Is this a question or rehetorical or what? I'm not sure what you mean…in general or are you asking why I brought up Naruto, because it was one of the series YOU mentioned being "bad" but popular.
Yes.
You made quite a few grammatical mistakes in this post, too but I won't POUNCE all over them by quoting them followed by a snide one-liner. That's lame and kind of childish unless the other person is trying to tell you off, which I wasn't in the first place.
What the hell is this in response to lol.
Oh no, the Corben Bleu poster on my wall hangs proudly.
So then how does this figure into your piss-poor popularity dogma.
You can make an argument that ANYTHINg that's ubber popular is "tapping into what the youth culture is into now and thus brilliant for doing so, so perfectly."
That has nothing to do with quality.
The same way you can argue Nirvana was the SOUL of where American youth were at during their rise to popularity, with enough flowery statements you can make a decent enough argument for Highschool Musical. You can argue anything is THE BEST when it comes down to personal intrepretation or something that's art or music.
Yeah but you have to do it well. And be able to back yourself up to scrutiny.
The same can be said for One Piece, Dragonball, FMA, etc. What's your point? It really just sounds like you have never read or don't like that SPECIFIC series and are working backwards towards some strawman argument.
NOW what are you going on about.
How about you give me one or more valid reasons it SHOULDN'T be up there but something like Dragonball should considering they have had the exact same level of culural penetration and impact on manga storytelling styles and techniques?
When the hell have I said anything about what shouldn't be up there. What is "it". Slam Dunk? Why do you think I hate Slam Dunk.
I'm talking about the Viz volumes I read in the NA Shonen Jump releases.
Tell where Oda's ink got lazy or whatever you said, because I have no idea what your talking about.
The scans tend to look BETTER than those sometimes. And I guess you aren't done giving OP the reach around.
The scans NEVER look better.
Don't even argue with me on this shit, I own all the japanese volumes.
But especially don't retreat tot he same gay "y-y-y your an ODA LEG HUMPER" bullshit that Gameboy was trying to throw at me.
I didn't even vote for One Piece for crying out loud.
I voted for "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind", I voted Other.
But you don't see me having a tantrum over it not being listed or making awful arguments about OMG IT SHOULD BE UP THRE IT WAS MADE BY HAYAO MIYAZAKI
How brave of you to make bold statements like "One Piece is great" on a OP site.
Alright fuck you if your just going to turn this into some retarded one piece fan version of the crucible. Get out if your done arguing and want to play "horrible ad hominem rodeo".
One Piece is probably the only manga that has lasted this good for this long, but it is like an improved take on the Dragonball model, dude.
So.
SD was, and is something that was treading new ground.
Only in being about Basketball.
Which has nothing to with quality.
It's still one of the ONLY sports series that made use of comedy as much as it did.
You haven't ever read another sports series have you. Nor is "HAS COEMDY" groundbreaking. Manga and shonen don't exist in a fucking vacuum.
90% of Shonen sports series I've read/watched play things way more dramatic and series.
Welp.
Not to mention that was the first time I saw a sports series taking cues from romance and fighting series and making them work in a sports story naturally.
Weeeeelp.
Like I said, if you personally enjoy fantasy-fighting stuff more than ENJOY
God you are fucking dumb. Every other sentence it's another completely left-field strawman.
but don't bash a series because it belongs to a genre you're not into and act like it's inferior or something.
Yeah like this, exactly like this. What the flying fuck are you talking about.
What IS your argument exactly?
Popularity doesn't mean shit. We've gone over this twice already.
I already said, I AGREE that popularity doesn't determine what's the absolute best, I never said it did. My point was popularity SHOULD get you some acknowledgement if only that.
No it shouldn't.
Not to mention, in Slam Dunk's case it had QUALITY as well.
That's great.
Slice of Life=/= romance.
Slice of Life =/= Basketball.
And which of those SJ sports series is outselling Bleach and Naruto? SD is the only series I recall from the last 15 or so years that was that well received.
No one cares.
You still have no idea why you like Slam Dunk.