So now that every popular shonen manga has ended, which manga did the rival trope character the best?
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>>287855783Killua mogs
So this is the current state of /a/ huh
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>>287855783There sure are a lot of clones.
>>287855834my fuarking HERO
>Hiei>Sasuke CloneNarutards sicken me
>>287856190chadsuke transcends space & time and inspired character like hiei kurapika killua and bejita
>>287855783>sasuke clones Excuse you . . .
>>287855783Does Hiei not predate Sasuke? I could have sworn he came way first.
>>287855783Jjk
>>287855783it him
>>287856190>>287856491The fact that we can't tell whether OP's pic is genuine or ragebait says a Lot about Narutards.
i think it's because Sasuke is the one that pulled the edgy chad character perfectly, there were other characters like him before yes but he basically was the most popular one and arguably the best executed one.>>287856328Vegeta is not one, if anything Piccolo is more of a Sasuke clone than he is.
>>287857085>wenigger, fuckin kirito is there. you seriously can't tell?
>>287857179I think it's really just that Sasuke was the actual "2nd protagonist cool rival" from the start.Hiei was never the 2nd main character.
Kirito doesn't fit at all, he is more likely inspired by Shinji.
>>287857232>>287857179Sasuke is the only real deuteragonist in any shonen series, nobody ever put that much effort and focus into the rival character.
>>287855783Ishida would be the Sasuke clone from Bleach, come on, how retarded is the retard that made this image?
>>287857344Now that I think about it it's the same VA
>>287855783Is this image supposed to be of rivals? If so, whoever made hasn't watched Demon Slayer
>>287857179I don't like pickles.
>>287857315See this >>287857201And maybe Iori YagamiShadow and Iori and Zero are the proto edgy rival 2nd main leads that predated Sasuke.
>>287855783>Hiei>Sasuke "clone"
>>287857179>>287857315There has not been a secondary-character with more plot armor than Sasuke. Not once is he beaten to near-death like the actual protagonist, who at one point has to have his heart made to beat manually. Kishi really shat up the character.
>>287857213I'm still undecided
>>287859030HAHAHAHA mostly a carbon copy the other way around, down to appearance, but with the demon form I mean curse mark level 2 form being based a bit on Younger Toguro's percentage forms.
>>287855783You know that rival wasn't invented in naruto? Or too retard to lurk more and watch more anime.The rival is basic on every shounen story, for good rival you have goku/vegeta, for funny sports rivals hanamichi sakuragi/rukawa there are so many rivals but probably the one that started rivalry and did it best is dragon ball.>first rival yamcha then becomes ally, second rival tenshinhan then became friend, then came the eternal rivals of goku wgich are piccolo and vegets.But lets see how much they cloned vegeta.> parents died.>clan/race genocided >always alone.>got girl and became really good.For exanple in the case of grey it has most of vegeta setting but he is kinda like robin mask maybe.
>>287855853Killua isn't a rival per se since is a friend from start, and faggot X faggots is quite a bad example.
>>287856190>>287856328Sasuke is more known than these losers.
>>287855783>Byakuya is a Sasuke clone>When there is a brooding darkhaired the-last-of-his-kind boy voiced literally by Noriaki SugiyamaBait used to be believable.
Is he a Sasuke? Think about it. He's an edgy lad with dark spiky hair who threatens to kill people and is a rival to the story's true hero
>>287860188What are you using because that shit seems good.And sasuke barely has plot armor because quite normal with low IQ (compared to itachi) and in the naruto vs sasuke fights.>first fight : naruto used kyubi chakra forming one tail, sasuke thanks to it reached lvl 2 sharingan (he was slow grow compared to others, obito sharingan lvl 2 from start, itachi lvl 3 from start) end of battle naruto unconscious with little damage, sasuke with left arm almost destroyed.>second fight : naruto poisoned still defeated sasuke that ended almost dead and blind rescued by obito and naruto didn't even use sennin mode.So not really as you say even obito said after naruto defeated pain "naruto-kun is far stronger then you currently sasuke, if you intended to fight him i will try to stop you" making clear sasuke was weak.
>>287860514You know what vegeta has as rival then none of the others had?>he won against the MC in all the fights.That's what made him the rival because goku thinks on being stronger so he can defeat vegeta on his own while vegeta thinks on be stronger then goku yet he won all the fights.>sasuke lost all the fights against naruto with last being a draw.>grey always tie against natsu.>biakuya well not really a rival, the only rival of ichigo is aizen until the end and yes aizen won the fights against ichigo so it checks as rival.>in naruto you have better rivals which are guy sensei and kakashi, and let's be honest guy was then strongest of all (recognized by madara as the strongest) with kakashi trying to reach same level even going to extremes with his training (kinda like vegeta).Vegeta is far more known.>exclusive vegeta CM around 45 for almost everything.>sasuke CM just one of energy drink and was mentioned by itachi "there is even a version of my little brother".
>>287855783Megumi is the worst and it's not even close. Even Yuno is better than Megumi.
>>287860188>There has not been a secondary-character with more plot armor than Sasuke. Not once is he beaten to near-death like the actual protagonist, who at one point has to have his heart made to beat manually. Kishi really shat up the character.Literally wut? Sasuke literally lost against itachi, lost against bee, didn't even have the finishing kill move against deidara, if anything kishimoto did him dirty as hell
>>287855783Now this is bait.
>>287860777At least megumi has a personnality, I can't even tell what yuno's personality is aside from "asta is my rival"
>>287855783Sasuke clone means edglord fujobait
>>287855783Who is Kirito a rival to? The fag from alicization?
Sasuke (and Kageyama) are more like Rukawa clones desu
>>287855783"Sasuke" clones when Hiei invented the trope 10 years before Sasuke was even a thing
>>287857344Ishida is simply not as hot / popular / edgy enough as Byakuya, so he's more comparable to Sasuke
>>287863377ishida looks too nerdy with his glasses and long hair, he's more comparable to shino
>>287855783Is Megumi even a rival? Dude has no motivation to even get stronger, let alone compete with others
>>287855783I'm like Sasuke, I hate my dad!!!
>>287857201Chadow my fuarking hero.
>>287856328except wsj authors mentioned themself that thanks to naruto the needed to add the 3 pair cast>>287856491>>287857085>>287859030you act that yyh shit hadn't lots of breaks,
>>287860188> Not once is he beaten to near-death like the actual protagonist, Brah I'm a Sasuke fan. And I think you're being a retard with a bad take, Kishi fucked up Sasuke physically and mentally so bad you wondered if he hated him. He was ragged dolled by racist stereotypes for fucks sake.
>>287860777>someone is better than the worst
