My 17 year old self enjoying Bleach in 2015:
My 24 year old ass still enjoying Bleach in 2022:
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Shoujo romance is wayyyyy better than Shonen romance. I'm sorry if you had to find out this way if you didn't already know this proven fact.
(yes I know there are exceptions. like Romantic Killer)
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Why do the best yaoi stories come from Shonen anime. Okay so in the shoujo anime Kyaa I Love My Boyfriend these two people met in high school and fall in love. Aight, cool. Sounds cute enough. But wait, what's that over there?? Two boys once rivals yet trust each other with their whole being, whose faces morph out of anger when one is hurt, who is never found without the other, who always has their rival on their mind, who have fought bravely side by side because they KNOW the other will ALWAYS have their backs no matter what adversities have struck them in the past, and you're telling me they're NOT in a committed homosexual relationship????? Literally what was the point of all that then
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if the two main characters in your shonen anime have red hair and blue hair that's not shonen that's yaoi
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One worldbuilding detail Soul Eater really had going for it was the way they explained everyone having weird, unique and horror-movie inspired names such as Soul Eater, Black*Star, Franken Stein.
The school all these kids attend allows them to sign up with any name they want and to change their names once every six months.
You better believe if I were a thirteen year old with the ability to turn into a scythe and eat monster souls I'd call myself Soul Eater too. "But isn't his original name 'Soul Evans'? That's already a weird first name." He's from a family of musicians. He probably has a cousin called R'n'B.
It also made for the very nice touches in charaterisation where you'd see a character calling himself "Ox Ford" and knew immediately which brand of arrogant, insufferable child-prodigy this guy represented and you'd be absolutely right. Why is there a girl who can turn into a lantern who's name is "Jackie O'Lantern"? Because she's the funniest teenager on the squad.
Shoutout to Maka Albarn for taking her education so seriously she decided to not get herself a fun name, and to Justin Law, who let's say, subverted expectations.
It also just makes total sense for their wacky and non-conforming headmaster to not give a shit about names, or birth names, or gender norms. Death said trans rights, yo.
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inuyasha and kagome redraw 🐾🏹
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I like demon slayer, but I liked yona of the dawn even more 😭 and I'll never get over the fact that we only got one season of it even though it had a waaayyyy better storyline than demon slayer. It hurts knowing that shonen will always be placed at a higher level than shoujo.
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All those years watching anime really did leave an impact on Michael B. Jordan. Because the plot of Creed III being “righteous protagonist must fight their best friend who turned to the dark side due to jealousy/ego/wanting to prove that they’re better than the protagonist” is straight up a shonen anime storyline.
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