>>4434335I have no fuckin clue why people throw around the word shonen like it's some kind of forbidden incantation that reveals how inferior Japanese manga are to western mediums.
Shonen is just a demographic. It's not a genre like superheroes or family guy sitcoms. Even then just the shonen manga themselves have been way more varying and substantial than Marvel/DC (which is for some reason viewed as the western equivalent to shonen manga in this thread) has been for who knows how fucking long.
People have this weird notion where they think shonen is a genre and every manga that's ever published on a shonen demographics magazine are just dragonball style battle manga. Bakuman is technically shonen. Slam Dunk is technically shonen. Star of the Giants is technically shonen. I don't fuckin understand