I play Zero the One Who Feels No Pain with an attack level of 2000

[tempestuously]

I find it amusing that people while one sect of the fandom calls Loveless a shonen ai series (I'm guilty of this and leaning toward fixing my reviews), another group can call Loveless a shounen series. From what I've seen of the manga and the anime, it's clearly shoujo. No, it's not because of the BL-implications (real or false), it's because its focus is on characters and relationships (friendship counts too =P). Shounen tends to focus on objectives. There are some hybrids that bend the rules and those are becoming more prolific. Fullmetal Alchemist fit into this niche, although when I'm feeling bold I'll push it more toward shounen for its overall focus on the Stone. But yeah, if Loveless was shoujo we would see a hell of a lot more fighting and less episodes devoted to why Soubi isn't all there or why Ritsuka is moody or why Kouya and Yamato can't function without each other. I get a laugh out of the "deeply gay Pokemon" joke but Pokemon (like Yugioh, like Digimon, like Shaman King, like Naruto, like Prince of Tennis, like Hikaru no Go) always have a clear objective: to be the very best or the strongest. While wining would be important in Loveless, it's clearly not an objective the main characters actively strive for. (I do admit making Ritsuka a better sacrifice is a big deal.) Therefore, not shounen. The mecha anime cause problems but they usually have a key focus too: to end the war or destroy each other in the process. Note, I'm not saying that shounen doesn't have its own character agenda because half of the time shounen characters are more emotionally realistic than shoujo ones, who prance and angst about. Now it would be cool if I could recall any shoujo fighting series to better support my arguement. I would say Card Captor Sakura but I'm fairly sure if Sakura was a guy, that series would be totally shonen. or shonen ai since she would still be in love with Li. Uh...Utena?