Shonen Showdown 18: I can’t Believe It’s Not Shonen

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Mitsugi Hiten

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Raggedy Doctor and the illustrious Lady Emiry join you again for another episode of Shonen Showdown. Let’s expand our horizons as we explore some shonen adjacent shojo, seinen, and josei titles. Intro music is "Shonen Showdown Opening" by Syn Strain In The Pentane and the ending music is "Chiptunes" by Liborio Conti (https://www.no-copyright-music.com/) You can support the podcast in the following ways: Merchandise Store: www.AAAShop.info Discord: www.AAADiscord.com Subscribe: www.aaapodcast.com/join Donations: www.aaapodcast.com/donate Patreon: www.patreon.com/AAAPodcast Thank you for your generosity and kindness

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0:00.0	The peak outdated keynote.
0:07.0	The peak outdated keynote overrated, shonenated, Shonan activated.
0:27.2	Welcome to Shonin Showdown.
0:29.0	We are dedicated to making your Shonin brain rot worse.
0:32.1	Or is this Jojo Showdown?
0:35.2	Satan's Showdown?
0:37.0	Jocai Showdown? What?
0:38.5	I don't even know anymore.
0:41.0	What are we talking about?
0:43.9	What is Shonen? Wait, we already did that, though. We already talked about Shonan tropes.
0:49.4	So why are you getting confused by our show? Why are you confusing me for our show?
0:56.2	Well, because today we are doing a topic I have decided to call, I can't believe it's not Shonen.
1:01.9	Because for as many Shonen shows we have seen and discussed and all the tropes in between, there is something we haven't talked about.
1:08.8	Shows that get away with not being
1:11.2	Shonen despite either having the elements, seeming like they're shown in, oftentimes even
1:17.2	being outright confused for being Shonen shows themselves when they are completely in a different
1:24.3	field, genre, topic, demographic, I guess technically is the word entirely.
1:31.2	So today we're going to use this as a chance to talk about a few shows that are decidedly not
1:36.9	shown in, but either fit the bill from a vibes perspective or just kind of tackle some of the
1:43.7	similar elements of them. Yeah. And I think what's
1:48.4	interesting is also when we went over this list beforehand, there were some we agreed and
1:54.5	disagreed on. And I did add one extra little spicy category of, oh my God, this is Shonan?
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