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Jan 4, 2018 5:10 AM
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This thread is not supposed to become a fight over which one is better .
I am only curious what the MAL community prefers . We are talking about both manga and anime so keep that in mind . If you want to let us know why you chose an option , you're free to of course .
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Jan 4, 2018 5:11 AM
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I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.
Jan 4, 2018 5:14 AM
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Swagernator said:
I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.

Fate/ Zero?
I think can be considered a "battle seinen"
Jan 4, 2018 5:14 AM
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There's so much shounen anime so it makes sense that a lot will prefer shounen. According to my MAL graph, I watch more shounen over seinen. However, I find myself appreciating seinen a lot more as I age.

I look forward to finding more good seinen.
Jan 4, 2018 5:15 AM
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Juanmamola76 said:
Swagernator said:
I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.

Fate/ Zero?
I think can be considered a "battle seinen"

Eh, no, i think definitely no. Please stop.
Jan 4, 2018 5:27 AM
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myanmar list is full of older audience mature people who prefer seinen (but only the good kind like a-channel)
Jan 4, 2018 5:29 AM
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romagia said:
myanmar list is full of older audience mature people who prefer seinen (but only the good kind like a-channel)

That, or a seinens like Acchi Kocchi.
Jan 4, 2018 5:35 AM
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If the seinen tag is added just because the anime have Gore and Rape
Then I prefer shounen
Jan 4, 2018 5:37 AM
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Both. They are both great. :D
In many cases, there isn't so a huge difference in my eyes.
I choose Shounen anyway, because many of my favs are.
Jan 4, 2018 5:44 AM

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Shounen for sure.

I refuse to watch most Anime that are tagged as "Seinen," as I know that I likely won't enjoy them, except for a very small rare few. As I like to say, if it's aimed toward adults, it ain't worth watching.

Jan 4, 2018 5:46 AM

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Seems most of my favourite manga is seinen so...
Jan 4, 2018 5:48 AM

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Swagernator said:
I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.
That's weird, I swear the 2nd highest average score on the Top Manga is a Battle manga and a Seinen

OT: Eh, I like both. It just depends on my mood. I mean, Seinen can be comedy too. A lot of Seinen manga I've read are comedies. Just pretty much what I just want to do at the time.



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-Lofn- said:
Swagernator said:
I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.
That's weird, I swear the 2nd highest average score on the Top Manga is a Battle manga and a Seinen

OT: Eh, I like both. It just depends on my mood. I mean, Seinen can be comedy too. A lot of Seinen manga I've read are comedies. Just pretty much what I just want to do at the time.

Dude come on, it says "Shounen", not Seinen.
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Seinen for sure.

I would say shounen if monster didn't exist.


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Dudem come on, it says "Shounen", not Seinen.
And MAL is still a retard. Jojo Part 7 moved to Ultra Jump, which is a monthly seinen manga magazine.



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romagia said:
myanmar list is full of older audience mature people who prefer seinen (but only the good kind like a-channel)

That, or a seinens like Acchi Kocchi.


What? Acchi kocchi? A-channel?

Oh guys, please stop


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-Lofn- said:
Swagernator said:
Dudem come on, it says "Shounen", not Seinen.
And MAL is still a retard. Jojo Part 7 moved to Ultra Jump, which is a monthly seinen manga magazine.


MAL is law! OBEY!

S-quare22 said:
Swagernator said:

That, or a seinens like Acchi Kocchi.


What? Acchi kocchi? A-channel?

Oh guys, please stop

Woman, look at those anime tags.
Jan 4, 2018 5:58 AM

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S-quare22 said:

What? Acchi kocchi? A-channel?

Oh guys, please stop
Seinen isn't restricted to philosophical, gore and dementia genre. A lot of them are comedy and SoL in fact. We even have ecchi

https://myanimelist.net/manga/70345/Grand_Blue

https://myanimelist.net/manga/17169/Hoozuki-san_Chi_no_Aneki

https://myanimelist.net/manga/44155/Kimi_wa_Midara_na_Boku_no_Joou

https://myanimelist.net/manga/23717/Kono_Oneesan_wa_Fiction_desu

https://myanimelist.net/manga/15189/Seishun_Pop?q=seish



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Looking at MALgraph, my mean score for seinen is higher than shonen (7.83 vs. 7.11), though I'm sure there are plenty of bad seinen I have yet to experience.
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I prefer seinen. Shounen is good once in a while.
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Jan 4, 2018 6:17 AM

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I definitely watch more Shounen, probably read it too, but i'm always looking for Seinen....yeah seinen. I could name dozens of shounens i enjoyed that i think would be over 9000 x better if they were made Seinen
Jan 4, 2018 6:28 AM
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There was a good Shounen and bad Shounen, same with Seinen. Some of Shounen was really into borderline Seinen like Death Note or Hunter X Hunter.

I watch more Shounen although many of my favourite was Seinen. I prefer both as long as I enjoy it.
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Jan 4, 2018 6:29 AM

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Swagernator said:
I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.

That sounds like an oxymoron, hot blooded guys powering up and shouting attacks is by definition shounen.

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Jan 4, 2018 6:30 AM

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I prefer seinens ,the way the shounens constantly believes that the viewer is an idiot,really bother me and I'm too old already to see teenagers yelling and tedious fighting scenes.
Jan 4, 2018 6:35 AM

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Why do I feel like people are associating shounen to only battle shounens...



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Jan 4, 2018 6:37 AM

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I watch lots of shounen back then. I can't say that I watch too much of them to get tired of it but I'm quite avoiding them now. So I prefer seinen.
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Grand Blue is one of the best comedy manga I ever read.

Seinen is my preference. It is very hard for me to like shounen series. There are exceptions though.

Jan 4, 2018 6:45 AM

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I like both, but I choose Shounen, since many of my favorite anime are Shounen.

But the more I age, the more i find myself to favor Seinen
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This is where boys become men my guys
think carefully
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-Lofn- said:
Why do I feel like people are associating shounen to only battle shounens...


Yeah, it's shame that people are associating Shounen with Action/Superpower with teenage main character.
Well many of good Shounen was not "Action oriented", ex : Shigatsu Wa Kimi no Uso, Horimiya, Flying Witch, Death Note, Bakuman, The Promised Neverland etc
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I watch more Shounen than Seinen, even though I probably only really enjoyed like 2 or 3 Shounen anime from my list.

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Why do I feel like people are associating shounen to only battle shounens...

Battle shounens are always shounens.
Not all shounens are battle shounens.

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Jan 4, 2018 7:00 AM

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I prefer Seinen. I don't dislike Shounen though but Seinen is just my cup of tea.


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Battle shounens are always shounens.
Not all shounens are battle shounens.
Yeah, but I'm just saying the people's approach with shounens are typically pointed to the likes of Bleach, AoT, Boku no Hero and whatever. But there are shounens like Ashita no Joe, Nisegarbage, Silent Voice, GTO, Sankarea, Pandora Hearts, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia, Love Hina, Beck, To Love-Ru, Bakuman, Tsubasa Chronicle, Gin no Saji, Black Cat which aren't some teenagers shouting.



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-Lofn- said:
Zeando said:

Battle shounens are always shounens.
Not all shounens are battle shounens.
Yeah, but I'm just saying the people's approach with shounens are typically pointed to the likes of Bleach, AoT, Boku no Hero and whatever. But there are shounens like Ashita no Joe, Nisegarbage, Silent Voice, GTO, Sankarea, Pandora Hearts, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia, Love Hina, Beck, To Love-Ru, Bakuman, Tsubasa Chronicle, Gin no Saji, Black Cat which aren't some teenagers shouting.


Didn't know that Silent Voice is a shounen.
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Jan 4, 2018 7:12 AM

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Probably that comes from the battle subgenre being the most vocal and generally the most popular among the other subgenres.

Thinking about it, how could the other "major subgenres" which exist into shounen be grouped up?
-Romance/harem/ecchi
-Sports
-Comedy/parody
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(only the major groups, obviously there are more genres, but not all of them form a visibly big group)

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Contrary to my age, I prefer Shounen.

I tend to like much more action-oriented shows with light-hearted stories, it doesn't need to be Battle-Shounen but normaly are because those kind of shows have much more action than others.
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@Zeando That's my point exactly.

Eh, dunno.



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I'm not 100% sure there but there are no battle seinens.


There is Kingdom,tho. It' using the same tropes as it's shounen equivalents with a lot more blood.

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Seiya said:
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I don't want to become a man. I'm not manly at all.
okke shoujo boy get into the loophole
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Pretty indifferent though I would like to see seinen titles be able to stand toe to toe with shonen when it comes to popularity. I guess when it comes to pure stuff in my favorites shonen though I will blame that more on the fact many seinen series don't get many or many good anime adaptations. Though like others established this is just the age demographic which varies up what is there both in character age and what the content is based on genre. Seinen can for example be anything from Berserk to Amaama to Inazuma or shonen from stuff like Attack on Titan to Koe no Katachi or GTO. They aren't really genre's you can be still a fan of shonen and not like battle shonen's at all for example.
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Hmm... according to anime+ my favourite demographic is... Josei.
Then Shoujo and then Seinen. Shounen is the least favourite one.
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I don't have a single Seinen in my Top 10 but a lot of Shounen in it. But it doesn't tell the whole story as I have loved some Seinen anime as much as I loved shounen.

Also, Seinen is always about gore and violence is a huge misconception.

Seinen comes in all forms Romance, Comedy, Slice of Life, School, Sports, Game, Fantasy, Historical, Ecchi.

Non Non Biyori, Hidamari Sketch, Emma, Uchuu Kyoudai, PLANETES, 3-Gatsu no Lion, One Outs, D-Frag, Giant Killing, Tonari no Seki-kun, Aa! Megami-sama!, Kiniro Mosaic, Otome Youkai Zakuro, Chobits, Rozen Maiden, Ikoku Meiro, Bartender, Bamboo Blade, Taishou Yakyuu Musume, Hanayamata, Mangaka-san to Assistant-san, Joukamachi no Dandelion, Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha, Shuffle!, Gingitsune, Mikakunin de Shinkoukei, B-gata H-kei just from the top of my head. All of these are Seinen.

Likewise shounen comes in all forms as well and not just battle and sports. For me, both are equally enjoyable. I prefer to judge an anime on the content (primarily for character and story, secondarily for plot and animation) and not the demography it has been targeted at.

So, I am abstaining myself to vote for one.
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I always find myself thirsting for a good seinen, so I went with that. Only problem is that I find myself disappointed by a lot of interesting looking series not being scanlated.
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Hmm... according to anime+ my favourite demographic is... Josei.
Then Shoujo and then Seinen. Shounen is the least favourite one.


Same here for me according to anime+. But I have only Chihayafuru in my favourite list. But what can I do when most of the really enticing josei manga only ever get Live Action at best (not to say I didn't love the likes of Hachimitsu to Clover or Nodame Cantabile). And I have seen so many shoujo manga that could rival popular shounen adaptations never seeing the light of adaptation that I don't want to go there.

Just like the misconceptions with shounen and seinen demography, shoujo is largely considered overly girly, too fluffy and only about good looking boys, unpopular girls, totally mean male leads etc. which are not the case, because most of the adapted anime are based on those kind of manga.
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It seems I prefer seinen, but I've seen almost thrice as many shounen so I don't know if it's really accurate.



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Definitely seinen, it's my demographic anyway.
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Seinen because it has more of a variety of things.





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