Shounen is a bad genr--

>Shounen is a bad genr--

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>shounen is a genre
>HxH is good
>crossboard memes are acceptable
Fuck off.

Shounen is not a genre

I always found it weird that HxH is classified as shounen

>Literally no ONE prominent female character
>80 epiosdes in
>"Gon you are my light", said by the other male

Fucking disgusting

Do you not know how demographics work or something?

What? How is it weird? Because of the violence? Fist of the North Star's target audience is 12 year olds

hunter exam has no real fights, yorkshin arc has almost no fights, greed island is a card game, chimera ants as a whole is a deconstruction of battle shounen, election has no fights really (just one murder from hisoka) and dc arc has only one fight so far between two antagonists that was mostly indirect.

>fights
Scratch that, not only do you not know how demographics work, you don't even know the first thing about shounen.

You know what I mean, the same category as Shit like DBZ and One Piece.

Shokugeki no Soma has no fights and is a Shonen.

Shonen simply means "manga intended for males aged 12-16"

...

Shonen means shut the fuck up and let people that actually know what they are talking about speak.

Because of the depictions of violence. Heart ripped out, arms exploded/burnt off etc.

God I hate you retards

Someone post Devilman.

Violence regulations in manga have changed since the 70s.

Someone post Akame ga Kill, then.

Nice meme

Even unrelated to the depictions of violence, I feel like the story doesn't feel very childish, other than the premise.
Like if it was released in a magazine that wasn't Jump, that put out seinen stories, I don't think anyone would find it very weird that it was there.

Togashi is an old school mangaka, with sensibilities towards violence that harkens back to when that kind of material was more acceptable. Plus he's a big fan of horror.

And HxH is a shonen primarily because it's published in a shonen magazine.

> if it was released in a magazine that wasn't Jump, that put out seinen stories, I don't think anyone would find it very weird that it was there
Sure, but you can say the same for tons of series. Would Kingdom feel weird in a shounen magazine? Would Yotsubato feel weird in a seinen magazine? Can you tell the difference between Itou Junji's seinen and josei series without checking? Demographic means pretty little, honestly.

>edgyness makes something "mature"

Quite the opposite, really.

it's shounen and if it went full seinen it would lose it's charm

>Edgyness
Do you consider movies edgy because they have a higher age rating because of what it depicts?