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Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde
I don't want to sound nitpicky, but even if the romance or plot is shallow, can you really call fanservice harem anime "shounen" when the inteded audience are clearly at least mature male (just from the fanservice alone)?
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Something like To Love-Ru originally ran in Shounen Jump, and Darkness (famed for its "borderline" sexual content) is now in Jump Square (another shounen magazine by the same publisher). In the West we usually consider sexual fanservice for "mature audiences only", but that isn't the way it's usually pitched in the home market. (Though of course being a shounen property doesn't prevent older audiences from also buying it. After all, they're the ones who buy most of the anime Blu-Rays/DVDs.)