| I feel like this shounen/shoujo/seinen classification is becoming less useful for anime. It makes more sense for manga which are published as chapters in magazines, so the magazines can combine different titles that all appeal to the same demography |
| Nino is the objectively superior one, don't @ me |
| It’s not a shoujo. The themes are a lot more deep and the romance isn’t the main focus. It’s, if anything, a Josei/slice-of-life. Seinen is def not it either 😂 |
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it's shojo + Josei  |
| 2023 and people still don't know what demographics are.... |
| no it's not a shoujo. it's a seinen. |
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Fenlix said: __potato__ said: Correct me if I'm wrong but if you want to recommend it to your friends it sounds like you're enjoying the show. If you're enjoying it, why does it matter what demographic it's "supposed" to be for (even though is a seinen anyway). It's a matter of tastes, I myself am not a big fan of the style of Shoujo stories. I think they are a little bit too "girlish"/corny to my taste. I've been enjoying the first two episodes, but I'm worried about this maybe going full-shoujo later. I actually recommended it to one friend and he didn't watched cuz it looked like a Shoujo. I've only finished like 1-2 shoujos, one of them was Ore Monogatari, and I never really liked the more shoujoish parts. Sorry, but what going full shoujo even means? Doesn't make much sense to me and sounds like you don't know what demographics are. These classifications are based on the magazines the manga is usually published. This is a seinen for example: And this is a shounen: Saying something go full seinen, full shounen, full shoujo sounds more like a prejudice to me. If you like the series just watch, read and recommend all you want. It's a seinen and it's aimed for this target audience, not every seinen have to be like Vinland Saga and Berserk, and not every shounen have to be like JJK and Demon Slayer. Of course, the lead is a girl and the story is about her development as a character, you should rather ask if your friends would like this premise rather than worry about going full shoujo. But if people refuse to watch it because of that, I'd take it as a sign of narrow mindedness tbh. |
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animeIs4Children said: Literally nothing wrong with the tags. The original manga is published on a seinen magazine so IT IS a seinen. There is no 'I would put this under..'' shit lolmyanimelist does a pathetic job tagging anime. I would put this under shoujo/Josei. You already saw a guy on heels, girls love that shit. Clearly aimed at girls. |
animeIs4Children said: See? The problem here is that you are trying to put genre and demographics as the same thing. The story may have some elements from famous shoujo manga because the author herself is a woman and her favorite manga are mostly published on shoujo magazines but that doesn't change the fact the manga is published on a SEINEN MAGAZINE on Japan so the tags themselves are not wrong. 'This should be tagged as Josei/Shoujo instead' makes no sense at all. sowtte said: The fact that it's published in a seinen magazine doesn't change that it's clearly aimed at girls.Literally nothing wrong with the tags. The original manga is published on a seinen magazine so IT IS a seinen. There is no 'I would put this under..'' shit lol Don't know how you can't see that tbh. Do you think that Shigatsu wa kimi no uso is a shounen anime just because it was published in a shounen magazine? that doesn't mean shit. It's not aimed at your typical shounen reader. just do some critical thinking, analize it and you might get it. |
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animeIs4Children said: that is what seinen is. they are decided by the magazine they get published in. they are not genres The fact that it's published in a seinen magazine doesn't change that it's clearly aimed at girls. Don't know how you can't see that tbh. Do you think that Shigatsu wa kimi no uso is a shounen anime just because it was published in a shounen magazine? that doesn't mean shit. It's not aimed at your typical shounen reader. just do some critical thinking, analize it and you might get it. |
| The Demographic is decided by the magazine it's published in. NOT the subject matter or story. This is published in a Seinin magazine so it's a seining. Another example is Attack on Titan, which people think is a Seinin, but is publish in a Shounen magazine so it's a shounen. |
animeIs4Children said: Do you think that Shigatsu wa kimi no uso is a shounen anime just because it was published in a shounen magazine? that doesn't mean shit. It's not aimed at your typical shounen reader. just do some critical thinking, analize it and you might get it. There is no such thing as "typical shounen reader" you are confusing shounen with action/adventure/battle genre. Also manga demographics only apply to manga. Anime has different: everyone for daytime shows; for male otaku, for female otaku/fujos and for all adults, these 3 are for late night shows. |
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bastek66 said: People once again forget that the media in another country is different from the West or the US, so they try to see shonen not as a Japanese demographic for teenage boys, but as a completely unique genre for a very narrow audience.animeIs4Children said: Do you think that Shigatsu wa kimi no uso is a shounen anime just because it was published in a shounen magazine? that doesn't mean shit. It's not aimed at your typical shounen reader. just do some critical thinking, analize it and you might get it. There is no such thing as "typical shounen reader" you are confusing shounen with action/adventure/battle genre. Also manga demographics only apply to manga. Anime has different: everyone for daytime shows; for male otaku, for female otaku/fujos and for all adults, these 3 are for late night shows. Personally, I don't understand why people are so afraid of shoujo vibes here. Come on, it's high school melodramatic SoL with everygirl female MC. What did they want? |
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Leadle_Lee said: It’s not a shoujo. The themes are a lot more deep and the romance isn’t the main focus. It’s, if anything, a Josei/slice-of-life. Seinen is def not it either 😂 I mean … you couldn’t be more accurate |
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| Seinen but your friends should know shoujo is a peak genre. |
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| People saying that because this or that anime focuses on X or Y themes, therefore boys or young girls can't get into them, are the reason anime took so long reach more mainstream audiences in the US and why they felt compelled to do such stupid shit on their Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura dubs, to name a few examples. It's published in a seinen magazine, therefore the anime is a seinen. Period. It may have some themes that are more common in Josei works, but publishers are well aware of periphery demographics and that even their core audience does not always seek the same overall themes in every work they consume. |
justinodistreet said: When people talk about demographics in the west, they mostly think of gender stereotypes about anime.From this comments a lot of people still don't get demographics. Its not that hard is it? Fenlix said: AND? Both manga are bright seinen CGDCT without any element of shoujo.Mangas such as Himouto! Umaru-chan and Non non biyori were also published in seinen magazines... |
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Way2Gay4Me said: I would love to see you perform the mental gymnastics needed to explain how a manga which was intentionally published in a magazine targeted towards and read predominantly by young boys ("shounen") is actually not aimed at young boys and how a manga which was intentionally published in a magazine targeted towards and read predominantly by teenage boys/men was actually supposed to target young girls (oops). sowtte said: The fact that it's published in a seinen magazine doesn't change that it's clearly aimed at girls.Literally nothing wrong with the tags. The original manga is published on a seinen magazine so IT IS a seinen. There is no 'I would put this under..'' shit lol Don't know how you can't see that tbh. Do you think that Shigatsu wa kimi no uso is a shounen anime just because it was published in a shounen magazine? that doesn't mean shit. It's not aimed at your typical shounen reader. just do some critical thinking, analize it and you might get it. I'm sure it'll be very interesting. |
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