User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 479: Who you should show the greatest respect to is, review./@comment-4945830-20160328225937/@comment-4829046-20160403171506

That's a pretty tall order if you ask me. Very few authors/creators are willing to go too much into building up a world of this type as you describe. Unless of course it is like One Piece where it is covered in islands and thus have an endless supply of possibilities. In a world map, you just need to add dots to the open blue, and bingo, you got more settings! Naruto? Ha! The only time we got some proper landscape was doing the War, and even then, that was like a fraction of the map shown. When your focus is characters, and characters that never stray too far from their homelands, where the primary world-building element was through a small terrorist group that scoured that particular region, then expanding the actual world isn't really a priority. World size also matters. In series like this, that element is extremely vague. Is it the same size as ours? Is it small like in Avatar? Is it just a weird plane like in Lord of the rings? Is it a cliche one where Japan appears to be the only country visible from space? Magi is one of the best shounen when it comes to world-building and even that one looks like a condensed and simplified version that is basically a particular chunk of the world map. Like I said, characters, not world. The characters give the world meaning. Any 'geographic' aspect is secondary. If I bring up the 'Japan-centric' worlds, in those you hardly ever see another country like even Britain or America outside of some map that a character may bring up. If we do see, it is often a cliched area that everyone has seen countless times and is more of a stereotype than a setting. In other series, a fictional country that is mentioned, can either be relevant to plot or some flashback, or else just be some random name inserted by the creator. Only if it is relevant to plot or rather a certain character(s) will the series actually move to that setting.