>modern battle shounen>every new character has unique form of magicWhy does this has to be this way?I miss OG battle shounen like Dragon Ball where everyone could learn other people's techniques.
Have you seen Toji no Miko
>>288747414no, is it good?
>>288747230Every single new character is a half hour of filler exposition explaining their powers on top of filling in their life story. It's perfect for padding the run time.
>>288747230yeah I blame hxh for this
>>288747230>I miss OG battle shounen like Dragon Ball where everyone could learn other people's techniques.Name one technique other than kamehameha.It's fun. spices up the story, breaks the monotony of seeing the same attacks over and over, gives authors a chance to flex their creative muscles in a compartmentalized manner.Like anything, if it's done poorly it's bad.
>>288747983>kiezan>genkidama (aka. spirit bomb)>makaishappo (aka. special beam cannon)>kaioken>taioiken (aka. solar flash)>final flash (Vegeta's all attacks are in English)
Saiyans had zenkai boost thoughbeit
>>288747464It's literally the best anime of all time.
>>288747983It's basically all a ki blast with slight variations and different names anyway.
>>288748014All of those are used at most once by characters other than the main user.
>>288748486Piccolo teaches Gohan demon technique, forgot what it is called be used it constantly
>>288747230I think a sort of common base energy system that allows expansion and unique expressions of personality through powers is the best compromise. Stuff like Naruto and HxH where two users of a "type" or element might use them for a wide variety of applications. I can headcanon someone changing his aura into flames for a more direct use of fire but I could also see someone instead focusing on generating heat, stealthily consuming oxygen in a given area for instance
>>288748486Solar flare was used by Tien, Goku, Krillin, and Cell goalpost-san.
>>288748486>>288749394Sorry, just let me save you the effort of moving them again, it must be tiring. Both Goku and Cell used the technique more than once each as well.
>>288747918I blame Jojo.HxH falls in the middle of the Dragonball-Jojo spectrum, where everyone is using the same power system and can technically achieve the same powers, but in practice everyone is better off making their own ability instead of plagiarizing.
>>288747230People immediately realized that was boring. JoJo gave people unique powers, the Big 3 and HxH did a mix. JJK and KnY are also mixed. Also, I think onle one of those in your image is a true battle shounen, but whatever.
>>288747230Speed lines and flash to black are the modern fight scenes.
You are just cherry-picking because there are multiple, popular works where characters can (and do) learn each other's moves or at least have the capability of it. JJK is the most obvious where Yuuji basically has no unique abilities of his own, but in KNY there are entire fighting styles that multiple characters can practice, including Tanjiro himself overlapping with Giyu. Both of these series also have special abilities only 1-2 characters use, with JJK have domain expansions, with JJK having domain expansions for this, but you also have multiple users of black flash, several Mahoraga summoners, and a character that literally steals moves from everyone else.It comes down to what the author's preferences are for writing. In general it makes a tighter story to give each character unique (or relatively unique) abilities because it makes each fight more of a puzzle of figuring out and overcoming the new enemy's unique abilities, rather than using the same moves across the entire cast.
>>288747230The main character needs to be super special
>>288747230Because instead of it being >Rock, Paper, Scissorsit's >Rock, Bigger Rock, Even Bigger RockStorytelling is better when there's diversity among characters other than just strength, for both the writer's creativity and capturing the reader's attention
>>288747918>>288749789I'd blame western superhero comics. Also, Yu Yu Hakusho was before HxH. For the territory powers, the author said he stole it from some other guy who I don't know, that might've not been released (huh?)
