Why Realistic Manga Don't Get Into Shonen Jump

[@blehhleb]

As an American, when nobody gets shot in a sports anime, it really ruins my immersion.

[@nagasrinivas-fg5lh]

It is so funny 😂😂😂

[@Castigar48]

My man thinks gilbert arenas is the norm

[@rabadonsdeathcap7418]

Somewhere in a chess competition in the us: AND HE USES THE GLOCK!!!!!!!

[@Blade.5786]

​@@rabadonsdeathcap7418The glock loses to the intercontinental ballistic missile variation

[@mafuyu2007]

And he sacrifices the liver!

[@Unethical.FandubsGames]

Realistic Manga not getting into Shonen Jump is like Dragonball not making it onto the Discovery Channel.

[@themememeister8382]

Imagining a Disney-ified Dragon Ball, and it's like a very washed down NickToons Kai, in which there's no blood, changed attack names, and the Ginyu Force sings a lot.

[@Ash2Flame116]

Goku gonna be on the next ancient aliens

[@yuukinoyuki9064]

Yeah, exactly, it's in the name, "shonen."

[@themememeister8382]

@@Ash2Flame116 *_SAIYANS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS_*

[@GenJuhru]

The narration in HxH (What if done by David Attenborough 🤔)

[@jamtea573]

Bakuman, probably the most realistic manga to ever grace the pages of Shonen Jump.

[@advanceringnewholder]

isn't it a manga about making it to shonen jump?

[@jamtea573]

@@advanceringnewholder Yeah, well the first part is at least. It's basically mostly set around actually being part of Shonen Jump.

[@AntonRealmec35]

Making manga and get published into shonen jump is not realistic bro

[@jamtea573]

@@AntonRealmec35 oh my bad, nobody has ever made manga of been published in Shonen Jump in the history of mankind 🙃

[@wayfarer9744]

Blue box too

[@Mark_o_Helm]

I heard of an article where somebody accused Assassination Classroom to be responsible for school shootings. Oh Murica.😑

[@karstencarsten9964]

They need to cope somehow lol. It's impossible to get the gun laws changed, banning a book on the other hand is pretty easy

[@foggymistyhazy]

It was the teachers they probably come across the manga and read it description then without opening a single page they report it with such a dumb thought of "it inspire student to kill teacher" instead of reflecting themselves, they blame the manga.

[@GeneralSoupman]

Aren’t those books being banned from libraries 😭

[@Mark_o_Helm]

@@GeneralSoupman they probably will be now.😁

[@zarasty]

That's like saying violence was increased because of violent games

[@Amyante]

Assassination Classroom is pretty realistic. It's a school, all the kids are armed and the teacher thinks he's an alien.

[@elandthirkhaoth4718]

Now Now, he doesn't think he's an alien, that's just the backstop he makes up to cover up the much worse reality: that he was turned into that through some experimentation gone wrong

[@bambangslametwilujeng5221]

It's not realistic that students call his teachers bitch, the students can jump so high, the students can win against mercenaries without death on side of students

[@bvdf84]

Welcome to 'murica

[@cerberos1]

⁠@@bambangslametwilujeng5221Yeah you kinda have to suspend disbelief and accept that some random kids trained 2 hours a day for 6 month can destroy mercenaries with years of experience 💀

[@yandataukoktanyasaya9683]

very american

[@Legithiro]

“Oh no, my fiction isn’t based in reality, whatever will I do?”

[@Jaey33]

Not all fiction needs to be based in reality 😂

[@masterace9543]

I read this in my annoying wonderland characters voice it fits and I hate it 😂

[@hush-ik9mc]

Bruh manga like bererk are not real but the interactions and feelings seem realistic, that's why seinen manga which are realistic are the best manga rather than the 12 yo no brainer shonen manga

[@Legithiro]

@@hush-ik9mc watch the short again. His complaint isn’t that the characters are exaggerated or emotionless, but rather that you can’t say “yeah, I could do that” after reading a climatic moment in the manga

[@Ark4n_7761]

​@@hush-ik9mcyes but sometimes I want that, an anime with cool action scenes that make it interesting rather than the meaning of life. Its just so simple yet entertaining

[@Juankprieto]

It’s weird how Shonen Jump only publishes Shonen manga. The world might never know the answer to this mystery.

[@ebc6970]

Not the point of the video... You can make a shonen manga with realistic settings. SJ just rarely publishes it. Other publishers like Gangan Online for example published many realistic shonen mangas.

[@ebc6970]

@@hoohoo431 Uhh okay? What does that have to do with my reply?

[@KnotPhound]

You know shōnen is a demography and not a genre, right?

[@spudermoth]

​​@@ebc6970 they're just pointing out the stupidity in slice of life elitists. You guys can like slice of life all you want, whether it's anime or western novels, but that doesn't mean you should look down on people for enjoying fantasy. It's just lame.

[@ebc6970]

@@spudermoth When did I look down on it? I'm just saying shounen doesn't just consist of fantasy stuff. I'm just explaining that. I mean, I Iike fantasy more than slice of life too. I haven't read or watched any slice of life recently. But reading the comments here, seems like most people don't know what the point of the video is or what shonen manga truly is. Sorry I have a bad way with words. Didn't mean to come off as looking down on it.

[@efrenarevalo2025]

I was waiting for Joey to say "The only realistic about assassination classroom is that students have guns"

[@Monasaurus_Rex]

💀

[@diazkohen2149]

United States Of America😋🥵🤤

[@pokemonmasterz5604]

But dosen't students facing problems is quite realistic?

[@mailowmailow5207]

I like how he didn't explain why at all

[@vinmulf171]

its subtle explanation after all LMAO

[@nethertaxi3719]

if i want realism i’d go outside 💀

[@lana_del_Rei.neet-]

Go on then

[@kokiea]

@@lana_del_Rei.neet-well he said if he wanted realism he’d go outside so I guess he doesn’t

[@joegun4259]

​@@lana_del_Rei.neet-counter point, I am outside... of your house

[@CRZ69]

Yeah man

[@keycrafter7471]

I love escaping reality

[@johnhilton4245]

I’m not here for realism I’m here to read a rubber boy stretch his arm into someone’s face

[@kaiocrap6965]

😂 fax. Or see Super Saiyans fight G.O.D’s

[@pudindaily7777]

Or orange hair kid bijudama someone AS*

[@medhanshjani]

Same here

[@deekshasingh8032]

Same

[@MKheadley2]

Fr

[@Swanson-hs5df]

This man made a short over an issue nobody is talking about.

[@sortofblue]

I wonder how many people missed his point over their head

[@Damnitgary]

​@sortofblue and what was his point? I'm curious

[@gamerz768]

​@sortofblue actually what point is he trying to make?

[@davidsantoso2291]

​@@sortofbluethere's no point to make. If people want realistic mangas, they'd just read a biography or go on with their own life

[@dixafu]

Its a piece of information

[@user-11Il10I1]

Bakuman: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@blackpurple9163]

Breaking the 4th wall but not breaking the 4th wall 😂

[@IsouhKA]

Came to post this

[@toonyandfriends1915]

​@@blackpurple9163metafiction moments

[@danbuckig4564]

Was Bakuman in Jump? I know Death Note wasn't.

[@blackpurple9163]

@@danbuckig4564 it was

[@CortezaDeAbedul]

"You don't see people killing each other on Slam Dunk" Mitsui and his gang tried tho.

[@DaakkuuYRS]

I was about to comment just that.

[@abealih92]

Or Sakuragi slam dunk to bald guy head 😂

[@MirantiMentari4]

Mitsui in his emo phase with his "buddies" : Allow us to introduce our self. 😂

[@muhumuzamark2189]

*Reads manga to escape reality *Shonen realised this is why we read Shonen adapts highly fictional manga into anime *Somehow someone wants "realistic manga" adapted *Shonen realised that's ehy you have a netflix subscription *shonen said no need to adapt this

[@purplex-]

Nah slam dunk kills people they kill each others career with them moves

[@antokarman2064]

Sakuragi killing takagi high school career with the pants-dropper 2000

[@julesandrewsusvilla4657]

​@@antokarman2064 don't forget Saukragi's KO dunk on Naito 😂😂😂

[@THEdudeproductions]

​@@julesandrewsusvilla4657 Straight on dudes dome lmaoooo

[@Jordie_42]

Shohoku defeated Fukuda's very soul. I don't think he recovered after that lose.

[@CloudColumncat]

And ends they career too eventually, still goat.

[@orpheus0108]

Monster is still one of my all time favorites. No powers. No supernatural phenomenon. Nobody trapped in a video game. No fan service. Just a really good story with great characters

[@sageopland3976]

Innocent and Innocent Rouge are good, and also Flowers of Evil. Close to Monster. 20th Century Boys was written by the same author, though I haven't read it yet. Monster was lovely. If you don't mind a little bit of sienen fantasy I'd also recommend Berserk as it doesn't hurt (RIP Miura

[@sageopland3976]

Recommend me anything please I'm out of stuff to watch/ read.. ;^;

[@dustinnabil798]

​@@sageopland3976If you like thriller, then you might like "parasites". There's also "gantz" and "blame" if you like a more atmospheric and strange manga.

[@sageopland3976]

@@dustinnabil798 oh I loved so much about Gantz, I'll be sure to check out the others. Thank you ^u^

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

Kinda, if i recall correctly they did have supersoldier experiments and geneticism that seem to have worked unlike real life. But i think he was talking more about shonen and this is a Seinen.

[@FielValeryRTS]

Superpower in Sports manga: Giving a full background report on the technique or tactic within 3 seconds of action with a voice reaching half the audience.

[@JeffVan604]

We are all glad Slam Dunk and Haikyuu don't do that then.

[@allainch.7251]

We get pretty realistic settings with most of the romance/slice of life stuff they publish

[@PsionicMind]

..... if thats realistic, I'm probably living in an imaginary world. I love my romance and slice of life but they don't seem realistic to me

[@Warrion9876]

But thats not shonen jump soooo....

[@user-tr9rw7ne8x]

Those genres kinda suck though

[@PsionicMind]

@@user-tr9rw7ne8x life sucks too tho

[@housebased7]

@@Warrion9876there are a couple rom-coms and slice of life’s on Shonen Jump, Nisekoi, Blue Flag, Bakuman, Blue Box, etc.

[@OmiOmislysolofficial]

Even Daichi took one for the team RIP Daichi-san... Tanaka hasn't recovered from that yet

[@thedolphinqueen9921]

literally

[@resarious6225]

I fuckin hate you all because the only reason i got through haikyuu was causei wanna see that man die but to find out that it actually wasnt true... 😭😭😭😭

[@nightfall84]

It was a nice kill on Tanaka's part tbh

[@blackjam2683]

"Beat & Motion" and "Blooming Love" are my favorites from SJ so far.

[@ShouryaRathore]

Read Blue Box, you will love it

[@midoriasakusa]

"the genre for 13 yr old boys have plots that sound cool for 13 yr old boys!!!" 💀💀💀

[@SiahTT]

Fr

[@hammbon3367]

Nah they still sound cool even to a 27 year old

[@Joshua_N-A]

Shuumatsu no Harem and Maken-Ki, both shonen, suitable for 13 year olds Got it!

[@midoriasakusa]

@@Joshua_N-A yep thats what shonen means

[@siginotmylastname3969]

​@@midoriasakusait's a marketing label not some sort of unified author mentality. Also plenty of seinen seem made for 13 year olds who just really like video games and porn(no hate to porn but... I remember gantz).

[@Reizen.Matzuru]

Baki is pretty realistic idk if it's shonen but it's very realistic, like people tanking nukes, fighting a 7ft caveman, fighting giant animals, being so strong you're considered the strongest creature. Very realistic

[@iosiasaemilius2795]

yea my grandpa was actually was shot inside his head and his brain dodged a bullet .

[@lesteregonia3941]

​​@@iosiasaemilius2795I actually remember a manga panel of a guy with sinister grin moving his brain to the side of his head to dodge a bullet you made my day lol

[@shizukagozen777]

I never read nor watched Baki (someday, I swear) but I'm pretty sure it's a seinen.

[@yahiaaymankamaly3518]

Most realistic part in baki was when someone punched the ground to stop an earthquake , i do that every Sunday

[@lesteregonia3941]

@@shizukagozen777 yeah no manga that has the most menacing moment, pure savagery, pp training and slight gore with mostly fights in the screen while a narrator saying some science bs as a shonen

[@DarkOverlord96]

In other news, *WATER IS FUCKIN' WET*

[@vergil8257]

But then again some people think that just because it’s realistic its better somehow.

[@koppii2]

Most realistic stories ends up to be the more highly acclaimed manga than the ones shonen jump publishes, probably the reason why there are claims that realistic = better, because most of the time it is

[@mastergamer-zq8xc]

@@koppii2if it most of the time was then there would be way more knowledge of slice of life types of anime which in comparison to shonen animes there is not

[@reddfeather8007]

​@@koppii2Some of the most popular mangas of all time are Shounens, just look at Dragon Ball, Naruto or One piece. They have amassed billions of fans worldwide.

[@lordtt3984]

​​ @reddfeather8007 as a huge fan of dragon ball; better =/= more popular. I've experienced some of the best shounen stories of all time but on average they simply can't hold a candle compared to more realistic manga

[@herplederpledoodledoo]

@@reddfeather8007 IIRC One Piece has the most sold atm, and is pretty much the antithesis of realism. You literally can't get any less realistic without going back to old rubber hose animation.

[@Zeitta7]

My mind goes to Bakuman when I think of realistic mangas in Shonen Jump.

[@feniks36963]

Totally agree

[@sikancil7957]

Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X is set in the early Meiji era in Japan (a real thing setting). and the manga was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from April 1994 to September 1999.

[@jrms.b]

Blue Box entered the chat

[@zukiechi]

Fr

[@brandonadrien3476]

Akane-banashi has entered the chat

[@oofie4660]

Blue Box is kinda a sports manga?

[@kingace6186]

LMFAO Joey said realistic, kid.

[@ksam23]

Bakuman gave Blue Box a fist bump

[@Nallx_]

One of the most realistic mangas I have read on Shonen Jump is “Beat and motion” It’s currently up to chapter 14

[@RazingPhoenix0079]

And Bakuman where teenagers aim to become manga artists

[@BohemianScandalous]

@@RazingPhoenix0079 except the women act like very strange tropes instead of human beings

[@levisasimp2757]

BEAT AND MOTION IS SO GOOD!!!

[@Adhjie]

​@@RazingPhoenix0079wait instead of anime like in shirobako, Bakuman is about making manga?

[@RazingPhoenix0079]

@Adhjie Yep from the creators of Death Note. I really enjoyed it while it was serialized.

[@ShouryaRathore]

Read Blue Box,its the most realistic romance manga i have read and the best one currently running in jump

[@pokepwned]

I was scrolling to see if someone had already mentioned Blue Box

[@Art0fKuma]

The closest thing we have that's down to earth is Akane Banashi at the moment, and it's Rakugo haha

[@noruanedaileg8748]

you're right. to add blue box, and the new mma manga. Theyre pretty realistic

[@Swiminatub]

We still had a tournament arc and the stories are starting to look like domain expansions

[@Doctor_Devil]

When'd bro get on that librarian drip

[@ThatHappaHaole]

Eyeshield 21 when hiruma brings his weapons everywhere 🤣

[@johnjacobjingleheimerschmi6655]

Okay, let's look at the genre of anime here. Shounen jump is a shounen anime manga publisher. Shounen anime is literally just anime directed towards young boys. Action and adventure type anime. What young boys have you met that want to read or watch a documentary? Now how about an over the top action film? Let's have these young boys read, idk, of mice and men... Do you think they would enjoy that more than, lets say, the hunger games novels? Usually shounen jump is biased towards young boys and their interests, what would entertain them more so they'll buy more manga.

[@toromisher]

Thank you!! I get that us western fans have a pretty western view of jump but it's still a very Japanese publication with a predominantly Japanese audience. I joke with my friends about how the shonen jump app is only like £2 a month and they all find that concept ridiculous. Most of my weeb friends don't even read manga and if they do they pirate or buy the odd tankoban. Jump is still very much trying to style their magazines after the kids that actually buy it, not the anime fans that only care about a series once it's been animated. Dunno why a bunch of 20 something's expect a literal kids magazine to become seinen just because they grew up. Like there are magazines and independent manga that are aimed at that genre that they don't read either xD

[@foggymistyhazy]

Thats true, I guess those realistic or depressing or adult theme stuff gotta be publish somewhere else like a category

[@notKAL_AANA]

​@@foggymistyhazyyeah there is a separate category for that called Sienen jump

[@advanceringnewholder]

Me as a young boy do love documentary

[@ashtonjamesmuta2210]

Yes finally someone said it. This guy just trying hard to be different.

[@slothschewgum]

bakuman was good but even if it had a very realistic setting it was an idealistic story.

[@muunprince1992]

Nisekoi I think somewhat realistic as well, It focus to the romance side of Shounen Jump

[@themaster3305]

@@muunprince1992eh, two gang successors trying to figure out if a key fits into a lock to honor a promise they made when they were children in my opinion isn’t quite the most realistic setting. Though who knows, maybe something like this happened to someone.

[@gmsimon]

I was gonna say Bakuman too but it's a romanticized version of a mangaka's life. If they removed the reincarnation aspect of Oshi no Ko, I would say that also counts as realistic.

[@rovidelarosa]

I don't know why Bakuman is idealistic? It shows how hard it is for a mangaka's work to be published. And even if you got published, it's still hard to maintain it. You get a glimpse of how cutthroat the manga industry is.

[@dairiskuznecovs7233]

Lmao imagine basketball manga but the team that loses is decapitated and their heads are put into trabspare t rubber and used as basketballs

[@elegantcat1496]

It's not about realism or unrealism, it's about target audience. Shonen Jump mainly publishes shonen manga, ie manga for younger people, mainly teenage boys. When the content gets too mature, or violent or complex for a teenage audience it usually finds its place somewhere else. There's a correlation between shonen manga and fantastical settings but not causation

[@AmodeusR]

This video is the definition of saying a lot, but saying nothing.

[@marcioamaral7511]

Classic Joey LOL

[@Tefezilla]

As usual Joey thehentaiman

[@trova4725]

you definitely have no comprehension skills

[@tobigrantlbart]

​@@trova4725 Must say I kinda agree with OP It kinda is saying a lot and saying nothing at the same time. First I think there is a misunderstanding. I guess people don't mean watching people do their taxes all day, but just how the story is written being "realistic". Like Lord of Rings feels very realistic due to the world being constructed very clearly and follows its own set up rules. And then, I think that it still makes sense why manga in SJ or most Shonen isn't realistic, he doesn't really explain anything. Like for instance of Shonen isn't realistic, of course it often will rather do the cool thing or bring characters back from the dead than the more "real" solution, because it's for teens. It's supposed to be cool, it's supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be escapism. Now that doesn't mean it cannot be differently or that the writing cannot seem believable. I think Joey has a point, but doesn't really have a good argument to back it up with.

[@vinmulf171]

@@tobigrantlbart bla bla bla

[@nugget3327]

City Hunter is also shonen jump and most of the part of the story takes place on Shinjuku which is a city in Japan.

[@BlooHoots]

As a person who has read any amount of manga i can tell you, there are slice of life, pretty realistic stories on Shonen Jump There's a whole category called "Sit Back and Relax" that don't have fictitious settings

[@goofygoober1601]

we are talking about action based mangas, not fucking slice of life 😭

[@johnconstantine1901]

@@goofygoober1601 no, he is literally talking about the shonen jump as a whole

[@marioionion2]

​@@goofygoober1601he's talking about the whole shonen jump

[@goofygoober1601]

@@johnconstantine1901 shonen is directed towards younger boys, which guy watches fucking slice of life

[@bloodnessx]

Indeed, taizan 5 manga series, Blue box, akane banashi are all realistic premises. in the end of the day, if you want to only look for realistic settings than dont look for wsj obv lol. there is young jump

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

Blue Box out here breaking the mold, i love it.

[@Octowashere]

Blue box so fire such an underrated new gen

[@MAYUTHEUNDEAD]

not really when Slam Dunk existed in the 90s. not to mention Bakuman, and there are countless other examples especially with sports series and romcoms in Jump. Jump has a massive catalogue of series. Idk why people act like it's only battle shonen in Jump.

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

@@MAYUTHEUNDEAD lol

[@Max-ds3fd]

There is one that is pretty realistic in shonen jump which is pretty new called beat & motion and its so good i love the art

[@shawerymarz]

"Live action dramas generally don't make it into the cartoon channel" That's a smart take ain't it?

[@gamerbear84]

Yeah, it's pretty much on the same level of insight.

[@coleslaw5713]

Yeah I don't understand this take at all. This guy and the other crew I always see have such bad views on anime now. They basically have hit a point of being anime boomers in the worst way. They just say things and hope people agree with them. Cause what he just said is exactly what u said lmao. Now go record it and say it online to make money

[@notroyjonesjr2.099]

City Hunter and Cat’s Eye have entered the room

[@Idunno-oz7hk]

Finally someone who remembers those two classic shonen manga's

[@raymartbenjamin1538]

Dude said realistic i dont think shoot a tank with a pistol and making it explode is realistic

[@nicodalusong149]

​@@raymartbenjamin1538Still more realistic than having any sort of spirit power, being about to travel to the afterlife or anything else that obviously couldn't exist in real life like exploding dudes by touching their pressure points.

[@nicodalusong149]

There's also Rokudenashi Blues which was boxing if I remember right.

[@gervgal2535]

​@@nicodalusong149Also "Rookies" a baseball manga from the same author.

[@alyasVictorio]

Oh! There's at least one realistic manga already in Shonen Jump, and that is "City Hunter", although it it has some fictitious elements like both comedy and giant hammer/mallet moments tho-

[@sridrawings4510]

Ryo's gun skills are so over the top to the core

[@AbeerAhmed-v5i]

Assasination classroom is being overrated and as someone who is familiar with the story it breaks my heart when i hear about the manga bans and accusations i wish these people would just sit together and watch the whole anime and if they dont cry tears at s2 ending then they are obviously not human.

[@pieck5460]

​@@ania3187they're not talking about the realism in the anime they're talking about the series being banned because of the title

[@kunalkashelani585]

Agree, the ending was really awesome, which is something I cannot say for most of my favorite Animes! Although, MC's transformation from a murderer to someone who wouldn't let anyone die no matter what did not make much sense, even if he did went through a traumatic death of his girl!

[@Man_Myth_Barbalazos]

Do you know what underrated means? Because it is clearly not.

[@rainscents]

Underrated your ass. Child nowadays always use the word underrated when they dont talk to them about that specific stuffs everyday. Maybe use internet when the series WAS still ongoing. Its a completed series, so its obvious not many talked about this title anymore esp when the conclusion is pretty satisfying.

[@rainscents]

​@i-love-cats75watch more then. If some experimented human became alien's death could make you cry, then many more out there can make you cry. This series is not a tearjerker series.

[@Lorvay]

Yeah you failed to say why they don't pick up realistic Manga.

[@Token_Nerd]

Because seinen eats that shit up

[@rkconcepcion4387]

Probably it is mostly about target audience which is shounen or boys. Most of the younger audience are facinated on unrealistic things like superpowers, cool fighting scenes or fantasy-like settings

[@spicydomina2365]

@@rkconcepcion4387 its because shonen specializes in the FANTASY rather than slice of life, this guy is just a dirty neck beard posting weird takes with youtube shorts

[@VarnoSlimm]

​@@Token_Nerd The consumers... Their audience is boys to young adult men.

[@Schizo_Pink_Pekora]

Cuz it's shounen? If u want more mature stuff.. go for seinen..

[@BblusStar]

To be fair, Sakuragi got his ass beat by those delinquents and I recall them busting into the school's gym looking for a fight.

[@ichig0tchi]

or how some older kids ganged up on him and beat him while he was running to the hospital because to get help for his dad which resulted in his death 😢

[@supersonic1254]

Ah yes, how can't we love the realistic setting of Berserk with its realistic magic and fantasy?

[@SirDieALot666]

Well is dark fantasy for adults. Not shonen and not realistic.

[@FirefoxyLeGibus]

I much prefer Gunnm where a 10m tall centurion who controls an organisation who wants to destroy a corrupt governement by making a city hanging in the sky fall onto another city below with a really big katana and a giant train-canon loaded with the brains of their fallen camarad btw, that's just 1 thing that happens in this manga, a lot of other crazy things happens (read gunnm, it's a cool seinen, it's underrated)

[@flymykim]

@@SirDieALot666 correct. its in an entirely different category of manga called "seinen". Shounen obviously meaning young boy, is aimed for younger kids. Not that adults cant enjoy shounen stuff like one piece or even dragonball

[@christianjesoo6674]

Well if you don't consider all of the magic stuff, it's technically a manga that is really close to reality, and that's why nobody wants to animate it properly

[@princessarnasan3725]

Here in the Philippines, we still watch Slamdunk in 6am weekend

[@supercoolmaniajon265]

Spy Family and Tokyo Revengers come to mind. If Anya wasn't an esper and Takemichi didn't have his future memories, the stories could very well still stand on their own. Buddy Daddies and Wind Breaker are proof of this. However... there's something crucial you need to know... it's called a gimmick.

[@StudioNBS]

I miss reading Hikaru No Go when it was being serialized in American Jump. My librarian would hold the new issue for me whenever it came in, then my dad would read the new chapters after I went to bed.

[@guythe4288]

If i wanted to experience reality, i would go out and watch people walk on the street. The very reason why i like manga and anime, as well as books, movies, tv shows, videogames is because reality for the most part is boring for me and i consider it a chore i have to endure to support my lifestyle. Yes, i live to experience joy of visiting fictional worlds and sharing these adventures with heroes and narrators and i'm not ashamed of it.

[@lana_del_Rei.neet-]

This is an awful take lmao

[@auserelegeto]

​@@lana_del_Rei.neet-why, most people want to escape reality, cause its sad

[@theinktician]

​@@lana_del_Rei.neet-it's not a take though. It's their experience. He didn't say other types of manga were bad 😂

[@tulkasastaldo4114]

@@lana_del_Rei.neet- No, this is a great take actually. What people think "realism" in storytelling is, isn't actually realism. True realism is antithetical to the very concept of storytelling. Stories are always constructed in a teleological way, meaning the author has some kind of goal in mind when they tell their story. That's what makes something a story. An underlying logic that connects the sentences you put to paper both on a small and large scale. It's what distinguishes your words from the incoherent ramblings of a madman or an AI. Stories are, inevitably, all about choices, they have starting and end points, arcs for plot and characters, themes they try to address. Reality doesn't do any of that. Reality is an almost entirely disconnected sequence of events that can only be rationalized post-hoc to appear like it's even somewhat cohesive. Reality doesn't start, it doesn't end, it doesn't follow along any kind of internal logic. In reality, stuff just kinda happens. In stories, everything that happens, happens for a reason. People who bellyache about a lack of "realism" in stories are just pretentious and can't admit to themselves that creating and consuming stories is ultimately always a form of philosophical escapism from the void of meaning that is the real world. Whether the story is more fantastical or more "plain" and grounded ultimately just amounts to different flavors of the same underlying thing.

[@Koldyuki]

Oh brother , thats a very sad life. But each to their own. So many things learnt from these stories could be used to live real life but alas it goes down the drain

[@andrewjamesking8038]

"you don't see people killing each other in slam dunk" *Cut to that one episode of the gym brawl*

[@joannakapella310]

From what I have seen the most realistic manga are usually published by Kodansha For example A silent voice Wotakoi A sign of affection 5cm per second Ace of diamond

[@okokrara]

Probably the most realistic manga from Jump is a very underrated one called the Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins. So pretty much the start of it (without any spoilers) is an entire family woke up at around the same time with amnesia trying to figure things out following our main character a school student named Tatsuba. We figure out the peices of this family's story as it goes along with new information along the way.

[@goodvibes6226]

I LOVE THAT MANGA BROOO 😭😭

[@toonyandfriends1915]

No its not realistic , aint no way people doing puzzles in a coma is realistic

[@okokrara]

@@toonyandfriends1915 *WARNING slight spoilers* It's one of the most realistic ones I found on shonen jump that fits the criteria and (I'm restraining myself to not spoil too much of this) it gets a lot more realistic as the manga goes on. It's still not fully realistic but if you are caught up and ignore a single key plot point which will most definitely have a much more detailed explanation for later it pretty much is.

[@ahmedkhadar4981]

That’s so strange that a company for entertainment would want their products to be entertaining 🤔

[@spudermoth]

I'm so tired of these "niche anime" elitists. I'm not gonna sit here and believe that tori no shigiru muyaki thats about a high school with some pink haired waifu thats a copy of all other "realistic anime" is better then one piece, which has a massive plot with countless twists, amazing characters and worlds, amazing tear drawing moments. Like what you want, but I'm so tired of your type acting like shonen jump is stupid. Elitism at it's finest.

[@thomasffrench3639]

One Piece is a copy of Dragon Ball and thousands of Fantasy Novels. I don’t get how that can be better than people you can actually connect with.

[@spudermoth]

​@@thomasffrench3639you've never seen one piece, then. I have watched both dragon ball and one piece and the only simmilarity is Luffy who's inspired by Goku, but other then that there's no other simmilarities and they're vastly different. Even then, luffy is vastly different from Goku. He has an extremely high emotional intellegence unlike goku. Again, it's the whole elitist BS. A lot of us don't watch realistic slice of life crap because it's boring and bland.

[@TrueReverse74]

​@@thomasffrench3639If you think one piece is a copy of dragon ball then you've never watched a single episode of one piece or dragon ball, you sound like an ignorant snob who turns their nose up at everything.

[@vampman87]

I have an issue of Shonen jump that had the first chapter of I''s, a romance manga where a high schooler spends WAY too much time working the nerve to ask out his crush, a theater geek and, scandelously, a bikini model. Granted, only the first chapter was in the issue, but the manga was published by Shonen Jump to its completion. SJ also published Strawberry 100%, about an aspiring filmmaker who unexpectedly gets a harem of girls while creating student films (and falls for the writer of his scripts, who starts out nerdy but becomes GORGEOUS by the third volume) but unfortunately the series was never completed in the states.

[@harsvardhan6107]

Bro , I have read strawberry 100% , one of the manga which got me into romance genre . Why are you saying it's not completed ?

[@vampman87]

@@harsvardhan6107 In Japan the manga had 19 volumes. Only 14 of those volumes were published in the US. I read the remaining chapters online on a fan translation site, and my favorite scene in the whole series, where Junpie's ex-girlfriend, Tsukasa, does a chin-up to confess that she still loves him and wants to get back together, harkening back to when he asked her out in the first chapter, was never released in an actual SJ-translated volume. The story in the US just sort of ends on a random chapter and Junpie clearly hadn't made a decision on what girl he really wanted, though the story made it clear that Aya was the most likely candidate. That made Tsukasa's confession and Junpie's ultimate decision a complete surprise.

[@LimiterRemoval]

Detective Conan is realistic (apart from the shrinking) and the success is totally deserved and it totally deserves its spot in Weekly Shonen

[@sandisumadi2560]

And how they still same grade after how many winter they have

[@Joshua_N-A]

Patlabor manga is shonen but the series is said to have the most realistic depiction of mechas in media.

[@JesusInStripeZ]

But Conan runs in Sunday 😭

[@bimapriambada1098]

Any Adachi Mitsuru's manga is quite realistic but it's not in Jump unfortunately. Ichigo100% is quite realistic too compare to To-Love Ru, or Quintessential Quintuplets.

[@ChandrimaGoswami-q7w]

i read shonen jump manga to escape reality 😅

[@Luluthebluemoon]

same, reality sucks and is just depressing.

[@kirasenpaiamv]

Blue box will now also make it into this list.

[@malonee]

Bluebox is gas

[@Seriouspup]

Off topic but god damn the sm7b microphone is practically undefeated. He sounds so good.

[@jecka1021]

This is why I enjoy stuff Shogakukan publishes. Shounen Sunday is fun stuff.

[@flymykim]

the video creator just idiot. Slam dunk was published for 6 glorious years in shounen jump

[@TheBosteth]

JJBA has a very realistic setting down to panels being drawn from photos, one of my fav things abt that

[@duckv8210]

Ikr like how a gay vampire and his priest boyfriend doesn't believe in gravity so he went to a space shuttle to obtain heaven so he could rewind time to destroy a rich British family in 1800s

[@humcreeper]

lmfao@@duckv8210

[@xplitegaming8295]

*2012

[@bmxgu2361]

​@@duckv8210 True, however all that wacky stuff is based on a plot that: takes place in real locations that the author visited, known time periods, shows some very disturbing real world issues that other series refrain from, uses technical powers that require a lot of real research on science and mythology to think up, makes comments on real world religion and government, bases his character designs off of real fashion magazines, and references his favourite (often western) bands at every chance he gets. CSM and JJk aren't too far off either

[@chrisc4507]

Stop the cringe @@bmxgu2361

[@validuntil8660]

When ever people ask which show has the most toxic fans just think of this guy. Its not the anime specific fans that are the problem its this guy.

[@yuut01234]

I like what you just said there 🤣 It took me only some seconds to hate this guy... I really mean hat and not just dislike

[@TheDustyForest]

I think there have been plenty of 'realistic' manga in Shounen Jump, Ai''s is the main one that springs to mind

[@Bighomie39]

Also, there is literally a currently running series in Jump rn called Akane Banashi that's extremely grounded with its story. It's about rakugo, and the most abnormal thing about it compared to real life is that the manga chooses to visually portray the rakugo stories being told like they're Domain Expansions from Jujutsu Kaisen

[@TonyStorm21]

We just gonna ignore how popular Blue Box has been huh?

[@Nusutto]

He probably means just shounen battle cause theres a lot of realistic manga in shounen jump that isnt action adventure

[@IdongTheGoat]

Sakamoto Days prolly the most realistic battle shounen in shounen jump

[@cklambo]

Death note setting was pretty realistic

[@Luluthebluemoon]

I like the part about the potato chip and eating it... I can relate to that.

[@RayOfTruth]

Bakuman is the most realistic Shonen Jump manga. It's just about writing manga for Jump with the only fantasy element being their wild work ethic.

[@pokechatter]

The rapid success is also on the fantastical side.

[@sridrawings4510]

​@@pokechatterno? Its happens in real life

[@shunshunko2848]

Do you know what shonen means? Shonen means young, and young people like magic, big humans (titans), ninjas and pirates

[@muhammadfaizarha1899]

Because the target market is for teenage boys (shonen) and teenage boys likes those genres If you want more realistic stories, try josei mangas. They're marketed for adult women and mostly had very realistic tone, even more realistic than their seinen counterpart

[@stefanoiulli5462]

Shonen is for Kids not Teenagers Seinen and Josei are for Teenagers

[@joerey9340]

@@stefanoiulli5462 shounen and shojou targets adolescent Boys and Girls and Seinen and Josei are for Men and women.. dont tell me that teenage boys and girls would relate to 30ish salaryman/ officelady romance or struggles.. and there are animes and manga that has Kids or elementary students as their target demography like Doraemon or those Beyblades and their archtypes.

[@tamarabikic3217]

@@stefanoiulli5462 Kodomomuke manga is aimed for kids, shonen and shoujo are for teens and seinen and josei are for adults, although there's barely any difference to what is shoujo and what is josei besides the magazine

[@stefanoiulli5462]

​@@tamarabikic3217 Shonen/Shojo is Like the ESRB E for Everyone or E10+ for Videogames and CERO A for All Ages, Seinen/Josei is Like the T rating or CERO B, C, D. and the Seijin (Older Adults) Demographic is the M or AO & CERO Z. The Kodomomuke Demographic Actually is Close to the Underused ESRB Rating EC for Early Childhood

[@stefanoiulli5462]

​​@@joerey9340 if You Counted the Kiddie Manga Serialized in Shounen Magazines, Dr Slump, Tottemo Luckyman & Midori no makibao (Jump), Mahou GuruGuru (Gangan) and Cowa!. Are those Manga Really for Adolescents?

[@carbaddict7670]

As of now, Hunters Guild: Red Hood, Candy Flurry, and Neru: Way of The Martial Artist have all been outlived by a manga about a child having amnesia

[@smilertvgaming-jn7hl]

I'm currently reading Kaiju #8 and I don't know where to place it lol

[@pabloconstantinocastillobr2234]

Fight spirit is low key the most reallistic anime I ever saw

[@tornado2366]

You mean hajime no ippo?

[@pabloconstantinocastillobr2234]

@@tornado2366 YES thanks i didn't know how to write that name

[@JustAsh001]

​@@pabloconstantinocastillobr2234that show is goat. Best show I have ever seen

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

It's called Knock Out in the Philippines

[@SirDieALot666]

And by far one of the most badass good looking mangas ever. Up to 1400 episodes and counting

[@fantasylord4766]

I just want a My Vampire System anime

[@annonymously331]

There was a gang fight in slam dunk and I think some of them got injured pretty bad

[@nahumlopez1769]

Haikyuuu will be the most realistic so far

[@akiflol281]

The main biggest reason there is, is the fact that an author would need to pump out chapter after chapter with a realistic art style which would take longer than a stylistic manga. Mangakas already have it bad, trying to do realistic manga would make it worse. Plus realism doesnt sell to the younger demographic.

[@maziksizik5601]

i dont think he was talking about art style tho...😅

[@theinktician]

​@@maziksizik5601still correct though

[@reddfeather8007]

The last thing I'd call JoJo is realistic

[@ImKamsy]

"The Royal Tutor" is a shonen anime where there's no killing 🤦‍♂️

[@TheFLAMEXD]

I mean, I don't like realistic settings all that much anyway. So that doesn't bother me.

[@Greshgore]

Exactly, to me the whole point of that kind of thing is escapism. If I wanted to read about real life, there's tons of nonfiction media to consume.

[@thomasffrench3639]

@@Greshgorebro nonfiction and wanting realistic stories are two separate things. I sure get bored of escapism if it’s the only thing that exists.

[@x10018ro]

@@thomasffrench3639 finally someone said it. Non fiction is not necessarily unrealistic and fiction is not necessarily realistic.

[@thegamerfe8751]

​@@Greshgoredude, realistic doesn't mean it's real life but in a manga/story. Realistic means that when someone gets shot in the head or has their heart crushed they actually die, not having a dude going bald from training so hard and being able to throw punches in the past while being in the present and destroying a planet, or stuff like that. For example, Fullmetal Alchemist is quite realistic, if alchemy in the way FMA does it was a thing IRL it could pass a based on a real story for example, it has fictitious elements but they're done realistically and don't go overboard. You don't see Ed flying by jumping really hard, he and everyone else are still bound to real laws of physics and the likes, just with an added element of magic. Realistic in fiction means not going overboard and feeling like it could be real.

[@nicodalusong149]

​@@thomasffrench3639Ah yes, exactly why everyone is so burnt out with isekai anime. There's way too much of it that folks want to see something else for a change.

[@galebourn]

Akane-banashi is in Weekly Shounen Jump though.

[@boringbone]

Did you forget that arc in Slam Dunk where the school delinquents were beating the shit out of the Shohoku boys. Slam Dunk did have people trying to kill each other lmao

[@HA-ck2xq]

My new favorite "You and I are Polar Opposites" are in Shueisha. They're pretty realistic (if not the the most realistic thing I read recently)

[@blainewilliams394]

Imagine complaining that comics aren’t realistic

[@B0risTheBlade]

There was this great anime about a group writing and selling mqnga at conventions. Anyone knows what it was called? I really liked it too

[@AleonNovelle]

Ain't no way you said Slam Dunk was realistic, tell me a basketball player that can dunk and stay midair for 1 week 😂

[@ruga129]

There can be manga with settings like renting a girlfriend, etc etc but with school fight and bit of not completely unrealistic stuff (i am making assumptions as I don't read any sort of romantic magas and I don't use any dedicated app for specif manga like shonen jump for dragon ball, etc and something else for black clover

[@LBAW]

Hikaru No Go is the most realistic one that comes to mind, save for the ghost. But I haven’t finished it so I don’t know if any other crazy stuff happens.

[@NACentDSTM]

Nope that’s it amazing anime and I really wished they continued it

[@IdeaOfEvil]

Flying Colors Foundation review when?

[@tylermorgan5230]

Hey anime man l love your channel i have bin fan since 2018 keep up the good work

[@neofulcrum5013]

I’m kinda disappointed we don’t have any more Tom Clancy style tactical animes out there. Groundless should get an adaptation.

[@1-lil_nico]

I've searched a thousand times of an anime similar to welcome to the nhk but i didn't find any

[@David-lq6de]

Your telling me i read a shonen jump that's the statue David in a romance high school with the painting venus

[@MajinDKes]

Alien area and Noah’s notes were brilliant

[@RobotFistFight]

One that KINDA sticks out as realistic was Hikaru no go (beyond the ghosts, unless you believe in them) I never got to read too much into it, so I'm unaware of gonna on in later chapters, but it seemed to largely fit the bill

[@unknowngamer37415]

You can have almost anything be unrealistic and that's fine. Shows anime manga and books only the problems when they try and put something as realistic when it doesn't feel that way. No one questions the force in Star wars or how shouts work in Skyrim. What bothers them is when a character like Delphine sees a dragon resurrecting the other dragons and thinks the thalmor are doing it. The resurrection of dragons isn't played as realistic but delphin is supposed to be a human who thinks normally.

[@Diana-whathappenedin97]

When I hear that popular KZbinrs have editors and stuff, I’m like naaaah, look at this vid

[@jaysuskrist]

Some non-power/sports focused shounen are Horimiya, Your Lie In April, Komi-san, Nozaki-kun, A Silent Voice, Nagatoro