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Which is the greatest Shonen of all time?? (Patreon)

Published:
2026-11-06 14:00:13
Imported:
2026-11

Poll

Which is the greatest Shonen of all time??

  • One Piece 84
  • Detective Conan 3
  • Dragon Ball 61
  • Naruto 45
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 5
  • Slam Dunk 8
  • KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops 1
  • Jujutsu Kaisen 25
  • Attack on Titan 94
  • Bleach 165
  • 2026-11-05
  • 491 votes
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Content

Here's the top 10 best-selling shonen manga...which fandom are you a part of and what do you enjoy most about it?? 👀

If your favourite one isn't here, comment the name of your no.1 down below!

I'll be posting some shonen-related content this week, collabing with some other awesome anime reactors!

More info on SHONEN WEEK: HERE

My heart breaks, but Jojo's JUST misses the cut, at approximately 120 million+ copies sold

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Comments

misery

i’m the first commenter 🕺

Ramen Human

I would've voted Jojos if it was on here Voted Dragon Ball because it's iconic lol

Kosaki

Bleach is the first manga/anime I’ve ever experienced. And the feeling of yelling “BAN…KAI” 🗡️

Mordraug

Yep... JoJo is baaarely off (maybe now it might be there since it's been a while since that figure came) but outside od JoJo it's for sure One Piece and Attack Titan which together with Re:Zero and HxH are in my Top 5. 1. JoJo 2 & 3. One Piece (and Hunter x Hunter) 4 & 5. Attack Titan (and Re:Zero) They are fluid depending on the time, so the rankings may slightly change but yeah. And yeah, Re:Zero is Seinen technically (but so is JoJo from Pork Pie Hat Kid)

SLMNDR

Gintama

Akihisa

gintama because it is jack of all trades., literally or figuratively

Dooly

Dragon Ball. It’s not a perfect series but its impact can’t be ignored.

Only Scrubs

Kubo's approach to storytelling in Bleach has fans to this day, discovering secrets about the characters and lore. Subtlety is king; if it is hidden, it's the flower. The character design and fashion, especially in some of the manga covers with characters in everyday clothing had fans jokingly call him a fashion designer. The story of sacrifice and heroism, and the tragedy those things bring when thrusted upon a teenager who's name means one who protects. The character relations, especially during TYBW are fantastic and the action is incredible.

DsPG

Out of these it’s gotta be Aot

Simone

hunter x hunter and yu yu hakusho are peak shounen

Jonas Teigen

GINTAMA is the greatest imo 🔥🔥🔥 It's unlike any other anime out there. It has every genre and pretty much everything you could want from an anime and more, with some of the best characters and story arcs of all time. A once-in-a-lifetime experience for me. I wouldn't recommend it to casual anime fans, though, since it's a very anime-culture-heavy experience that gets even better the more familiar you are with anime and Japanese culture. True endgame anime experience.

Frent

Hunter x Hunter. And if you haven't seen it yet Steph, I hope you check it out on your channel some day.

Starvvoy

Mob Psycho 100 🧘‍♂️

Spade9th

Attack on titan and I genuinely don’t think anything comes close

Barry

Yeah, I'd have voted HxH, it blows everything else out of the water, no matter that I love Bleach much more.

The Struggler

Greatest written show Naruto Berserk Game of Thrones Attack on titan These four show has same feeling and one core conclusion (Love) Not about war, crime,betrayal. There's many shows that I've not mentioned here and even one show made out of my own life. Coz these four show for me is eternal. As you grow older your love for these show grows more and more Just like an Infinity.

Gyro

Hunter X Hunter

Elia Z

Buhleeechhuu.

ichigo

I'll say Bleach for consistency and good wriitng. I can't say too much here for obvious reasons but 99% of what Kubo writes has meaning and theres always a reason for almost everything that happens. the same can't be said for the likes of Naruto or One Piece and shows like Conan drag on for so eternally long that the story no longer makes sense or feels good to watch.

Seraphina

In terms of the one I love the most, with the most layered storytelling, hidden meaning and nuance, it's Bleach. But in terms of cultural footprint, genre defining blueprint and laying the foundations for everything that came after: It's Dragonball. DBZ created modern Shounin., and the genre wound not exist as it does today without it. Everything that came after borrowed from and improved upon its formula. But, without it, I don't know if any of the above series would exist in the form that they did.

Umineko peak fiction

JJK is my personal favorite. In terms of manga and writing prob D Gray Man is the written and complex shounen.

Ramen Human

She would LOVE chimera ant

Barry

I think that theres a difference between being great and being impactful. If popularity defines how good something is then Pokemon is the best show of all time.

Sahid Aktar

Umineko fan and jjk as your favourite shonen is crazy

Umineko peak fiction

JJK character writing is heavily underrated. Yuji is full stop one of the best shounen MCs. Shounen is suppose to be hype which JJK also excels at.

kenneth

I have not watched most of these, so I can only pick between what I have seen, Bleach Naruto and Dragon ball. For me it was Bleach mainly cause I love the cast of bleach, and the author handles a huge cast like this and it feels like everyone gets there moments through out the story. You get to learn quite a bit and connect with nearly everyone not just a handful. Also cause it has Kon ! that alone might have tipped it to bleach lol

Barack O. Llama

naruto is my fav but aot is obviously the best

Seraphina

I didn't argue about popularity, I argued about cultural influence and how much it shaped the genre. Those are very different criteria. Commercial success is not the same as structural influence. In its particular genre, Pokemon IS the greatest and most influential anime of all time; but is isn't a shounin. It's a kodomomuke; granted, a stupidly successful one that went on to create its own sub-genre of 'monster taming' stories. But it still isn't a shounin, even though people in the West often group it among shounin anime. Sailor Moon is another one; it essentially created the Sentai style 'Magical Girl' sub-genre as we know it today, which went on to become the blueprint. It has a format that has been parodied and copied many, many times (also, I think it kind of funny that Sailor Moon could break the breaks off of Goku, or any DBZ character, with zero effort whatsoever, despite the fact she isn't a Shounin character - it built is own power scaling and formula defining legacy outside of shounin). But, again, not a shounin. Which is what the conversation is about. Sailor Moon and DBZ both created a formula that would influence countless manga and anime that followed it. So did Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell; all of these created a genre defining blueprint and influenced anime and manga in ways that Pokemon never did. Even if we can agree that Pokemon achieved wider mainstream success. Pokemone was a commercial success. The other anime/manga I've named were a paradigm shift.

Pendro

honestly surprised bleach got this many votes. It's by far the one i've had the hardest time getting into. I don't find the writing to be all that interesting and i have a hard time connecting with the characters, especially the MC. The art i find to be really cool and i like the environments. Soundtrack is also cool. Is the manga miles better than the anime? I watched for around 80 episodes before dropping it. I just don't see the appeal.

Will Chamberlain (edited)

Comment edits

2026-11-07 23:00 Okay, wait is bleach better than one piece. I was expecting a one piece bop with this poll but apparently its bleach? (And aot somehow)
2026-11-07 15:56 Okay, wait is bleach better than one piece? I was expecting a one piece bop with this poll but apparently its bleach? (And aot somehow)

Okay, wait is bleach better than one piece? I was expecting a one piece bop with this poll but apparently its bleach? (And aot somehow)

Rio

Ya there had to be a dragonball retard everywhere. No wonder the fanbase gets hate

Rio

Well the manga at start is way better, the anime studio cut of many scenes(they did orihime dirty) and the anime was heavily censored but later the anime is better especially tybw is one of the best anime arcs(way better than manga). Also skip the fillers, people complain about it but it's not that hard to get a filler list online

Cranidos' Skull

the poll is about manga. anime wise dragon ball probably gets bottom 3 vote

Cranidos' Skull

jjk as anyones favorite isnt crazy at all. its the best modern shonen for a reason, and it excels at exactly what the genre is meant to do.

Otaku Steph

As someone who’s only about 40 episodes into bleach I couldn’t agree more - there’s so much to talk about in regards to character motivations and subtext of it. I was hooked from the very start!

Otaku Steph

I haven’t seen HxH yet but it’s been on my watchlist 👀👀

Otaku Steph

OOO ur very first?! That’s so cool. Nothing ever beats the first one!!

Otaku Steph

I have yet to experience the PEAK that is Gintama! I’m not sure if I’d fully understand the references, but as someone who watches an unhealthy amount of anime, perhaps there is hope for me 👀

Otaku Steph

Ooo this is an interesting take! I have been told the manga is much better, as the anime adaptation leaves a lot of details out. i’m currently really enjoying Bleach (I’m anime-only, at 42 episodes in) and intending to read the manga alongside soon!

Elia Z

That mexican boxer trained by a MALE cat anime

Jonas Teigen

To get your hopes up, I didn't understand a lot of the references when I first watched Gintama. Most of the references are to the Big Three, DBZ, JoJo, and some other series. And I still haven't seen DBZ or many of the other shows it references, but I still loved it, and it's now my favorite series by a mile. The references are more like a bonus. They're funny if you get them, but they're often still funny even if you don't. You definitely don't need to understand every reference to enjoy the show. I think you'd really enjoy it.

Akihisa

Yeah . One of my fav episode in gintama is the saint seiya episode. The context clue is enough that the joke hit.

Alan

Either bleach or hxh, both were just too good! Naruto is a solid 3rd and last one piece, while it’s good in its own way, the pacing was just too much I had to drop it but did continue with the manga.