Even Chainsaw Man Realizes The Importance of Romance in Shonen
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Many shonen series either keep romance at a bare minimum or ignore this dynamic while Chainsaw Man, which is arguably the most gruesome and ostensibly less cutesy manga out there today, actually embraces the very foundations of the most ridiculed aspects of this apparently uncharacteristic shonen genre — the romantic comedy.
Although there are many culprits among the big Shonen Jump titles who perpetuate this flaw with romance, One Piece probably stands supreme as the worst perpetrator. Mangaka Eiichiro Oda himself stated at the end of an early chapter that his story's intended demographic, young boys, are not interested in romance, which is why romance was never a major theme inOne Piece. Yet Chainsaw Man, which is arguably one of the biggest new-generation shonen series today, not only incorporates romance but assigns these deep emotions to play major roles in each character's development as well as the construction of the Chainsaw Man world as a whole. What further cements the importance of romantic elements in Chainsaw Man's foundation is that mangaka Fujimoto is continuing this very practice that he began in part one of his series in the second and currently ongoing segment.
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In chapter 99 of Chainsaw Man, a new villain known as the War Devil is trying to infiltrate a school that she believes Chainsaw Man is attending. To help amass power against him, she endeavors to transform people into her own weapons, but this can only be accomplished if she owns the intended target. And her latest attempt is by trying to get a boy, the devil hunter Hirofumi Yoshida, to be her boyfriend. The problem is that the
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