demography (kodomo/shonen) and storytelling (monster of the week/long term plot) are completely different things and some people are mixing them up here. There are MOTW-type shonen, even MOTW-type adult series like CSI. MOTW shows are dying everywhere anyway. Now people binge series on streaming platforms and want to enjoy them as if it was a very long movie.
And demography is blurry, this or that series is called "shonen" because suits said so. Somehow attack on titan is shonen and one punch man is seinen, based on exactly what? Just the magazine that published them.
the ashnime was a hybrid that combined a story arc (winning the league) with MOTW episodes. The problem is that every league challenge is fundamentally the same story arc and you can repeat it only so many times in a row before it gets old. And it got old after the Tobias fiasco. Having one setback or even two, it's ok, DP broke the limit. There should have been a new MC for BW+XY, and another MC for SM+Journeys.
>>58005196>Also, a majority of people here think the same way.Nah, hardly. But I get what you mean, at some point you realize the other person is too far gone and just want to mop the floor with him. In the process you might convince some random lurker and that's already a win.
