In Kishimoto's case, this was solved by him dragging the ninja war out as long as humanly possible, even before the ninja war, you could tell he was stretching things out just to stall the main story arcs for as long as possible. In Kubo's case this meant stringing Aizen out a lot longer than intended, and then writing arcs by the seat of his pants after Aizen went down. The Seventh Hokage unlocked a new Kurama transformation that would supposedly cost his life in chapter 51, and with the first Boruto chapter also teasing Naruto's demise, that fateful moment could. In the end, it comes down to planning and publisher or popularity fiat, Kishimoto can't plan too far ahead, because he doesn't know when his publisher is going to say he needs to stretch the series another 2-3 years. It may not be a coincidence that Masashi Kishimoto's return to the Naruto franchise comes immediately after the manga teased Naruto Uzumaki's death. In cases like this, especially in manga targeted at boys, power creep becomes a major problem, the power levels intended for the final chapters and villains gets stretched out, because Japanese manga seems to be obsessed with constantly throwing higher and higher level villains at the protagonist, you eventually get up to planet destroying or god-like levels of ability, and then the writers get stuck trying to find a way for the protagonists to defeat the main villain.Įven more focused manga like One piece start to see power creep after awhile, although in One Piece's case mitigating that problem has its own set of issues that drag the story down. The popularity of the manga and the anime required both of them to stretch their stories out. In Kubo's case, he specifically mentioned that the Aizen arc was both supposed to be the last arc in Bleach, as well as it was supposed to come much sooner. Click to expand.Probably, because he's not the only person working on the Naruto books, just the head writer, and what he does write is still under massive pressure from his bosses and their bosses, and so on up the chain.
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