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Seinen manga (青年漫画) is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. [1] In Japanese, the word seinen means "youth", but the term " seinen manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like Weekly Manga Times and Weekly Manga Goraku , which write on topics of interest to male university ...
Shōnen manga (少年漫画, lit. "boys' comics", also romanized as shonen, shounen or syônen) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys. It is, along with shōjo manga (targeting adolescent girls and young women), seinen manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and josei manga (targeting adult ...
There have been several examples of josei works that share common traits with shōnen and seinen manga, or that blur distinctions between the categories. Saiyuki by Kazuya Minekura was serialized in the shōnen magazine Monthly GFantasy, though its sequel Saiyuki Reload was published in the josei magazine Monthly Comic Zero Sum.
Mainstream shounen and seinen fare also often uses such characters as rivals for a traditional masculine protagonist, with some degree of comic relief, or for the blander everyman, whether as the embodiment of his insecurities in a grittier realism, or as a more lighthearted constant reminder of his less than advantageous social status and the ...
Anime are often classified by target demographic, including children's (子供, kodomo), girls' (少女, shōjo), boys' (少年, shōnen), young men (青年, Seinen), young women (女性, josei) and a diverse range of genres targeting an adult audience. Shōjo and shōnen anime sometimes contain elements popular with children of all genders in ...
The Jump Comics line is published in English by Viz Media under the names Shonen Jump and Shonen Jump Advanced. Shōnen Jump Advanced was created for the distribution of manga series considered more mature due to content or themes.
The main distinction here is between shounen and seinen, boys and youths. The "bi" prefix can, in modern Japanese, go before pretty much any description (I've seen 美父美娘, a beautiful father and daughter pair, and similar usages).
Neon Genesis Evangelion was created after a meeting between Hideaki Anno and King Records. [14] Although the anime series was conceived before the manga, due to production delays the manga was released first in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace on December 26, 1994. [15] [16]