I wouldn't say it's my AOTS, but it's very very good. Hell I even raved about the first episode in here and how everybody should watch it :3 but i feel like there's very few people outside of maybe me and you who are holding this anime is such high regard. Hence the idea of it being a guilty pleasure of mine :)

Yes it does! It's all about the intention behind the author that defines it's target demographic ... 

You can't exactly say a series is meant for that particular audience aside from the creators themselves ... 

It means that's what the author intended for it's audience to be. Nothing more and nothing less ... 

The concept of "shounen" isn't tied to ANY specific genre. You can have a shounen manga focus on whatever genre the author wants like comedy, music, romance, crime drama's, slice of life, psychological, or anything else that also not action. Just because a manga is published in a magazine that targets younger males doesn't mean that it has to conform to the trends like it's other contemporaries do ... 

Demographics and genres are practically orthogonal notions ... 

Would you agree that the target demographic for Terraformars, Highschool of the dead, Naruto, Bleach, Hunter X Hunter, Attack on Titan, Parasyte The Maxim, One Piece is males?

The age doesn't matter with any those.

Targeting a certain age is basically pointless with anime because there's only anime for young people. None of it is for old folks (40+). What interests adults and teenagers in anime will be probably interest pre-teens and vice versa. The only thing that's really an exception is the actual kid shows. 

 I will ignore you badmouthing jojo and yuyu hakusho for now, but don't do that again...

As for a shounen that goes with your characteristics, one i can think of is Medaka Box, it's really good. At least the manga is, never saw the anime of it. The first few chapters are kind of SoL-like, but then it goes full on shonen after those. Might want to check that one out.

I didn't. I just put those on my "comic book" bracket and usually don't bother with their animes... Medaka does fit it, but I wanted to make sure if that was the newest one before I tried it out... That's what I am trying to say! It's become less common to find tons of long runners in recent years. Series are leaning for shorter "seasons" over the 100+ episode arcs I favor... 

Thing is, I already did older, and Hunter x Hunter had a conception of their world that sort of warded me off... But I agree with the definition of shounen. Shounen means a lot of stuff, so I stick with the purist definition of "superhero fantasy manga with a teen protagonist". It's like comic books as "superhero stories" even though comic books are more than just Justice League and Spiderman... 

That's why we have a label called "males" to consist of that demographic but that doesn't mean age does not matter in specifying the audience either ... 

Anime isn't just for young people, EVERYONE can enjoy it and when people mean "young" they are usually not talking the age of 40 or less but about people of less than 18 years of age ...

It's absolutely not true that practically almost all adults or the younger demographic shares the same interests. There's a reason why Shueisha doesn't lump a lot of the material from weekly young jump into weekly shounen jump ... 

I didn't. I just put those on my "comic book" bracket and usually don't bother with their animes... Medaka does fit it, but I wanted to make sure if that was the newest one before I tried it out... That's what I am trying to say! It's become less common to find tons of long runners in recent years. Series are leaning for shorter "seasons" over the 100+ episode arcs I favor... 

Shounen can't be a genre because it contains many different genres.

To Love-Ru, Bakuman, Sket Dance, Detective Conan, Love Hina, Dagashi Kashi, The World Only God Knows, Nisekoi, Baby Steps, Hayate the Combat Butler, Sankarea, and Yamada-kun & the Seven Witches are all well-known examples of shounen.  None of these would fall into the same genre as, for example, Naruto.

In Japan, there is one, true definition for "shounen":  it's published in a shounen magazine.  Same for the rest of the categories.  It's as simple as that.  That's why when people say they want more shounen series, other people are like, "but what kind of shounen do you want?"  Detective anime?  Sports anime?  Harem anime?  In that context, it doesn't tell us very much.