(I used Bleach characters if anyone is curious)
A villan ready to kill something of great importance comes in right after our hero is found out to have extraordinary powers (or use).
The Hero confronts the Villan.
The Villan almost kills him.
Hero Becomes stronger to kill Villan.
Hero confronts in three book battle.
Hero comes out on top.
Then repeat... Bad Man
Bad Man kicks Hero's ass
Hero grows muscles...
...and kicks Bad Mans ass.
Hero wins!
This does not stop with only shonen manga it runs into epics and other fantasy King Arthur crap. This is called the archetype of a hero's journey, I have a simpler name for this archetype, "Hero grows muscles and kicks Bad Mans ass".
I'd use the fancy schmancy name on the next English paper, even if your term is more descriptive. :)
ReplyDeleteYou forgot that during the time the hero grows muscles, there's ALWAYS some reason for him to have 10 days or 3 days to train to become stronger and learn some secret backdoor technique that usually takes other people 7 years to learn and will usually kill you if you try to learn it the backdoor method, but the hero's trainer insists that the hero HAS to learn otherwise he'll die anyway.
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