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Shonen vs Shoneen - What's the difference?

shonen | shoneen |

As nouns the difference between shonen and shoneen

is that shonen is a style of anime and manga for an audience of young boys while shoneen is (anglo-irish, derogatory ) one who prefers english attitudes, customs or lifestyle to irish ones.

As an adjective shonen

is being in the style of shonen manga or anime.

shonen

English

Alternative forms

* * shounen

Noun

(-)
  • A style of anime and manga for an audience of young boys.

    • Coordinate terms

    * shojo (female audience)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being in the style of shonen manga or anime.

    • Coordinate terms

    * shojo (female audience) ----

    shoneen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Anglo-Irish, derogatory ) One who prefers English attitudes, customs or lifestyle to Irish ones.
  • * 1889': Good Father John O'Hart / In penal days rode out / To a ' shoneen who had free lands / And his own snipe and trout. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Father O'Hart’
  • * 1922': So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the '''shoneens that can’t speak their own language — James Joyce, ''Ulysses