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Mar 26, 2021 9:15 PM

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Gintama, Jjk, Hxh, FMAB, Jojo (not sure if it counts but)



Mar 26, 2021 9:27 PM

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5) Hunter x Hunter 2011
4) Hunter x Hunter 1999
3) Dragon Ball Z
2) FMA Brotherhood
1) Dragon Ball (anime)
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Mar 26, 2021 9:38 PM
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lajz said:
animegirl2533 said:

because some people try to downplay aot as a "battle shounen" so they're embracing it



idk maybe because it IS a battle shonen. consisting of nonstop action as well as a shonen manga makes it a battle shonen.

being complex and having a great story doesn't eliminate it from being called battle shonen. don't be a normie and think being called battle shonen is an insult


A battle shounen is a shounen with a power system and a lot of fights.
There are cool fights and action scenes in AO AOT, but that's not it's selling point.
As long as AOT doesn't have a powers scaling system, and such magical battles or a way to rank power be it cooking, or science,
It's not a battle shounen,
This doesn't mean battle shounen is bad, there are good ones like FMAB or chimera arc in Hunter X Hunter, and canon Naruto,
But AOT is a shounen that should be classified with the likes of death note and code Geass for breaking the mould.
Mar 26, 2021 9:52 PM

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Karakuri circus
Hameln no Violin-hiki
Konjiki no gash
Kimetsu no yaiba
Magi

Sengoku youko and Doubutsu no kuni are also great.

Mar 26, 2021 9:54 PM
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JoJo
Full Metal Alchemist
Magi
Attack On Titan
Demon Slayer
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lajz said:
animegirl2533 said:

because some people try to downplay aot as a "battle shounen" so they're embracing it



idk maybe because it IS a battle shonen. consisting of nonstop action as well as a shonen manga makes it a battle shonen.

being complex and having a great story doesn't eliminate it from being called battle shonen. don't be a normie and think being called battle shonen is an insult
That isnt the point the point is even if it was a battle shounen it isnt a "battle shounen" compare its plot to any other "battle shounen" and its the most complex. I don't think it is one but to each their own


Mar 26, 2021 10:55 PM
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Demon Slayer
Black Clover
My Hero Academia
Attack On Titan
Mar 26, 2021 11:00 PM

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If AoT doesn’t count, then none.

Battle Shounens are trash.
Mar 26, 2021 11:09 PM
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My top 3 (I don't have a top 5 sorry)

1.Black Clover
2.Fire Force
3. Jujutsu Kaisen
Mar 26, 2021 11:14 PM
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1. Black Clover
2. Jujutsu Kaisen
3. FMAB
4. Demon Slayer
5. Fairy Tail
Mar 26, 2021 11:25 PM

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hm, this is a hard one for me to answer because i love ot watch battle shonen animes from Japan. hmm

Im really having trouble making up my mind if you make me had to pick the top 5 from the all the anime that are battle shonene but i cannot not pick the BIG tree. hmm alright lets run this down.
I hate bunter x hunter.
I love battle girl utina.
So that would have to be one of the one that i would have to pic for my top 5 not being from big three but honeslty i think that hunter thunter should be part of the big three now because bleach actually fucking sucks in my personally opinion if I were have to say that I would for myself.

So let me number this for you
1`Battle girl utina
2. future diare (mirar niklki)
2. or something similar to one punch man
Thank!
Mar 27, 2021 5:18 PM
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Honestly thought most of this list would be sports anime, but I think Hayate beats out KNB and Diamond no Ace.

1. Hikaru no Go
2. Kami Nomi
3. Promised Neverland
4. Baby Steps
5. Hayate no Gotoku
Mar 27, 2021 5:41 PM

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1. FMA(+B)
2*. Gintama (I actually like it more for its non battle scenes)
3. JoJo
4. Hajime no Ippo
5*. Death Note (battle of wits)

If * doesn't count which would also include Ashita no Joe then

6. Keijo!!!!!!!!
7. Hunter x Hunter (1999+2011)
Mar 31, 2021 2:05 AM

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1. Dragon Ball Z
2. Yu Yu Hakusho
3. Hunter X Hunter
4. Attack On Titan
5. Jujutsu Kaisen

Mar 31, 2021 7:02 AM

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1. FMAB
2. Hokuto no Ken
3. Jojo's
4. HxH
5. Rurouni Kenshin
Mar 31, 2021 7:06 AM
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1) Hunter x Hunter
2) Yu Yu Hakusho
3) Full Metal Alchemist
4) Jujutsu Kaisen
5) Rouroni Kenshin
Mar 31, 2021 7:12 AM

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In no particular order

Gintama
Black Clover
Mob Psycho 100
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

final spot is either Dr sTONE, Bungo Stray Dogs or Haikyuu, depending on which is considered a battle shounen.
Mar 31, 2021 7:16 AM

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1. Mob Psycho 100 (if this counts)
2. Chainsaw man
3. FMAB
4. Jujustu Kaisen
5. Jojo's Bizzare Adventure (Battle Tendency specifically)
Mar 31, 2021 7:16 AM

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1. Jujutsu Kaisen
2. Dragon Ball
3. Black Clover
4. HxH
5. JoJo (as a whole)

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1. Noragami
2. D.Gray-man
3. Inuyasha
4. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
5. Owari no Seraph

Honorable mentions: Pandora Hearts, Vanitas no Carte, Tegamibachi, Magi, Fullmetal Alchemist, The Promised Neverland, Pokemon Special Manga, World Trigger, Dororo, Shoukoku no Altair and Evangelion

I also enjoyed Ao no Exorcist, Shaman King and Arslan Senki, but I never could get into and couldn't like the "typical" battle shounen anime or manga.
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Without the big 3.

1. FMAB
2. AoT
3. JoJo
4. One Punch Man
5. HxH

With the big 3.
- Literarly the same, since only One Piece is good. But not finished yet.


And my Top 5 worst Shounen yet

1. Fairy Tail
2. Dragon Ball Heroes / Super
3. Rave Master
4. Hitman Reborn (Anime)
5. Soul Eater "Not"
Mar 31, 2021 12:48 PM
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1 fmab
2 hxh
3 gintama idk if that counts though
Mar 31, 2021 12:57 PM

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1. DBZ
2. Yu Yu Hakusho
3. Yu-Gi-Oh!
4. KnY
5. Inuyasha (would this be considered a battle Shonen?)


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1.Dragon ball
2.Fmab
3.Mob psycho 100
4.Neon genesis evangelion
5.Aot
In no order
Mar 31, 2021 1:05 PM
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1. Dragon Ball (1986)/Dragon Ball Z
2. Hajime no Ippo
3. Ashita no Joe
4. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
5. Black Clover

Wrong answers not welcome. xD

Haven't completed Yuu Yuu Hakushou. Might change this later on
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Mar 31, 2021 1:08 PM

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Catalano said:
1. Magi
2. Dragon Ball
3. Hokuto no Ken
4. YuYu Hakusho
5. Rurouni Kenshin

kinda like this, maybe D-Gray.man and Soul Eater would've deserved my top5 but I'll leave it like that

I think it's kinda irrelevant to mix gar shows with "kiddy" shounens. They are kinda different. I could agree to call Kenshin a shounen, but definitely not Hokuto no Ken.

Mar 31, 2021 1:19 PM

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Nemo_Niemand said:
Catalano said:
1. Magi
2. Dragon Ball
3. Hokuto no Ken
4. YuYu Hakusho
5. Rurouni Kenshin

kinda like this, maybe D-Gray.man and Soul Eater would've deserved my top5 but I'll leave it like that

I think it's kinda irrelevant to mix gar shows with "kiddy" shounens. They are kinda different. I could agree to call Kenshin a shounen, but definitely not Hokuto no Ken.

well, hokuto no ken was published in weekly shonen jump and i don't consider magi being childish, it has more blood and violence than lots of serious battle manga.
Mar 31, 2021 1:25 PM

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Catalano said:
Nemo_Niemand said:

I think it's kinda irrelevant to mix gar shows with "kiddy" shounens. They are kinda different. I could agree to call Kenshin a shounen, but definitely not Hokuto no Ken.

well, hokuto no ken was published in weekly shonen jump and i don't consider magi being childish, it has more blood and violence than lots of serious battle manga.

I mean, characters like Kenshiro or Kenshin are almost impossible to self-insert, unlike most of "classical" battle shounen protagonists. That's the difference between them.

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Catalano said:
Nemo_Niemand said:

I think it's kinda irrelevant to mix gar shows with "kiddy" shounens. They are kinda different. I could agree to call Kenshin a shounen, but definitely not Hokuto no Ken.

well, hokuto no ken was published in weekly shonen jump and i don't consider magi being childish, it has more blood and violence than lots of serious battle manga.


true, some people forget that shounen is not 100% interchangeable with "kiddy" as the person said. In fact, hokuto no ken has troublesome history because of its popularity with grade school boys of being published in WSJ.
This is why the thread is about battle shounen, which hokuto no ken is a battle shounen. I get the person's perspective though.
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1. TTGL
2. JoJo
3. HxH
4. AoT
5. HnI (This one counts right?)
Mar 31, 2021 1:31 PM

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Nemo_Niemand said:
Catalano said:

well, hokuto no ken was published in weekly shonen jump and i don't consider magi being childish, it has more blood and violence than lots of serious battle manga.

I mean, characters like Kenshiro or Kenshin are almost impossible to self-insert, unlike most of "classical" battle shounen protagonists. That's the difference between them.

aha, now I see what were you trying to say, and of course hokuto no ken has a somewhat different structure and themes than most "regular" battle shonen but in the end op was referring in general to battle shonen
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1. Dragon Ball
2. Hunter X Hunter
3. Katekyo Hitman Reborn
4. Black Clover
5. Jujutsu Kaisen
Mar 31, 2021 4:52 PM

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It's really surprise many people liking Yu Yu Hakusho :O

Well, If I don't count SnK like battle shounen, we have:

1- Dragon Ball
2- Yu Yu Hakusho
3- HxH
4- Jojo
5- Kimetsu no Yaiba/Boku no Hero

Mar 31, 2021 4:55 PM

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AddaeAkono said:
Excluding Bleach and Naruto it would be

1. Dragonball
2. Yu yu hakusho
3. HxH(2011)
4. KnY
5. JoJo



WTF, we have almost the same list lol

Apr 1, 2021 6:22 PM

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Nemo_Niemand said:
Catalano said:

well, hokuto no ken was published in weekly shonen jump and i don't consider magi being childish, it has more blood and violence than lots of serious battle manga.

I mean, characters like Kenshiro or Kenshin are almost impossible to self-insert, unlike most of "classical" battle shounen protagonists. That's the difference between them.


"Characters like Kenshiro or Kenshin are almost impossible to self-insert blah blah blah"

dude, not our fault you don´t train your body or have a solid jawline and hunter eyes.

Also, "battle shonen" is a formula. It doesn´t have anything to with self inserting or character designs.
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IgorPsc91 said:
AddaeAkono said:
Excluding Bleach and Naruto it would be

1. Dragonball
2. Yu yu hakusho
3. HxH(2011)
4. KnY
5. JoJo



WTF, we have almost the same list lol


You and I have similar taste in anime.
Apr 1, 2021 8:14 PM
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Dunno, Gintama and Soul Eater are the only good ones I can think of, at least that I have watched
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1. HxH 2011
2. FMAB
3. YYH
4. Katekyo Hitman Reborn
5. The Law of Ueki
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1. Jojo
2. FMA series
3. Hunter X Hunter
4. Yu-Gi-Oh! series
5. Rurouni Kenshin

This is my top 5 (top 6 actually) excluding One Piece, which is the only one of the Big 3 I like.
The rest of my top 10

7. MHA
8. Dr Stone
9. Yu Yu Hakusho
10. Haven't decided yet between Magi and Death Note

I also kinda like Food Wars! and Demon Slayer as entertaining watches, but neither is particularly great or interesting in the long run. I really want to read Ashita no Joe, Haikyuu and Slam Dunk as well. Regarding everything else, it falls in these categories for me:

-Average (e.g. Naruto)
-Mediocre (Most shounen)
-Bad/crap but entertaining for the lulz (e.g. Bleach and Fairy Tail)
-Bad and boring (e.g. Katekyo Hitman Reborn and Ao no Exorcist)
-Not necessarily bad, but disappointing (e.g. Hokuto no Ken and Gintama)
Sep 3, 2021 2:34 AM

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D.Gray-Man
Tsubasa Cronicle
Hunter x Hunter 2011
Gegege no Kitarou

Spot number 5 is currently open I guess.
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My top 5 shounen:

1:Hunter x Hunter

2:Gintama

3:fmab

4:aot

5:jojo bizarre adventure
Sep 3, 2021 7:39 AM

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1. AoT [If its counted as one]
2. Gintama
3. FMAB
4. HxH
5. One Piece

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No particular order

1. Zatch Bell
2. Inuyasha
3. Rurouni Kenshin
4. Silver Fang
5. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
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1.Bnha
2.Fmab
3.Demon Slayer
4.Attack on Titan
5.HXH
Sep 3, 2021 9:20 AM

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1.Hunter X Hunter
2.Fmab
3.AOT
4.JoJo
5.MHA
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1. FMAB
2. AoT
3. DBZ
4. Demon Slayer
5. JJK
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1. Hunter x Hunter
2. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
3. Fullmetal Alchemist (+Brotherhood)
4. Jujutsu Kaisen
5. Attack on Titan (if that counts) or maybe Yu Yu Hakusho




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  2. HxH
  3. DBZ
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  5. FMAB
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1)dragon ball z
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Hunter X Hunter
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