Battle shonen series have been a dominant force in the manga industry over the past few decades, in terms of volume sales, as well as serialization in widely circulated manga anthology magazines. From the days of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, to the era of Weekly Shonen Jump's "Big Three," until the current generation, which has spawned massive media franchises that have made impressions across the world, shonen action series have come to define the landscape of the medium for better or for worse.