4 SHOUNEN ANIME 3.0

Are you one who crave adventurous anime with good fights? Here is the last installment of our top shounen series, with the classics that you should keep on your must-watch list.

#1 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
With a large, well-developed cast and a world of mystery and magic – Magi is one of the newer works in the recent years to join the accolades of Shounen anime. With some genie power and magic, the series follows Aladdin and Alibaba as they fight against dark forces and corrupted rulers. While light-hearted with core shounen elements of fighting and friendship, this series does have its serious and political moments.

#2 Kateyo Hitman Reborn
“No-good Tsuna” is your typical clumsy, plain and average main character. Yet, the infamous blood of the Vongola family — a high profile Italian Mafia clan — runs in this unknowing teenage boy. As the clan head prepares for his own retirement, a mafia tutor named Reborn is sent to prepare and train Tsuna to take over the role. Despite his deceiving baby looks, Reborn proves to be a skilled hitman. In a humorous tale full of fights and action, Reborn trains a lazy and unwilling Tsuna to turn his life around.

#3 Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online is set in an MMO world. Main character Kirito purchases a promising virtual reality online game only to find that he and another 10,000 players are unable to log out. While trapped in the game, the game master announces that they must beat a 100-floored tower in order to regain their freedom. There is one catch – if you were killed in the game, you would also die in reality. Despite pacing and plot issues in the latter half of the series, the psychological intensity and the fluid animation of the fight scenes makes this series a must-watch.

#4 Fate/Zero
With an amazing soundtrack and a director who is famous for his dark writing and interpretation, Fate/Zero is the clear winner of the popular Fate series. Seven magic-users are chosen to participate in the chaotic 4th Holy Grail War, with each summoning their own fighting servant as support. Protagonist Kiritsugu Emiya and his servant fight to save the world with their own ideals. Unlike a lot of the more mindless series in the shounen genre, the fight scenes in this anime are lined with realism, intuition and strategic combats.

I love my little sister (Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru)

• Anime - I love my sister 

• Production: Japan 

• Genres: Drama, Romance, Shoji 

• Director: Teramoto Yukiyo 

• Duration: full-length film, 50 min. 

Description:


Yori and Yuki - twins - are brothers and sister. Having lived together in the same room, in the same house, being constantly with each other, despite the blood ties, Yori falls in love with her sister, he sees in her a woman. He is jealous of her, protects and desires as a woman. He understands that it is impossible, that his love is forbidden, but he can not help it. Moreover, soon he learns that Yukki also has far from sisterly feelings for him, and the same likes him and sees in him a man, but not a brother.

What should they do now? How to hide your feelings? And are they allowed to have passion for each other because they are brother and sister? Only a few will be able to understand their feelings, maybe only best friends, but society will never accept such feelings. How will Yori and Yukki do, will they stay together or try to forget about their forbidden love for each other?

Very emotional and somewhat unusual in the plot of anime, with a good drawing and soundtrack.
Based on the anime in 2007, the same-length feature film with Matsumoto Jun and Eikura Nana in the title role was shot. The actors perfectly coped with their roles - remarkably and very emotionally conveyed the forbidden feelings of the brother and sister to each other.

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The Shop of Horrors (Pet Shop of Horrors)

• Anime - The horror shop 
• Production: Japan 
• Genres: Mystery, Fantasy, Horror 
• Director: Hirata Tosio 
• Duration: 4 ep., 22 min. 

Description: 

The small pet store of Earl Di is in the Chinatown of a small American city. In this pet store are collected various animals from all over the world and these animals are not simple, each of them has some kind of magical property. Magic animals are not dangerous, but only as long as the owner complies with the terms of the contract. When purchasing an animal, it is necessary to sign a contract and treat the animal only as indicated in the contract, otherwise it is not known what consequences may lead to improper handling of the magic animal. 

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Four-part anime, shot based on the same name, multi-volume manga, which much better reveals the plot and characters of the characters. But the anime, just as in its own way, is interesting and should be paid attention to. 

Graf Dee, the owner of the store - an elegant, beautiful, mysterious man who immediately stops looking and only because of him you can watch this anime. 

In the anime story is a horror film, but you should not expect something ordinary, in the spirit of American films, "The Store of Horrors" is a philosophical anime and each series is a novel with its own separate storyline.

Anime - Black Cat

• Anime - Black cat 
• Production: Japan 
• Genres: science fiction, adventure, senen 
• Director: Itagaki Shin 
• Duration: episode, 23 ep., 24 min. 

Description: 

The organization "Kronos" stands on guard of justice. Those who work in this organization call themselves the "Kronos Numbers", their task is to kill those who are not pleased with Kronos, those who prevent to restore justice in this world. 

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Train Hartnett is a cleaner, Thirteenth Kronos number, a magnificent shooter and an elusive killer, one who brings only bad luck. He served Kronos well and did only what he was ordered. But one day fate brought him with a nice and slightly strange girl named Sayya, who showed and told Train that there is a lot of interesting in this world besides murders. Saya helped Train realize a lot, and eventually he left the Chronos of Kronos. 

Acquainted with Sven, who caught criminals for money, Black Cat Train Hartnet decides to start a new life. But will the powerful organization of Kronos let him so easily escape and will not the departure from the Numbers be a big mistake by Train? In addition to all the problems of Train, one more person is added - a man named Creed Diskens, who heads the organization "Star Apostles". Members, which consist of people with super powers. Will Train be able to withstand Creed? 

Now he is between two warring organizations and it is interesting which side he will take, or does he decide to remain by himself and not obey anyone?

And the devil can cry (Devil may cry)

• Anime - And the devil can cry 
• Production: Japan 
• Genres: shonen, adventure, fantasy 
• Director: Itagaki Shin 
• Duration: serial, 12 ep., 25 min. 

Description: 

Dante is a young, shy, cynical guy. He is a demon hunter, but at the same time he is a half-demon. His father is the strongest demon of Sparda, and his mother is an ordinary woman, whom Dante never knew. 

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Best of all, Dante turns out to kill other demons, which are very much in this world. Therefore, to somehow earn money and help other people, Dante opens his own agency. 
Immediately, Dante's goal is to protect the heiress of a large fortune, which in every way criticizes Dante's life and does not help him successfully cope with his mission. But it's good that Dante has friends who will always help in a difficult situation, but can also quite successfully criticize his actions. 


Trying to somehow work and at least save some money, Dante encounters his brother, who by all means tries to prevent the demon hunter from doing the work. 
The series is based on the game of the same name. A fairly simple storyline is completely compensated by an excellent musical series, great graphics, interesting characters and staging fights. 

Refuge of Angels (Angel Sanctuary) : Manga Information

Manga - Vault of the Angels Production: Japan Genres: fantasy, romance, drama, shodze Author: Yuki Kaori Volume: 20 Description:

Setsuna Mudo - seems like an ordinary seventeen-year-old schoolboy, but this is only at first glance, because in fact Setsuna is full of secrets. The most important of his secrets is that the Angel lives in him, who once provoked God. As punishment, the Angel had to die and resurrect constantly, and now he is imprisoned in Setsuna.

The main secret of Setsuna is that he loves his sister very sincerely and this love is not at all what the brother feels for his sister, but the real and passionate love of a man for a woman. Sarah, too, meets Setsuna's reciprocity and their love is one of the most important story lines of the manga. 

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In addition to the love line, the plot is also interesting by the confrontation of angels and demons, their struggle, battles and intrigues. 

Manga is a well-known author, who mainly writes in the genre of Shojie and places great emphasis on romance. "Shelter of Angels" is her most famous work. For this manga in 2000 was shot three-part anime, quite interesting and colorful, but, unfortunately, did not convey the full story.

Manga will surely appeal to those who love romance, complicated relationships, fantasy and intrigue and who is not at all against reading about incest, because here it is one of the main storylines.

TOP FIVE MOST OVERRATED ANIME

With zealous fans ready to put their favorite anime on a pedestal, many series are dangerously subjected to the fallacy of being overrated. While all shows have their strength and weaknesses, the list below points out some less-than-perfect series that have generated godlike hype by their keen devotees. 

#1 Code Geass
Often compared to many anime masterpieces, Code Geass is an ambitious anime that tries to combine the strategic plot with the exciting mecha fight scenes. Yet this anime series falls short of all its predecessors like Death Note and Gundam, and instead is often presented as a dish of pretentious nonsense. The strategies are never explained – the main character is presented as a smart character only because those around him say so. The story is pestered with contradictions and incidents that only happened for plot convenience.

#2 Sword Art Online

While not being a bad anime, SAO has evident flaws that drag it down from its full potential. Started off with a strong arc with memorable fight scenes and well fleshed out character development, the series takes a deep plunge with its second Fairy Dance Arc. Suddenly the strong female lead is reduced to a damsel in distress, making one of the most powerful character into a changed person of weak personality – all for the plot’s sake.


#3 Bleach

Despite being a long running series with well-loved, iconic characters, it is time for Bleach to end after going downhill from its first three successful seasons. The series is known for its dragged out plot with many pointless filler arcs that carried little to no story relevance. Despite its past success, story must remain new and unpredictable to be sustainably entertaining, and stray from boring repetition and obvious plot holes.

#4 Naruto

Although this is a diehard favorite of ninja fans, Naruto is characterized by filler arcs and a predictable storyline. Does it really deserve all of its hype and praises? It really is debatable. While the anime itself has some memorable scenes, the plot is ultimately linear with flat characters that fall neatly into common stereotypes. At times entertaining, the main story of Naurto remains consistently dull and drawn out throughout.

#5 Fairytail

While starting out strong and entertaining, like the comparable series One Piece – Fairytail is a tale that stinks of stale, overused theme of “friendship”. Despite it being a teenage fantasy story that was never meant to be realistic in the first place, it does infuriate when main characters are seen to rise from near death battles in the name of “friendship” for the hundredth time.

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