Justice for shounen manga for girls
I know this sounds hilarious.
By definition a shounen manga is a manga whose target demographic is young boys. Or, better, that were serialized in a magazine whose target demographic is young boys. I've always felt like some shounen were different from the others, and had a bigger success among girls. I'm not talking about stuff like My Hero Academia or Jujutsu Kaisen even if they have a lot of fujoshi fan, those feel like regular shounen to me. I'm not even talking about manga written by women like Fullmetal Alchemist, Demon Slayer, Tutor Hitman Reborn, those also feel like regular shounen to me. It's more specific. I'm talking about Blue Exorcist, Noragami, Magi, my beloved Pandora Hearts... hell, even Black Butler. I was never able to pinpoint what made those shounen different from the others, other than it feels like they're targeted to girls specifically. It might be the detailed illustrations, the focus on characters and relationship, I don't really know. I only know that I've always loved them.
For far too many years I've read of people disregarding those kind of manga and I can't understand why. Pandora Hearts is a manga that is so emotional for me that I'm a bit afraid to reread it. Blue Exorcist has one of my favourite casts ever and my heart warms up everytime a new tankobon is out. As much as people clown on the relationship between Ciel and Sebastian, Black Butler has some very dark storytelling and really good back stories.
I don't get it. I don't get why they're never talked about and when they are, they're clowned on. Maybe I just want to speak with someone about how much I want to punch Vincent Nightray (one of my favourite characters in manga ever) in the face. How much seeing Bishamon and Kazuma happy makes my day. How I will defend Yukio Okumura with my life despite his questionable life choices.
But I guess discussing who would win in an eating competition between Goku, Luffy and Naruto has a lot more appealing.