1. Naruto for best fights because watching one DBZ fight feels like you seen them all. One Piece fights don't really interest me especially if they don't have an interesting devil fruit or power. Plus the animation on Naruto fights are beautiful.

2. Best story is mixed for me. Naruto story had me excited until the Summit arc ended and then it became foolishness. DBZ story was never interesting to me but the Android/Cell Games had me on my toes especially since the focus wasn't on Goku. As for One Piece, I pick and choose which arcs I liked. Plus I don't like One Piece after the timeskip as much.

3. Naruto and One Piece characters are for me. Even though Naruto characters start becoming non existent during Shippuden. One Piece characters have good designs and personality oozes them.

I'm going with Naruto.

Haha I agree with most of this. Honestly it's better to read Naruto than watch it. Reading it makes the flashbacks faster and the content feels more detailed. The anime only services good fights and adds more to the fights and content here and there.

Fighting - Probably Naruto, DBZ fights are cool but they pretty much the same pattern.

Story - One Piece is a masterpiece. To me it never feels like it drags on and there is always depth and everything just seems to tie in well. The only negative is it feels like they changed the art style somewhere along the line. I feel like the original was better, guessing to make them feel more mature after the time skip as they have gotten older. Naruto Story was good but they just packed it with too many filler episodes which ruined the watching experience.

1. Which of these three anime do you think has the best fights?
Dragonball Z

2. Best story?
One Piece

3. Which characters are the best for you?
One Piece

1. Best Fights
Naruto had some amazing animation and well-done fights. On screen, Naruto fights are a treat to watch.

2. Best story
One Piece is a narrative masterpiece, the manga is just consistently fun to read throughout its 20 years + run and 900+ chapters and the latest arc is amazing. The setting makes for unique and diverse narratives that never makes the series feel old and drawn out. I guarantee that this manga will be classic decades from now. It's timeless, filled with adventure and has the best characters in any shounen.

Naruto was good at one point but the war arc was bullshit. It had a lot of uninteresting character and had very weak world building.

3. Best Characters
No shounen out there can even come close to having such character depth and diverse characters than One Piece. The reverie arc led to One Piece having its greatest volume sales in a long time because the arc put in all of the best characters in one room all contained in 10 chapters. This arc could never have been so successful if it weren't for Oda's meticulous world-building and characterization. I mean it outsold BnH aka the hottest shounen by 5x more times. That's crazy even after all these years, One Piece hasn't even suffered a decline.

Honestly, the Dragon Ball franchise is way too overrated. It was great for its time and is a huge landmark in manga/anime culture but I watched it a few months ago and I could not get over how basic it felt. Also Dragon Ball Super was cash grab garbage with incompetent storytelling, it had a really bad narrative and horrible characters. The Broly movie looks good, I feel like the DB franchise is finally veering away from DBShit to a really cool Disneyesque destiny and revenge type tale and I really like it. Feels very different from a lot of other anime properties.

I only know that DBZ is the worst of them because the power levels are so inconsistent.

Nope. I do too. In fact, I love Dragon Ball, because it has so much charm and humor. I don't even care for Z. But I guess that's because I am not the biggest fan of shonen anime/manga in general.

As to answer the OP:

1. One Punch Man

2. One Punch Man

3. One Punch Man

Hunter x Hunter (2011) is the best Shounen anime and it's not even a contest.

Basically what Poko said. One Piece is the most popular manga series in Japan for a good reason. The world building is unlike anything I’ve seen in any medium. The author sets up plot points well over 400 chapters ahead of time, which is basically 8 years of real world time. It really feels like he rewards fans for paying close attention to his story.

I liked Dragonball/Z as a kid, but I’ve lost my taste for it as I got older. Same with Naruto, only in that case the final few arcs completely ruined my impression of that series to the point where the whole package feels awful now.

But I don’t want to be a buzzkill so I’ll keep these opinions to myself. This is a happy post!

Of the three; Naruto is my overall favorite. I like the story and the action and concept of it all.

DBZ was fantastic growing up and it's still like one of the all time best for good reasons, but its a bit too simple concept.

Outside of the three, Bleach is one of my favorites. Everything was awesome except it went downhill fast after the Aizen arc. And the manga ended way too fast as well like Tite Kubo was rushed or he was just tired of it and just wanted it to end asap.