Current Events > shounen is gonna have its first black female protagonist in Clock Striker

(+) Yeah! (+)

Clock Striker, now in graphic novel format, follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers.

Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named Ms. Philomena Clock, who agrees to take her on as her apprentice, or striker.

Now Cast is thrust into one deadly adventure after another! From cybernetic desperadoes to technology thieves and more, Cast has to use her mind and her remodeled robotics-lab prosthetic hand, which offers unfathomable offensive power in the form of scientific experiments. Need lightning? Cast can generate it from her hand! Cast's mentor seeks to uncover an ominous mystery that explains what happened to the SMITHS and shines a light on a hidden power that may be within Cast herself.

Can Cast become a new member of the SMITHS? More importantly, can Cast survive the process to become a SMITH?

Still, it's great news to see Japan featuring a Black female lead in one of their manga.

What constitutes "shonen manga"?

iirc, it's just manga geared towards teen boys.

What constitutes "shonen manga"? As far as I can tell the publisher, writer, and artists arent Japanese/based in Japan. >_>

was it written in japanese? is it read from right to left?

there are other anime (I dunno if they have manga) that have black female leads (Michiko to Hatchin & Carole and Tuesday), but I think this is the only shounen so far.

yeah this'll bomb in japan and get cancelled quick

the ID politics craze is mostly a lolmerica thing

because the title of this topic will not be a valid selling point in japan

Part of me is just being cheeky. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first professionally published shonen manga-styled comic with a black female lead.

But if youre using terms like "shonen" and "manga" to an english audience it usually denotes a specific area of origin. By its literal definition, most Marvel and DC Comics are shonen manga, but we dont call them that.

...god I need a hobby besides pedantry

I can be even more pedantic by mentioning shonen isn't even a genre it's the demographic of the magazine; shonen is just manga in a magazine for young boys regardless of it's subject matter. Young boys stories about battle and adventure just tend to sell better soooo

The 11s are still ridiculously xenophobic.

but then they killed him again. I feel like they only revived him because his stand is literally a phoenix

I honestly think he originally killed off Avdol or just completely abandon like Fugo with Purple Haze because their stands are hard to make battles for. Araki tends to prefer having his protagonist have stands that have a lot of utility or are close range to give a challenge to their fight.

I'm still confused as to how this is different to shoujo

I haven't read it, so what makes it appealing to teen boys? Also, wouldn't Korra be shounen

soul eater was a shounen even though its main character was a girl

soul eater was a shounen even though its main character was a girl

I dont think soul eater was aimed at teen girls

I felt Soul Eater didn't have just one main character. It sort of felt like all 3 Meisters were the MCs.

I wanna know why inuyasha is considered a shonen

It feels way more like a girls romance story