| Love it of course. I love a good bit of action and if it has high stakes even better. I also have a preference toward male characters as I find a lot of anime female characters too wishy washy and you get a smaller number of them in shounen. Of course you still end up with your Orihime's but the action makes up for they're existence. But they can't just be action either. I like plot too. As in plot. Exception being DBZ which was mostly exposition between action. |
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| I don't mind it. If the animation is sick and the music hypes me up, then I'll enjoy it. A lot of the times though, we often see the same usual tropes in shows and with characters, so depending on how they use each trope, it can be really good and unique, or it can be bland and boring/uneventful. |
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| I love battle anime as long as they are nice and violent and aren't regurgitated pussy shit like Boku no Hero Academia or that pathetically soft and childish Mob Psycho. |
 ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
| Currently, not so much.. Multiple shows I started and initially liked or thought was decent and had potential turned for the worse and started to become horribly inconsistent and borderline terrible. Most of them had horrible endings and just left me really irritated and disappointed in such series as of late Examples include:- The Promised Neverland Demon Slayer Shokugeki no Soma Seven Deadly Sins (didn't really like it from the start, but I felt the story took a nosedive mid-series) |
MistaAshJul 24, 2020 11:03 AM
| I like a nicely choreographed and well animated fight as much as anyone so I usually enjoy the genre |
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| I'm willing to admit that I'm not that much into battle shounen anymore, a lot of them are dragged-out, some of the typical clichés (power of friendship, fake-out "death" scenes, etc) often annoy me nowadays, so I have a hard time watching the new ones that come out. That being said, I still love the ones I happened to enjoy, they're among my favorite anime/manga. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
| It may seem weird but I love battle shounen except the action part.It's disappointing for me if the selling point of the show is action.God of Highschool and Fire force are completely average shows which are highly rated because of their production values.The last battle shounen which impressed me was Black Clover which has decent world building.I wish we have more world building and character growth than walking tropes and action. |
| I hace grown to heavily dislike it over the years, I would dare say I hate it. There's exceptions, obviously but whenever I'm forced to watch shit like Naruto, DBZ or Black Clover I usually try my hardest at bailing half-way through or fall sleep. |
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Guilion said: I hace grown to heavily dislike it over the years, I would dare say I hate it. There's exceptions, obviously but whenever I'm forced to watch shit like Naruto, DBZ or Black Clover I usually try my hardest at bailing half-way through or fall sleep. You seem to like Trigun though. What makes it so different from Naruto? Is it because it's short? |
| ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
| i like it to some extent. I don't mind with a lot of cliche like the obvious righteous MC, spiky hair, creeplord rivals, similarities in arcs with other series (like tournament, exam, and other stuff). i found that cliche is the charm on shounen type genre, but in the end, it depends on how the character carries on the story and how the plot goes. i like how they goofing around and later going apeshit. and also the right amount of fanservice. i don't hate it, but sometimes some series just... going overboard and ruin the whole story |
| It absolutely has flaws but I love battle shonen to pieces. It's one of the easiest things to fall back on when I don't know what to watch. |
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| They are decent enough to mindlessly watch, even if they have a load of problems. That's what i like about them. Don't have to pay serious attenton. |
EndlessMaria said: You seem to like Trigun though. What makes it so different from Naruto? Is it because it's short? Trigun is seinen. I'm adding this second line because MAL's character limit won't let me just leave it at that. |
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Guilion said: EndlessMaria said: You seem to like Trigun though. What makes it so different from Naruto? Is it because it's short? Trigun is seinen. I'm adding this second line because MAL's character limit won't let me just leave it at that. Okay. It seems to suffer from many of the same childish tropes of shonen, which is why I'm asking. Not to be deflected by the demographic lmao. I legit wonder why you enjoy Trigun. |
| ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
| Hmm, they're okay I guess. I prefer SoL shows though |
| Okay, I guess. It's not really my type of show, but I enjoy some of them nonetheless. Battle shounen tend to be overrated on MAL. |
| I love them, I realize that they tend to be formulaic and have very little subtly but I don't really care. I can't explain it really, it just barely bothers me I like anime primarily by how much I'm invested in the characters and the shounen I enjoy the most are the ones that have the most heart put into their cast and character interactions like Gintama or Gurren Lagann. In my experience anime that are more, for lack of a better word, advanced tend to sacrifice that heart to say something profound, but to me, I'm not going to be interested in what a show is trying to say if I'm not invested in the characters and what's happening to them. |
| I love battle shounen, but 'action' as a vague genre can be very hit or miss. There are a bunch of ways of making me enjoy action - contextualization, certain tropes, great sakuga, stylish delivery, interesting strategies etc... but I don't enjoy action per-se. There's also different types of fights that vary a lot in terms of how enjoyable I find them to watch (swords, hand-to-hand, guns, mecha, magic etc...). That all makes it very hit or miss. The problem is that if action scenes don't hit at least one of the marks I mentioned above, they are usually very tedious and boring to watch, at least for me. Because in the end they're just very long-winded ways of resolving conflict, often with a lot of stalling, and if I'm neither emotionally involved nor aesthetically pleased I just want it to be over. Or to put it differently, I think by default talking is the more interesting way of conflict resolution because the options for how to go about it are so much more varied, while action scenes kinda have to work for it a bit harder to overcome the handicap of just being a much more streamlined way of interaction. That's just talking about fights tho. They are the vast majority of what 'action' means on MAL tho, so I think that's fair. There's other stuff like car chases, and that can be cool, but for the most part I think equating action with fights in this context makes sense. |
AlcoholicideJul 24, 2020 3:42 PM
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I enjoy them Not going to act against my real taste to be called edgy(more like demi-edgy) |
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EndlessMaria said: Guilion said: Trigun is seinen. I'm adding this second line because MAL's character limit won't let me just leave it at that. Okay. It seems to suffer from many of the same childish tropes of shonen, which is why I'm asking. Not to be deflected by the demographic lmao. I legit wonder why you enjoy Trigun. Well, I don't think it has got to do with length because I watched the entirety of D Gray Man and I even rated it high. I think in the case of Trigun it has got to do with the characters and the narrative structure. Trigun, along with other action series such as Black Cat are character-centric rather than ability or world centric. While arcs are often dictated by changes in the world or actions enacted by the main antagonist the narrative never leaves the protagonist's point of view and has the characters constantly change along with the world rather than react to it. On that note fights are often fast, never lasting more than a couple of chapters and serving only as a means towards an end rather than entertainment or as tests; with fights happening often at random and with little to no buildup for the protagonist to get ready for it and with really harsh consequences carried for losing them, not only at the expense of the main character but also at the expense of people around them. Finally there's the matter of the goal, in most series the goal changes with each arc depending on whatever situation the author decides would be interesting for the characters to find themselves in but in Trigun or Black Cat the ultimate goal always stays the same and the only real change that happens is what actions the character is willing to perform in order to reach that goal as per their growth and ultimately the goal is reached. I think this is the best explanation that I can give about why I like it without giving away spoilers. |
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| when I first started whatching anime , shonen was my fav genre but after some time my love for that genre got decreased , I still whatch some shonen from time to time , but not as much as I used to be |
| I love battle shounen most of my favorites tend to fall into this type of anime I have loved anime like this since I first got into anime and my taste has changed very little. |
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| I've never liked it. More relevantly the prevalence of it among the fanbase kept me away from anime for a very long time. When the majority of what you have ready access to is Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon it's pretty easy to dismiss the entire medium as not really being for you. It was too easy to regard the few other examples that cropped up as being exceptions rather than the rule. It wasn't until I started getting more into the community and discovering more seinen that it really opened up and I started exploring a lot of the things that I'd only been peripherally aware of. Even now the fans of One Piece, MHA, whatever the flavor of the moment is can have a pretty distancing effect on wanting to be involved with the mainstream anime community. Far too often we just aren't interested in the same things. |
| They're enjoyable as long you know they'll follow a formula, so I keep my expectations low and see where it takes me. |
| Imagine how boring this world would be without Japan - a comment at youtube |
| >the characters spend hours shouting their western-sounding spells and their moves |
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| I like action but battle shounen not so much. I find it harder to get invested with the story these days, if I don't care about the characters I couldn't care less what battles they must fight to defeat yet another evil boss or save the world, which you must get invested in as well, because everything must be so unique and interesting... Well, it depends of course. Sometimes it clicks and I indeed get invested but just battles and action itself aren't enough for me to get hooked. Especially if the MC's motivation is very primitive and it feels like I've seen this countless times before. |
| Well, I have a complicated love-hate relationship with battle shonen and action animes. The love side is the worlbuilding and the artstyle (sort of...). -How does the world work? -What's its secrets? -What's its story? -What makes it so special I want to live in it? -What and who live in it? -What's theirs cultures? -What's their beliefs? -How the characters deal with it (if they don't screw it up)? -Do they have powers or special abilities from the world? -What's the ecology? Etc... The hate side is....well....everything else. -The characters (especially protagonists) tend to be very annoying. -The messages of the story are often simple and preachy. -JUST STOP SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF!!! -The "Plot armor" or "Nakama power". -First battles are often based on skills, cunning, and being resourceful but end fights go to a "Dragon Ball"-ist orgy. -I tend to support more badguys than heroes because I find them cooler, more likeable or both. -Beauty is good and ugliness is bad. Bishonen-Lolis-Pop Idols heroes vs "not pretty or cute" badguys. -Civilisation vs savage and nature. -David(s) overcome(s) Goliath(s) by brute strenght. -Horrible epic musics. (You say Run, Liberae from hell) -Humanity is the best thing of the entire creation. Like, there is no other race in the entire universe and imagination who have values like honor, friendship, courage, determination and stuffs. They must accept humans as a magnificent race or they will fall in an "epic" (god, I hate this word) way because we, humans, cannot lose! -In fantasy worlds, civilisation direction is always the same European catholic style. With kingdom, churchs, knights, etc... What about the others ethnicities? -Diplomacy is for pussies! Everything is solved with a punch in the face, with the blessing of the world. -Military highschool where we put the protection of the world on the hands of teenages. -Pop idols, lolis, and all fanservice abuse. -etc... |
| Absolutely love them. It is my fave type of anime to watch. If it has supernatural/superpower elements then it is even better. |
| I think that answer is pretty obvious considering what I changed my name to....I fucking hate that trash. That's why I watch it constantly. I'm one of those weirdos who spends their time watching stuff I hate... |
FanofActionJul 24, 2020 5:54 PM
| Unlike most, I actually appreciate the genre more now than during my teenage years. I was always a fan of SoL, and battle-shonen is still not a genre I willingly seek for, but now I actually appreciate all the cliches. It's just a fun, mindless watch mostly, something I need in entertainment from time to time. |
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