Naruto has a mid worldbuilding compared to Bleach and One Piece

[redux007]

BTW, if you're looking for extreme levels of "world building," then Five Star Monogatari is probably what you're looking for. Every little chapter/booklet comes with an expository dictionary explaining the dynastic history of even minor characters. It's up there with Dune.

 

[Ikagura]

Worldbuilding is crucial to storytelling and not only determines where a story takes place (either a fictional set or not), but also its cultural context and historical length... even as a fan, I think we should just all acknowledge that the wb in naruto is as messy as its story, that's why we see absurd stuff like choji eating chips by the same space/time daimyo lords are arriving to konoha to follow the events of chunin exams lol.

I always assumed that this was mostly for the joke or that the world of Naruto has a ninja theme yet is still a fairly "modern" world.

Also remember that Japan was still in the Meiji era (with Samurais) when potato chips were made.

I kinda disagree about worldbuilding being "crucial" to storytelling. In fact do we need the full context of a world for a story to be good? Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope is still a great movie even if you entirely ignore the Clone Wars, Order 66 and many other Extended Universe elements (I don't care if it's called Legends by Disney). Same thing with The Hobbit still being a good tale despite the depth of Tolkien's world.

That's what separates a tale from a bible: one is telling a narrative action the other is a compendium of all of those stories for a lore.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I will break a spear and will see that as a positive

Yeah, worldbuilding is good, but too many cooks spoil the soup, i want to watch some Anime, not have to do geography and history homework over a fictional world

 

[Ikagura]

I will break a spear and will see that as a positive.

I'm not a naruto fan (just nostalgic of the 90's mangas in general) but it feels refreshing when a series doesn't try to be the next Dune or LotR in term of lore.

Yeah, worldbuilding is good, but too many cooks spoil the soup, i want to watch some Anime, not have to do geography and history homework over a fictional world.

I follow you in that aspect. Sometimes it could be detrimental for the narration.

GTO is a beloved series and anime by many yet you can appreciate it even without having seen Shonan Junai Gumi.

Ditto with JoJo even if you've skipped parts or didn't know about the Stand Arrows.

 

[shadowcat]

Did I hit my head and wake up in 2006? People are still arguing about the big three of yesteryear?

 

[Midnigriphony]

Did I hit my head and wake up in 2006? People are still arguing about the big three of yesteryear?

Unfortunately, yes. people still waste their time debating how this...
Instead of seeking out works they have never seen or read

 

[thumbsdown]

Tonight I'm moving on

 

[BrawlMan]

Honestly, all three's world building falls flat or loses interest the further you get into these overly long series. Tenchi OVA, Tenchi Universe, Cowboy Bebop, Digimon Adventure or Tamers, Outlaw Star, Big O and even El Hazard have more interesting world building. Most of those are much shorter anime.

 

[JellyjamLu]

All i have to add is: RASEN SHURIKEN! *BZZZzzzzzz*

 

[Retro Doomer]

Talk no jutsu

Naruto was peak in the beginning and gone downhill at the latest since Shipuden,it as more realistic as far as Anime go in the beginning,
but later on the whole powerscaling was broken and just over the top.

Also trying to make every Villain relatable even fucking psychotic Mass Murderers is not good world building..its annoying especially when we don't get the conclusion we want like Oroshimaru who was of course

Spoiler: Spoiler just in case

Spared in the end because Talk no Jutsu even after every thing he did its frustrating

One piece is partially similar but not as worse in the talk no jutsu thing the bad guys get what they deserve often enough(,I think its been a while).
What the problem of One Piece is, is the Gigantic World and thousands of Episodes and fillers who make it so likely to fuck over the World building.And quite honestly I lost the plot and Interest after the guess 600 Episode or later I was very far in that is all I can remember

 

[Ikagura]

Honestly, all three's world building falls flat or loses interest the further you get into these overly long series. Tenchi OVA, Tenchi Universe, Cowboy Bebop, Digimon Adventure or Tamers, Outlaw Star, Big O and even El Hazard have more interesting world building. Most of those are much shorter anime.

I kinda like the lore of Cowboy Bebop yet I think that the worldbuilding isn't that important. It's just that Earth is messed up because of an accident long ago yet I always feel like it's just one plot point not the entire subject of the series.

I said it before but people overestimate lore and world building for series when sometimes it should just be about the adventure in itself. I love Saint Seiya (the original series) yet it's just set in our current world but it got armour wearing people with superhuman powers that protect the reincarnation of a deity, I'm not asking more for that.

 

[skramz]

all 3 suck pretty bad in all honesty so i think they're pretty equal

 

[BrawlMan]

I kinda like the lore of Cowboy Bebop yet I think that the worldbuilding isn't that important. It's just that Earth is messed up because of an accident long ago yet I always feel like it's just one plot point not the entire subject of the series.

Yet it's still more interesting and intriguing than the big 3.

I said it before but people overestimate lore and world building for series when sometimes it should just be about the adventure in itself.

Agreed, It's why I mentioned those shows earlier. They have the adventure itself that make it work for them.