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[Sothe]

Warning: Potential Spoilers

One Piece and Naruto happen to be two of the longest animes ever, and Bleach is well... popular.

Out of these three animes, (feel free to throw any other long or otherwise good anime into the conversation, if you want,) my favorite is One Piece, then Naruto, then Bleach.

Whattaya think?

(Yeah, I know Luffy made one of these in October, but it kind of died easily.)

Now...

For one thing, I think One Piece has the best character interaction in any anime I've seen so far. The relationships between the Luffy crew (particularly Zoro x Sanji, and Robin x Nami,) are strong and well-made. The only relationships that manage to compete with these mentioned relationships--as well as all of the other relationships between the straw-hats--is Yoruichi x Soifon in Bleach, and Naruto x Jiraiya in Naruto. Also, One Piece's story is strong, well made, and overall funny. Oda might not be the best writer, but he's better than Kishimoto or Kubo.

[Zepher Tensho]

Out of the three Bleach might be ending the soonest. Currently in the Japanese manga all the Espada are dead except Yami, who Byakuya and Kenpachi are finishing off, and Ichigo, who is the only person who can face Aizen, is on his way back to the world of the living where Aizen is to have the final showdown.

[Sothe]

[Zepher Tensho]

Why doesn't he have his crew?

Oh yea I know Naruto's close too. I just don't see how Naruto can beat someone who can't be hit (Madara)

[Blood Falcon]

Eph, I thought you were a huge Bleach fanboy? Anyways mine is Naruto, Bleach, then One Piece, favorite to least. I never really liked any of these three though. I stopped watching Naruto once all those damn fillers started. Bleach I stopped reading since I couldn't find any volumes past 27. One Piece is ok, I've never been much a fan of it though.

[Seraphinox]

Bleach has become a let down, same plot line twice is a big no-no and at the moment it's been 60 chapters of nothing but fighting, WHERE'S THE STORY GONE?

One Piece is great although sometimes it can be a little bit too random, but it's still great with lots of hilarity and epic battles.

Naruto is good because it has a semi-grounded story and most of the fights are pretty amazing, It'll probably end the soonest, as One Piece doesn't look like ending anytime soon and Bleach will take another million chapters before the damn fights end and the story comes back to life

[Zepher Tensho]

The plot line wasnt the same twice. Rukia wasn't kidnapped like Orihime she was just brought back to where she belonged and was going to be executed. Orihime was kidnapped by Ulquiorra so Aizen could take advantage of her powers. No that doesn't sound exactly the same to me. And so what if the last 60 chapters were fighting is a fking shonen manga its supposed to have action and fighting. And the story line is still there. Aizen is trying to bring his plan to fruition which is to destroy Karakura town to make the Oken so he can assassinate the spirit king, and everyone is trying to prevent that. So yea its not just senseless fighting with no story.

[Seraphinox]

For the last 60 chapters it has been just fighting >_>

And when paired down it's the same plotline: Save a girl,

Look at One Piece, it's a fcking shonen manga as well but it has a story throughout.

[Zepher Tensho]

Like I said the main story line hasnt changed or disappeared. The fighting is all to end the end stop Aizen from killing everyone and getting away with his plan. Its like your ignoring that just to make it sound bad. And I don't see it ending sooner than Naruto I mean no one knows how to hit a man who can become intangible, and has 7 of the tailed beasts, so I don't see Naruto ending that soon. (Not to mention Sasuke is basically evil and wants to kill well everyone).

[Sothe]

[Zepher Tensho]

Yea but Sasuke's rage seems pointed at Konoha not Madara. Altho MAYBE Naruto can talk sense into him but Sasuke seems to be more and more evil as time passes.

[Sothe]

Yeah, I have pretty much lost hope for Sasuke returning, but still, Madara did promise to give Sasuke a tailed-beast, and probably won't keep his promise. If he doesn't, then Sasuke might just kill him, then go and die some other way. Ironic. After all that talk about Konoha being the rat, Orochimaru being the snake, and him being the falcon, he's gonna lose to the "rat."

[Zepher Tensho]

Lol yea. Did you read the latest chapter? Man they fcked Kisame up big time.

[Sothe]

Yeah. I missed it at first, but I just saw it last night. Kind of makes the hosts look pathetic, though, that the possibly strongest of the nine was beaten so easily, then Kisame was killed in a second. Of course, it was already sad that the two-tails chick lost to Hidan, who was killed by an average Chunin. So, yeah... Hosts suck.

[Shu]

The best out of those is probably One Piece. I'm not sure about second, but One Piece is the best because it's storyline is just so freakin' insane and original it can't be topped by the other two. It also has more interesting characters (Zoro FTW, Nami is hawt, and Brooke WTF?)

In any case, they're all good, but the King of Manga remains Dragonball/Z, (I've said it before, I'll say it again) because it has, and probably will still after the 3 in question have ended, more impact than any Manga...ever, basically.

But some other greats are Yu Yu Hakasho and Rurouni Kenshin. I also Like Shaman King...

I want to try out Fist of The North Star at some point as well.

[Sothe]

Yu Yu Hakusho and Kenshin are two of my favorites, two, along with D. Gray Man and DB/Z. I agree with you, Shu. Never seen Shaman King though.

[Seraphinox]

Theres no chance DragonBall is the king of manga.

Perhaps the king of Shonen Manga but not of every manga

Rurouni Kenshin is a pure and utter classic

[Sothe]

A classic... with like, one fifth of the episodes/volumes that DB/Z had.

Other than maybe Gundam, has anything ever lasted that long, actually? (And One Piece, if you don't count GT.)

[Seraphinox]

DBZ had 42 volumes, RK 28, 14 difference. Nowhere near 1/5th

[Sothe]

1/2. And Kenshin (the anime, not the manga) had 93--whereas the anime Dragonball had well over 400.