Men who watch anime, are you into power scaling more or story telling? and why?

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1. Definitely story telling

2. Used to be the former, now the latter. Although I recently read all the way through Holyland and realized I love realisitic fighting/martial arts manga.

3. Power scaling for me. I like very few anime, but usually it involves some crazy powers and fighting like a bleach. It doesn’t always have to be literally learning new powers, but there has to be something that keeps the protagonist group growing, and a new threat looming. Just wouldn’t be the same if the next threat was weaker.

4. Well both, but my main issue in recent years seems to be protagonist.

   Maybe coz I am in my 30’s now, I can’t really identify with scrawny 15 y.o. boy with super powers lol.

   I like action shonen the most, but how about protagonist, that is older. I know Seinen is for men, but usually the protagonist is like in early 20’s or late teens.

   And yeah I know there are series with older protagonists too.

5. Story, Dragon Ball is not relevant anymore

6. I have no idea what power scaling is

7. I like both

8. story telling

9. Story telling for sure. Mob Psycho is a perfect example for this. The series has some nutty abilities and amazing fights, with plenty of potential for ‘who could beat who’ conversations, but the heart of the show is the lessons it teaches on the values of personal growth (honestly in a much more grounded way than something like dbz might teach us about growth).

   That said, what if or r/whowouldwin conversations are super fun, just playing around with characters and considering out interactions would play out. I’ve found stories with more complex movesets to be able to provide more interesting fight choreography than those with flat power scaling like dbz where goku beats vegeta because he levelled up enough but his techniques look identical to before he trained.

10. Story. Power scaling gets old really fast

11. Story telling.

12. Storytelling, by a country mile. A lot of the stuff I watch is slice-of-life, comedy, romcom, or drama with no powers to scale. It’s just better as art.

13. Both but mostly storytelling.

14. What do you mean by “power scaling?” I’ve never heard it used in this context.

    Are you asking if we are into an observation of how characters get stronger in relation to threats?

15. Story telling. DBZ was my OG anime as a kid, but years of it left a bad taste for power scaling anime. Not that all are bad or dumb, but not what im into for an Anime. A good story is more enjoyable now.