Question for Manga readers... Is it a Josei or Seinen?

This question is pretty wild, not only for trying to create a forced perception of demographics based on how challenged you feel by a work from the perspective of a female character, but also for believing that the presence of any of the things you mentioned is what defines market demographics, It seems like a very funny trauma and insecurity about womens. Lol.

Is it like Kusuriya where i can enjoy this without being a chick?

@ropiel Can both guys and girls enjoy it? Yes. Would YOU enjoy it? How the hell would we know lol

Is it like Kusuriya where i can enjoy this without being a chick?

@ropiel This may come a big shock, but you can also enjoy female demo media without being a chick.

@tabbycat35 chara design looks cool i'll try it tomorrow and pray i do

@ropiel Ok Here's a real answer to your question. I have read a fair bit of the Kusuriya no Hitorigoto novel and I've watched the show. I've read up to volume 6 or 7 (out of 8 so far) of the Raise wa Tanin ga Ii manga so I can give a rough comparison.

I thought the Kusuriya anime did a great job, but they also did a slightly better job of pacing in the anime than the novel did. A novel has a lot of content they can afford to edit out or change as long as you have a good director/writers. Plus a novel assumes you are going to sit down and read it from start to finish (or at least in chunks) so it can support a more complex story line. So you are starting from a slightly higher bar imo.

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii has released 8 volumes over 7 years. Assuming you are reading each volume 1 year apart (or in the serialized magazine however often it is released) the pacing is completely different. Even if a manga has a high page count, a lot of the space is filled with illustrations rather than dialogue. Basically, Raise wa Tanin ga Ii has a shallower story line. You can expect a richer visual experience, but a less fleshed out story line. This is where it's all going to be up to the production company to fill the gap. How will they do? We will have to find out. So far the first episode has followed the manga ok. They've done the humor well, but I am a bit iffy on the dramatic parts. Kirishima is supposed to flip from pretty normal to fairly creepy with a flip of a switch. The manga captures the atmosphere well in still frames, but the anime makes the moments feel more sleazy than dangerous to me. Yoshino is supposed to feel kind of Imperial when she snaps. Looking at people's comments, they seems to have liked her reaction, but I am not sure it conveyed her sense of absolute contempt as well as it could have.

I absolutely loved the manga the first time reading it, but I was reading it as it was released so there were long gaps between readings. I reread some of the manga just a few days ago in 1 sitting and since I knew the twists and gimmicks already it wasn't as exciting, but it was decent. Some of the emotional tension was drawn out for too long imo, but that's something the anime can address through editing and pacing. So fingers crossed the production team can pull it off.

Uuuh, just going to put it out there, but if a seinen character ISN't being written for the male gaze they need to reconsider their publisher. That is literally who it's being marketed for. Literally, how and where are they advertising and spending their money to get eyes on their product. If it's mis-marketed, that's a shame for both the writer and the readers. As for whether a well written female character is only written for a female audience? Of course not. Is a well written female character appealing to women? Yes! Is a well written female character appealing to men? Yes! Women read seinen, men read jousei. We can all agree on that yes? But when you ask is a story a seinen or jousei it's kind of like just asking, 'Is this the type of story that would appeal to me?'. None of us knows the answer to that so we can only just answer vaguely what we felt about the writing style. Genre's bleed into each other. Ultimately it was picked up by seinen publisher yes, but if a jousei one said yes first or offered more money for it I have little doubt it would have been published there. Personally I just hope the mangaka is getting the best deal out of it so they will be encouraged to keep doing the story.

True though I’ve read a number of manga that were honestly published in the wrong demographic magazine. Like Orange was published in a seinen magazine but it 100% appeals more to shoujo demographics. Same with Our Dreams at Dusk - published in seinen but anyone who’s read it will think it’s more Shounen/Josei

Nah, men don't read josei, It's for women.

Nah, men don't read josei, It's for women.

@rocknard Plenty of men read Chihayafuru or Usagi Drop

@bastek66 I readed both of them, but it is not the "typical" Girl with 5 bishoujo men around her.

Maybe i'm picking the extreme of the spectrum of "josei", but i consider usagi and chihaya is "mild" Josei from the typical drama with many mens around showing their bodies to her with a date for each one archetype of male.

Maybe i don't say all the Josei, but one without much meddling with many mens.

In this case i'm seeing "Raise wa Tanin ga Ii", but i genuily don't like others mens messing with the woman of main character. So obviously the Josei genre collides with the male sector.