With Dragonball being the most well known and lucrative anime franchise world wide, why has nobody successfully imitated this? That is to say huge buff guys shooting beams of energy at each other.
>>135158705
Because it's a generic as shit concept and DBZ only gets a free pass because of nostalgia retards.
>>135158705
Shounen is dead, nigga. What you see from most Shounen writers, especially the ones from the old Big Three, is that all of them try to immitate Kishimoto. DBZ may be generic, but Toriyama originally pulled off the concept so succesfully that everyone wants a slice of the pie now.
Perhaps in a few decades a new and original idea will pop up, follwed by legions of uncreative hacks who will copy it and copy it until everything the original has done becomes a contrived cliché.
Because it already happened in the 90's and it didn't work because it's not DBZ.
>>135158705
They have.
Naruto is ninja DBZ
One Peice is Pirate DBZ
Bleach is Ghost Samurai DBZ
plus all sorts of others.
Nothing is going to be as lucrative as the orignal simply cause they are all fighthing each other for popularity.
>>135158705
What are you talking about? It's one of the most influential series ever and spawned many tropes that get used over and over to this day. Of course nobody is going to copy it right down to the details, who could get away with that?
>>135158705
A clean-cut facsimile just wouldn't fly however, all of the tropes and concepts used in dbz have been thrown around ad nauseam so it's safe to say that it's been replicated
>>135160782
That's way too simple of a way to put it
Not to mention that One Piece rightfully established itself on its own while Naruto and Bleach were never even contenders, they just got more popular in the West because of dubs.
>>135159478
Is it really that generic though
>>135158705
>this thread
