I dont hate shonens, i just resent how shonen fans say stuff like moeshit, so i use shonenshit bc it has at least as many flaws as a genre. and ive liked shonens occassionally... FMA is a shonen for example. but i tend to not like them because i dont care about boys and yaoi that much on its own, im not really a shotacon (only when i love him will i love him for being a shota) and stories revolving around training and fighting are like really boring to me. so like, hanako-kun was also an exception to this because its called a shonen and serialized in a shonen publication, but it has plenty of female characters, and by genre, is more of a shoujo since it has a focus on romance and relationships. not to mention its bug eyed art style. going back to fma, i fell off in the latter half of the story bc the focus of the story shifted from personal to the protagonists to being more of a global concern. my issue with stories that do this (also common in capeshit) is that it makes the characters chemistry and relationships and personal needs/goals completely irrelevant- now we all have the same shared goal thats a matter of life and death, so we have to tolerate each other even if we hate each other, and as soon as that threats over well never speak to each other again. just, kind of boring. an adventure should be more interesting than this. made in abyss isnt shonen but it is adventure and manages to be interesting bc it never loses its personal/intimate character focus. even big battles and fight scenes are the emotionally loaded culmination of character development. arakawa who wrote fma also mentioned women were expected to write emotions better than convoluted plotlines, which is considered more of a male strength in authors and she wanted to contradict this. which is a shame, bc lore and plot should absolutely come second to character imo, i dont really give a fuck what men think