552

In HxH Togashi regularly abandons major characters and sub-plots so he can instead focus on writing a compelling arc that would otherwise be hampered by the presence of those characters and sub-plots. He doesn't care about maintaining flawless continuity/transition between all of the story's elements as long as he feels he has a good story to tell. Given the challenges that come with preserving the relevance of every element that's introduced in a weekly serialized series, why don't more mangaka adopt Togashi's more "freeform" and experimental approach to storytelling?

Because HxH is braindead slop for retards. No one cares about writing in battle shounen. It's never been good and never will be.

>>281118678
It's not exactly a battle shonen at its core, although it does feature battles.

>>281118552 (OP)
So, I'm gonna answer your retarded bait question seriously.
Most writing in manga is often amateur writing, coming off of a very limited background, often with no formal education beyond the realm of manga. Not to say Togashi is exceptionally smart, just that he very clearly at least understands writing at a more fundamental level.
For a lot of manga, stories are inevitably singularly focused on a typical main character and their rigid goal, with very little exciting outside that that isn't an extension of that. Exceptions exist obviously, but I'm speaking to the general realm of manga, where people will only read manga and then use that experience of just reading manga to write their own manga.

This is also why works like Dragon Ball and JoJo are so significant and popular. They are effectively outsider art to the entire medium, two mangaka that took things they liked that weren't all that present in the medium, and using manga as a tool to express the things they liked. Toriyama is a particularly astounding example because he had to be forced to pursue a mangaka career, and if you saw his storyboards you would think he was born for the job.
Other mangaka that very clearly are more formally educated include
>Oda
>Fukumoto
>Chiba
>Raiku
>Fujita

Again, this isn't saying "these guys are better"- many of the people I have mentioned fail as actual manga artists a lot of the time, but this is purely about narrative construction.

I wonder why.

>>281119707
>Most writing in manga is often amateur writing
Correct. This is because manga is drawing focused, but is carried on the back of a story. To be good at writing, one must practice writing. Just from hobby/habit, most mangaka are good at drawing but shit at writing due to lack of practice. How often have mangaka written and published books? It's not often.

This means manga needs a talent stack: both good drawing AND good writing. This makes the good manga story rare, and also why you see a lot of novel -> manga adaptation. It's easier when the story is written for you.

I still wonder why.

>>281118678
It's soft seinen.

Behold, the thinking man's battle shounen

>>281120179
What the hell is this