I tried watching a bit of modern shounen (MHA, Demon Slayer, Promised Neverland) and they are alright/mediocre I guess but not really amazing. I tried going back to read classic/watch classics and it didn't really work. Yu Yu Hakusho is great but too basic, 15 chapters of Kenshin and it is interesting but mostly episodic stories. Fist of the North Star was only one I recently enjoyed. Am I getting old or could it be that my taste matured after reading seinen like Berserk, Punpun, Parasyte and Akira?
When do you become too old for shounen?
Carter Ward
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Joshua Powell
When I was 15 I went through a pretentious faggot phase too OP, you grow out of it.
Luis Russell
>When do you become too old for shounen?
Depends. Some people go blind at 50. Others can see perfectly fine even at the age of 90.
Elijah Sullivan
>watching shounenshit ever
Jonathan Gonzalez
>being moefag
Jayden Fisher
Love every single of them except FMA that's faggotry shit you grow up at the age of 5.
Ethan Phillips
Fun Fact: 70% of WSJ readers are above 18.
Alexander Sullivan
Not sure how comparable those are. I am 30+ and I enjoyed the Neverland anime. Yet I certainly don't enjoy BnHA or Yaiba. I've also yet to watch Mob Psycho 2 because, despite having a keen interest in animation, I considered the first season to be so terrible I didn't really intend to touch the sequel. So the better question is: When do people grow out of battle-shounen.
>Am I getting old or could it be that my taste matured after reading seinen like Berserk, Punpun, Parasyte and Akira?
Kek. All of these a teen manga. No matter what the label states. I don't know a single well adjusted person above the age of 18 who has ever read Berserk. People read Berserk as 13 year olds. For the edge, mostly. Same with PunPun and Parasyte.
Parker Ramirez
I've started thinking a lot of shonen are secretly just made for adults who want to think they are getting in touch with their youth. A lot of themes in shonen are really only meaningful if you've already wasted your youth because if you are still young, you clearly don't care about those things (like friendship or treasuring your high school years) if you're reading manga.
Jason Johnson
While there is merit to what you say, fiction is also about teaching you things.
So the popular themes of children's stories are the lessons that we feel are important for children to learn, while we try to keep problematic themes away from them.