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An appreciation for Shounen as a genre.

I don’t typically watch or read too many shounen series, I’ve only seen Fairy Tail, Edens Zero and I don’t quite count Assassination Classroom and Bungou Stray Dogs. But if I’m ever feeling down or out of it, I turn to shounen.

I started reading Rave Master last night, and it’s so simple… in a good way. In many seinen, romance, and drama anime, you have to do all the work for it. You have to find out the motives, the emotions, the reason. But shounen is so refreshingly simple. The character wants to do the thing, so they do it. To quote Okuda from Assassination Classroom “I don’t need… complicated words”.

In shounen, I think we can all learn how to gain confidence and go out and do it, because we see all kinds of characters doing all sorts of things that are more challenging than what we do on the daily.

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