Look Back and Goodbye, Eri are both one-shots and quite good.
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I thought hiatus means that there is simply a break.
I mean, shounen, like shoujo, is a demographic. But it is sometimes treated like a genre because they often house a very specific set of genres; action (particularly "battlers", like Dragonball), sports, comedy, detective stories and romance are among the big ones. It also invites some very specific themes like the value of hard work and friendship. But sometimes there are series that break the mold or go a bit different, like slice of life series, horror series (though most horror shounen as of late have been of the action variety, at least that I'm away of) and series about being a creative. And some series start as one genre and continue into another; Kinnikuman famously started out as a gag manga that became more of an action series as it went on. But I think shounen is synonymous with a formula. It just doesn't have to be it. Hunter X Hunter is still a shounen series but it is also one that allows itself to branch out and not be hemmed in. Similarly, there are other popular battle manga that don't do power scaling (Jojo started that way and kind of stopped, mostly focusing on using wits to escape a dangerous situation than relying on a new power-up). It should be noted that Level E is also a Togashi-penned shounen series that didn't fit into the conventional boxes. But it is still that.I know, genres are always kinda vague, but this has long ago stopped being shonen, right? I mean, I don't really know what the word exactly means, but since that Battle Tower arc, there have been nearly no battles (except for a handful, but there are long parts without any real fighitng), powerscaling isn't really a thing, and just...the Election arc and the Succession War now are something completely different, it seems to me.
Look up Heterogenous Linguistics. I last checked in on it a few months ago, but at that point it was a very meaty dive into speculative RPG-monster linguistics, by way of a linguist traveling to an island of monsters and doing an ethnography. Page-by-page web manga format.
Oh, yeah, speaking of, that's coming out in English next month.
It's been on my radar since you talked about it on the old board. I'm looking forward to it.