What Does This Mean?
A Japanese publishing category for comics aimed mainly at adolescent boys, one of the four main manga demographic categories; Weekly Shonen Jump is the best-known example magazine.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Most of the big fighting series she grew up on were shounen.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia explains that shounen (shonen) means young boy, that it once covered juvenile publications in general, and that it came to mean adolescent boys as magazines were split by sex and age in the early 20th century. The target age is usually given as 10 to 19, though some sources say 12 to 21.
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