You know why most Shonen Anime have the escalation problem? Because most of them don’t establish a power ceiling. Now unlike most cartoons in America and Europe, Japanese cartoons don’t have many ads to push, meaning that instead of only lasting for 11-15 minutes, they can go for a whole 22-30 minutes. Because of the lesser ads the shows mostly rely on stuff like toys, video games, manga, movies etc etc. Now to get people to buy your stuff, you gotta get them hooked, and you gotta make em’ stay hooked and because of this, Shonen Anime escalate, they escalate sooo much that nothing matters anymore. Imagine if an RPG game didn’t have a level cap, as you can tell it’d be pure chaos because those lower than the level 10203249402903092 gods are now useless. That’s why power levels in shonen anime are soo inconsistent, because they keep going higher, and higher, and higher, and they just don’t know when to stop!