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Aug 26, 2:50 PM
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The first few episodes are shounen but the later episodes are so shoujo.
The protagonist is way too K-POP-looking that I lost interest cuz I always avoid series which the protagonist portrayed like a k-pop star and this also why I don't watch k-dramas.


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Aug 26, 3:05 PM
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Nah it's josei...
Aug 26, 3:13 PM
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too kpop looking? it's literally a manhwa
Aug 26, 3:13 PM
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Usually you can tell the target audience by character design. This is why I consider jjk and oshi no ko a shoujo. Bishounen gives it away.
Aug 26, 3:18 PM
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You meant to say Kodomo, yes that's the target audience *kappa*
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Aug 26, 3:21 PM
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As a representative of the Shoujo demographic, we humbly decline your offer 🫸

It’s just the Korean beauty standards being reflected in the artwork, which most fanboys really love (just watch a Twice fan chant video lol: https://youtu.be/DC8H-rp-k9A?si=5hpjdQ93_NVP3MUY).

All central themes are more relatable to a typical shounen fan, nothing about it screams shoujo.
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Aug 26, 3:38 PM
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I love it was so good
Aug 26, 4:32 PM
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Ofcourse it’s k-pop looking, the original manhwa was made by Koreans. I’m confused here, the anime will obviously reflect the origin. Simply just don’t watch lmao and stop complaining.
Aug 26, 4:37 PM
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Korean manhwa doesn't have the shounen, shoujo, seinen, josei, and kodomo demographics to them.

The only thing I was able to find about Solo Leveling target audience is that it's aimed at 10+

And that's just my opinion, but I think it's kind of retard to give assign Japanese anime & manga demographics to non-Japanese fiction. In general, the whole demographic thing is also retard. If you watched enough from any demographic you won't see anything that unites them.
Aug 26, 4:42 PM
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There literally Korean and takes place in South Korea. It’s like hating an anime for revolving around Japanese people /culture
Aug 26, 5:20 PM

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K-pop looking because he's korean...
Aug 26, 5:38 PM

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what are you smoking lil bro 💀
Aug 26, 10:18 PM
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"my dad offer me bear today. im 16." vibes
Aug 27, 12:21 AM
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rohan121 said:
Usually you can tell the target audience by character design. This is why I consider jjk and oshi no ko a shoujo. Bishounen gives it away.

bishounen tenteidan?
Aug 27, 12:32 AM

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rohan121 said:
Usually you can tell the target audience by character design. This is why I consider jjk and oshi no ko a shoujo. Bishounen gives it away.

Bro think only JJK that Bishounen characters in WSJ manga
Aug 27, 12:35 AM

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It's 2024. And you care about target demographic in Anime adaptation of Mahwa?
Aug 27, 12:48 AM

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I don't think you know the meaning of the terms you're using...
Aug 27, 12:53 AM

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does korean comics use the japanese demographic terms like shonen and shojo?
Aug 27, 1:04 AM
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I would make a new demographic for this serie, “trash that’s borderline unwatchable”
Aug 27, 1:07 AM

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Solo Leveling is not a Shoujo wtf hahahaha
Aug 27, 2:21 AM
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It's a Korean webtoon so ofc it'll look k-pop like. And Solo Leveling isn't shoujo. it's shōnen. But it goes beyond that as there are fans from across all demographics.
Aug 27, 5:09 AM
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TheRealRouges said:
I would make a new demographic for this serie, “trash that’s borderline unwatchable”

Hahaha so if Solo Leveling was trash for you why give it a somewhat of a 'good' rating of 6.
Aug 27, 5:21 AM
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Bro…💀💀💀
Aug 27, 5:25 AM
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Solo Leveling isn't even a shonen anime. I don't get why anime fans think action anime = shone anime. Sung Jin Woo is a grown man.
Aug 27, 6:47 AM
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Ripperdoc said:
TheRealRouges said:
I would make a new demographic for this serie, “trash that’s borderline unwatchable”

Hahaha so if Solo Leveling was trash for you why give it a somewhat of a 'good' rating of 6.

Animations and musical score carry hard, the work the animation team did is somewhat outstanding
Aug 27, 6:49 AM
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TheRealRouges said:
Ripperdoc said:

Hahaha so if Solo Leveling was trash for you why give it a somewhat of a 'good' rating of 6.

Animations and musical score carry hard, the work the animation team did is somewhat outstanding

I agree the animations and music were top notch. Story sucks (so far).
Aug 27, 8:31 AM
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Ripperdoc said:
TheRealRouges said:
I would make a new demographic for this serie, “trash that’s borderline unwatchable”

Hahaha so if Solo Leveling was trash for you why give it a somewhat of a 'good' rating of 6.

6 is literally named fine
Aug 27, 8:40 AM
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“kpop looking”? “shoujo?” 😭
Aug 27, 8:45 AM
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michal_b said:
Ripperdoc said:

Hahaha so if Solo Leveling was trash for you why give it a somewhat of a 'good' rating of 6.

6 is literally named fine

I know 6 is fine thats why I asked him why give it a fine when he called it trash. And I got my answer.
Aug 27, 11:48 AM
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man all the hate. I judge on if I would like another season and would I watch it again. With this one I was left dying for more episodes. There is a lot of story left for telling in this one.
Aug 27, 12:01 PM

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I think by ‘Shojo’ he meant the anime became more feminine, because the mc suddenly turn into an attractive guy like in k drama which are generally liked by female audience
Aug 27, 12:12 PM
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well it's not shoujo and if it is shoujo then what's the freaking problem?
Aug 27, 2:30 PM
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rohan121 said:
Usually you can tell the target audience by character design. This is why I consider jjk and oshi no ko a shoujo. Bishounen gives it away.

you literally cannot judge an anime's genre from its art style, it doesn't make sense, jjk and onk character designs look nothing alike, jjk has more in common with code geass' artstyle but that doesn't make it shoujo now does it; something is only shounen shoujo josei or seinen when it's marketed towards that audience, nothing else is a deciding factor
Aug 27, 9:09 PM

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No... like not even close. It's not even published in Shoujo magazine and doesn't remotely fit the definition. Like it's not even Shonen really, it's just power fantasy webtoon with demographic targets probably being young teens. It doesn't really fit both common definitions of it.
Aug 27, 9:44 PM

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Cielord said:
Korean manhwa doesn't have the shounen, shoujo, seinen, josei, and kodomo demographics to them.
deg said:
does korean comics use the japanese demographic terms like shonen and shojo?


Every editorial work (and more than that, works of the entertainment industry,) has demographics aiming at kids/young man/young woman/man/woman (and sometimes even more procisely), which they are specially targetting. They obviously won't use "Shounen" and the likes, as more than demographic, they are literal Japanese words, used in everyday sentence.

Demographics targets are only very rarely publicly revealed, tho.

Artemis_Furrson said:
I don't get why anime fans think action anime = shone anime.


More than the Action itself, it's what it means and what it's used for in the story that count. In Solo Leveling's cases, it's mindless (and not so violent, both physically and psychologically), and used for a power-fantay story, which is typically categorized as works targetting young boys (Shounen).

Artemis_Furrson said:
Sung Jin Woo is a grown man.


So ?

He's a grown man due to his age, but he's still doubtfull of himself, and search a place for him in his world (even if it's very quickly forgotten, to make place for the power-fantasy). That's very typically a theme of Shounen stories.

And the age of the protagonist doesn't matter. Generally, he's the same age of the readers so that they can immerse themselves in the story more, but that's all. What the story is about, and thus, will categorize it as X or Y demographic will be the themes. There is quite a few (certified) Shounen which have adult protagonist (30 years old, more or less), like GTO and Rurouni Kenshin, or the more recent Kaijuu n°8.
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Aug 27, 11:25 PM
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rohan121 said:
Usually you can tell the target audience by character design. This is why I consider jjk and oshi no ko a shoujo. Bishounen gives it away.

what crack are you smoking to make you think jjk is Shoujo? xD
Aug 28, 3:37 AM
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Kids and their labels.
Aug 28, 5:29 AM
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Idk what you expected considering the original manhwa is, well, Korean lol

Also nah, this is very much a shonen. Just without the self insert you'd see in most isekais
Aug 28, 5:20 PM
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Im lost here buddy 😵‍💫 where do you see a dance scene of the mc happen? i want to see it 🤣 cuz that is comedy gold.
Aug 28, 5:20 PM
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rohan121 said:
Usually you can tell the target audience by character design. This is why I consider jjk and oshi no ko a shoujo. Bishounen gives it away.

What kind of brain matter are you using to think? 😵‍💫
Aug 29, 11:19 PM

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nah it's manwha, that's the problem.
Sep 4, 3:42 AM
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Luuji222 said:
The first few episodes are shounen but the later episodes are so shoujo.
The protagonist is way too K-POP-looking that I lost interest cuz I always avoid series which the protagonist portrayed like a k-pop star and this also why I don't watch k-dramas.

Shoujo is targeted towards young girls. Usually stuff like romance.
This wasn't a manga but a manwha originally, so korean beauty standards will be reflected in the main guy.
Its not a shoujo just because the guy looks good. Would the guy have to be "non kpop" looking to be a shounen?
In that case nearly every action manwha out there would be a shouko

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