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animalia555



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:39 pm Reply with quote
Would One Piece be considered a fighting manga?
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darkhunter



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:08 pm Reply with quote
What the heck is fighting manga?
It's call action manga. Action involves fighting. One piece is a shonen title and shonen title are known for action so what do you think?
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animalia555



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:12 pm Reply with quote
Fighting manga to quote from the lexicon are "titles where extremely powerful warriors duke it out amongst each other with various forms of martial arts and superpowers. Typical examples of this include Dragon Ball Z, Flame of Recca and Rurouni Kenshin."
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:17 pm Reply with quote
animalia555 wrote:
Fighting manga to quote from the lexicon are "titles where extremely powerful warriors duke it out amongst each other with various forms of martial arts and superpowers. Typical examples of this include Dragon Ball Z, Flame of Recca and Rurouni Kenshin."


Dude that's a description of "Shonen". One piece was in Shonen Jump and released under the shonen jump brand. Are you too slow to make the connection? Have you read One Piece before? There's more to one piece than just fighting.

People refer to "fighting manga" as action manga. Just look in the back of One Piece, it will say Action. If a manga is scary, they refer to those manga as Horror manga. If a manga involve love they're refer to as romance manga.

Viz page also has an "action" section. I dont' see any "fighting" section even though they're almost the same thing.
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animalia555



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:36 pm Reply with quote
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Dude that's a description of "Shonen". One piece was in Shonen Jump and released under the shonen jump brand. Are you too slow to make the connection? Have you read One Piece before? There's more to one piece than just fighting.
What About Yu-Gi-Oh!? It is in Shonen Jump but there is no fighting in it. Also Trigun while both a Shonen, and an Action manga It would not be considered a fighting Manga since MOST of the charachters use guns and not MArtial Arts, or Maritial Arts Weaponry, Or Martial Arts related Superpowers. Finally, I know there is more to One Piece Then Fighting, The same can be said of Rurouni Kenshin as it is more then just Fighting, but It still is a fighting Manga.

P.S. I have as of the time of this post only read one chapter of One Piece.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:40 pm Reply with quote
animalia555 wrote:
What About Yu-Gi-Oh!? It is in Shonen Jump but there is no fighting in it.


The monsters fight...
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animalia555



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:48 pm Reply with quote
CrackaJax Wrote:
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animalia555 wrote:

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What About Yu-Gi-Oh!? It is in Shonen Jump but there is no fighting in it.


The monsters fight...


But the characters themselves don't.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:01 pm Reply with quote
So? The main characters still control the fighting. It qualifies under fighting.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:15 pm Reply with quote
CrackaJax wrote:
So? The main characters still control the fighting. It qualifies under fighting.

If that made a manga a fighting manga then most of the things on the market would be fighting. I define fighting manga as a manga that focuses on hand to hand combat.
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animalia555



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So? The main characters still control the fighting. It qualifies under fighting.
Anyways were getting off topic.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:19 pm Reply with quote
Kagemusha wrote:
CrackaJax wrote:
So? The main characters still control the fighting. It qualifies under fighting.

If that made a manga a fighting manga then most of the things on the market would be fighting. I define fighting manga as a manga that focuses on hand to hand combat.


Yes, well...fighting is a very broad term, so it's not *wrong* if someone thinks of "fighting" differently than you.

And marketing-wise, why would any company start a "fighting manga" line. "Action" is more...kid-friendly.

As far as One Piece goes, I would say "no" to it being a "fighting manga." There are minor scuffles, but it's not as "monster of the week" as something like Yu-Gi-Oh or Shaman King.

-wow, I wrote "Rurouni Kenshin" when I meant to put "Yu-Gi-Oh." *sigh* Changed....

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Haiseikoh 1973



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:00 am Reply with quote
lianncoop wrote:

And marketing-wise, why would any company start a "fighting manga" line. "Action" is more...kid-friendly.


And Politically Correct!!
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littlegreenwolf



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:13 am Reply with quote
With how long fights last in one piece, I'd say it is a fighting manga. Luffy's striving to be the best, and whenever he comes across a meanie pirate, they fight, and the fights get longer and longer by the volume. I usually consider a fighting manga a fighting manga if they focus on battles, and the battles last longer than a couple chapters. Most shonen-jump manga fall under this.

I consider Naruto a fighting manga, and One Piece just has fights that last slightly less than Naruto.
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