View Full Version : top 5 shonen manga (in my humble [kinda, i can sometimes be kinda a troll] opinion)

09-17-2011, 12:54 PM
yeah...top ten shonen manga imo...doesn't need an explanation, the title explains it all...well...maybe a few things should be said
things required for the manga to be counted as shonen (should be common knowledge on this forum but i feel i should do this anyway) -
should be accessible to young teens - 13 at yongest, 16 at oldest
should be made with a male audience in mind - shonen means boy after all
well now that thats outta the way, lets begin.

5. soul eater - i love this series, i love it i love it i love it. the plot centers around maka albarn, a student at the death-weapon meister academy (shibunsen) and her weapon partner soul "eater" evans. as they attempt to collect 99 kishin souls and 1 witch soul in order to make soul into a deathscythe

4. .hack//G.U.+ - if you've played the .hack//G.U. games then you should know the plot to this, it follows haseo, a player of the popular online game "the world" as he attempts to eradicate the computer virus AIDA using his avatar, skeith - the terror of death in order to save all of the millions of players of "the world" from falling into a deep coma.

3. bakuman - this is a manga about...wait for it...MAKING MANGA! yes really, it follows a young highschool boy named...well since i can't remember his real name i'll say his nickname, suzuki saiko...saito...i can't even remember his nickname O.e and his friend...I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER HIS NAME! WTH I READ THIS MORE THAN I DID .HACK//G.U. AND SOUL EATER AND I CANT REMEMBER THE CHARACTERS NAMES! as they team up to make a manga, both for two different reasons though, one because he likes manga (the friend) and one because he want's to impress his...sorta girlfriend...long story.

2. sayonara zetsubou sensei - this manga follows a chronically depressed school-teacher named nozomu itoshiki (the titular zetsubou-sensei) and the bizarre lessons and morals he teaches his students.

1. hellsing! now before you go on and say "but hellsing isn't shonen! its seinen! (manga for mature audiences)", yes it is a seinen manga, but it's accessible to teens ages 13 and up! gotcha there huh! - the manga follows the hellsing organization, an elite hitsquad for the protestant church, employed to destroy all vampires, heres the catch, the main hellsing officer IS a vampire! he is the vampire alucard, the no-life king. it also follows the hellsing organizations secret war with the catholic secret hitsquad section 13 and another war with a small nazi battalion called millennium, a nazi sect. created to bio-engineer vampire soldiers.