Feo Takahari
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I'm wondering, has anyone else read Deadman Wonderland? It was kind of an interesting experience for me--I assumed it was seinen at first, because it was willing to go in very dark directions, but the farther I read, the more obvious the shonen tropes became. The thing was, it wasn't at all wedded to those tropes, ready to play with or even make fun of tropes that wouldn't work if used directly. (For instance, it set up one of those generic time-wasting fights with minor villains that often show up in shonen, then killed them off in a couple panels and got back to the story.) I wound up liking it more than most of the shonen I've read that played the genre straight.