Rising Stakes in the Action Adventure Shonen

A look at how the careful choices in antagonists can avert power creep, despite the trope’s regular occurrence in the action adventure series. Probably inspired in part by the content of BestGuyEver. Also catch the Po D. Cast on The Pro Crastinators, it’s good stuff. A different take on the subject by Alpha-Alpaca-Pack: Thoughts as of November 2018: Half baked (and even missing the mark at times) observations muddled by a rushed script/delivery (how the fuck did anyone get anything from this) and unnecessary comparisons. I do think One Piece’s handling of power scaling is neat as far as its place in the genre but I’m also trying to talk about Luffy’s character arc, then the Fairy Tail guess the rant is funny but it doesn’t help the earlier points any. Text Version: MAL: