shonen
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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