Gintama has the most, loud and unapologetic female characters who shatter Shonen anime tropes for female characters.

In the following list we shall be discussing some of the most underrated shounen anime of all time and their protagonists.

Monkey D. Luffy is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and the main protagonist of One Piece. In 2025, Luffy went toe-to-toe ...

Shonen Jump is the biggest name in anime, and for good reason; their manga are always among the most popular, critically and ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Non-Japanese characters in Japanese cartoons can be a tricky topic. Most characters in ...

The most refreshing shonen anime of 2025, known for its unconventional tropes, ultimately aligned itself with a conventional ...

Horikoshi flips Spider-Man’s premise on its head. In the first chapter of My Hero Academia, protagonist Izuku Midoriya (aka, ...

Meet Dev, an avid writer, cat lover, and anime enthusiast. He has a passion for storytelling, traveling, and new adventures. Shonen anime captivates young male audiences with action, relatable ...

The genre of shonen anime is mainly responsible for the plethora of anime fans today. Over the past few years, Japanese animation has only grown more popular with Western audiences, and shonen anime ...

Fairytale ushered in the end of the 2010 shonen era and provided everything a shonen anime should, but didn’t make as big an impact as most others in this list. Belonging to the fantasy genre, the ...

Manga/anime characters Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece and Son Goku from Dragon Ball at an anime fair in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) Shonen Jump, a weekly Japanese manga magazine, has seen ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Hit anime series Spy X Family doesn't have a video game adaptation--yet--but at least one of the show's characters will be playable in Captain Velvet ...