Attack on Titan
| It doesn't matter in the slightest whether it's a shounen or it isn't. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| maybe it starts off as a shonen, but 4th season is wayy closer to a seinen imo |
| It is factually a shonen, but I would not think of recommending Attack on Titan when somebody ask for a shonen recommendation, because like you said, it doesn't feel like your typical shonen, just like how I wouldn't recommend K-On to somebody asking for seinen manga. In the end these labels don't really mean much even if we have our own interpretation of it, Attack on Titan is still a shonen and that is a fact. |
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| Tf you mean "consider". It's published in a shonen magazine. Hence, it will always be shonen. Nothing can change that fact. |
| Ever heard of Wanda? It's a 1970 B movie that won awards internationally. Claiming that aot isn't a shonen because it doesn't have "anime BS" is like claiming Wanda isn't a B movie because the critics liked it. Definitions exist for a reason and you can't just redefine them when you feel like it. |
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| It's shounen and it has always been one, because it was serialized in Bessatsu Shounen Magazine. Therefore, it's target demographics naturally is called as "shounen" (so it's dedicated mostly to teenage boys and having their taste in mind first). When it comes to form, it has always been a shounen as well. Opinions of clowns who used to be elitists yelling "muh seinen peak masterpiece", only to switch 180 degrees after one moment from the manga they didn't like and become haters of this series, shouldn't be and shouldn't have never been taken as something relevant, lol. If anything, then Attack on Titan leaned towards soft seinen at one point, with all its darker and more serious themes becoming more refined. But it was still a shounen by nature and it did not stop being that kind of a manga, even if it had elements that would surely please the older audience (i.e. the aforementioned seinen). With having this in mind, does it matter at the end of a day, really? It's not like a different label will make this show any different, same goes with the manga. It's useful to get the general glimpse of what kind of entertainment a series can offer, but in the end, we all have different tastes and should just watch anime and read manga we simply find as entertaining. :) |
Reckless_weeb said: Basically I personally don't consider it as a Shonen cause AOT doesn't follow the basic Shonen tropes. Also no anime bs, I'll stick a photo for reference. Most of the old shonen & even new gen shonens are full of anime BS. That's why I find AOT more mature & realistic. And One Punch Man that doesn't follow common seinen tropes is a seinen, so why can't Attack on Titan be shounen? The only thing that really matters is the magazine the manga, light novel etc was published. |
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| Objectively it's a Shounen, but subjectively it's a Seinen in terms of maturity level. It is asked what I consider and considerations are subjective, so I voted "No" |
ZarutakuFeb 17, 2024 11:21 AM
| its published in a shonen magazine so its shonen thats it shonen is not a genre but a magazine label |
| AOT is a shounen no matter what Your lie in April is a shounen K-On is a seinen |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| What's a "shounen trope"? How can a trope apply to anything aimed at a demographic? |
| It is a shounen, I can't see it as anything else |
perolero said: the big problem with the whole "is it shonen" debate is that shonen is just the name of the magazine It's not the name of the magazine, but its demographic. perolero said: by that logic aot wouldn't be a shonen, but a kodansha Kodansha is the name of the publisher company, that's all. |
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| AOT won't stop being shonen by how much the show conforms to Western stereotypes of shonen anime, or how hard elitists will try to rationalize why they like shonen anime even though they hate them. @Monkey_D_Uzumaki Useless. The bias towards shonen anime has gotten so big that people are willing to do the most crass magical thinking to not admit that they might like shonen titles. |
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| Why do people get so worked up or whether AOT is shounen or seinen? |
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| It does adhere to at least a few battle shounen tropes, and even if it didn't it'd still be shounen. It was published in a shounen magazine and primarily geared towards an audience of teenage boys. Shounen, much like shoujo, isn't a genre descriptor so much as it is a way to categorize anime and manga by intended demographics. It's why both Naruto and Slam Dunk are both shounen despite one being an action fantasy series about ninjas and the other being a basketball series. |
LoveLikeBloodFeb 16, 2024 2:24 PM
Take care of yourself |
| It literally is a shonen lol it was in kodansha shonen msg |
| The series is made in a fucking Shounen magazine...there's no if, ands or buts about it being a Shounen. Shounen is not a genre it's a damn demographic. |
Zetsu_95Feb 16, 2024 9:17 PM
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| It's simply a shonen and nothing more. It's ridiculous to deny it just because you consider it more "mature" and "realistic". I understand your skewed thought process of ascribing the "depth" that you perceive to the seinen side, but no, at the end of the day, it's an anime oriented to a teenage audience. It was published by a shonen magazine so its demographic is sentenced. Likewise it's quite prejudiced of you to give so much relevance to the demographic issue, it's simply a label. |
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