What Is The Best Tournament Arc In Anime?
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Not putting up the Dragonball's second Boudokai Tournament here leaves out a lot.
Not putting any Budokai Tournament from Dragonball leaves out a lot.
Yeah, none of the 3 DB tournament arcs is wild. DB may not have created the trope of a tournament arc but it propelled it into the mainstream and set the foundation for all tournament arcs to come after it. Not to mention they are all just really entertaining even if you take out how important they are to the history of shonen anime. You see every match with a wide variety of characters from beginning to end and side characters get to shine in a way DBZ never let them.
It was mentioned in the other part but i also don’t think it would win if put in the list and i think the list would probably go similar with it maybe it third
23rd tenkaichi was better tbh
Yu Yu Hakusho's Dark Tournament arc is the best tourament arc arguably ever. I would Make that S tier. Yu Yu Hakusho without that arc is a solid 7/10. With that arc it becomes one of the best shonen anime ever made and is at least 9/10 because that arc slapped harder than my dad.
Also Fairy Tail's Grand Magic Games arc is one of the best arcs of that anime with a wild ending that I just loved. Also seeing the fallen Fairy Tail guild rise up to being the top guild was just awesome. That arc is a solid A tier.
I do agree in general though that Naruto's Chunin Exams arc is also S tier, but it still is not as good as the Dark Tournament arc if you ask me.
"the dark tournament slapped harder then my dad"
Anybody who talks like that knows peak cock fights in fiction! There's no doubt you understand what a man will do to win, and take number 1; just like Todoroki!
P.S. I'm so sorry! 😅🤦♂️ I hope I didn't go too far. I just couldn't resist the joke.
Emotional pay off is S tier , interms of actual tournament arc conclusion dark tournament is also best but it's 1 v 1 format is pretty basic /generic
@@viyusavery248 I mean you say that but every team match up had their own rules
First round was specifically a 1v1 for Team Urameshi. 2nd round was a 3v3 battle royale, round 3 is also 1v1 one however is based on the last man standing. So each fighter can take on multiple opponents in round 3 until they are defeated. Round 4 was decided randomly by Dice who would fight, with every defeated fighter creating a free space on the dice. The final round against team Toguro is a 1v1 however both teams agreed to make the match against the captains be worth the most points.
So, yes while most matches a are 1v1, every round went under different rules.
Not to mention there were other rounds featuring Team Toguro where we see (Younger) Toguro takes on an entire team himself & (Elder) Toguro kills 3 opponents at once .
People sleep on Fairy tail
Yu Yu Hakusho is mine. But Naruto hits in a different way and was very creative. To the point where the last part of the tournament itself is honestly kind of the weakest part of it for me.
That's kind of why I don't rate it high along with the Hunter Exams & Sports Festival, they end in anti-climaxes. This is good for changing up the pace of the story, however it makes the conclusion of these tournaments a lot less cathartic. That why I think I'm a big fan of the Dark Tournament, Tenkaichi Budokai, & Vongola Ring Tournament from Hitman Reborn. These Tournament telegraph what the final match will be. This may make the story predictable, however it results in making a more satisfying closer due to greater build up.
"it's an A tier for me-" instantly dislike video, unsubscribed, uninstalled the internet, regained my virginity, and contracted Leukemia all from this take on the YuYu Hakusho Dark Tournament NOT being in S tier.
@@mechizawa same
Honest chunin exam had potential to be s
@@mechizawa Regained virginity that you never lost.
Fairy Tail's grand magic games isn't my favorite tournament arc, but its still fantastic and an easy s teir for me. One thing i especially appreciate is how the twin storylines of the tournament and the eclipse both get to play out in their entirety. One doesn't interrupt the other. I stead we get to appreciate the struggles of both those fighting in the tournament and those trying to save lucy and all that jazz. Its great
I agree the arc has issues but it has so much emotion and you completely get involved as cc the arc goes on
I would say its a decent tournament
when i tell you no other tournament arc has made me as emotionally invested as the GMG arc….i’ve never wanted the main characters to win SO BAD 😭😭
S tier?! Nah that’s a B tier. It was fun and enjoyable I liked it but it wasn’t high quality writing. Similar to how I can enjoy a fun movie that doesn’t have to be well written
Although it’s not the best tournament arc, I think the tournament arc in Black Clover was very entertaining. Because of how late it is in the story, I can’t rate it as hype as the earlier options. HOWEVER, because of how late it is in the story we get to feel even more connected to the fights and character beats as they play out
Listen to me Naruto had non battle fight scenes with fights about cheating with powers in a written exam absolutely genius
Tournaments that I consider S+:
-Dark Torunament (Yu Yu Hakusho)
-Ura Butou Satsujin (Flame of Recca)
-Tournament to decide the next King of the Celestial World (The Law of Ueki)
-War Games (Marchen Awaken Romance)
-The Great Heaven Challenging Olympic Tournament (Sakigake Otokojuku)
Top 2 for me are the Chunin exams and the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. I haven't seen Yu Yu Hakusho but that dark tournament seems really promising.
In Manga, The best tornament arc is probably the "Zenith of Things" from Battle Angel Alita: Last Order.
The Chunin exams were the most memorable for me, plus Orochimaru confronting team 7 in the Forrest seeing that the first time the stress was real
Underrated Pick, but my fav tournament Arc is the Autum Selection in Shokugeki no soma, or better known as Food Wars.
(Besides Naruto, cause that was freaking fire)
Its a very great Tournament arc to finally show off the abilities and personalities of the side characters.
Everyone brought something very special to the table, what finally concluded in a well better rounded main protagonist, since he tried to addapt everyones knowledge and skill with his own turn later on.
Another very big part was that Soma finally had the Chance of showing his true potential in the School, while clashing with other students.
And in the end, they did the best thing they could have done, made him lose.
something that was very important for this cocky character, that felt like he already knew everything when he first started.
Its one of my most fav animes to this date, and i have rewatched soooo many fights from that tornament over the last few years.
I agree man, the autumn elections isn’t talked about enough at all
Best tournament arc is chainsawman’s ball kicking tournament between Aki and Denji
The disrespect to Togashi,
Honestly, JJK over Dark Tournament and even Heaven's Arena is laughable to me
My all time favorite tournament arc is B-rank wars in world trigger. Best anime with focus on teamwork! Loved every second of it
Nice to know there's only 7 shonen in existence with a tournament arc, you learn something new everyday I guess 🤷🏽♂️
Heck not only Shonen, pretty much all sports Anime have some kind of Tournament Arc at some point.
Yu Yu Hakusho's Dark Tournament easily, this ain't up for debate.
MHA on the same tier as Yu yu is kinda heresy. Yu yu should def be S tier imo. The fact that unlike every other tournament arc here, we actually see a full ass tournament play out with dozens of new characters with unique abilities and designs seems to be kinda slept on in your appraisal
I like JJK a lot, but this tournament arc was like 3 episodes and is more of a deconstruction of a tournament arc
MHA's Sports Festival also shows the entire tournament play out with dozens of new characters with unique abilities, so maybe they are in the same tier
@@takatotakasui8307 I felt like it went without saying but the quality and length is the other factor
@@chardrive The Dark Tournament was a bit too long tbh
I would like to mention the Vongola Ring Tournament from Hitman Reborn. Not my favorite Tournament Arc, that goes to The Dark Tournament for obvious reasons. The Vongola Ring Tournament I tournament I like because it is a linear team vs team tournament, with a clear rivalry to play off. Yet, every round creates a unique setting to develop the cast. I also like how the final round involved every member of both teams to work together.
This series in general gets slept on, some amazing moments and stellar character development happen in the later half.
@@upg5147 Yeah, unfortunately the first Arc of the series is kind of slow, so I do understand where it comes from. But, it was definitely rewarding to make it through that for me.
@@R0-83-RT Yeah that first chunk is rough. Story goes the author wanted to do a slice of life but then switched to Shounen battle series after a while.
1 - Dark Tournament - Yu yu Hakusho
2 - Kengan Anihilation Tournament - Kengan Ashura
3 - 22nd Budokai Tenkaichi - Dragon Ball
4 - Duel Kingdom - Yu-Gi-Oh
5 - Maximun Tournament Saga - Baki the Grappler
6 - The Ragnarok - Shuumatsu no Valkyrie
7 - Chunin Exams (Preliminaries for Third Phase) - Naruto
8 - Galaxian War - Saint Seiya
9 - Ura Buto Satsujin - Flame of Rekka (nobody is gonna know this one)
10 - U.A Sport Festival - Boku no Hero
The JJK "tournament" arc really doesn't feel like a tournament at all. That's why I think many people wouldn't consider it in the running. Not only is it missing the very basics of what makes a tournament is devolves insanely quickly into anything but a tournament. For me personally when I think of a tournament arc the first thing that comes to mind is Heaven's Arena from HxH. Not only do we get one of the best fights in the show (Gon vs Hisoka) we get the groundwork for arguably the best power system in fiction being Nen. I don't know if I'd call it my favorite but I think it gets really overlooked with what it sets up for the rest of the show. Without it arcs like Yorknew City/Phantom Troupe and the Chimera Ant Arc wouldn't be argued to be some of the best Shonen arcs ever.
Edit: Corrected my horrendous fuck up.
Got your power systems mixed up my dude, you mean Nen
@@upg5147 SHIT I felt like I got it wrong but I didn't double check. Got my two favorite Shonens mixed up.
@@huntersuper98 Man's got taste I'll tell ya what lol
Man I WAS JUST ABOUT TO MENTION THAT. It's barley a tournament at all. Not saying the arc is bad but as an actual "tournament arc" it's nowhere near the top for me.
No Dragon Ball?
Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament arc no debate hands down. Best tournament arc ever.
Yu Yu Hakusho,
The end
To be honest, I am just happy to see someone else has actually watched and enjoyed Yu Yu Hakusho's dark tournament arc. While I disagree with the take that most of the fights aren't memorable, and in fact believe that nearly every fight in that arc holds a semblance of meaning and because of that very reason is why it never feels repetitive, nor do we ever see characters we don't care about on screen, I respect your opinion as well as the opinion of all else.
yu yu hakusho dark tournament, the goat
Yuyu Hakusho dark tournament
My top 5 are the following:
1. Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament
2. Dragon Ball 23rd Budokai Tournament
3. Naruto: Chunin Exam
4. Yugioh: Battle City Arc
5. Either Beyblade G Revolution World Championship Arc, or Hunter X Hunter's: Hunter Exam Arc.
Honorable Mention: Fairy Tail's Grand Magic Games.
dark tournament
I didn't remember at the time and also only just picked one of the main members of the poll, but Marchen Awakens Romance had a pretty niffty tournament Arc. MAR was pretty cool overall IMO
Chunin Exams and Battle City are in my opinion the gold standard of Tournament arcs
Hajime no ippo and slam dunk each have s-tier tournament arcs. May be a slightly different genre but sports anime absolutely nailed tournament arcs. My personal favorite shonen tournament arc is the dark tournament. The three kings arc of yu yu hakusho could’ve been even better than the dark tournament if togashi didn’t stop the series but then we probably wouldn’t have gotten hunter x hunter. I felt like the three kings saga had an insane amount of potential to it but it wasn’t written well. I can see why a person would put the chunin exams as the number one tournament arc. It’s written well and it’s iconic and visually spectacular. The fights are great and so much of it is completely unpredictable with all sorts of twists and turns, and tonal shifts. The only thing is, kishimoto got better as the story went on and there were some things I’d have preferred to see in the chunin exams than what we got. Characters who were great in the chunin exams were underutilized throughout the whole series, like neji, rock Lee, dosu, and shino. Some of the heavy hitters who were introduced in the arc, like orochimaru, gaara, and shikamaru, would become main characters at different times of the series. However, even they had a few problems with the way they were utilized in the story. Lamer characters like kankuro, kabuto, and kiba weren’t the best used in the chunin exams and only had a few moments to shine in the series. Character writing is usually a big part of tournament arcs and story arcs in general but still, the whole arc is absolutely gargantuan in terms of its impact and quality compared to other tournament arcs. Some of the greatest scenes in anime like orochimaru’s entrance and fight with team 7, rock Lee vs gaara, and the ending climax of the arc with the hokage and jinchuriki/gamabunta fight is just phenomenal. It feels better than perfect at times.
Tornument arcs are so cliche. But if I had to choose one, I'd choose Yu Yu Hakusho. Also Flame of Recca
Yu Yu Hakusho and Yu Yu Hakusho but with a slghtly different theme and vibe
The dark tournament was structured to where the teams got to decide on how their teams would fight with the team leaders having final say. It wasn't just 1 on 1s we had 3 on 3s and 1 on 5s but you could be forgiven on forgetting those cuz the matches that weren't 1 on 1 were pretty booty.
I didn't care for Naruto's exam arch the only good thing in that entire show is rock lee which was awesome but not enough to make the show watchable.
dark tournament arc shits on chunin exam seriously.
Yu Yu Hakusho
Tbh I loved the JJK one, epically with the hand clapping guy and Yuji
I honestly agree with all the shows on this list that I've watched. But my main criticism for Naruto and Jujutsu kaisen are the exact same. There was an excellent buildup and storyline for the tournament itself, so why do you feel the need to interrupt it with a high class threat? I didn't like that the Chunin exam got cut short with the raid on Konoha, and I didn't like that the Kyoto goodwill event got interrupted with the Disaster curse raid
To interject;
Both Tourneys by that point accomplished their goals, that being **Character Development**
The best Tournament Arcs don’t focus on seeing the Tourneys to the final round, but rather giving a fluid & complex series of 1v1s and interpersonal battles which either Develops or Grows characters
For both series, it was a chance to expound upon their backstories, to build relationships between protags and antags, to further develop the world, their teachers, and the politics surrounding them.
Its Worldbuilding at its finest (for Tournament Arcs at least)
The point of these Tournaments isn’t the Tournament itself. That just is the way the story is delivered. The point of these Tournaments… is to build upon the world.
and these Villain Attacks following the ‘conclusion of the worldbuilding’ is simply to keep the story moving.
Additionally, although conversely for both stories, the subsequent Attacks show the characterization made manifest.
The Sound & Sand Villages betray the Heroes, whereas the opposing Sorcerer Schools teamup against their Common Enemy.
The information that had been built upon for the past 20+ chapters has been finally realized.
In effect, the Tournament never mattered, it was just a background.
@@Mia_2512 Red?
The real tournament arc in JJK is the Culling Game. Wait for it.
It's a battle Royale arc not a tournament
Shokugeki no Soma: Autumn Selection, Fairy Tail: Grand Magic games and the Winter Cup in Kuroko no Basket?
Crazzyyyy that you didn’t add the 23rd tenkaichi budokai
Yu Yu Hakusho's Dark Tournament most likely
there are a lot not to care fodder dying for it to be the best for me
Dark Tournament and it’s not even a contest. It’s fucking awesome. It does everything a tournament arc should do right. The tournament is rigged against Team Urameshi perfectly and it doesn’t feel cheap when they overcome the odds. Will also say that from a certain point in season one onwards, World Trigger becomes a tournament arc and it’s fucking fantastic. The battles in that show are strategic and so well thought out.
Love the channel, but hate the take. I respect your opinion, but vehemently disagree and think you misunderstand the purpose of the tournament arc. I think recency bias plays heavily to Jujutsu Kaisen for you and you simply miss the fact that Jujutsu Kaisen did very little to innovate in the field and simply used proven methods made by the former. But what it couldn't do nearly as well is make loveable characters, friend or foe, in every fight it featured, it couldn't really put a benchmark of skill on the overall cast, nor could it have people at the edge of their seats after every fight.
YYH simply mastered this and I feel that anyone that has watched all these anime would be ridiculous to put not just 1, but 2 anime in an entire tier above it and have the audacity to put MHA on the same tier (which did NOTHING to innovate on the format), when they know full well that modern anime are standing on the shoulders of giants when doing tournament arcs.
Naruto also has a lot of respect from me, but my bias would still lean heavily for YYH as top of S
I've watched Jujutsu Kaisen's tournament arc multiple times already and still have extremely few memorable movement's from it and forgot most of the opponents. And while I love that Jujutsu Kaisen's attempting to iterate on the strengths of the anime before it, while adding a lot of polish to the concepts, I find it has some of the worst character development of the shonen category, which I think is the most critical part for a long running series. I have no endearment to any of the characters that could even compare to characters I endeer from other shonen.
This is like calling a random DJ a better musician because you like their remix of Requiem in D minor more than Mozart's rendition. Not only are you not giving the work done by the original enough credit, you're overvaluing what was iterated on.
Additionally, you didn't even include the real innovator of the format from Dragon Ball in the ranking. While I think YYH mastered the format, Dragon Ball laid the foundation.
Tournament from Flame of Recca should be mentioned.
For my money, Varia Arc, katekyo hitman Reborn!
The Maximum Tournament Arc in Baki The Grappler
You really need to watch more anime
People criticize MHA alot these days but Sports Festival is one of the best tournament arcs imo. Yes, it's very simple & short but that's what I love about it.
Also the Budokai Tournament of Dragon Ball deserves more praise than it gets.
damn didnt even have the varia or choice arc in katekyo hitman reborn
any beyblade arc lowkey the metal masters fusion or fury ones where so addicting to me and so were the burst ones i saw at least left off at gachi which wasnt as good as the earlier ones but evolution got that shit down
You mean apart from YYH, Right..?
The shaman fight/tournament from shaman king
To me, I think that you're underselling a lot of YYH's Dark Tournament's character development theoughout the arc. Yusuke is obviously the focus, but Kurama and even Genkai grow quite bit themselves. Add on to that a lot of fun characters with creative abilities and a very effective antagonist and that's an S-tier arc for me.
I also think that not including a Dragon Ball Tenakichi Budokai is an oversight. I'd go with the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai (Goku vs. Piccolo Jr.), personally. Lots of great character moments capped off with an insanely great fight.
Dark tournament yuyu hakusho donez
Can we even call the Chunin Exam a tournament arc? I always thought it more like an Exam Arc, much like the Hunter Exam for HxH. I mean, sure, there is a tournament at the end of the arc, but i'm note sure either this or Jujutsu fit in the category.
its been said before but it's wild you didnt include a single dragon ball tournament arc in here
and just to say something that hasn't been said yet, zatch bell's whole manga is basically a giant tournament arc (though you could also call it a death game series instead), so if we're talking best? idk zatch bell hits some pretty high highs.
It might be unfair to compare it to other tournament arcs (if you'd even call it one) because the core conceit of the manga is one series-long tournament, so there's a lot more room for character arcs and emotional depth, but it is one of the best!
and just to include other tournament arcs that i don't think anybody's mentioned before, MÄR and O-Parts Hunter both had some fun ones (but I haven't read them since middle school, so how good they are is up for debate).
also this is davy back fight erasure
The Hunter Exam lacks depth, and parts of it are outright boring/bad (phase 2 comes to mind). But I still think it deserves a lot of credit for being such a successful icon. The 2011 adaptation especially manages to use the Exam as an immediate hook that grips viewers' excitement in a way that makes you just want to keep on watching through 30-some admittedly shallow episodes before getting to the meat and bones of some of HxH's more complex storytelling. I think a lot of this stems from Togashi's unpredictable storytelling he employs in HxH, which makes The Hunter Exam a really strong foil to something like his Dark Tournament Arc, for instance.
7 months late but World Trigger had the best anime tournament arc. No other anime even close.
A much better question is what is anime's 2nd best tournament arc behind Naruto's chunin exams
I’d say naruto is the 3rd - 4th best
Top is dark tournament
2nd and 3rd gotta be 22nd and 23rd tenkaichi budokais of Dbz and even the 21st
i wonder how the list looks like at the opposite end of the scale, what is the worst tournament arc in anime?
What would you consider one of the worst Tournaments in Anime out of Curiosity.
One's I can think of are
The Demon World Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho, it sort of ended in an Anti-climax because Togashi was burnt out. Though it is honestly more so just disappointing than bad in all honesty. There were some good fights however a good percentage of the fights going on in the tournament are just not shown at all. In general I thought the Rest of 3 Kings Arc was pretty good, the tournament at the end just felt anti-climatic.
The 25th Budokai Tenkaichi doesn't have much going for it due to the Buu conflict interrupting it. Though it wasn't really even a Tournament Arc rather just a small part of the Buu Saga.
Naruto Shippuden gave us A Filler Arc for The New Chunin Exams which was pretty lack luster. Too much time was spent of the 2nd phase and the 3rd phase didn't even happen.
No world martial arts tournament?!
chunin exam is indeed the greatest tournament arc of all time period
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Zabuza knew Kakashi was too much but would protect his students and client so jumped between them to throw him off and kicked him in a water prison. Yes they have chakra and jutsus, but to their core they're supposed to be Ninja... and that was ninja AF. I miss when it was more cerebral... how TF we get from Neji overcoming a range fighter with wit to MFs dropping meteors on the same field as niggas with swords, makes no sense.
I love DBZ, but early Naruto being grounded was refreshing
Flame Of Recca should be here too.
Your best video so far! I totally agree with Naruto placement. Sad you did not use Ruroni Kenshin Kyoto arc. Definately deserved the mention. Even tho it was less of a tournament and more of fighting game walkthrough style narrative but everything can be used knowing the fact that Epstein did not kill himself.
OP Dress Rosa
Kengan annihilation tournament from kengan ashura and maximum tournament from grappler Baki are S tier.
I'd argue that the entire Chunin Exam Arc isn't a true tournament arc. The second stage (Forest of Death) isn't a tournament. It's more of an objective-based battle royal, and shouldn't be considered when lying on the best tournament arc. Only the preliminaries and third stage are actual tournaments. I'd also make the same argument for HxH's Hunter Exam (only the final stage is actually a tournament, the previous stage is also an objective-based battle royal). JJK's Exchange Event is an objective-based team battle. Not a true tournament. Lastly, the Dragon Ball franchise has true tournaments and should be represented.
Yu yu hakusho dark tournament
And sadly in Narutos case (probably otehr sas wel) EDITORS had a bigger say than creator.Sad we didnt see what more Kishimoto wouldve added to the exam or more precicely how much focused adn way more in depth wouldve been if they let Kishimoto make more Mission arcs wich would be used as introduction,character/team development alongsdie worldbuilding BUT due to Dragon Ball and otehr tourmament settins being extremely popualr at that time Kishimoto was basicaly forced tos crap mission development/worldbuildinga ars and imedietly jump into Chunin Exam arc.Then therekishimoto tried to cram up as much introduction,development for some charcters as he could alonsgdie mini worldbuilding mostly via dialogues.
Sad that somethines EDITORS made right moves by dictating thinsg BUT its also somethnegs that caused probelsm and downfall of many potential great animes/mangas solly bs they were more chasing trends/popularity rather than actualy caring about story and why/for what reason writter chsoe to go with things.
Im just gonna mention Shaman King even though 85% of it is a tournament and not really an arc but still is a tournament nonetheless and was enjoyable all the way through
crying in battle city
The best tournament I ever read is the Battle angle alita universe tournament arc there is no tournament arc that I have read that is close to being as good as that one.
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The sword art battle of bullets tournament arc is b tier minimum I would say a tier
You completely skipped: The Grand Line.
This is a HOT TAKE and I am definitely not trolling, but Pokemon tournament arcs are the best in the whole shonen genre. Especially Lily of the Valley Conference in Sinnoh and World Coronation Series.
Bro when he put yu yu Hakusho in A, I lost hope in humanity.
Kyoto goodwill and dark tournament are the only correct answers here
Honestly, I really like the Tournament Arcs of Naruto and MHA because of how it connects to the worldbuilding of their respective series. They don't feel cot river but instead a natural part of the world and a next necessary step in the characters' goals. The Tournament Arc of MHA is just a notch better in my opinion because it learns from its predecessors like Naruto and adds to them, by having the Sports Festival act as the perfect stage for the Hero Students to show off their stuff in order to attract the attention and internships of Hero Agencies.
Dark tournament arc is the best out of any anime
The Chunin Exams are good. They feature great moments. They have my personal number 1 1v1 fight in all of anime. But it's also got a lot of dog shit in it. So much so that it significantly cuts at the great parts. I would never put it above A.
Dark Tournament is easily my number 1.
My underdog pick isn't the best, but it's a lot better than most people would think and better than most tournament arcs offered, is actually the Royal Knights tourney from Black Clover.
I honestly have to completely agree with you
Pokemon tournaments are the GOAT
Dark tournament from Yu Yu Hakusho.
It should take more than a single big fight between 2 teams to make a tournament in my opinion, if not, is the ninja war a tournament, is the final confrontation against the chimera ants a tournament arc? JJK had a really fun fight, but that is not a tournament, it takes more than a school brawl before a terrorist attack to make a tournament arc.
I think you have to also add that tournament arcs gave "rules". The Ninja War and Chimera Ants arc are just free for all fights, there are no "out of bounds" or "disqualifications", that's where things really change.
@@upg5147 well, I'd say Basilisk is a tournament arc, but there are no rules beyond, death means losing. In that way it's no different to any actual war, where the dead soldiers are disqualified from continuing to play. I think structure and intent are more important than rules for a tournament. I think JJK lacked any real structure, it was a friendly competition, sure, but it had no structure to competion beyond chucking a bunch of teenagers at eachother in the hopes that Itadori would somehow die. It also lacked the intent for a tournament, the story had no interest in actually exploring how the characters would face different oponents, each character basically got a single real fight and for most of them didn't even require the competition to happen, because they were long standing feuds.
@@Pimp.My.Forklift I haven't seen either of these shows so I can't say much but I'd argue intent in the way you are saying goes hand in hand to the rules I'm mentioning.
Well Naruto's Chunnin exam takes a lot from hxh exam arc, so you have your history kinda messed up about originality here (I also think that while Naruto has great battles in his own style, the concepts aren't as diverse and interesting) . A part from that, I'm a sucker for that arc narrative choices that can still surprise an expert reader now so for me it's easily S Tier
Where's Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry? That's a real S tier
its not did u watch yu yu hakusho but when did you watch yu yu hakusho..
The disrespect to hxh 😭
What about the king of high school?? The entire show is a tournament arc lol
Where’s the 22nd tenkaichi budokai
YO YO YO WTF U SAYING!?
YU YU HAKUSHO HAS THE BEST TOURNAMENT ARC EVER!?
MOST OF THE PPL WHO PICKED NARUTO MOST LIKELY NEVER SAW YU YU HAKUSHO. OBVIOUSLY NARUTO HAS A BIGGER FANBASE.
WTF U MEAN A TIER? IF U SAID YYH WAS S TIER I COULD UNDERSTAND CZ NARUTO HAS A BIGGER FANBASE.
INSTANT UNSUB!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Who cares???
@@nuratanimashaun9134 sxck yo mam
You didn't really say that the chunin exams was the first one to separate a tournament Arc in two separate phases right because you do know that was Hunter Hunter
Dark world tournament is the best tournament
jujutsu kaisen because of Woke reason, can't argue against it because you'll get canceled
Wow! great video
2:07 Hunter x Hunter did it first, with the first phase of the Hunter Exam coming out just over 2 years before the Chunin Exams were written
Curious… Most curious.
And yet the CE is infinitely better
chunin exams negs all over tournament arcs tbh
I love hxh but chunin arc is so good
If you choose anything other than Naruto’s Chunnin Exams, you’re naive, trolling, or trying too hard to be different.
dark tournament is the greatest tournament arc in anime history
I’d definitely say that MHA had the worst execution of a tournament arc. It felt like nothing much really progressed. You could easily replace it with any other type of story devices for character progression(like the attacks on the camp and training grounds), even do it better. The fact that even the match ups felt short and stretched out at the same time is sad. Also gonna mald at the fact that they hyped up Momo to be a genius like Todoroki, showed her initiative and genius in one arc, but made her stupid in the tournament which then leaked into the next arc. Such a contrived problem when she’s showed easily how she gets around it, simply producing smaller tools. Really the only thing worthy of note is the Uraka and Bakugo fight and I guess Todoroki and Deku fight, even though you could also make an easy story replacement with Deku encouraging Todoroki to use his flame powers because he can’t save everyone like a true hero without using both powers. Maybe if Deku’s powers weren’t as simple back then it’d be valid enough but watching two characters shoot essentially cannons at each other was so boring despite the quality animation.
The whole purpose of the Chunin Exams was not only narrative and cool fights but dynamic world building. Its peak because in the background we can slowly see tensions are still there between the villages while also the core antagonist at the time slowly creep in and take advantage of those fragile openings in the event. It also actually had good story progressions of a lot of side characters which would end up bearing fruit in the following arc.
I can’t comment off Jujutsu Kaisen but if it can respect a characters progression while being valid as a story tool then its at least a solid execution. Also yea, pluses for being a shonen anime that gives 2 shingles about its female characters.
The tournament arc of MHA is great because of the stakes. The race is so exciting when Deku comes in first, but then it becomes tense when he is suddenly worth the most amount of points. Then in the final part of it he throws away his chance at victory to help someone else's sake, even though it was super important for him to say "I am here" and it should have been a very bitter end when you see Bakugo beat Todoroki, but seeing him rage about how he didn't earn it makes it really funny and helps the viewer not be so glum about the failure.
From a perspective of random 1v1s it is pretty lame, but it's significance to the story is what makes it so great. The results of that tournament still affect a shit ton of things in the story in every season since. Some anime have a single event that is super important like Fuyuki being in flames in F/SN or the nine tails attack on the leaf in Naruto (Even though Naruto has a few events like this) but some anime don't have things like that. MHA is an anime that doesn't have anything like that, but if you had to pick an event to take that position. It's the sports festival. It has such a big impact on the future of the series compared to any other event in the series.