I don't think there is anything in the world that would make a boy interested in shoujo genre, at least if he wasn't initially into those lovey-dovey stories. But making a shounen appealing for girls is easy, just add several comrades who are even stronger and more handsome than the main character.
It might seem that due to this, 'Tokyo ravens' is head and shoulders above other shounen series - you know, since apart from a typical harem of a shy tsundere plus a loud tsundere plus a positive girl also tsundere a bit and a tsundere loli, gathering around the main character, there is a nice harem comprised of a loyal friend, a mysterious teacher, a righteous warrior and several other types.
Is it enough to make a shounen good? Unfortunately, no. It's probably not the best idea to try outwit yourself when writing the story. Setting a premise of an adult world where everybody lies means creating a maze, but it's no good when the creator of the maze forgets, well, not the way out, but the very fact that such a way is necessary.
I swear there are other anime based on an unfinished work or simply not that allow for the ending to feel like a real ending, at least of certain chapter. Unfortunately, instead of the culmination I was hoping for - a culmination for only this section - things gain momentum up until the second half of the last episode, but if there's no time to untangle what has been messed, there's no peak as well. The crude attempt to end the chapter in a moment of romance fails in my eyes, because, I must confess, I don't find it particularly appealing when the guy only realises and confesses his feelings after his beloved get killed... As did fail the attempt to show that there is nobody wrong or right in the real world, which is why former friends and colleagues turn into enemies and former foes can become allies... It's also too crude, you know. I bet by the end of the series nobody of those dudes fighting other dudes at full blast could say what they were fighting for. Or not fighting, as for some of them.
What a waste of nice music, especially that opening by I've Sound reminding of some of the most recognisable songs of Shimamiya Eiko, wonderful voice acting and, I'm surprised at myself for saying this, art, including the 3d parts.
And what a waste of this beautiful concept of modernXcombat onmyodo. Those spells intertwining mantras and ancient words sound absolutely magical.
Is it enough to make a shounen good? Unfortunately, no. It's probably not the best idea to try outwit yourself when writing the story. Setting a premise of an adult world where everybody lies means creating a maze, but it's no good when the creator of the maze forgets, well, not the way out, but the very fact that such a way is necessary.
I swear there are other anime based on an unfinished work or simply not that allow for the ending to feel like a real ending, at least of certain chapter. Unfortunately, instead of the culmination I was hoping for - a culmination for only this section - things gain momentum up until the second half of the last episode, but if there's no time to untangle what has been messed, there's no peak as well. The crude attempt to end the chapter in a moment of romance fails in my eyes, because, I must confess, I don't find it particularly appealing when the guy only realises and confesses his feelings after his beloved get killed... As did fail the attempt to show that there is nobody wrong or right in the real world, which is why former friends and colleagues turn into enemies and former foes can become allies... It's also too crude, you know. I bet by the end of the series nobody of those dudes fighting other dudes at full blast could say what they were fighting for. Or not fighting, as for some of them.
What a waste of nice music, especially that opening by I've Sound reminding of some of the most recognisable songs of Shimamiya Eiko, wonderful voice acting and, I'm surprised at myself for saying this, art, including the 3d parts.
