SHOUNEN goes SHOUJO?
By genius_zelda
@genius_zelda (130)
Indonesia
September 15, 2009 11:00am CST
Don't you think shounen anime or mangas storyline nowadays already move toward the shoujo storyline? I remember how fujisawa art and story in GTO:Onizuka really represent the shounen style, so masculine and manly story and a lot of the shounen story that i loved so much.
But now when i read the shounen magz i found a lot of manga and anime review that have a shoujo-like storyline and even the art. Most of shounen story nowadays consist of unrequisited love of a girl and a boy just because there are too many obstacles between their love story. Oh gosh.. where is the blood? where is the fight? i really hate it when the shounen lose it real style.
So how about you guys? did you think the way i am thinking?
1 response
@saizo6 (2199)
• United States
15 Sep 09
If you are looking for something like that you're better off reading manga that fall under the "seinen" genre. Those are generally targeted towards the more mature audience. Manga like Gantz, Beserk, and Vagabond would fall under this category. There's plenty of blood and fighting to go around. But back to the topic, I've actually never really paid much attention. I guess I'm so used to the many different genres blending with each other that I never noticed. The thing I notice about all the shounen manga is that they are mostly all the same. There's the main guy, the girl that tags along and needs rescuing every other time, his litte posse, various fights with a stronger fighter appearing each time and so forth. After reading plenty of manga like this over a period of time my brain has become numb.
@genius_zelda (130)
• Indonesia
16 Sep 09
well i do know what seinen is :) but seinen is much more specific shounen and what i am talking about is shounen generally that start to looks like shoujo
