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Old 2013-01-03, 16:39   Link #4803
KLGChaos
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NY
Age: 44
^I have to disagree. You're talking about what's acceptable in a shounen manga and what's not. Frankly, that's why shounens suck. They're all caught up in these rules that they never break out of. They HAVE to have the first girl win, they HAVE to have the main character be weak and useless, they HAVE to turn the characters into idiots to continue the plot. As soon as you start forcing specific themes onto a genre, you stunt any kind of possible innovation.

All in all, it makes for horribly cliched and overused plots. GE fell victim to it. KNIM and Suzuka fell victim to it. And in the end, I think it hurts the genre more than anything.
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