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Originally Posted by totoum
The "story elements strongly associated with the shounen demographic" are actualy "story elements strongly associated with action mangas published in shonen jump"
It doesn't include romantic comedies or slice of life shows.
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In that case, it's just a problem with the labeling, isn't it?
A lot of people tend to refer to the "shounen battle genre" as just "shounen", but I can easily see how its usage might be a cause for misunderstanding when certain romantic comedy titles also fall within the shounen demographic.
But parroting the old "shounen is a demographic" line doesn't really say much to address the problem. It's just a different way of using a term. Nowadays, it's as much a collection of genres as it is a demographic anyway.