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Originally Posted by marvelB
^Yeah, I think that's what a lot of people don't realize about OP..... the storylines are very well-structured. It would just be plain boring if it were a pure battle manga. I mean, maybe that kind of thing works for old-school series like DB or Kinnikuman, but OP is a bit of a different beast (of course, Jojo tends to take a bit of an anarchic approach to story structure at many points, but Araki's so awesome that he can get away with it  ). |
Not to digress too far off topic, but I think DB and DBZ had decent plots.... clearly nothing of the caliber of One Piece or even more complex and structured series, but I don't think they were monotonous of unimaginative by any means. Simple, perhaps, but not necessarily bad.
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