Weekly Shonen Jump

MoonlightShadow

MoonlightShadow

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Few days ago i talk about shonen a bit.. then i did some research on it. Well it's true that most of the maistream series with usually dose of friendship, never give up and obsession are published in that magazine

Hm.. so i guess that they are the main supporter of this ideals. It's not that shocking since the formula still liked by majority, which means steady flow of income assured. Anyway this is an interesting fact that i used to overlooked
 
Shonen Jump is the reason why people outside of Japan think shonen is a genre. A bunch of their very similar battle manga got popular outside of Japan at around the same time, and shonen got flung around, so people thought that’s what it meant. Something similar happened to seinen when slice of life comedies got popular 10 years ago.

It wasn’t until more and more non-battle related Shonen Jump titles, or series from other magazines got popular where people started realizing how pointless of a term it was. There was even a time period where people were trying to argue that being in Shonen Jump doesn’t mean it’s shonen.
 
I just call that stuff battle manga or battle anime. I just think the mainstream shonen term also seems pointless if it's mainstream, shonen, and isn't similar to Naruto.
 
Grungie said:
I just call that stuff battle manga or battle anime. I just think the mainstream shonen term also seems pointless if it's mainstream, shonen, and isn't similar to Naruto.
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Well.. if it's not using Naruto-like formula most likely it won't reach massive popularity hehe.. i usually evaluate the main protagonist, they mold usually the same
 
White_Tiger_Of_Lunar_Mountain said:
Well.. if it's not using Naruto-like formula most likely it won't reach massive popularity hehe.. i usually evaluate the main protagonist, they mold usually the same
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White_Tiger_Of_Lunar_Mountain said:
Update me, 2010-2017 is empty years for my anime manga hobby
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Tbh it's kind of a big list. I know harems and other types of romcoms have blown up in the past 10 year, and a handful of them were from Shonen Jump.
 
Jump's always had those, I think it took time for the West to pick up on them. They released the manga for that stuff ages ago in English, but you either had to be in the know, or do the old school thing of just seeing it at the bookstore and try it out. Prior to Crunchyroll coming out you really only had exposure to your typical Jump style battle manga, and a few cult hits on Adult Swim, but outside of that, you had to watch fansubs through questionably legal means.
 
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