2011-10-22, 09:58 PM
Oh my. Was Jellal executed between then and now? Given how much Mashima loves Jellal, he'll be probably be brought back to life/in the plot with clones, resurrection, Mystogan, and/or other absurd plot devices.
Ah, I didn't respond to this back then, but time skips were never new in shonen. Fist of the North Star had a time skip, Dragonball had timeskips, and technically Jojo's Bizarre Adventure does, but it's different in Jojo because it's between completely different story arcs with different protagonists. I wonder, but if there's anything you can really blame for the popularity of time skips in the bigger shonen manga today, it's probably Dragonball. Toriyama was a huge influence for shonen authors today, especially Oda and Kishimoto.
Hey, don't forget about Simon ;_; Jellal was also the only character in this manga who killed anyone on screen.
Secun Wrote:Time skips seem to be becoming the norm in shonen manga, huh?
Ah, I didn't respond to this back then, but time skips were never new in shonen. Fist of the North Star had a time skip, Dragonball had timeskips, and technically Jojo's Bizarre Adventure does, but it's different in Jojo because it's between completely different story arcs with different protagonists. I wonder, but if there's anything you can really blame for the popularity of time skips in the bigger shonen manga today, it's probably Dragonball. Toriyama was a huge influence for shonen authors today, especially Oda and Kishimoto.
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Hey, don't forget about Simon ;_; Jellal was also the only character in this manga who killed anyone on screen.