The best Shounen anime of all time

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The two competitors for the #1 spot


Which one wins?

Hunter x Hunter has way better world building and character development

Fmab has a better overarching plot imo

Its very close, i dunno which to pick
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Rika_Furude posted...
Whats that even aboot


Abused prodigy pianist learning to deal with the trauma of his childhood through the help of a violinist he meets
Is Kill La Kill shounen?
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Prob not also its not even the same tier (9/10 tier)
Kill la kill is like an 8
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Hunter X Hunter I'm only so far as the English Dub, which is middle of the Chimera Ant Arc I guess?

Greed Island was honestly REALLY bad. Brotherhood had no parts that were bad, IMO.

Brotherhood > Hunter X Hunter
I liked the greed island arc tbh but im in the minority

Hunter x Hunter is pretty much defined by the Chimera Ant arc.
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I thought HxH was defined by long stretches of hiatus. ;)
I would also argue that My Hero Academia belongs in this thread... granted it is early in its run, but damn Season 2 especially was magnificent.
Rika_Furude posted...
Prob not also its not even the same tier (9/10 tier)
Kill la kill is like an 8

Kill La Kill is 10/10
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Eh, I think there's not much in terms of shounen that can compare to Yorkshin arc, not from the new HxH or the old.
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Well, it's FMA:B, but this list is missing a lot of anime like Trigun, Dragonball, YYH, and so forth.
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Kineth posted...
Well, it's FMA:B, but this list is missing a lot of anime like Trigun, Dragonball, YYH, and so forth.

dragonball is naruto tier. i haven;t seen trigun but isn't that seinen?
Rika_Furude posted...
Kineth posted...
Well, it's FMA:B, but this list is missing a lot of anime like Trigun, Dragonball, YYH, and so forth.

dragonball is naruto tier

Naruto ain't even that bad and you've never even watched it. Also no.
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isnt naruto like 700 episodes like and 680 of those are filler?
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Also if Cowboy Bebop is Shonen, that is up there
Rika_Furude posted...
I liked the greed island arc tbh but im in the minority


no you aren't lol. greed island is widely considered good
FL81 posted...
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure


God that show is awful
reading Gash Bell to the anime soundtrack
They're both meh. Good Shonen, better stuff out there, but Shonen isn't really full of amazing stuff
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Rika_Furude posted...
I liked the greed island arc tbh but im in the minority


no you aren't lol. greed island is widely considered good


It was far too long, the rules were convoluted and it was vastly different in tone compared to the rest of the series.

I can't say I hated it, and it introduced some cool characters, but the villains are lame especially after who we just had seen before. It was like they were ramping up for some GREAT stuff and then we took a detour into mediocrity.
Trigun and Cowboy Bebop are seinen.
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db series 80's 90's

naruto series 90's 10's
Huh, I'm not familiar with the term 'seinen'. Welp, nm.
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Kineth posted...
Huh, I'm not familiar with the term 'seinen'. Welp, nm.

it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc

fmab and hunter x hunter do have fairly mature themes and skirt the boundary between shounen and sienen but generally sit on the shounen side
whereas something like dragon ball or Pokemon are definitely aimed at children
I like both from the poll, but my two favorite shounen are: Death Note and Yu Yu Hakusho.
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Rika_Furude posted...
it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc


Death Note is Shounen, not Seinen.
JE19426 posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc


Death Note is Shounen, not Seinen.

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Rika_Furude posted...
JE19426 posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc


Death Note is Shounen, not Seinen.

GrJxYYR


I'm not sure what that has to do with my post but cool.
Rika_Furude posted...
JE19426 posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc


Death Note is Shounen, not Seinen.

GrJxYYR

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Rika_Furude posted...
Kineth posted...
Huh, I'm not familiar with the term 'seinen'. Welp, nm.

it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc

fmab and hunter x hunter do have fairly mature themes and skirt the boundary between shounen and sienen but generally sit on the shounen side
whereas something like dragon ball or Pokemon are definitely aimed at children



Rika_Furude posted...
JE19426 posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc


Death Note is Shounen, not Seinen.

GrJxYYR


Guess Akame ga Kill isnt Shonen.

The label is pretty arbitrary and honestly shouldn't apply to anime-only series. It all falls on who is publishing the Manga/what magazines they show up in. I mean Jojo turned into Seinen after jumping magazines
Yu Yu Hakusho is the only correct answer
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I still say Rurouni Kenshin
FMA: B until One piece end MAYBE
Brotherhood has god awful pacing and they somehow made it feel so shallow you barely care about whats going on.
Akagami_Shanks posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Kineth posted...
Huh, I'm not familiar with the term 'seinen'. Welp, nm.

it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc

fmab and hunter x hunter do have fairly mature themes and skirt the boundary between shounen and sienen but generally sit on the shounen side
whereas something like dragon ball or Pokemon are definitely aimed at children





No matter what you Westerners point out. DB was and is only meant for little boys.
Rika_Furude posted...
JE19426 posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
it means its targeted at adult males rather than young males

so stuff like cowboy bebop, death note, etc


Death Note is Shounen, not Seinen.

GrJxYYR

Its rating in the US does not change the fact that it ran in Weekly Shounen Jump, a magazine that publishes a variety of shounen series every week. It's quite well known that the tolerance for violent elements in children's media is lower in America, thus many shounen shows got either censored or rated R. That doesn't make them not shounen.
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