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Feb 9, 2:04 PM
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Why did Jojo's Bizarre Adventure become a seinen after Part 6? Isn't seinen manga marketed towards adults? I would love to hear your opinion on this. Also apparently Part 7 is a reboot of the franchise.
Feb 10, 2:57 AM
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Some points that may be important:
1. JoJos started in 1987, by 2005 a lot of the fans would have been adults anyway.
2. Later JoJos is a lot more violent, sexual, gory, and full of drug references relative to early JoJos.
3. Weekly Shōnen Jump is (shocker) weekly. Ultra Jump is monthly. A monthly production cycle is a lot more suitable for manga with complex plots and/or highly detailed art, and JoJos has both.
4. Writers for Seinen manga tend to have a lot more creative freedom. Shōnen manga has often been expected to conform to particular formulas. Seinen manga are more likely to have flexibility in terms of adherence to genre conventions, what kinds of characters get to be prominent (I have heard it said that WSJ's editors were unhappy with the number of female characters in part 6), and how complex plots are allowed to be.
Feb 10, 3:01 AM
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Specifically part 7 it's a new timeline that comprise part 7-9(most likely the last part considering Araki age). That way it doesn't undermine the end of part 6.
Feb 10, 4:53 AM
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Shortly the audiance grew up as 09philj mentioned above.
Feb 11, 4:19 PM
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It was already a more adult focused Shonen so it just makes sense that it would eventually become seinen.
Feb 19, 3:27 PM
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Essentially the magazine the books were published in changed. The first 23 chapters of Steel Ball Run were actually published in Weekly Shonen Jump, but from Steel Ball Run chapter 24 onwards, all Jojo chapters would be published in Ultra Jump, which is a seinen magazine. The switch to the magazine has a lot of benefits since it is on a monthly release schedule, so the chapters are able to be longer and have more detailed artwork than the weekly schedule which can be very demanding on an artist.
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Feb 19, 5:12 PM
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Publication change from weekly to monthly at the start of Part 7. Araki might have wanted time off after working weekly on the franchise since the mid 80s.
Feb 20, 12:35 AM
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Because it was published in a seinen magazine, as simple as that.
Pro tip? Stop caring about whether something is seinen/shounen/whatever, most of the time it's about the magazine rather than the content, that's why there are plenty of battle manga or dumb romcoms with teenagers labeled as seinen. Or why some works of an author are both seinen or shoujo when the contents are the exact same (Junji Ito for example)
Feb 25, 5:42 AM
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Reply to Armandoriel
Because it was published in a seinen magazine, as simple as that.
Pro tip? Stop caring about whether something is seinen/shounen/whatever, most of the time it's about the magazine rather than the content, that's why there are plenty of battle manga or dumb romcoms with teenagers labeled as seinen. Or why some works of an author are both seinen or shoujo when the contents are the exact same (Junji Ito for example)
@Armandoriel Seconding this. The difference between seinen and shonen especially is basically nonexistent. I think shojo stuff tends to be a little more differentiated from shonen and seinen in terms of the kinds of stories they tend to tell and some artstyle preferences (correct me if I'm wrong), but either way manga demographic classifications nowadays seem like more of a holdover from earlier times.
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