Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-39213635-20190515005629/@comment-39213635-20190522021110

Speaking of which, it seems that many Shonen anime seems to, in a way, episodic. Often they divided into several arcs, with fighting obstacles in each arc, and repeat the cycle all over again. Example: Dragon Ball (both original and Z), One Piece, Naruto. Even those that have overarching stories also only put them into minor plot points in many arcs only to save the favor for the arc's Big Bad, such as Berserk, Fairy Tail. Heck, from what I've seen, it seems that One Piece only originally focuses only on one thing: Finding the treasure. And it seems that Blackbeard didn't even appear up until very later in the series. Something tells me that at least some of them would get rushed series finales.