So does anyone else have any special criteria when choosing a shounen/seinen manga? For me, and this goes mostly for shounen, if the first line is "I'm just an average ____ school student who's no good at athletics or classwork..." I drop it at the first page.

Also if it doesn't say flat out that he's an 'average student' and I get far enough to the point where he meets his katana-wielding love interest, I stop there. One Shakugan no Shana is more than enough.

For shounen/seinen that isn't yuri, shoujo-ai or hentai, I only look at action manga. When I get to a series page, if there is no mention of a female character in the main description (unless there's a sexy girl on the cover), I'll usually turn right around. Reading it has one of those obvious loser leads might work as well though.

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hmmm... no. well, not really. i hate sports stuff that had no ecchi content so..

First thing I look at is teh art, I just can't get into a series if the art is bad. Next I look to see if the characters sound interesting (no whiny failures) and if the plot doesn't sound too bad I'll read it.

If it says Shounen in the tags, I won't read it.
If it says Seinen, I will read it.

If it didn't made me laugh then into the Garbage List...

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just CARL is fine

seinen and no romance tags.

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Nah, I pretty much read everything. Ecchi is usually only read if I really have nothing else to read. Seinen is probably the only demographics I don't look at the other tags at all 🤣

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If it says Shounen in the tags, I won't read it.
If it says Seinen, I will read it.

This.

Also, by looking at the cover (I know, don't judge a book by its cover, but oftentimes you really can). For example if it's got a girl with little clothes on posing in a fanservice-y way, I can assume the rest of the manga will have the same thing, and I don't read it.
I can't think of another example, but yeah... judge a book by its cover!
It's the first thing the publishers know you will see, so with it they advertise to the people who would enjoy it the most.

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read almost everything, exept thing like yaoi, yuri, shounen-ai and shoujo ( most of the time ).
The rest well i prefer a good drawing than a poor one and a descent story.

I have don't specifically look for anything in particular, but according to my completed list, it seems that I prefer comedy with my shounen.

If I see some type of action or dialogue in the first volume that's so bad that it either makes me roll my eyes or rage, I'll drop it.

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