When do you become too old for shounen?

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?

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When I was 15 I went through a pretentious faggot phase too OP, you grow out of it.

>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.

>watching shounenshit ever

>being moefag

Love every single of them except FMA that's faggotry shit you grow up at the age of 5.

Fun Fact: 70% of WSJ readers are above 18.

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.

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.

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.

>if you are young you don't care about friendship

I'm sorry for you user.

>this post
Why you gotta hurt me, Yea Forumsnon

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>Berserk, Punpun, Parasyte and Akira
Kek, those are manga teenagers read user. While they're of higher quality than the average shounen, reading them doesn't make you any more mature than the average shounen reader.

I'm 26 and I don't enjoy DBS, Boruto, One Piece, Boku No Hero Academia, Ranma 1/2, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and Beyblade anymore, even though I used to enjoy several of these or their prequels (DBZ, Naruto,....)

But I do enjoy Hunter x Hunter, and Detective Conan is fine, though HxH is technically seinen so maybe that's why i like it.

It's like Forever 21 (the clothing store) where you realize you would only care about being "forever 21" if you are already over the age of 21

Source?

Is Parasite not shonen?

>though HxH is technically seinen
Ah, there it is.

>shounen
>teenagers
>different

Do you have are stupid?

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>though HxH is technically seinen

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>I don't enjoy fun but I like my bland text on white pages: the manga

lmao

Lashing out at things you don't understand is a sign of low IQ, user. The complexity of the current arc in HxH will never be beaten by any other manga simply because it's too deeply structured. That's one of the main reasons it can be considered soft seinen along with the masterful thematic exploration of human nature and subversive character development that doesn't shy away from grey morals. The monster and human reversal of Gon and Meruem was mindblowing.

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Lemme clue you in on a secret: none of these manga are made by kids. Dunno how you didn't figure this out yourself, but there you go, the secret to the nature of the content.

Despite what 99% of spics seem to believe, battle shonen isn't representative of all shonen.

I wasn't lashing out at HxH though. I'm just amused that you don't know what seinen and shonen mean.

Kinda yeah.
That was my case for 1 year, I couldn't enjoy any shounen Manga or anime (yes including hxh) but after watching alot of seinen and moe shit I finally felt like watching some shounen anime.
right now I'm 67 episodes into Naruto and I'm really enjoying it.

You're the one that doesn't understand things if you think HxH is seinen

It's really not complex if you have an IQ higher than 75.
I like HxH but I've always felt it was straight forward, nothing felt ambiguous or "complex".
It's ofcours more mature than dbz and bnha, but it's not complex, actually the text walls make everything clearer and easier to understand than it should be. Maybe due to the fact that togashi want his readers to understand every small detail since you know they are mostly teenagers.

When I was 16 I realized shounen manga are generic and shallow. Then I only watched "deep and mature" anime for years. After that I realized the "deepness" of a story isn't the only aspect a manga/anime can be good. Good fight scenes are just as good as a good philosophical story and a story doesn't need to be deep and mature or unique to be good. Stop being a pretentious retard