Shonen Jump has more than welcomed the anime world to some of its most revered and beloved elite. Consequently, the publication has had a hand in shaping and redefining the genre.

With series like Dragon Ball and Naruto being many people's entryway to Japan's media sensibilities, Jump bears both a great privilege and a responsibility to give a big first impression.

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And, for the most part, they do a great job, presenting fans with the endearing qualities and spectacle needed for anime to differentiate from and compete against Western media.

However, Shonen Jump anime has also come to be synonymous with some of the industry's worst traits, as well as a few unique ones of its own that new fans tend to transpose to the industry as a whole. This list will be looking at a few of the traits that these anime could definitely work on, as well as a few that fans wish will never leave.

10 Worse: Length

As a publication first business, Shonen Jump's main priority is to maintain consistent readership. While part of that goal means to maintain consistent quality, this has also developed the mentality that any series that can garner an audience must be kept as long as possible. This means they will often push authors to keep a story going on as long as possible.

This has translated to anime, as a seemingly endless, week-to-week curse that constantly generates content without much regard to how it affects pacing or quality. This has the inadvertent effect of turning off potential fans as well as testing the patience of current ones.

9 Better: World Building

However, if all this space and content does anything, it allows Shonen Jump series more than enough time to both develop their characters and define their world in great detail. Shonen Jump anime are host to some of the most distinct, entrancing, and iconic worlds within all of anime.

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Whether that means the large pirating world of One Piece or the monstrous mystery of The Promised Neverland, the worlds of these series do well to be both lived in and lived with, as the greater set pieces of anime do well to attract the curious.

8 Worse: Character Archetypes

Shonen Jump is certainly home to diverse worlds and magic systems. However, if there was ever something for long-time fans to catch on to and even grow tired with, it is the fact that many of these series often stick to a formula, often defining their characters with the preconceived archetypes of previous, successful series.

This means oblivious yet ambitious main characters, edgy rivals, spunky yet often sidelined female leads, and generic villains just looking to take over the world. As creative as a series might be, there is a risk that the voice of the entire series will be somewhat restricted and watered down, losing what identity could help it stand apart or say anything new to the audience.

7 Better: Character Designs

the main characters in the stardust crusaders story arc

Helping alleviate the previous point, Shonen Jump anime make great use of their diverse authors and artistic talent to create a wide range of distinct art styles that do well to compete immediately and visually with Western media and, if a creator is really willing to stick out, other anime.

Even between Shonen Jump's leading series, i.e. Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, or Bleach, there are no confusing two characters together. They have an immediately accessible visual identity that can both subtly tell their story as well as sell the series to the casual eye.

6 Worse: Filler & Padding

Image of Naruto and various characters from the filler arcs of the anime

Because many Shonen Jump anime are tied to an ongoing series, they also have the misfortune of having their animation studios and individual directors make compromises in terms of keeping a series moving forward. Some make the choice of splitting content between seasons, though this does run the risk of losing the audience's interest.

However, for those who make their anime ongoing, their series run into the danger of catching up with the manga, meaning that they will need to parse out some time while continuing the anime. This means new content in the form of tedious filler or even the padding of episodes to take up as much time as possible.

5 Better: Fight Scenes

While Shonen Jump has certainly hosted a variety of series, its most iconic genre is battle anime. This means every facet of the magic system, backstory, and plot much facilitate and lead into a big fight scene. Shonen Jump anime, in particular, do a great job of creating an entire dialogue via the spectacle of their fights as well as backing them up with plenty of backstory and emotion to consistently leave stakes.

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It certainly helps that a Shonen Jump series is often picked up by a big anime studio, allowing for some major fights to come with some high-grade animation to frame it all.

4 Worse: Screaming

While the fight scenes are certainly a hoot and a half, an odd and even disturbing quality of many of them is the fact that they often involve excessive screaming.

While this is often appropriate to the sense of emotion and stakes within a fight, more often than not, this also gives its characters the appearance of being loud-mouthed and, depending on how often they talk during a fight, exposition-heavy. It is possible for characters to be too emotional, with the likes of Goku or Asta still being heard from two anime over.

3 Better: Self-Improvement

Shonen Jump, as a whole, can't be blamed as a platform for having no positive themes. Between various series, there is one consistent message to attach some semblance of progress and emotional attachment: The idea of self-improvement. There is always a harsher tomorrow, as seemingly every week, a new bad guy steps up to try and take over the world or go after the protagonist's family.

That's why it's always important for these protagonists and perhaps the audience themselves to constantly be looking to improve themselves. Whether that means achieving one's dreams or protecting them, one can't always just sit around. They must keep moving forward.

2 Worse: Shipping

To be fair, there are some romance Shonen Jump anime. However, not even these have consistently had satisfying payoffs, let alone anything new or substantial to define a romance. Female characters can often be relegated to having secret crushes on the main characters for no reason, leaving them to be either the damsel in distress or even the sidelined commentator during some tense situations.

There is rarely much agency from a de facto central love interest, with many of them just being satisfied to "do what they can." If that weren't enough, many of these romances are dragged on for long periods of time with little acknowledgment, as some authors fear to put off young male readers with too much "Shoujo" content.

1 Better: Sales

When looking at what Shonen Jump anime do better than anyone else, they make their studios, Shonen Jump, and their creators a little cash. Many of the top-selling manga of the year are Shonen Jump series, while some of the anime industry's most profitable projects are Shonen Jump anime, even by general, Japanese film standards.

Merchandise for Shonen Jump newbies Deku and Asta having been adorning the shelves of various vendors, with the likes of Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone assuredly following suit. While anime doesn't necessarily need to be under the Shonen Jump banner to be successful, it certainly doesn't hurt to have that name recognition.

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