Originally Posted by
abmccray
To add to this, much of this is because of the reversal of school of thought of how strength is often displayed in shounen as compared to comics.
To generalize as much as possible, Western comics draw from mythological heroes like Hercules that display their strength via great feats of lifting and such. Many of those comics also focus on saving people or stopping things from blowing up, etc. that require ridiculous amounts of lifting and pulling.
On the flip side, though, their "striking" stuff rarely, rarely matches. They punch people far weaker and have less effect, when two superpowered beings fight, the collateral damage and things like shockwaves, etc. are often never around at all, etc. There are few and far between examples where their strength is depicted as displayed, but most of the time, it isn't. You can kind of see the reason - when stuff like MoS tries to depict what it would be like when two superpowered beings -really- struggle, lots of people complain and call it dark and prefer the "lighter" display of Marvel's films.
On the other side of the equation, a lot of Eastern manga is rooted in Eastern mythology, with a lot of that being based on ki and martial arts skill, and owing a lot to wuxia theater. Instead of "lifting" strength - it becomes more about striking through more and more durable things, or being able to affect more and more powerful opponents, or the collateral actions that what happen when you use your ki/attacks. Dragon Ball has more feats than normal due to a lot being based on Journey to the West, which has a bunch of ridiculous feats of it's own.
So, therefore, you run into a lot of conflicts there. One side has feats out of the wazoo in one area/focus, the other in the other, and it's basically two of the opposite sides of the coin meeting. People that are more used to thinking one way argue with people who think the other, and it often takes a while to come to an understanding, if ever.