I'm sorry for having been difficult with my thoughts. The ideas behind them could have been presented nicer and in a more clear way
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It hurts to have my interests judged in part because I only post in this thread. Why would I post in Naruto/Bleach's thread? Those series' became awful so I stopped reading them. That thread is just a place for people to pass around bad jokes about those 2 stories, or to condescendingly explain how they should be handled, like they have the skills of a professional writer. I love One Piece but OP arcs flow better when I read them together so I let chapters build up, rather than reading weekly so I don't have much interest posting in the threads for weekly OP releases
I did start reading Berserk so I wanted to post in that thread, but last I looked it was locked
I'm not interested in Gintama or the million other shonen stories out there. I was let down too hard by Naruto (and Bleach's) drop in quality. I'm not investing time into 300+ chapter shonen manga anymore till one comes along that doesn't lose steam by that point and stubbornly continues churning out more material
Even OP (I love it, the early stuff feels like a JRPG, CP9 is a great breaking down and then building up of the straw hat crew, Thriller Bark has a great visual look, the war where Luffy teams up with Crocodile and the fish guy is masterfully pulled off), but even OP has more often been off its game than on its game post time skip
HXH may be slow, but it stays great. It's the only shonen manga that has never left me disappointed in it's quality.
I would LOVE a nice long shonen to sink my teeth into that is AAA quality. But I don't think it's out there. As far as my interests go, I'm just a casual manga fan, and HXH more than satisfies my itch. After being disappointed in other manga I've tried, I'm not going to invest time into a hobby that is just a casual (not a deep or passionate hobby) interest to me
So yeah, I only post in this thread. Big deal