I just realized that I don’t like a lot of shonen anime. I honestly don’t know what’s weirder, the fact that I am just barely figuring this out or the fact that this surprises me. This discovery came about when one of my brothers made me watch an episode of Dragon Ball Z Abridged with him, which led to a conversation with my sister about the biology of Super Saiyans based on an article she found on the internet, which led to me realizing that a lot of Dragon Ball Z made

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I get into odd conversations with my friend Scott over stories in videogames and cartoons. We started bouncing ideas around that famous trope in shonen manga (and by extension, anime too), the FIGHTING TOURNAMENT ARC. Why is it used so much? Why does it keep falling flat? (Why do we collectively groan when we see it coming? )

Bouncing ideas back and forth, I figured out my own little theory. The authors use it as a delaying tactic!

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Hello out there, readers, writers, and editors of FiMFiction! I bet you are wondering what I've been up to the past couple weeks? Well, the answer is something like everything and nothing.

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