| The term "shounen" refers just to the magazine demographic, what many people here are saying is "shounen" is the genre "battle shounen". These overlap, since battle shounen is the most common type of manga for these magazines but they are very different things. Seinen is also a demographic, which includes stuff like K-ON, and not just stuff like Vagabond or Berserk. |
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Reply to chukesh007
wtf it's fantasy drama Anime .
Shounen Anime means getting powerup getting better and beating Antagonists one after another powerful with a motive .
it can be considered in advanture
Shounen Anime means getting powerup getting better and beating Antagonists one after another powerful with a motive .
it can be considered in advanture
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Reply to Anifan01
Shounen is a Japanese term. It means boy. YLIA is not a shounen. It’s a slice of life or romance. I’m not talking about technicality here. Cause you are right since it was released in shounen magazine it’s technically right to call it a shounen but anyone who has seen YLIA will not think of Shounen when you ask them what genre it is. The whole point of genre is to give you an idea of what the story is about and saying YLIA is Shounen doesn’t give you that idea because YLIA is a Romance, a tragedy a slice of life, music related anime and even comedy to some extent. Same for Frieren. If you ask someone what genre Frieren is ain’t nobody gonna say it’s Shounen. Frieren is fantasy, slice of life hell it’s not even action even though it has action in it because the action is not the main focus of the story.
@Anifan01 Whatever dude. If it's serialized in shonen magazine then it's shonen. |
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Reply to Anifan01
Shounen is a Japanese term. It means boy. YLIA is not a shounen. It’s a slice of life or romance. I’m not talking about technicality here. Cause you are right since it was released in shounen magazine it’s technically right to call it a shounen but anyone who has seen YLIA will not think of Shounen when you ask them what genre it is. The whole point of genre is to give you an idea of what the story is about and saying YLIA is Shounen doesn’t give you that idea because YLIA is a Romance, a tragedy a slice of life, music related anime and even comedy to some extent. Same for Frieren. If you ask someone what genre Frieren is ain’t nobody gonna say it’s Shounen. Frieren is fantasy, slice of life hell it’s not even action even though it has action in it because the action is not the main focus of the story.
| @Anifan01 And who decides what's written for boys and what's written for girls? Classifying action for boys and romance for girls is an arbitrary stereotype. The only way to objectively separate shounen from shoujo is from the publishing company alone. |
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| It reminds me a lot of the plot of To Your Eternity but less sad. |
| Sousou no Frieren is truly one of the anime ever made. |
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| Does this count as shounen? idk I think the thematic goes for all ages and all demographic. |
Reply to Revvie-chan
Does this count as shounen? idk
I think the thematic goes for all ages and all demographic.
I think the thematic goes for all ages and all demographic.
| @Revvie-chan It does because manga is published in Weekly Shounen Sunday, but people really need to understand that it's not a genre and does't specify anything about the plot. |
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Reply to bastek66
@Revvie-chan It does because manga is published in Weekly Shounen Sunday, but people really need to understand that it's not a genre and does't specify anything about the plot.
| @bastek66 ah right. true. |
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