User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 449: Mavis & Zeref, Review./@comment-153.91.203.135-20150825173455/@comment-4829046-20150825174605

I think it's best if you ignore it. This kind of thing happens even in nonsensical shows like pokemon. It is a subject that transcends this medium and extends to all modes of fiction(sometimes reality too) and will be there as long as fans are diverse. But using "I'ts a shounen" is wrong I feel. There are still romance shounen; And there are action shounen where people have shipped characters simply for meeting and said ships had genuinely sailed. It depends on the author actually. Some *cough*Kubo*cough* explicitly state that there will be no romantic relations between characters while others use it as a major plot device.