Shōnen

In occident, the word shōnen , which means adolescent in Japanese, is exclusively used to indicate a type of Manga. The shōnen manga (少年漫画, the manga for young boy), sometimes written shounen manga (in Wāpuro rōmaji ), is a style of Manga whose leading target above all is consisted the adolescent young people , even if the girls read some too. The kind is to be opposed to the shōjo manga (少女漫画, the manga for young girl).

The nekketsu

Meaning ebullient blood literally , the nekketsu indicates a Canevas which governs a great number of shōnen manga. Certain characteristics of this groundwork are récurentes:

  • the hero is a young orphan boy (or living separated from his/her parents); the research of the father is a recurrent theme;
  • fundamentally honest and innocent, it appears often naive;
  • it is equipped with capacities or capacities except standards, sometimes magic S;
  • in company of friends met during his search, it fights against the evil;
  • its first adversaries become generally his/her more faithful companions;
  • they take part in a tournament or something of similar;
  • when it is about to lose or die, the hero is raised more extremely than ever, grace in particular to its will, its “desire extreme to gain” ( nekketsu );
  • honesty (justice), spirit of group (friendship) and devotion to the general interest (will to overcome) is the principal values conveyed by these mangas.

Its Gokû, the hero of Dragon Ball , is a typical example of character having these characteristics.

One frequently finds the same sets of themes in the shōnen :

The pantsu

Japanese phonetic pronunciation of English pants (breeches), this other type of groundwork enough used is generally for the comic shōnen manga (although that is not always the case):

  • a male hero not having anything to like (or if little);
  • a Harem quite as pretty young girls ones as the others;
  • little male supporting role;
  • the hero is awkward and is found consequently regularly in embarrassing situations;
  • the Quiproquo S are frequent.

Examples of mangas of this types are Green Green TV , Love Hina or I¨s .

The yonkōma

This kind is not exclusive with the shōnen manga; indeed, although the kind of the yonkōma is generally comic, it acts more than one support of expression ( yonkōma meaning “four boxes literally”).

Others

Although the majority of the shōnen manga use these groundworks, some are dissociated. In fact generally manga sections of life more often lie within a realistic scope, being able as well to deal of simple history of love without any ornament or with a social problem in the Japanese culture, but in a way less dramatic than the Seinen manga, for example the titles of Mitsuru Adachi ( Touch and Rough in particular), or NHK nor yōkoso! .

Mangakas

Some Mangaka S, of shōnen manga :

  • See also a List of mangakas in general.

Simple: Shōnen

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