The trailer for Kaiju No.8 presents a different type of shonen anime

One thing you can count on in the shonen anime genre is consistency. With several decades under its belt, shonen storytelling has gathered a reliable series of tropes that fans have come to love over the years. In addition to the copious tropes that power the genre, there is also a litany of familiar plot structures that shonen loyalists unconsciously expect from most of the stories they consume. — Read the rest