| Shonen is a vast genre. Perhaps the most diverse. But I haven't heard about a shonen with a female protagonist. Do you know any good shonen with a female protagonist? Most of the other genres have many great female lead anime. Why not in the shonen genre? |
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| teehehee i sure love shounen https://myanimelist.net/anime/10165/Nichijou https://myanimelist.net/anime/33731/Gabriel_DropOut |
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| Not all shounen but these all have a strong female lead and mostly is action based Claymore Moribito Black Lagoon Patlabor Kino's Jounrey Ghost in the Shell Dr Slump Witchblade Title spoils Sienen shows that have a shounen vibe Air master Canaan Black Lagoon |
UberBatJul 23, 2020 5:30 AM
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| If I remember currently The Ancient Magus Bride is classified as a shounen. And I'm pretty sure that Claymore is also a shounen. |
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| Lucky Star, Aiura, Aria, Double J, Happy Sugar Life, Hataraku Saibou (technically cells don't have genders, but the MC is designed to look female), Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, Houkago Saikoro Club, Inu x Boku SS, Keijo, Omishi Mahou Gekijou: Risky★Safety, Senryuu Shoujo, Shinryaku! Ika Musume, and Teekyuu are a couple I've seen. Shounen is a pretty diverse demographic. We might assume that paternal instinct doesn't kick in until adulthood and that as a result males wouldn't enjoy anime about cute girls before they turn 18, but there are a lot of anime aimed at teenage boys that have cute girls as the protagonists, but they're usually more heavily focused on the comedy than seinen anime of the same genre. |
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| Tbh I don't need female leeds in shounens. There are joseis and shoujos with pretty awesome female leads and I'll keep it that way.Shounen is DEMOGRAPHIC not a GENRE, so let's avoid that missconception shall we? |
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| Shounen manga/anime is aimed at a young teen male target-demographic. The age group varies with individual readers and different magazines, but it is primarily intended for boys between the ages of 12 and 18. So I see no reason to why should it have a female protagonist, when shounen literally means its for boys. There are plenty of Seinen with AMAZING female leads, Black Lagoon is one of them. If you do want something like Shounen but for females then there is already a thing for that, Shoujo. (Akatsuki no Yona IS NOT SHOUNEN, please check the tags correctly) I think there are some shounen with female leads, I don't know how focused they are but they are watchable. Binbougami Ga! Kara no Kyoukai (This one also has a male MC as well) Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster Claymore (One of the better ones, animation is sub-par but okay) These are the only ones I can think of, because most other's are either Seinen or not Shounen at all. People don't seem to bother looking at tags or something. |
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| No anime adaptation yet, but Act-age is in Shounen Jump, a shounen magazine, and has a female protagonist. Definitely worth a read. Also The Promised Neverland is shounen and has a female protagonist. Though she's just a kid and acts like you typical shounen boy anyway. Toilet bound Hanako-kun has a female co-protagonist and is listed as shounen. I can't think of any standard shounen (battles, power-ups, etc...) with a female lead though. |
UberBat said: Not all shounen but these all have a strong female lead and mostly is action based Claymore Moribito Black Lagoon Patlabor Kino's Jounrey Ghost in the Shell Dr Slump Witchblade Title spoils Sienen shows that have a shounen vibe Air master Canaan Black Lagoon None of what you said were shounen except for Claymore and Dr. Slump. Dororo doesn't count because the main protagonist is a male. Did you even check the tags? awabbtw said: Yona Of The Dawn didn't really enjoy it as much as other people did its an adventure Shounen and the mc is Yona .....!! Yona isn't Shounen, it's shoujo. zombie_pegasus said: Lucky Star, Aiura, Aria, Double J, Happy Sugar Life, Hataraku Saibou (technically cells don't have genders, but the MC is designed to look female), Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, Houkago Saikoro Club, Inu x Boku SS, Keijo, Omishi Mahou Gekijou: Risky★Safety, Senryuu Shoujo, Shinryaku! Ika Musume, and Teekyuu are a couple I've seen. Shounen is a pretty diverse demographic. We might assume that paternal instinct doesn't kick in until adulthood and that as a result males wouldn't enjoy anime about cute girls before they turn 18, but there are a lot of anime aimed at teenage boys that have cute girls as the protagonists, but they're usually more heavily focused on the comedy than seinen anime of the same genre. Lucky Star isn't shounen, Cells at work don't count because they have 2 main protagonists instead of one and one of them is a boy but you are right, cells have no gender, same thing with Inu x Boku SS. But props to you for actually listing a lot of shounen instead of some other people here who just lists Seinen and Shoujo and calls it shounen. |
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| Since no one mentioned a battle shounen with an FMC, I'll take the liberty of adding Tokyo ESP. It's good, okay? Don't mind the score. Even better if you read the manga too (to continue the story). |
awabbtw said: Arin-san said: I googled if it was shounen before I typed it , told me it was an adventure shounenNone of what you said were shounen except for Claymore and Dr. Slump. Dororo doesn't count because the main protagonist is a male. Did you even check the tags? Yona isn't Shounen, it's shoujo. Lucky Star isn't shounen, Cells at work don't count because they have 2 main protagonists instead of one and one of them is a boy but you are right, cells have no gender, same thing with Inu x Boku SS. But props to you for actually listing a lot of shounen instead of some other people here who just lists Seinen and Shoujo and calls it shounen. Which one? Lucky Star? Because on MAL it says that they aren't shounen |
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| Promised neverland, Kakegurui, Nichijou, Mahoutsukai no Yome and Claymore are all shounen with female protagonists, that are on the first page of popularity of the Shounen genre tag. This excludes show were the second main character is a female. It is really simple why shounen lacks female main characters, because it's a genre targeted at young boys, which usually has a main character that is meant to serve as something of a role model/self insert for those young boys, which is a lot easier when that character is also male. |
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Arin-san said: awabbtw said: I googled if it was shounen before I typed it , told me it was an adventure shounen Which one? Lucky Star? Because on MAL it says that they aren't shounen Lucky Star was published in Comptiq and Shounen Ace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Star_(manga) a manga being shounen has nothing to do with being a young male protagonist, because then The Promised Neverland stops being shounen, and KochiKame and City Hunter, which are about adults, also stops being shounen. Cells at Work is also a Shounen. Not sure where you are getting this evidence from but something being shounen has nothing to do with themes, settings and concepts, but rather what magazine it is published in. Ishuzoku Reviewers is also a shounen. That is mostly a western belief. It doesn't matter if it doesn't jive with you, if it's published in shounen magazine it is indeed a shounen. Keep in mind that Go Nagai published a very controversial manga in around the late 1960s-1970s known as Harenchi Gakuen in Shounen Jump, and caused a sort of uproar because of its shounen demographic, despite it being borderline hentai (er, well, I guess it can literally be considered hentai). @Senhoegahara Act-Chad spotted. |
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ChartTopper60 said: Lucky Star was published in Comptiq and Shounen Ace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Star_(manga) a manga being shounen has nothing to do with being a young male protagonist, because then The Promised Neverland stops being shounen, and KochiKame and City Hunter, which are about adults, also stops being shounen. Cells at Work is also a Shounen. Not sure where you are getting this evidence from but something being shounen has nothing to do with themes, settings and concepts, but rather what magazine it is published in. @Senhoegahara Act-Chad spotted. "a manga being shounen has nothing to do with being a young male protagonist" Oh is that so? Because Google and literally every other source keeps telling me that Shounen is a genre of Japanese comics and animated films aimed primarily at a young male audience, typically characterized by action-filled plots. I didn't know that it didn't have anything to do with young male protagonists, interesting. If you check on MAL then you won't find Lucky Star as a shounen, the only reason TPN is considered shounen by the industry because it has a lot of action. If it would have put more focus on it's themes or mindgames, TPN would be a seinen. In some cases, some very rare cases, the protagonist doesn't matter. Especially if it's ecchi, the protagonist won't matter. The OP wanted a shounen that has a female lead and I've only given the names of those I know, I only tried correcting others that were wrong. Lucky Star isn't a shounen if you check on MAL. The wikipedia is incomplete and never did I once see that it was published in Shounen Ace, it was only published Comptiq, check MAL please. Cells at work is shounen, never did I once say it wasn't a shounen. But the OP wanted a shounen with a female lead, and Cells at work didn't technically have a female lead. |
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Arin-san said: ChartTopper60 said: Lucky Star was published in Comptiq and Shounen Ace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Star_(manga) a manga being shounen has nothing to do with being a young male protagonist, because then The Promised Neverland stops being shounen, and KochiKame and City Hunter, which are about adults, also stops being shounen. Cells at Work is also a Shounen. Not sure where you are getting this evidence from but something being shounen has nothing to do with themes, settings and concepts, but rather what magazine it is published in. @Senhoegahara Act-Chad spotted. "a manga being shounen has nothing to do with being a young male protagonist" Oh is that so? Because Google and literally every other source keeps telling me that Shounen is a genre of Japanese comics and animated films aimed primarily at a young male audience, typically characterized by action-filled plots. I didn't know that it didn't have anything to do with young male protagonists, interesting. If you check on MAL then you won't find Lucky Star as a shounen, the only reason TPN is considered shounen by the industry because it has a lot of action. If it would have put more focus on it's themes or mindgames, TPN would be a seinen. In some cases, some very rare cases, the protagonist doesn't matter. Especially if it's ecchi, the protagonist won't matter. The OP wanted a shounen that has a female lead and I've only given the names of those I know, I only tried correcting others that were wrong. Lucky Star isn't a shounen if you check on MAL. The wikipedia is incomplete and never did I once see that it was published in Shounen Ace, it was only published Comptiq, check MAL please. yeah. Lucky Star main manga was only published in Comptiq which is both shounen and seinen. Please see my edit about Harenchi Gakuen being in Weekly Shounen Jump, and Ishuzoku Reviewers and High School DxD being published in Dragon Comics Age. My point is that its western usage excludes so many other series that would fall under shounen. Action is the dominant genre in shounen, but not the only. Because then we exclude everything that isn't. Psychological does not make it a seinen. Ecchi does not make it a seinen. Action does not make it a shounen. These are dominant genres that should not be conflated with the demographic, or the only genres. typically does not mean always, and it also doesn't mean that it rules out anything else, because there are still many cases where shounen are not action and/or adventure. Because then, Manga Time Kirara like GochiUsa stops being seinen, despite its entire existence being based on seinen. also I see if you think that using shounen to describe action-adventure series is fair game, but in my personal view it's still pretty exclusionary, and no more fair game than to say that shounen is used to describe a series within said demographic. |
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| Medaka Box, Ikkitousen, Saint Seiya Sho, That's all I can think of right now. |
Anastacius said: Black Lagoon, Yona of the dawn, Tokyo ESP and many more. It shouldn't be too hard to search it up on google to find a list of shounen with female protagonists. BL is a seinen and Yona is a shoujo bruv |
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ChartTopper60 said: Arin-san said: "a manga being shounen has nothing to do with being a young male protagonist" Oh is that so? Because Google and literally every other source keeps telling me that Shounen is a genre of Japanese comics and animated films aimed primarily at a young male audience, typically characterized by action-filled plots. I didn't know that it didn't have anything to do with young male protagonists, interesting. If you check on MAL then you won't find Lucky Star as a shounen, the only reason TPN is considered shounen by the industry because it has a lot of action. If it would have put more focus on it's themes or mindgames, TPN would be a seinen. In some cases, some very rare cases, the protagonist doesn't matter. Especially if it's ecchi, the protagonist won't matter. The OP wanted a shounen that has a female lead and I've only given the names of those I know, I only tried correcting others that were wrong. Lucky Star isn't a shounen if you check on MAL. The wikipedia is incomplete and never did I once see that it was published in Shounen Ace, it was only published Comptiq, check MAL please. yeah. Lucky Star main manga was only published in Comptiq which is both shounen and seinen. Please see my edit about Harenchi Gakuen being in Weekly Shounen Jump, and Ishuzoku Reviewers and High School DxD being published in Dragon Comics Age. My point is that its western usage excludes so many other series that would fall under shounen. Action is the dominant genre in shounen, but not the only. Because then we exclude everything that isn't. Psychological does not make it a seinen. Ecchi does not make it a seinen. Action does not make it a shounen. These are dominant genres that should not be conflated with the demographic, or the only genres. typically does not mean always, and it also doesn't mean that it rules out anything else, because there are still many cases where shounen are not action and/or adventure. Because then, Manga Time Kirara like GochiUsa stops being seinen, despite its entire existence being based on seinen. also I see if you think that using shounen to describe action-adventure series is fair game, but in my personal view it's still pretty exclusionary, and no more fair game than to say that shounen is used to describe a series within said demographic. This is giving me whiplash over that shounen demographic/genre post from the other day lol |
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| Does Kill la Kill count as shounen? If yes than that. |
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| @Jus1294 definitely lol I decided after that post I'm just not gonna continue though @Adimus_prime Good choice. I'd encourage the OP to watch this. |
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| There are shounen with female protagonist. Claymore, Promised Neverland and Soul Eater are the famous examples. Oh yeah, shounen is not really a genre. It's a demographic target, simply the matter which magazine the manga was published on. |
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| Claymore is probably the best one you can find. Jojo part 6 is also a good one although it still doesn't have an anime adaptation. Medaka Box is also a shounen if I'm not mistaken. |
Shoko664 said: If I remember currently The Ancient Magus Bride is classified as a shounen. And I'm pretty sure that Claymore is also a shounen. That is illegal, i repeat, illegal. what part of it is shounen?? And my little witch academia (it's not a shounen but very similar) is a good show if u want any kind of like action with female protags |
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| Spy x Family the real protag is basically Anya more so than Twilight I would argue since she tends to impact the plot a lot due to her ability to read minds. |
| Chaika and Slayers, even though its not tagged as Shounen in MAL it definitely has a huge shounen element in it IMO |
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NitrogenAA said: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun) I think is a shounen. It has mostly a cast of girls but I don't think it's classified as shoujo. The story takes place in a futuristic city called Academy City where people study to become espers. Only shows based on shounen manga are shounen... edit: The manga could be shounen actually. The tags for Dengeki Daioh manga are all over the place... Svalr said: Wouldn't Kill La Kill count as a Shounen if the lead was male? It's an original anime. Only shows based on shounen manga are shounen... |
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| keijo is a thing, claymore too. these 2 are great |
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