Seinen manga

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Seinen) Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with Adult comics (????, also read as "seinen manga"). Question book-new.svg This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2010) Part of a series on Anime and Manga Anime eye.svg Anime History • Longest series Industry • Companies ONA • OVA Fansub • Fandub Manga History • Publishers Scanlation • Dojinshi International market Longest series Mangaka (List) Demographic groups Children Shonen • Shojo Seinen • Josei Genres Harem • Magical girl Mecha • Yaoi • Yuri Selected biographies Shotaro Ishinomori Rakuten Kitazawa Koichi Mashimo Katsuji Matsumoto Leiji Matsumoto Hayao Miyazaki Go Nagai Yoshiyuki Tomino Shoji Kawamori Toshio Suzuki Osamu Tezuka Year 24 Group Fandom Conventions (list) • Clubs • Cosplay Anime music video • Otaku Yaoi fandom General Omake • Terminology Anime and Manga Portal * v * t * e Seinen manga (?????) is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 18–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters. (The female equivalent to seinen manga is josei manga.) It has a wide variety of art styles and more variation in subject matter, ranging from the avant-garde to the pornographic. Seinen manga is distinguished from shonen, or boys' manga, by having a stronger emphasis on realism. Because of the emphasis on storyline and character development instead of action, some seinen series are often confused with shojo, or girls' manga.[citation needed] This is especially true of seinen comedy series such as Chobits, and Chi's Sweet Home, or seinen drama such as Twin Spica. Other examples of seinen manga include: Gantz, Battle Royale, 20th Century Boys, Monster, Blame!, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Berserk, Battle Angel Alita, Drifters and Elfen Lied. Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku is sometimes classified as seinen, although this is disputed by some fans. A common way to tell if a manga is seinen is by looking at whether or not furigana is used over the original kanji text: if there are furigana on all kanji, the title is generally aimed at a younger audience. The title of the magazine it was published in is also an important indicator. Usually Japanese manga magazines with the word "young" in the title (Weekly Young Jump for instance) are seinen. Other popular seinen manga magazines include Ultra Jump, Afternoon, and Big Comic.