Death Note and Claymore

Not that I'm a butthurt shounenfag but how come they're considered shounen?

Yeah I understand that shounen is everything for 13 to18 year olds and that makes sense but how come I never hear any distinction between the young shounen (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, etc,) and the old shounen?

Because there isn't any distinction. All anime is for kids. Even hentai. It's porn for children, childporn.

>>1
Because they are published in a magazine with a audience in that year range. And sometimes the manga can be considered something else than "just"  shounen but that has more to do with the elements present within the manga and less about which publisher it belongs to. That said many publishers like Weekly Shonen Jump have their distinctive rules set of where the authors can and cannot go with their manga.

>>3
where the authors can and cannot go with their manga.
Sex right?

Anime is for 40 year old Japanese men who delight in looking at cartoonish naked flesh, dreaming of what they could have had if they didn't offend the prostitutes that they hired