Why There Can Never Be a "New Big Three"
Often fans of anime and manga get into heated discussions surrounding various topics – which anime is the best, which is the most influential, which anime are supposedly “mid” and what shows are so-called “peak fiction”? These questions are common, and lead to productive and interesting conversations, but sometimes they lead to misunderstandings, like what happens with conversations around a phenomenon known as “The Big Three”. In short, “The Big Three” refers to three titles emerging after an era of immense success in Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump magazine....