The importance of a rival

[sindriiisgaming]

If you want Marvel slop go play Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League

and dragonball, and one piece, and yugioh, and pokemon, and DC, DEATH NOTE, and sonic. all stories with solid rivals. And you can dislike them as much as you may, but lets not pretend that those franchise aren't massively successful in part because of their strong rivalries





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udKR...nel=MangaKamen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SsR...annel=CADomain
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs...urnalCode=opra
https://www.thegamer.com/best-anime-rivalries/
https://youtu.be/16Nb7hIr3-A

Rivalry is positively related to performance. We then performed a meta-analysis that confirmed that this relationship is statistically significant. We further found that this relationship is more robust for rivalries in the context of individuals compared to groups. The association between rivalry and performance is most prominent in certain domains, such as sports rivalry.

now if were going to argue ffxiv isnt a typical "shounen anime" I'm going to literally cite Stb/Shb/EW and DT as complete anime ripoffs.
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fin...f-overpowered/

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida says Dawntrail's new Viper job was partly shaped by the MMO community's desire to play a two-sworded melee DPS character who felt like Sword Art Online's Kirito.

> Viper is literally kirito.
> the ending of Endwalker mirrored the final fight in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
> The Powerup animation seen in ARR final fight seams to call back to the SSj aura in dragonball

but moving away from that, one of my most favourite movies is MEGAMIND, a movie that centers around the concept and importance of rivalry from the POV of the villian. The movie is amazing if you haven't seen it