Who Is The New Big 3?

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[slicessenpai]

From what I understand, the Big Three got that title because it was 3 animanga that ran side by side for an extended period of time, granting them amazing popularity.

As much as I want to throw out some modern big names, the way mangas and animes are now on a shorter/seasonal format does not quite grant them the same amount of concentrated power One Piece, Naruto and Bleach had at the time, because they are not side by side for that long before one or more ending.

[AussieDragoon]

How does Brotherhood make sense? It came out over a decade ago and was based on a manga that ran concurrently with the old big 3.

[yoda]

The problem with “Modern Big 3” is no one establishes what “Modern” means anymore. Black Clover and My Hero are thrown around but they’re a decade old now. And Attack on Titan isn’t even in the Shonen Jump magazine

[oluwatish]

Weird putting FMA in the "modern" big 3 when the source material came out in 2001

[just_noahh]

After Dragon Ball ended, weekly shonen jump struggled. Then came One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. These three anime’s saved weekly shown jump and were the main anime’s shown in the west due to the popularity of them. This is why they’re considered the big three.

As we fast-forward to 2024, anime is mainstream. Everything is subject to opinion now. Sure, JJK is the most popular manga currently but is it worthy of starting a whole new big three. Probably not.

[timzyt]

I don't think there's ever gonna be a big 3 in the way there was for Bleach, Naruto and One piece. But if i had to pick a big 3 for this era of shonen anime, it'd be My hero academia, Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen.

I think when you put these 3 together, they are the ones that stick together the best, as well as being similar and airing at the same time. That's just what i think though based on what I've seen

[IamMeHereSee]

I like to think of Dragonball as the empire of Alexander the Great & the Big 3 as the successor states that inherited parts of that empire. As such, you can't have a modern Big 3, but you'll get the equivalent of whatever empire(s) take(s) over afterward. Call them the 2020's 20, the Magnificent 7, the Eternal 11, or whatever.

[Highstar]

I think the big three was a moment in history moreso than a collection of three anime series.
But if you absolutely had to find a new one, it would be best to do so based on how influential they are and how much they entered the public conscience.

[Indeeee]

The big 3 are big 3 not because of their length but the impact that it had on manga and anime back then. So going in terms of that the "new big 3" imo are My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen.

The reasons I say this is because MHA revitalized the weekly shonen jump back when Naruto and Bleach ended. As for Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen well, they're just insanely popular.

[cynicalfella]

There is no 2nd Big 3. The B3 are specifically, the best Manga that came out following the footsteps of DBZ and what it meant.

[WiredLain_]

FMAB and AOT were their own era, they’re too old to be labeled new gen, and too new to be grouped up w Naruto, OP, and Bleach. They were like in the middle n had their own reign, but back then ppl barely watched anime so nobody labeled it as the new big 3.

[GlerpidyGlarson]

We don't have a big three anymore. Honestly I don't even know where we are now.

We are in the glerp zone

[madmonty]

Well we can all agree on one piece still being one of the big three. I think maybe we need to look at increasing the number.

[freezasama]

Dragon ball will always be the grandfather of whatever current big 3 is and One piece is it's grandson

[norik]

Yeah I'm not sure there even are any shows of this kind anymore: running continuously for years and years on end without interruption and watched by absolutely everyone in the anime sphere. There are definitely huge mainstream successes every once in a while (Hero Academia, Demon Slayer), but these shows don't have anywhere near the colossal reach or episode counts of a Naruto or a Bleach. You'd be surprised how many anime fans have never seen Jujutsu Kaisen (I never have) or Attack on Titan (which quickly shrunk in mainstream appeal after the first couple seasons, probably because it took so long to keep going). I think the industry is too big and tastes too diverse now for there to be one big unifying show that everyone knows and follows.

[VoraciousHeart]

I think this will be much easier to figure out once one piece ends.

It feels like one piece is the last lingering embers of the “big 3” and once it ends the new gen can finally be out from under its shadow.

Think of it like the “big 3” of wrestling in undertaker rock and Austin. Undertaker hung on way longer and it’s only since his retirement that people have really began to look for the next pillars of the industry.

[timpayne]

The only issue is demon sayer ended over a year ago. MhA just ended, JJK is likely done by the end of this year. So they are essentially done by the time they catch One Piece

[RenRip]

My Hero Academia and Black Clover looked like a start to another Big Three. But the last pick was always kinda indecisive, between Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Demon Slayer. But since Black Clover’s “fall off” it seems like the likelihood of another Big Three became even more indecisive.

[thenerdzone]

When I think big 3, ots cultural relevance, world wide relevance, merch sales, and Fandom relevance. I thunk it's very hard to ignore that MHA, Demon Slayer, and AoT fit all these categories like a glove, while all have ended, I think those 3 deserve being the modern age big 3

[bearerofbadnews]

With all these series ending like Jujitsu Kaisen, Black Clover, and eventually one piece. It’s still boggles the mind there is one manga series that’s still ongoing and it’s “Detective Conan” a manga that will never end.