My thoughts on the Big 3 (Fighting Games)

Just to make it crystal clear no I didn't play Tekken 8, Street Fighter VI and Mortal Kombat 1 prior to writing this.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I previously talked about two different trios in Shonen Jump. Now we are going to kick things up a notch by doing the same thing to the Big 3 of Fighting Games. We are talking Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and Tekken respectively. I haven't played the newest entries but I still got a lot to talk about.

I'm sure none of these means an introduction especially to fighting game fans. But those that barely or haven't play any fighting games. All three of them as a vastly different experience from each other. More recently you have to stick with one or two that's pushing it budget wise. Mostly due to a lot of dlcs that adding in more characters to play as or in two MK games' case more Story Mode.

This following comparison is mostly focusing on the main series for all three fighting game franchises. I may mention a few other modes. I wanna try keeping the focus on the general game play of all three franchises. Each one does have their own learning curve. Don't expect to ace them all from experience. I hope you enjoy reading my Big 3 Fighting Games comparison.

Street Fighter

The golden standard of tournament fighting games. Let's get this out the way, the original Street Fighter was amazingly terrible. The franchise became popular with Street Fighter II. Which forever changed the genre for years to come. Most of the roster are humans with some notable exceptions. Capcom may go a little too far with either more updated versions as well as the insane amount of dlcs.

Street Fighter usually has a nice sized character roster. A lot of stages you can play many matches on repeatedly. I actually felt all the versions of Street Fighter III was notably different from most the series. You got characters representing several countries around the world. Street Fighter took the world by storm since SFII.

Mortal Kombat

The original Mortal Kombat was the first real challenger Street Fighter II gotten. It also does plenty differently to stand out on it's own. In Street Fighter series, you or your opponent can get dizzy during matches. In Mortal Kombat series, you have a variety of finishing moves. Mostly brutally killing off your opponents with each newer entry further pushing the boundaries what's allowed in video games.

Mortal Kombat also known for having some well hidden secrets. You get some truly unique characters since a lot of them came from other realms. Some modes differs far more than you originally expected. Mortal Kombat is very true to it's name in every sense of the world. Some could even label it as Bleach of Fighting Games.

Tekken

Unlike SF and MK that's mostly an 2D fighting game franchises. Tekken offers some rather impressive 3D fighting game experience. For those not familiar with either term. 2D fighting game limits all characters to go back or forward during matches. But in 3D fighting games, you have more freedom to move around the stages.

Some stages has destroyable sections with some having more floors than you realized. Like SF series, tournaments is a recurring theme. The grand prize is becoming the person to run the Mishima Zaibatzu. One of the most powerful organizations in the world. There's a great variety of beings you can play as. Tekken is more about nailing the basics than special moves.

Big 3 Fighting Games comparison

Street Fighter had the worst beginning entry out of the Big 3. I mean even the bad ports of MK1 were better. Which isn't saying much but it's still technically something. I always felt Mortal Kombat told the stories the best. Although MK1 really made things confusing story wise. Most MK games are actually about these big events with a handful involving tournaments.

Both SF and MK are largely about the special moves. Tekken is considered the most difficult out of the three to master. This is due to having to nail the basics is critical. If you don't get that down, you have no chances in matches. Simply going by the characters, SF to me is the least interesting. I know a lot of people would heavily disagree with me.

It's kinda hard to compare em to both Mortal Kombat and Tekken. Story is a weird topic with Tekken series. At the same time, it's strangely works even in short endings. Tekken also represents a lot of the world within it's fighters. Mortal Kombat simply goes beyond by pulling characters from many realms. Realms are essentially treated as universes.

Therefore, realms are multiple plains of existence. Mortal Kombat is always been ridiculous about the fatalities. A concept a lot of games attempted to rip off but never came close. Bonus points to Shadow: War of Succession for not having the finishers programmed in lol. Tekken always had a huge character roster with Tekken 4 being a little smaller than expected.

By doing characters from multiple realms. You are more likely be surprise by the different species. You got Reptile's race that's on the verge of extinction or an Tarkata that are vicious creatures with long attachable blades coming from their arms. This counters how unexpected Tekken's character roster can be at times.

In SF series, you or your opponent can get dizzy a few times during matches. Tekken being an 3D fighting game franchise has more freedom to move around the stages. There's a few hidden surprises if you know which stages. MK series also known for well hidden secrets. Like fighting hidden opponents or some nice surprises you aren't expecting.

I mostly wanna focus on the main game play. I don't plan to focus much on the other modes. Tekken always done story somewhat differently. Mortal Kombat up to Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe had the story within the endings. After that, the crossover game to up had Story Mode. SF mostly doesn't do story modes until recently with Street Fighter VI.

Mortal Kombat would be the perfect in balance soundtrack wise. I actually felt Tekken delivers the finest fighting game music out of the Big 3. Obviously Mortal Kombat is the most epic for it's ambitious story concepts. Two of them are becoming causal gamer friendly just to one up Tekken. I confess I'm not the best fighting game player but I am a decent Tekken player.

Mortal Kombat has a variety of practice modes to help better your skills. I do like Tekken not only offers online ranking. It also has offline ranking too to help with several issues you would have with ranking up online. More recently, you can customize your characters in all three of them. I am going to be honest I haven't done this with SF yet.

I simply dislike how MK going about the concept. Especially when keeping real money out of it is a huge advantage Tekken has. Street Fighter recently reached number 6. Partly that's because of Street Fighter Alpha series I actually do enjoy them. Also because Capcom more focus on selling out Resident Evil!!!

I felt Tekken has the most reasonable dlc set up deals to help getting the dlcs you need much easier. Ever since MK!!, they kept making unnecessary decisions. I'll give an example to help paint a picture. One Christmas back when I still had my PS4. I bought the then big deal for MK11. Little did I know twice they up the bigger deals.

They came out with the same deal while adding more dlcs to it twice. Even the current biggest deal doesn't include every dlc. In Tekken's defense with Tekken 7 they later made the big deal including every dlc. It's also true most of them has updated versions. With the more recent updated versions coming with newer content as dlcs.

Two of them left the Arcade business a long time ago. It's kinda amusing only Tekken still in the Arcade business. This also came with a surprise advantage over the other two. Very true for the first three Tekken games on PS1. Those ports added so much from the Arcade versions it's mind blowing. Not only that, some Tekken games had slightly more characters too.

I'm more directly talking about Tekken 6. If I had to pick out of all the ones I played as the finest entries. Some of my choices might surprise people reading this. My favorite Mortal Kombat game was the reboot aka MK9, I loved everything about it. My favorite Street Fighter game was Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

My favorite Tekken game was Tekken 7, it's so damn good!!! Mortal Kombat does offer creativity while the other two are worthy competition since the 90s. Earlier MK games can be tough because of the AI opponents especially if you keep winning matches. In most versions of SFII I played, I usually struggled hard.

I should be mention both Tekken and Street Fighter crossed over a few times. Capcom really doesn't want to do MK vs SF. Although Ed Boon, the creator of Mortal Kombat series would love to. Two of them more recently allowed in some rather interesting guest characters. SF decided to add in Capcom reference outfits for a lot of them to make up for that.

Tekken was actually first to do guest characters in Tekken 3 with Gon. More recently, four guest characters with one having a canon story involvement got into Tekken 7. Akuma, Geese Howard, Noctis and Negan respectively. Now they had the guts to go for The Walking Dead character that's better suited for MK series.

Somehow Tekken 7 made Negan a rather fun guest character to play as. Mortal Kombat wise, they started that in MK with Freddy Krueger. Then in MKX, we had four more guest characters to boot. Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Xenomorph and Predator respectively. All of them are in a few online multiplayer games with Leatherface being in two of them.

MK11 hits us with quite a surprising list of guest characters. We are talking Terminator, The Joker, Spawn, RoboCop and John Rambo!!! You can tell Warner Brothers busy selling out big on Mortal Kombat right? I do want to point out The Joker actually got pulled from the crossover game. A few references within the dialogue with a few characters confirms this.

Mortal Kombat does hide some funny easter eggs. More recently, character's intro dialogue has funny references to many things. They do reference some of Schwarzenegger and Stallone's films. A particular move in MKX by Erron Black has a funny Predator easter egg on a bullet. They also put some easter eggs in places you wouldn't even think to look like the character selection screen.

Either way you're getting some form of fan service. Both Tekken and Mortal Kombat kept swapping out features during the game play. This helps to differ each entry from each other. Yes it's also quite risky doing that. Some stages in Mortal Kombat could led to different sections. The most famous example being is to uppercut by your opponent sending em above the stage in most versions of MK3.

Mortal Kombat always offered a variety of finishers. Friendships being the non violent somewhat comical ones. You got Babalities that transforms your opponents into babies. They even went out of their way to directly insult players that quit before losing online matches with Quitalities. There's also Hara-Kiri essentially committing suicide among losing matches.

One of my favorites always been Animalities. Where your character transforms into a creature sometimes comical then kill your opponent. There's also Stage Fatalities that involves death traps or hazards from the stages killing off your opponent. I won't sugar coat how extreme finishers in Mortal Kombat series gets, you may not wanna watch some of these.

Although all three of them goes about it differently. They do also offer some humor to a degree. There's a large variety of moves every character can do. I don't think the main SF games has a famous mimic character. I know Tekken has two mimic characters with one being among my favorite characters. Mostly it's Shang Tsung, it depends on which MK games.

Shinnok in MK4 can swap out moves as well as other character's weapons. Shang Tsung in the games he can swap out move sets. Combot in Tekken 4 kinda sucks. He was notably better in Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Now Mokujin can change out move sets during matches. Sometimes he's one move set a few times in the same match, it depends on how many rounds.

Mokujin is essentially nearly every move programmed fighter in the ones he's in. Which also makes him among the toughest Tekken characters to master. Honestly that's rather impressive there's a character that may not appear to be that complex at first in the games. Some Mortal Kombat games has more weapon based combat.

Let's be honest, the best of them doesn't even compare to the better SoulCalibur games. Some characters has several weapons like Jax and Stryker to name a few. Most SF plots are what you expect of them. I can't say the same about the other two though. I felt some SF games offers a little too many dlcs to keep track of.

I been feeling the same towards the more recent MK games. I was actually fine how MKX went about it's dlcs in comparison. I guess Warner Brothers getting greedy again. I do still have a lot of respect for SF series. Obviously if SFII would've bombed. Chances are neither MK or Tekken would've existed. Then again Tekken's big competition being Dead or Alive & Virtua Fighter has different problems.

Dead or Alive is the very definition of way too many dlcs for a fighting game. I easily could do an entire rant how bad it actually is no joke. Virtua Fighter being missing the action for a long time now. Which kinda helped Tekken to get notice more within the fighting game community. Right now, all three of these franchises are going head to head.

They been getting serious for a couple years now. Up till that point it was mostly what's better Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. Now you gotta add Tekken into the same discussion. I felt each one brings something different to the table. SF being overall the lightest in tone. Tekken and Mortal Kombat always taken themselves incredibly seriously.

Obviously Mortal Kombat being the darkest in tone. Tekken is right in the middle having just enough for both to fit in perfectly. Tekken just felt perfect in so many ways to me. Story wise it isn't the best at telling em. At the same time, most people rather just simply the damn games. Also because Tekken is an 3D fighting game franchises, it stands out more in the artwork department.

I'm not say either looks bad or anything. I actually felt Mortal Kombat has some truly sick artwork too. I am hit or miss depending on SF game truthfully. I was mostly mixed for both SFV and SFVI. I also felt the same exact way about MK1 too. Everyone has their own different taste in things. Topics like these usually comes down to the little things that ultimately determines your overall favorite.

I already made it clear awhile back, Tekken always been my favorite fighting game franchise. I still stand by that in every sense of the word. MK is so unique that you gotta play some of them at one point. SF you may have to be a little selective. I confess I kinda am towards SF series. Most main Tekken games are great games that's very replayable.

Mortal Kombat does have one of my absolute favorite fighting game characters Scorpion. I have to clarify since there's now two Scorpions. The original Scorpion, Hanzo Hasashi is such a great MK character. Ed Boon's favorite MK character as well. MK always been a controversial game franchise. In fact, the original Mortal Kombat with Doom and Night Trap started the video game rating system.

In my point of view Street Fighter is sandwich between the other two series. For me, it doesn't offer much to help keep my interest. Mortal Kombat always had some level of depth to the overall experience. Tekken always been such an unique fighting game experience in it's own right. One I can't even directly compare to many other fighting game series I played over the years.

I'm not trying to say Street Fighter is boring. It's hard to compete with how Mortal Kombat kept going epic with it's concepts. Not to mention, Tekken always had a more interesting character roster than that of Street Fighter. I also preferred how the endings are done in Tekken as well. There's just as many different fighting styles with some I haven't seen anywhere else.

Tekken always meant to be a difficult one to master. But when you get good at it, the real fun begins. I know some would think because of that, you should be killing it in fighting games lol. Majority of fighting games are vastly different. Some are even more unforgiving than Tekken no joke. Honestly Tekken truly does deliver what it brings to the table in a way you won't forget.

Tekken actually felt like you're fighting people in comparison. This is also why among winning difficult matches feels much more satisfying. MK does have mini games to a degree. So does Tekken but some of those are mostly single player that's non canon. In Tekken 6 console version, Scenario Campaign acts as the story mode that's canon.

In some MK games, you can swap out fight ladders. In later entries, this includes challenges to make some matches harder. At the same time, the more objectives you complete. The more additional in game money you earn. Tekken's answer to this is a few modes winning matches earns you in game money. Tekken 7 included most cut scenes from most Tekken games without it being dlc.

Unlike Tekken Tag Tournament 2 that previously done that. I haven't seen SF or MK do that before. The Krypt can differ in experience depending on which MK game you're playing. I always welcomed the feature to use in game money to unlock stuff. Especially when I get a nice surprise or two. Regardless, there's plenty reasons to like all three of them it's your choice which one your favorite.

Ranking the Best Entries

3. Street Fighter III: Third Strike

2. Mortal Kombat 9

1. Tekken 7

Ranking the Worst Entries

3. Tekken 4

2. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

1. Street Fighter 1

Favorite Hero Characters

3. Ken Masters

2. Jin Kazama

1. Liu Kang

Favorite Villain Characters

3. M. Bison

2. Shao Kahn

1. Bryan Fury

Favorite Neutral Characters

3. Guile

2. Armor King

1. Ermac

Ranking the Big 3

3. Street Fighter

2. Mortal Kombat

1. Tekken

Comparing their show and movie adaptations

I also wanted to quickly discuss the show and movie adaptations of the Big 3. Shows wise might actually be Street Fighter. There's a few SF shows that's gotten my attention. Tekken's solo show already got canned but I still liked it to a degree. MK can be rather mixed show wise. There isn't a solid MK show with each having major problems.

Movie wises it can easily differ. All three has animated movies as well as live action ones. I felt Mortal Kombat even with the disaster that is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation done the best live action movies. The other two surprisingly has even worst live action movies. Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-LI are amazingly terrible movies.

Now it's pretty much common knowledge that Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is one of the most hated video game movies in history. It's still high in my own Top 10 Worst Game Movies list to this day. If you haven't seen those bad movies. You simply can't even imagine them being so bad, it actually made this MK movie seem somewhat decent not quite an Oscars worthy film.

Speaking of MK, the original live action MK movie still one of my favorites. There are some things done better in the more recent live action MK movie. But I still felt some things the classic 90s MK movie done better too. It was the first major hit for a video game movie. Of course, there's some people looking back on it not caring for the film anymore.

There's also MK: The Journey Begins not great moving on. There's more SF shows than the other two combined. I haven't fully watched em neither lack the interest to do so. I will confirm the SF cartoon show is better than Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm. If people were upset how toned down the crossover game was, this doesn't compare to this show.

I do wanna say I do enjoy the original live action SF movie. Sure it has a lot of problems, it was early adapting video games to movies at the time. There's a couple rememberable scenes including M. Bison. It was sadly the actor's last role before he passed. He sure gave new life to the character. Also compared to the later live action SF movie, this is way more SF.

Animated movie wise Tekken has two currently. Tekken: Blood Vengeance mostly gets great too late into the movie. Street Fighter movies can differ but I heard most of them are decent. Mortal Kombat has the best animated movies. I did question why give Johnny Cage his own movie? I also get why some people are rather mixed about some of those movies.

I personally am enjoying those MK movies. I just want Warner Brothers to slow down a bit with the MK movies. They are starting to come off being rush out. I felt the best advice is watch the ones worth watching don't kill yourself doing all of them. There's also the option to ignore em altogether. The games are way better than these adaptations by a long shot.

I felt Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat more likely eventually get adaptations worthy of it's legacy. Tekken could possibly work if they had the right people on board. All three of these game companies are guarantee to make money even if none of them had newer entries out. I do like knowing this became a three way showdown only one can stand supreme!!!

Ranking Best Adaptations

3. Tekken: Blood Vengeance

2. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

1. Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind

Ranking Worst Adaptations

3. Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm

2. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

1. Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge

Quick editor note, why I put Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm instead of a few obvious choices. At least in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was slightly more MK in a few areas. It's far from perfect with many problems. I did enjoy Mortal Kombat: Legacy Season 1 but rather mixed on it's Season 2. MK: The Journey Begins was on the short side, much shorter than that cartoon show.

It does slightly a few things better but not great. People obviously doesn't want MK to be tone down especially like this. The only real interesting fact is this show marks Quan Chi's debut in the franchise. Sadly, everything else about it drags right up to the end. It barely feels like MK at all a huge disappointment.

This was during the famous decline period for the franchise in the late 90s. Nearly everything MK during that era was a disappointment to the fans. I felt MK4 was easily the best of the worst in my opinion. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li really missed the mark. Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge isn't even Tekken at all, it originally wasn't going to be an Tekken movie.

Mortal Kombat: Conquest was a prequel that didn't work. Mortal Kombat struggled a long time getting origin stories to work. We even had a bad Sub-Zero game, I had it on PS1 as a kid. I can only imagine how much worst the N64 version is. Eventually Mortal Kombat bounced back with MK: Deadly Alliance.

I did place Tekken: Blood Vengeance higher than the canned animated Tekken show. It did have some notable problems, I actually felt Tekken OVA aka Tekken: The Motion Picture held up better. Which had some of the same problems. The one thing that saved Tekken: Blood Vengeance was all the final fights that's all.

My thoughts on Dark Trio (Shonen Jump)

Hell's Paradise

Finished

Chainsaw Man

Chapter 163

Jujutsu Kaisen

Chapter 258

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I may be a little late to discuss such a topic. Shonen Jump previously had the Big 3. Which has Naruto, Bleach and One Piece respectively. Now within the 2020s a new Shonen trinity called the Dark Trio shows up. The world was simply never ever the same from that point on.

Welcome to the Dark Side!!! The recent Shonen trinity has several names with Dark Trio being the most famous among them. For those that knows the name already knows exactly which three franchises I'm going to talk about today. Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man and Hell's Paradise make up the new Shonen trinity.

Warning, all three of these possibly give people nightmares. There's some form of nudity but mostly violent death moments. It's kinda impressive none of these got labeled as Seinen. Especially when a good amount of their stories comes dangerously close to stuff like Berserk. I don't recommend kids seeing even a piece of any whatsoever, it's truly graphic material.

I will be comparing all three of them. I will be honest I have more interest doing that than doing the same with the two previous Shonen trinities together. I'm not a fan of Naruto as well as some stuff over the years involving Dragon Ball turns me off. RIP Akira Toriyama, a true legend in his field. I figured this would be perfect to discuss close to or on Halloween this year.

I will kick this off with a first I never done before. Especially when it comes to many comparison blogs I done. I will be judging Chapter 1 as well as Episode 1 of all three franchises. To clarify, this is a good idea to start small. Of course overtime expectations can get rather high depending on things. I will try to keep things simple by discussing the beginning to each their stories.

My first thoughts on each first chapter of the Dark Trio honestly

Hell's Paradise

This beginning surprised me the most out of the three. We got a legendary ninja that claims wanting to die. But virtually every opportunity he kept resisting it. Keep in mind, he was sentenced to death. They go into details about every brutal death sentence they performed on him. He starts to realize thanks to an executioner, he still has a reason to live.

Very quickly this reminds me of Rurouni Kenshin because both stories involves legendary assassins that wants to life a peaceful life. It also reminds me of Deadman Wonderland because both protagonists are prisoners that had to survive Hell. Gabimaru also reminds me of Yu Yu Hakusho's Hiei as well as Hunter x Hunter's Killua.

Considering all three of them are assassins. Very skilled ones at that the comparison is fitting. The artwork is strangely interesting. I quickly came to like two of the main characters right off the bat. Parts of it also kinda reminds me of Berserk in many ways. Hunter x Hunter once again in a few ways I haven't mentioned.

Chainsaw Man

I will give this credit for taking a rather bold risk like Yu Yu Haksuho. In the first chapter, Denji gets murdered in a horrible way. He gets revived becoming the Chainsaw Man. You kinda felt bad then his revival quickly changed that to yeah rip em apart!!! This is a straight forward beginning learning some stuff about Denji.

His bond with a creature ultimately changed his life in a huge way. When he was getting revived, it reminded me of Parasyte when Shinichi prevented Migi from fully claiming his body. They also had a similar bond within their respective stories. Both these characters took the fight against creatures regular humans can't handle.

The artwork alone is very impressive stuff. Chainsaw Man design alone is easily one of my favorites to date in any Shonen series. Yes you can expect a lot of blood spill as the story goes on. It also somewhat similar to Tokyo Ghoul. Again both the protagonists became unique hybrids to protect humanity. It also reminds me of Marvel's Ghost Rider in a few ways too.

Jujutsu Kaisen

Once again this reminds me of Yu Yu Hakusho as well as Bleach. All three stories involves an high school student that becomes a protector against the supernatural. You get to learn just enough of Yuji's past to feel sorry for him. They had guts to have his grand father die within the first chapter. Don't worry he didn't get a rather unpleasant end like many characters do.

Yuji's personality is very similar to many Shone Jump's protagonists over the years. I was surprised he ate a cursed object just to see what would happen. To be fair, he wanted to save his friends from the supernatural. The other guy was struggling against em. To willing swallow a curse in an attempt to save people is something I must give praise for.

Jujutsu Kaisen quickly starts becoming more complex. In a similar matter to Hunter x Hunter. The artwork works for a first chapter to show some promise early on. Honestly, the story takes the perfect time to go dark. Yuji just started getting more interesting I can't wait to see what the future brings. There's also some aspects I could compare to Soul Eater as well.

A quick side note, I actually took the time to read all three stories online. This process took a week and an half to do. I was really excited to do this manga comparison. I also know some might ask me to do the same for the Big 3. Which is kinda already something I'm in the stages of planning out mostly manga comparison.

Comparing the Dark Trio to the Big 3

There's a few ways this differs from the last Shonen trinity. These stories are notably darker more meant for an older audience. They also surprisingly started manga wise the same year 2018. Currently Hell's Paradise is the only one to be finished. The other two franchises are currently ongoing. Another major difference is the insane level of detail within the artwork alone.

I do wanna point out Hell's Paradise for whatever reason not as presented in conversations as the other two franchises. Which sorta comes off like treating it a similar way Bleach got treated in the previous Shonen trinity. I am about to say some stuff not a lot of people are going to like. I personally could care less about Naruto, it just isn't my thing period.

I don't know what's actually more rude from some people. Either wanting to remove one of these series for another one or adding another one in altogether. Neither group was designed to work that way. There's a lot of reasons each one got selected for their particular trinity. I figured someone had to say it because it's just not right plus it's actually disrespecting the entire trinity too.

Bleach has it's problems but I still love it with an passion. Hands down One Piece was the best of them in nearly every possible way. Also since I'm taking shots at Naruto. I don't see any of those characters as ninjas!!! No I took one look at Gabimaru the Hollow in Hell's Paradise. Now that's what I call an ninja!!!

Even Ninja Scroll movie was way more shinobi than Naruto ever was. Maybe I'm very strict how I want to see ninjas portrayal in things. Honestly, I actually like all three these franchises in comparison. Each one has a few things the other two lacks. But together they make it a rather complete experience. A crossover would be rather difficult to pull off but somewhat possible.

Obviously people's taste changes overtime. The fact the Dark Trio exists proves the world needed a change. A lot of people wanted the writers to take more risks which this very group known for. Yes kids likely going to get nightmares watching or reading em. The stories are shorter making it easier to get into.

Personally you really can't go wrong with either group. Both sides has many things going for it. In truth it really depends on what you like more. Not only that, both of them are inspiring a lot of people too. I kinda prefer the Dark Trio for a few reasons. Mostly due to much dark stories with abilities done in ways I surprisingly haven't seen prior.

This is not to add salt towards the Big 3 by any means. I strongly felt One Piece is overall the best story out of both these groups hands down. The Big 3 is notably lighter stuff with some dark moments. Essentially the golden standard of the genre that helped put manga companies on the map. A very strong possibility a lot of otakus are deeply happy with it's success.

Can you imagine if the Big 3 wasn't successful? We likely wouldn't get the Dark Trio or any future ones for that matter. All these stories proves there's still a lot that can be done. Earlier I mentioned I'm amazed the Dark Trio didn't get labeled as Seinen. Seinen is basically a more mature stories focusing on male protagonists.

We are talking about stuff like Berserk that has some nightmare fuel moments. You kinda see that in all of them. Seinen isn't usually set up like Shonen where the main character fights to improve themselves. Seinen is actually more directly story driven in comparison. Jujutsu Kaisen is the most Shonen out of the three.

The Dark Trio is already changing things. Sadly some stories got altered out of no where like My Hero Academia because of it. Personally that story didn't need to go darker thus ruining the overall appeal. This is a negative inspired by them with some newer stories starting as darker stories. A great example of this being Demon Slayer, yes I heard a lot about it.

Some people also would mirror the Dark Trio to the Big 3. What I mean by this is each one heavily similar in many ways to a particular series in the other group. If you don't know some or any of them these won't be that obvious. But if you are a huge otaku, you quickly know which one spiritually following em.

Hell's Paradise is obviously following in Naruto's foots coughs way better story. In terms of the main character being an ninja with a similar system design to a degree. I felt this one was very obvious but not as much as the other two in comparison. Jujutsu Kaisen is hands down Bleach in so many ways. I also could say the same about Chainsaw Man following in One Piece's foot steps.

Yuji has a lot of strong similarities with Ichigo. There's so many concepts in Chainsaw Man already done differently in One Piece. Let's just say it's truly mind blowing!!! You actually could do a mess up, people quickly get it. Honestly I am curious to see what the next trio going to be. As a joke in a meme I made my own WTF Trinity with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Beastars and Undead Unluck.

Spoilers I will be revealing a lot of stuff in all three stories down below

Dark Trio comparison

Just like the Big 3, all of them are vastly different from each other. Two of them does have some strong similarities with each other. I felt Hell's Paradise being the one to stand out. Considering it's reputation from people wanting to remove it from the Dark Trio. I figured I should start the comparison with that first.

Hell's Paradise is essentially a polar opposite to Naruto. In Naruto, Naruto's main goal was to become the next hokage for his village. Therefore being the best ninja in the leaf village. He becomes the leader of the village for many years. In Gabimaru's case, he already was the best ninja of his village. Gabimaru goes from being an monster into a human being as the story goes on.

He wanted to live peacefully with his wife. But the clan didn't take kindly to that. Thus, he gets captured in order to sent him to those working for the shogun to carry out death sentences. An executioner/sword tester named Sagiri convinces him to go on a dangerous task for the shogun. This is also why it quickly reminded me of a classic Shonen story I absolutely love.

Rurouni Kenshin, both the main protagonists were legendary assassins. They had to use many challenges on their way to eventually living the rest of their lifes in peace. They also took a similar inspiration of a particular era in Japan. Kenshin in majority of the story doesn't kill people. In Gabimaru's case, he simply got forced to kill a lot of people as the story goes on.

Kenshin was the best manslayer in history. Only Shishio Makoto could rival his skills. Gabimaru was later revealed to be the greatest ninja with his title in history. I actually could see a crossover work with these two. Despite the supernatural stuff in Hell's Paradise, it's the most realistic of the Dark Trio. Rurouni Kenshin itself was among the most realistic Shonen stories of it's era.

Hell's Paradise also has a combat system somewhat similar to Pokemon. Where everyone has a particular element they represented. Depending on their opponents either has a higher or lower chances at winning fights. I also got to mention Tao the overall system it uses the energy comes from people's tandem's much like in Tokyo Ghoul's case.

This dangerous task was on a mysterious island with strange creatures we as well as humanoid plant people. Whom are called Lord Tensen that specialized in five techniques representing immortality. Shuten, Do'in, Shu'itsu, Taisoku and Bochu Jutsu. The last one was a major surprise since it actually was sex no joke.

Hell's Paradise I felt in terms of the pacing, how the story was told as well as in the art work the most constant story. Even with so much fighting somehow it actually works to it's favor here. Once again this actually has real ninjas!!! When you think about it Gabimaru and Rien in this particular case were two sides of the same coin.

Gabimaru was working with the others to escape the island literately going through hell. It was revealed he is in fact married with his wife still alive a big spoiler. In Rien's case, they lived with the Grand Master until they died. Rien became desperate spending one thousand years to revive her late husband. Effectively lying to everyone including her own creations the entire time.

Up next is Chainsaw Man, this was the first of the Dark Trio I learned about. When I watched the anime I was instantly hooked. I became even more sold as I kept reading chapters of the manga. Speaking of that, currently it's split into two parts. A lot of them do that like Naruto but the most famous example being JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Currently that's in Part 9 with each part changing out the main characters. Chainsaw Man does follow suit with that as we go into Part 2. I will talk about Part 1 first otherwise you would be very confused. Denji was forced to work off his late father's debt from the Yakuza. One night he gets ambushed by Zombie Devil that lead to his death.

It's very risky to kill off the main character very early on a story like Yu Yu Hakusho. Pochita the strange dog creature turns out to be the Chainsaw Devil. Denji's corpse got possessed by Pochita to become the Chainsaw Man. Shortly after this, a mysterious woman named Makina recruits him into her line of work to protect humanity.

A lot of his co-workers are either humans with several contracts to Devils or Fiends that's Devils taken over a human's corpse as a last resort. The most famous example of an Fiend was Power. I really felt my wife going to love her lol. Devils are supernatural beings that represents multiple types of fear. The more common the fear is the more powerful they'll become.

I'll give a quick example Chainsaw Devil by himself isn't going to trigger fear out of people. But Darkness Devil is a virtually guarantee fear to essentially be considered an deity. Denji agrees to help take down the Gun Devil whose responsible for a lot of deaths. Several panels with a long lists of names yeah!!!

Gun Devil is among the most common fears in the franchise. After Gun Devil gets taken down, Makima reveals her true colors to Denji. Up to that point, he had feelings for her shortly after they met. Makima was the Control Devil with a crazy plan to bring back the old, berserker Chainsaw Devil. To sum it up more directly, she carefully planned everything out to ruin Denji's life on purpose.

Makima up to this point was one of the scariest characters in the franchise. There's multiple things her concept represents since many nations were afraid of her powers. To help paint a picture, he made the Prime Meister agree to a particular deal. Which allowed Makima to control to the entire popularity of Japan.

Makima has multiple lifes through a ridiculous number of people. But wait there's more, she also has a lot of Devils and a few Fiends under her command too. Denji fights Makima at a cemetery eventually fighting her to fight him directly. Just when you think she won, here comes Denji to finish her off. Now for those with weak stomach I won't fully reveal everything Denji does to her but it's disgusting.

All of this just one Part 1 folks we're about to dive more into the insanity!!! In Part 2, a new main character named Asa was on the verge of dying. Until a mysterious voice spoke to her leading to Asa becoming an Fiend. It turns out she got possessed by War Devil aka Yoru. Denji's story in Part 1 was more of a hero story that does continue into Part 2's story.

Asa sorta reminds me very heavily in fact of Wednesday from Wednesday Netflix show. Yoru wants revenge against the Chainsaw Devil that's currently inside Denji. You should know Denji doesn't often speak to Pochita but due to how he gain the powers makes him very difficult to put down. This is vastly different for both Asa and Yoru's case.

It's two people that doesn't quite see eye to eye often. Asa wants to save Denji's life while Yoru doesn't care if Denji still has the Chainsaw Devil or not, she wants blood. I also need to mention a few critical things regarding a few characters. When Makima died, the Control Devil reincarnated as Nayuta a little girl.

Two of her sisters, Yoru and Fami working together to stop their other sister. The Death Devil whose actually the most feared Devil in existence. Let's be honest, Death is a really common fear most living beings has. Obviously it makes perfect sense to do such an concept here. There's more differences Yoru has from Denji to make her portions stands out from his.

Denji has to put this cord on his chest to transform into Chainsaw Man. Which also depends on how much blood he has. Devils can come back from any injury just drinking a little blood. Parts of his powers are somewhat similar to Marvel's Ghost Rider. Obviously, he's more of a berserker type that loves violence.

Both Asa with permission from Yoru or Yoru himself can transform objects, living beings and parts of locations into weapons. This is actually similar to two Joestar family members' powers respectively in Parts 4 and 5. Also considering she represents war, enough people afraid of war. Neither of them no longer needs to make physical contact to use their powers.

They are more vulnerable than Chainsaw Man whose more ridiculous in several ways. I also wanna make another point that's not intended to come off sexist by any means. Shonen is mostly aimed towards a younger male audience. Thus majority of the main characters are men. However there are a few notable exceptions when a story has a female protagonist.

A good example of this being Jolyne Cujoh in Part 6 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Part 2 is mostly about stopping the Death Devil. There's even a cult that's willing to do some truly horrific things to cause Denji and Asa's powers to go up. By making the public terrify of them both. I am really surprised the burning apartment with a lot of pets happened, I was disturbed by it.

The gore in either the anime or the manga is amazing stuff. I felt both sections of this story going to be great. I don't fully see some people issues with Part 2. I will say this I would prefer seeing a little less Denji. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love watching him cut up Devils as Chainsaw Man. I just felt Part 2 was suppose to be more Asa/Yoru's story.

I just don't want the author to lose focus trying to keep Denji around a little too much. Otherwise I'm absolutely loving everything else about it. If I had to pick a particular Devil that actually put chills right down my spine. There's absolutely no question it's the Falling Devil. I will confess I have a fear of heights aka falling.

The way this Devil recreates such a fear was mind blowing stuff. It somehow made that fear into one of the scariest things I ever experienced while reading the story. A random woman's gets ripped off then two of her extra arms in a particular angle kept the head above where one would be. This thing can even talk through the decapitated head perfectly.

The Falling Devil has some control over gravity as well as manipulating humans to fall off high places. Not only that she's dressed up like a chef too. Chainsaw Man couldn't kill her no matter what he tried. Ultimately her target was Asa causing a lot of craziness to happen. Eventually she decides to go back to hell.

Now you could only imagine how scary this character was to me. I usually don't feel fear when reading mangas. Let's be honest even throwing in Berserk, I never had a feeling like this before. In fact, for stuff like this I strongly felt Chainsaw Man to me is the best of the Dark Trio. I also liked how the author goes about the arcs, I felt that's done perfectly.

Jujutsu Kaisen is the most successful of the Dark Trio. I'm about to upset some people, it's also the most overrated. I will explain the story like the other two before I dive straight in to rip it apart. The story centers on an teenager named Yuji Itadori. He came across an cursed object that causes some of the cursed spirits to attack members of his high school club.

He assists an Jujutsu High student named Megumi to stop the cursed spirits. In desperation, Yuji does the unthinkable swallows the cursed object to possibly him save them from the cursed spirit. However this cursed object was one of twenty fingers of Sukuna. Whose the King of Curses that got reincarnated through well that.

Yuji ends up transferring to Jujutsu High to become an Jujutsu sorcerer. Cursed sprits is kinda like hollows in Bleach. Both are evil spirits that targets humans. More or less, cursed energy is virtually negative energy that could come from actual negative emotions or some concepts. Such as natural disasters, a particular villain group except Mahito represented this.

There's several major problems I simply can't ignore. Jujutsu Kaisen is too focused on nostalgia bringing a lot of stuff from many Shonen series. Without that, it really doesn't offer much. A lot of the newer chapters has a lot of the same problems. You can tell they got rushed out in the art work. You also can tell due to rushing, parts of the story telling not going into the right direction.

Culling Game arc started to go down at a point. The following arc is still falling with the newer chapters becoming too predictable. Sukuna obviously currently struck in the Madara Uchiha problem. When one powerful character that's incredibly skilled as well as tedious takes on everyone. This final fight with Sukuna directly following his victory against Gojo kinda painful to read.

The author uses a pen name while keeping their identity a secret. Well that's fine but having some racist dialogue late into the manga series however isn't at all. Also Sukuna vs Gojo as amazing that fight truly was. Let's be brutally honest it was way too soon to do the fight. We gave us such an epic showdown. Now everything that's going to follow simply not going to come close to that.

I will say I surprisingly did enjoy Kenjaku having fun with Fumihiko. Along with Sukuna vs Gojo being the only two notable parts in the current arc I liked. I do actually like a lot of the characters. I really didn't like some of their deaths either. Obviously Gojo's death isn't setting well with people. But I also didn't like the principal to Yuji's school getting killed by the other principal.

Jujutsu Kaisen tries to be the next of every Shonen series it's inspired by. It simply isn't nearly as good as them. Not only that, I do respect what Yuji has been through. I felt he's the perfect protagonist for this story. Sadly the current direction likely going to cause people to leave the franchise. I highly doubt there's anything they could possibly do to change that otherwise.

Another reason I'm mixed towards Jujutsu Kaisen is there's a sequel anime directly based on Culling Game. I am not sure if it would also include the final arc or not. But skipping two shorter, more decent story arcs that does have some importance to the story isn't right. I do see Yuji being the next Ichigo with everything considered.

The author tried to combine Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter and possibly Soul Eater respectively. Jujutsu Kaisen heavily pulls from all those. At least, Hell's Paradise differs itself much more from Rurouni Kenshin in comparison. Chainsaw Man did a more interesting usage of Bleach's inspiration too.

To me, it felt like without pulling all of this. Jujutsu Kaisen wasn't going to be a good story on it's own. The author chosen to keep the training wheels on too long. Which further explains the current decline in the manga. Yes Megumi was inspired by Hiei but more Sasuke. I surprisingly like the character but the author really do him dirty with the story now.

One of the main reasons the heroes got involved with Culling Game was to save his sister. Unfortunately, she got possessed by an old sorceress. Who was obsessed with Sukuna leading to a fight where she does also killing the vessel off. Obviously being his sister while Sukuna himself now possessing Megumi during all of this.

I don't know if the author getting rushed or simply wanna stop writing his story or out of ideas. It is very possible any or all could be reasons for it's decline. We even had a black hole got used as a bomb that killed a character we barely see any real combat from prior. I will be brutally honest, Bleach got it's final story arc rushed heavily.

I am glad Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach is directly involved to make the anime adaptation of it better. He plans to add majority of the stuff cut due to getting rushed as well as being sick at the time. I don't think the author of Jujutsu Kaisen going to do the same for the sequel anime. I'm quickly approaching a point, please end the story already it's not going to get much better.

Revealing my favorite characters in the Dark Trio

Hell's Paradise

5. Sagiri

4. Shion

3. Gantetsusai

2. Gabimaru

1. Chobei

Chainsaw Man

5. Galgali

4. Falling Devil

3. Yoru

2. Power

1. Denji

Jujutsu Kaisen

5. Jogo

4. Yuji

3. Gojo

2. Maki

1. Yuta

Ranking the Protagonists

4. Yuji

3. Asa

2. Denji

1. Gabimaru

Ranking the Dark Trio

3. Jujutsu Kaisen

2. Hell's Paradise

1. Chainsaw Man

My thoughts on Big 3 (Shonen Jump)

Bleach

Finished

Naruto

Finished

One Piece

Chapter 1113

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I always wanted to give my thoughts on the Big 3 from Shonen Jump We are talking Naruto, Bleach and One Piece respectively. Three lengthy manga series that was massive successes for the company. Even right now a lot of newer manga stories are heavily inspired by them. They are nearly as big as Dragon Ball which is really saying a lot!!!

Considering One Piece taking a long time to end. I already finalized majority of the rankings. In a future blog entry after One Piece finishes I'll reveal my last few rankings. Also waiting to make this simply came off being unnecessary. I think it's about time to reveal my exact thoughts on all three of them.

Comparison of the Big 3

All three of them are vastly different from each other. There's a few concepts they do shared that's simply done differently. I will openly confess I really don't like Naruto at all. There's little to nothing I like about it. In fact, it was one of the first overrated animes I heard about from school. Naruto eventually declines during the ending portions in the manga.

Honestly Bleach is also guilty of that with Yhwach ruining everything. This is more about comparing the manga series. I felt Naruto even with the darker moments is the lightest in overall tone in the Big 3. Majority of techniques were incredibly tedious. There's a handful of Naruto characters I like. Also do I need to say it again?

Naruto is simply not ninjas at all but kids to teens seems to like it. I also don't like the fact Boruto as in a spin off sequel manga series either. However considering the Big 3 is exclusively those three manga series. I'm not here to compare Boruto in this, also I really don't wanna read that either. Let's put it this way how Hunter x Hunter made hunters the way it did was pretty awesome compared to this!!!

Naruto himself was notably very annoying in Part 1 of the manga. In Part 2, he came more off like a cheap Goku ninja rip off I'm serious. I felt majority of the fights were simply too repetitive especially the last few fights. For me, Naruto doesn't even compare to the other two series. Which is kinda funny when a lot of people wants Bleach removed the Big 3.

One weird fact is Sanji in One Piece almost got named Naruto. But the author of One Piece found out about Naruto manga, he changed the name. Naruto manga is notably better than the two anime shows. I did fully read the manga, not a huge fan myself. I refused to resume the original Naruto anime. A friend told me Naruto has some bad filler episodes too.

Speaking of Bleach, I actually think it's one of the most awesome manga series I ever gotten into. I almost loved everything about it with some notable problems. A good example being a lot of the final story arc which the newer Bleach anime based on simply a mess. The last to second arc is too similar to Yu Yu Hakusho's Chapter Black arc.

I simply dislike majority of the quincies' powers too. In fact, the one quincy power I actually wanted was The Visionary from Gremmy. The power to make anything you think of become reality. A truly ridiculous power soul reaper captain Kenpachi faced. Yes it has a lot of strong similarities with Yu Yu Hakusho more so in their respective anime shows.

I actually respect Ichigo for a lot of reasons. I know some people called him being rather bland as well a boring protagonist. To me, he comes off as the most relatable of the three main characters. I also liked we get a great variety of skill sets with soul reapers and arrancars being my two favorites. You also get a few plains of existence thrown in for good measure.

I like a lot more characters in Bleach in comparison to Naruto. Bleach would be the darkest among the Big 3 by default. You can tell Bleach was going to be something amazing among reading it. Yes some concepts didn't quite happen hat could've been interesting. At the same time, I am very thankful what we gotten.

Tite Kubo is directly involved with the newer Bleach anime to make it true to his original vision. Try to think of it like Zack Snyder's Justice League situation. Where Snyder left the production due to his daughter passed away. Then a series of bad decisions from the company led to not great movie. It took a few years for Snyder to be allowed to make the original Justice League movie he was going to make.

The original Bleach anime does have some notable problems. Like up to the Soul Society arc isn't actually following the manga that well. Some parts did happen there but everything else for whatever reason got rewritten not representing the author's vision at all. There's a lot of filler episodes with a good number being not great.

Season 4 which is one of two filler seasons of the Bounts easily the worst Bleach season. It still currently among one of my most disliked anime seasons ever. The rest of the filler seasons are mostly decent I say. The movies including the live action one are decent too. It's very rare when an live action movie nails anime like this but it's not as good as the live action One Piece show.

Bleach was a rather take on the supernatural. You don't see hell but mostly non canon there's some stories involving there. The hell movie didn't represented the author's vision of hell. Which led to a bonus, sequel hell chapter. This isn't counted with the other chapters since the actual manga series ended a couple years prior.

Another weird thing with Bleach is unlike the other series within the Big 3. Bleach was more selective about which consoles gets Bleach games. Seriously there's a lot more Naruto and One Piece games in comparison. Thanks to a friend I guarantee high school with, I eventually played a little of a PS3 Bleach game.

Hands down One Piece is my favorite of the Big 3. Currently the only manga series still going that recently gotten a live action show. I know a lot of people complain about the story being really long. In it's defense the story actually surprisingly constant all these years. You are getting a lot more story in mostly bigger story arcs.

One Piece has plenty creativity in every sense of the word. In nearly every possible way perfection, it's that damn good!!! I know people may quickly write it off when they look at it. If you give this a chance you may be surprised how truly interesting it is. This is a pirate story with so much going for it. One Piece set the golden standard for not only the genre but for the company as well.

Almost everything you could possibly ask for an Shonen series One Piece delivers. It's also clear proof of the late author Akira Toriyama if he kept Dragon Ball Z the style of the original Dragon Ball. It still would've been a major success sadly DBZ's actual style partly ruined some series to a degree. The main crew of the story are surprisingly decent people that goes out their way to help others.

They have saved a few countries from many pirates including Doflamingo who had connections. Each location really feels like it's own more so than in a lot of similar series. A good example is Water 7 was inspired by Italy or Wano being inspired by Japan. Devil Fruits are honestly one of the most interesting powers in any Shonen series I ever heard of.

Luffy is a very relatable character that's one of many characters heavily inspired by Dragon Ball's Goku. Who was also inspired by Sun Wukong from Chinese mythology as well as Journey to the West story. It's very rare I say this, there's a lot of characters I like. It's way more than Bleach which by itself already saying something.

Nearly everything about One Piece is really interesting at it's core. The insane amount of art work to truly amazing story telling, it really blew my expectations. Haki is one of my favorite combat systems to date. Obviously, there's plenty of controversial moments that happens during the story. There's a great balance to everything so perfect you really couldn't ask for anything more.

One Piece actually made pirates kinda fun to watch. Some chapters has so much going on including taking up two pages it's really impressive that works as well as it does. This epic journey could possibly be one of the greatest stories ever told in Shonen manga history. Personally I already think it deserves such an honor.

I also got to mention One Piece does reference the other two series to a degree. Like Perona who has the Hollow-Hollow Fruit that allows the user to create as well as control ghosts. Obviously that's a Bleach reference devil fruit power. There's a few ninja characters that do reference Naruto to some degree mostly during Wano arc.

Not only that, one of Blackbeard's captains has a Naruto reference devil fruit power too. It also could be more of referencing the Japanese mythical creature Kurama. Some Shonen series like Yu Yu Hakusho references the same creature. I am really not kidding One Piece is heavily inspiring me over the years. Eventually everyone on Luffy's crew will reach their dream.

I also got to mention there's a lot of spin off One Piece stories. We got one following Ace's story as well as learning more about Sanji. I recently learned my favorite One Piece character Zoro getting his own spin off. There's a few crossover works including the late Akira Toriyama. Who actually was the author of One Piece's idol.

Toriyama stated his kid was into One Piece. Eventually he got into it, he said some great things about his work. It's almost like Toriyama passed the torch officially to Oda before he passed away. There was a few anime crossover episodes of One Piece. Although some of those were skipped in the Funimation dub version of the anime.

Speaking of that, there's already a new remake anime coming out. At this present time I'll keep quiet what my thoughts are about it. But I may write about it in a future blog entry. I will say One Piece anime being such a popular show for a long time is truly amazing stuff. I won't be surprise they get it again this year.

There's a lot more characters on both sides. I have decided to do two top 5 favorite characters lists each. Now this is a very suggestive ranking everyone likely going to have different lists.

I previously stated I didn't like many Naruto characters. Unfortunately I don't think I could do either list with five characters each.

Naruto

Heroes

2. Hinata Uzumaki

1. Kakashi

Villains

2. Itachi Uchiha

1. Orochimaru

Bleach

Heroes

5. Sajin Komamura

4. Toshiro Hitsugaya

3. Ichigo Kurosaki

2. Kisuke Urahara

1. Kenpachi Zaraki

Villains

5. Baraggan Louisenbairn

4. Sosuke Aizen

3. Shukuro Tsukishima

2. Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez

1. Ulquiorra Cifer

I refuse to put any quincies on that list.

One Piece

Heroes

5. Whitebeard

4. Red Hair Shanks

3. Monkey D. Luffy

2. Sanji

1. Roronoa Zoro

Villains

5. King

4. Charlotte Katakuri

3. Rob Lucci

2. Doflamingo

1. Kaido

Ranking the Protagonists

3. Naruto Uzumaki

2. Ichigo Kurosaki

1. Monkey D. Luffy

Ranking the Big 3

3. Naruto

2. Bleach

1. One Piece

Nutcracker Massacre (2022) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I finally got to see Nutcracker Massacre. A movie that's one of many attempts to cash in on Chucky. We can consider this as the Russian Chucky film. It was originally a low budget Russian horror movie that got English dub for the United States version. Sadly I don't got many positives to say other than you can watch it for free on Tubi.

Nutcracker Massacre (2022)

This is a Christmas horror movie that centers on a family celebrating the holiday. Two unusual nutcrackers caused murders, it's not a good story nor gets told well either. Which also can affect the story's impaction in the long run. The main killer nutcracker is human sized. Personally I would prefer if the killer nutcracker being much smaller.

Simply making the killer nutcracker tall not only loses the appeal. It also effectively removes any chances of the movie being somewhat scary. I seen a lot of killer toy movies to know this is easily among the worst of them. Like Chucky series, the killer is possessing a nutcracker. Unlike Chucky, he never speaks at all.

This could be seen as either a good or bad thing depending on many Chucky rip offs. In this particular case I'm kinda glad he doesn't speak. I could only imagine how terrible his lines could've been. I will be honest Clown Doll is a better movie than this. Yes it's more of a Chucky knock off than this.

The way the story was done with some of the kill scenes simply done better. Keep in mind, that's also a low budget horror movie too. I don't hate em folks, I'm kinda particular how I love low budget horror movies. Most kill scenes are meh at best. Even Jack Frost 2, a bad Christmas horror movie had more rememberable scenes as well as better overall acting.

You can tell a few times, they didn't properly dubbed the characters. The one kill that's kinda worth noting is literately below the belt. I'm not going to reveal how difficult it was to watch. They got the guts to do something like this. The back story to the two nutcrackers gets revealed by an antique toy store owner.

In my opinion, the most rememberable character of the movie. The character just surprisingly works when everyone else including the killer kinda bland and generic at best. It's so low budget you don't see one person getting killed off. Not to mention, this vicious facial emotion that we never see animated.

It partly works but not showing us that effect kinda ruins the appeal too. A little weird pacing considering we see the same delivery man for some weird reason murdered twice. I felt just removing the first time it's shown would've helped the movie a little bit. I'm not as disappointed as in seeing The Mean One.

Then again The Mean One had a few things over this making that the better Christmas horror movie. You know you suck horribly when the famous bad Jack Frost surprisingly better. Obviously I seen a lot of Christmas movies both ways. This one very quickly loses it's welcome. The cover I do like but that's not enough reason to watch it.

It's another movie the trailer turned out to be way better than the actual movie. Yeah you got beaten by your own trailer is kinda embarrassing. Nutcracker Massacre is also one of the worst horror movies with Massacre in the title. Even The Clown Chainsaw Massacre and The Bunnyman Massacre had better everything else despite not being great themselves.

Nutcracker Massacre was a massacre alright!!! It wastes your time from start to finish. There's some parts of the movie that's a little tricky to hear. Obviously they didn't properly level up the audio. They used a handful of locations which was fine. What isn't fine though is I did expect a lot more than what we actually gotten here.

Not only you rather watch Chucky or any decent killer toy movies over this. It just doesn't make nutcrackers scary in any possible way. Which was essentially the entire point of the movie. I'm even amazed this made it over seas into the United States. Even Santa's Slay with wrestler Goldberg way better than this!!!

I know there's several killer Santa movies. Santa's Slay differs itself enough to stand out a little bit. In virtually every possible that movie blows Nutcracker Massacre away. There's no comparison, I rather see this evil Santa slaughtering people in rather questionable ways than this. Even the Gingerdead Man movies has something rememberable about em.

Yes Gingerdead is a famous knock off of Chucky. So was Jack Frost, who I kept comparing since both his movies are Christmas horror movies. You know you blow incredibly hard when you're easily out done by a possessed gingerbread man as well as a mutated snowman. This movie is simply a massive disappointment that won't make anyone happy, surprisingly boring too.

Let's discuss Chucky

Warning this will be a lengthy blog post, please take as much time needed to finish reading.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, It's been awhile since I got to talk about one of my favorite slasher villains ever!!! Considering I got three topics involving Chucky. Let's do this multiple Chucky posts in one deal. You already know I'm going to have a lot of fun with this. Honestly, it's about to be one hell of a party in here!!!

Topic 1

Chucky and Slappy comparison (more recent shows)

Spoilers for both shows if you continue reading on or skip to Topic 2 to avoid em altogether.

To clarify this isn't going to be a full comparison of both villains. I originally planned to do a follow up comparison video on this topic. Due to my video editor program no longer working, I don't know why. I should directly compare stuff both of them including the new Goosebumps show. Let's say the similarities I'm about to go into are quite strikingly indeed.

Chucky with Jake back in season 1 of Chucky show. The two ended up doing an insult show towards Lexy. On the new Goosebumps show during a flash back, Harold with Slappy insults a few students on stage in a similar matter. Chucky in Cult of Chucky directly possessed Nica. Slappy possesses two people mostly a teacher, Nathan Bratt.

In both shows, high school students are getting terrorized by them. Obviously to a degree, parts of that occurs at their schools. Both manipulated people to a degree to get what they want. Mostly a few family members that ultimately turned against em. We also see flash backs of them being humans before becoming possessed doll/dummy.

Obviously both are skilled magic users despite being vastly different magic styles. They also made the characters think they're defeat. Let's be honest, Chucky dies a lot on the show there's no hiding that. Slappy later possessed one of the high school students the stories follow. Both planned to do horrible things as their end goal.

Slappy turned a lot of people into human sized dummies. He was going to force em get burnt alive at a particular location close by each other. Chucky had several end goals that doesn't works in his favor much. Like he attempted to make someone else into a killer or a surprise Christmas massacre.

Which was better than Nutcracker Massacre, I'm preparing a review of that soon. Back to these two iconic villain characters. Slappy manipulate the spirit of Harold for his own amusement. Both these stories involves revenge to a degree. Despite Chucky does have a grudge with those students, Harold was tricked into thinking that.

It was later revealed it turned out Slappy not his former friends were responsible for his death. Before that, Slappy manipulated Harold into turning both his parents into dummies. Chucky manipulated Jake's cousin Junior into killing his father. Slappy on this Goosebumps show was almost Chucky no joke. This made the character more evil than he was in anything else Goosebumps related.

Both shows confirmed both these characters are evil in every sense of the word. I always wanted to see these two characters face each other especially on Death Battle. Last I checked, it's their biggest request to date. Even some stuff Slappy said on the show was strikingly similar to what Chucky would say himself.

I also need to point they are going to change Goosebumps show to an horror anthology show. Which also means they may not continue the story of season 1. Chucky show is essentially Chucky 8 excluding Child's Play remake. They are making another Chucky movie that could suggest a few things. Like season 3 of Chucky show might be the last or somehow parts of season 4 being in the movie.

You know as a better way to tie things together. Some shows does stuff like this that I felt is a little unnecessary. These shows really made those characters even more alike than anyone ever thought. Even I confess I almost mistaken Slappy for Chucky at times. I'm not trying to start anything with Goosebumps show, it's incredibly notable what they done with Slappy.

Topic 2

Chucky vs Freddy movie pitch

On and off, Don Mancini whose created Chucky threw out some ideas for future possible movies. Mostly crossovers with other characters. For some reason, a lot of people wants Chucky to crossover with both M3gan and Annabelle. Going by a video I made, I don't think either of those ideas would work for similar reasons I stated there.

There's the more comical Chucky in Space pitch. We already have other horror icons in space. Jason X brought Jason Voorhees to space, The Cenobites in Hellraiser: Bloodline brought hell to space. Although there actually is a similar movie nick named Hellraiser in space by people. Event Horizon for anyone wondering which movie.

Hellraiser: Bloodline predates Event Horizon by over a year. There's also Leprechaun 4: In Space, it's not great. There's a few moments I do sorta enjoy rewatching. Which makes it a better movie than Leprechaun: Origins. Also say it with me, It's not a Leprechaun Movie!!! I actually seen a even worst attempt on the concept with Dracula 3000.

Yes even Dracula somehow gotten a similar movie that's terrible. I can't say a single good thing about it. I don't mind aliens coming to Earth or other planets. At the same time, Jason X being the best among them surprisingly. This concept mostly doesn't work at all. Then again they recently gotten Chucky inside the White House on the show.

I personally felt a share commercial might be the only way to make it work. A movie or a few episodes on the show simply doomed to fail. However none of those are the one pitch I came here to discuss. Yeah get ready to wrap your head around this one. A pitch if it ever happened I actually would drop everything to watch it on the spot.

Don himself really wants to do a crossover movie with Chucky and Freddy. Yeah two of my favorite slasher villains ever in either a movie or on the Chucky show would be sweet. The closest to this level of excitement actually was a crossover commercial with Michael Myers. Yes Chucky for a few seconds talks to Michael Myers in a commercial was mind blowing to me.

I haven't felt like that ever since Freddy vs. Jason movie. Before I dive into this particular pitch. There's a few failed similar ideas I personally can't believe were planned to end up getting canceled. Michael nearly fought Pinhead is already wtf!!! You are putting the usual slasher villain against a demon like that.

They actually allowed the voters to decide to make the movie or not. Majority voted against the idea, a great idea since it couldn't work at all. They are way too different to make it work. At least with Freddy and Jason, they had some similarities to better tie into the crossover movie. I also aware there's a few sequel comic book series to that movie with Ash from Evil Dead series.

Michael at one point was considered for a follow up to Freddy vs. Jason. There's even worst movie pitch that more recently becoming known on the internet. Leprechaun vs. Candyman, I am dead serious. It's not clear why they wanted to do these two against each other. Partly one of Leprechaun in the Hood movies was the result of that crossover not happening.

Leprechaun franchise is one of those franchises stuck after a few reboot attempts. There's a new one in the works, let's hope it's a good or at least more faithful than Leprechaun: Origins. Pinhead in a planned ending for Freddy vs. Jason would've interrupted the two fighting each other. It's kinda sad such an ending never fully materialize.

Me actually discussing Freddy vs. Chucky pitch.

Alright you may not wanna hear all of that. Let's get to what you really wanna hear me talk about. I actually think Freddy vs. Chucky could work wonders. Personally I rather have Chucky vs. Leprechaun that surprisingly never got considered for a movie true story. Both these villains have some strong similarities.

Both were serial murders that died then became something worst. They got powers with Chucky having magic while Freddy can manipulate the dream world like a God. Both got defeated by their children in a criticized sequel movie no less. Both stalked later killed a few high school students. Both wore striped clothing to a degree.

Their personalities are similar enough with both throwing out one liners at times. Which brings me to another strong similarities. Both started out being terrifying to end up getting too comical later on. Mostly Seed of Chucky and Freddy's Dead respectively. Although done differently both can split up into multiple bodies.

Even death is a small issue for these two. Freddy may debut a few years before Chucky. But Chucky actually gotten a bigger body count. Well the bigger confirmed body count since Freddy goes after people in their dreams. I will be honest I did compare season 2 of Chucky to A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 awhile back.

If you wanna read that blog comparison just click on the link below...

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2023/06/did-chucky-season-2-rip-off-nightmare.html

There's a lot of interesting possibilities they could do with such a concept. Chucky stalking a group of people plus adding in Freddy doing the same could be essentially a bad situation. Either they stay up long enough to get done in by Chucky or fall asleep risking never waking up again. Yes you could say that previously done that with Freddy vs. Jason.

This will be different because Jason isn't bright. These two are smarter than a lot of people realize. Two vastly different supernatural slasher villains with a possible similar end goal. Eventually either by default, betrayal or they start a rivalry with each other. These two are going to face each other, things will quickly get ugly.

Also it kinda would be interesting to see how Freddy outside the dream world handles Chucky. Especially if there's multiple Chucky dolls waiting to ambush him. We could end up with a more brutal scene than his daughter finishing him off in Freddy's Dead. A confrontation easily could be guarantee to happen if both of them are stalking the same group of people.

Chucky never faced anyone in canon like Freddy before. In the dream world, Freddy fought people that used their dream powers against him. All of a sudden using magic might not be enough. Also it would be interesting how to torture a murder that died so many ways? Obviously Freddy could use more ridiculous ways to kill Chucky off that isn't possible in the real world.

The humor alone is already enough reason to want this crossover to happen. Not only that, two iconic slasher villains people really can't get enough. It's going to be amazingly well as a movie. If this were to happen on the Chucky show, there's factors working against it. I do think in the right hands, that season could easily be the greatest they ever done!!!

Topic 3

Chucky roasting other horror movies joke

This is the most recent Chucky topic I wanna discuss. On Episode 5 of Season 3, we see old Chucky watch TV. He quickly roasts a few similar movies to the franchise. First up to get roasted was The Boy. Followed by Dead Silence which I felt gotten a better insult. M3gan shows up with possibly the single funniest Chucky joke in history.

I previously seen two of these movies with M3gan being the only one I haven't watched yet. I felt I already stated why I don't like the idea of an actual crossover idea. Although, this roasting was well executed. I kinda felt the same about that movie myself. I love this moment so much I ended up making a few memes inspired by it.

Personally I felt Brahms: The Boy II kinda deserved to be roasted more than the original. Sadly I kinda have to spoil things to make a point here. The Boy up to a point makes you think the doll might be alive. It was later revealed Brahms didn't die in the fire. He secretly lived inside the walls of his parent's home for year.

Therefore, it's not quite a killer toy movie despite feeling like one up to that twist. Brahms: The Boy II changed everything to suddenly cash in on Chucky and Annabelle. Originally the doll was made for Brahms then the fire happened. Everyone including his parents lied about their son's death. The baby sitting of a doll was actually this mysterious man wanting to spend his life with the lady.

They changed it to multiple people had this possessed doll. Brahms just one of the people that owned the doll in question. Brahms didn't live as long in this new canon they established. The movie actually more directly ripping off Annabelle than Chucky. Considering Annabelle: Creation predates Brahms: The Boy II by rough three years, I say it's a rip off.

For anyone about to play "Oh The Boy came out before Annabelle card." The original Annabelle movie predates The Boy by over two years. If we were to consider The Conjuring that came out a year before Annabelle. Over three years since that's an ongoing movie franchise that's successful. On several accounts, The Boy franchise doesn't compare to either of those franchises.

Also I don't think The Boy deserved the roasting. Yeah it was kinda disappointing their attempt to spike things up worked against it. I still kinda liked the movie despite how much I dislike the sequel. I kinda felt Dead Silence was the best horror movie Chucky roasted here. It was a nice burn there's no question of that.

Chucky basically said the obvious when it came to Dead Silence. It didn't get a sequel, some horror movies works better without em. So it's up to debate where you stand on that statement. I kinda wish another movie that actually deserve the roasting taken it's place here. I am sorry Dead Silence didn't deserve to get roasted, it does just enough to differ itself from Chucky.

Dead Silence was actually a decent movie I enjoyed. I wouldn't mind a sequel if it's done right. It's more of a ghost movie but a great one at that. To me, M3gan essentially would be what Dolly Dearest was to the original Chucky in a nut shell. Regardless if they had similar ideas or actually rip off Chucky is somewhat debated.

M3gan on the verge getting an sequel. I just don't see the appeal of it. It just felt like let's take Child's Play remake gender swap a few characters then call it a day. I know some people felt this way towards a Ghostbusters movie. I never felt that towards the actual film. My real problem with it was they decided to attempt recreating the original in a way that just doesn't work.

I'm even amazed M3gan was surprise success. I kinda hope Chucky does another round of roasting horror movies in the near future. Hell Don you should get a Chucky marathon. Chucky on the air during commercials can roast more horror movies, people would deeply enjoy that. For a few minutes, the roasting was a surprising high light for the show.

I simply wanted more of it even if the later roasting ends up as a bonus video or episode. Both they could do but the focus is more towards the story they're telling. It was a clear distraction from what's going on. At the same time, it was easily one of my favorite Chucky moments ever. Just for fun I will be linking a few memes I made the day following the episode aired down below...

Annabelle

https://imgflip.com/i/8mf6tm

Dolly Dearest

https://imgflip.com/i/8mf7g8

Very surprised neither of them got roasted.

Brahms: The Boy II

https://imgflip.com/i/8mfi1h 

You knew this was coming. I felt my burnt on the sequel was better lol.

Nutcracker Massacre

https://imgflip.com/i/8mfjzq

I really can't wait to tear this movie apart lol.

This joke is very meme friendly, I absolute love it!!! I would love to see other people's memes on that joke. Feel free to hit me up for checking em out, I really would love to see your jokes. I waited for years to see Chucky do something like this. When it finally happened I'm almost speechless. It's not perfect but for what it is, I really enjoyed it.