Editing Shōnen manga (section)

===Visual style===
[[File:Cosplay - AWA15 - Naruto Uzumaki derivate.png|upright=0.8|thumb|A [[cosplay]]er dressed as [[Naruto Uzumaki]] from ''[[Naruto]]'', displaying the characteristic "spiky" hairstyle]]

Comics theorist [[Neil Cohn]] regards the art style of {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} as generally "edgier" than that of {{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} manga, and notes how most regular manga readers are able to easily distinguish between {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} and {{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} based on visual appearance alone.{{sfn|Cohn|2010|p=189}} Visually, a {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} protagonist often possesses what manga critic [[Jason Thompson (writer)|Jason Thompson]] describes as "insanely spiky hair" that distinguishes the protagonist's [[silhouette]] from that of other characters.{{sfn|Thompson|2007|pp=338-340}} The eyes of {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} characters in the post-war period are [[Manga iconography#Facial features|significantly smaller than those of characters in {{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} manga]]; large eyes are used in {{Transliteration|ja|shōjo}} manga to better convey the emotions of the characters, an aspect which has historically been given less focus in {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} manga.{{sfn|Levi|1996|p=9}} A common visual device in {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} action scenes is to depict the contours of figures with rough, coarse [[motion lines]] to give the appearance of movement.{{sfn|Hui|2013|p=229}}