shonen

American  

[shoh-nuhn] / ˈʃoʊ nən /

noun

1. a subgenre of anime or manga that is meant to appeal to boys rather than girls and tends to be more action-oriented in its storylines. (Contrasted with shojo.)

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Example Sentences

Even in the majors, Ohtani has maintained his yakyu shonen image.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

The movie was the kind of shonen anime we were used to watching after school and obsessing over, a show with aliens and nonsensical evil schemes and the like.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021

There’s the old-school samurai flick, there’s shonen anime, there’s blaxploitation.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2020

The series is a shonen action series much in the way of Naruto or One Piece.

From The Verge • Oct. 31, 2018

Instead, she tiptoes along the basement wall, having adopted a battle stance I’ve seen in the shonen manga she loves to read.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer