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I had someone on the Adult Swim board today tell me emphatically that Inu Yasha and Ranma 1/2 were shounen anime.

Let's stop and think about this. Now, "shonen" anime means "boy" anime. Intended for young-adult or teen male audiences.

For example, Naruto. Dragonball Z. Anything Gundam.

But IY or Ranma 1/2 ?

Yeah, Ranma had a lot of fighting. And yeah, IY has a good amount of fighting.

And yes, they might be or have been run in a shonen manga magazine (I don't know if they have or not, but it's certainly possible.)

But anyone who thinks that Rumiko Takahashi is writing for boys probably doesn't know very many girls.



Also probably hasn't seen/read very much of either series.

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Re: part 2

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I don't suppose it's purpouse that the URL isn't working? '_'
But at least I know where the quote came from, thanks.

It's difficult to say whether NTHT is heavier than Evangelion, because the angst type is kinda different... there aren't such things as "Internal Angsting Out Loud", but it's still pretty damn heavy.
The main character is this highly optimistic 15 yo boy, who would be an "I'll beat you down no matter what!!" shonen type, but the thing about this is, things don't exactly go the way he wishes them to when he suddenly gets ripped from his homely world of Japan and finds himself again in a strange, new world, which is dominated by war and misery, due to it's lack of water supplies. A Rei-type girl, whom the boy has taken on himself to protect, can control/create water, which is why this dictator (who is arguably the greatest nutcase in anime ever) is eager to get his hands on her.... and as the process of having the water created doesn't go as quickly as it should, everyone seems to blame the boy for their suffering and make him feel for it...
The thing about this series is, that the characters are mostly children. Child soldiers being forced to live in a militant hierarchy and to sacrifice their lives for their fanatical leader. It's very well animated, but not very well known, prolly due to it's lack of commercial value or maybe because it got fansubbed back when downloading anime wasn't as popular as today, so it the word didn't spread much. It's long been licensed and has 13 eps.