[quote=@Archmage MC]If you don't want over the top and want something more mild instead of spice, then you might not wanna mention shonen. Sounds like your wanting something more like Super Sentai, where things aren't as over the top and follow a theme, even if the story itself can be very nonsensical. [/quote]
I would disagree that sentai shows are less over the top than shounen, though I guess I shouldn't say too much as I don't know too much about sentai

[quote]To be fair, death means almost nothing in most shonen animes, even the serious ones. Someone is going to be brought back by alchemy, or by dragonballs, or the like. And your probably going to need a system like this in place if you want a large character RP in shonen, as everyone will want to be the 'main character', and in shonen ones where death means something, the main character never dies or dies at the very end. And that sort of storytelling doesn't work when there will be 10+ main characters running around.

Or go the One Peace route and people are ultra durable and hardly ever die. No matter how bad the situation is. And only save death for a device where you need to progress the story.
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I don't agree with this. Apart from the obvious Dragon Ball Z example, there aren't really that many examples of characters being revived in shounen that I can think of. Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's the perception I've always had