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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.
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.
Though targeted towards "tween & teen male consumers", according to Viz Media the magazine enjoys a relatively high number of female and adult readers as well, comprising 36% and 37% of its readership, respectively. The Shonen Jump reader has a median age of 16 years, and over half of the audience is between the ages of 13 and 17. Official ...
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 ...
The "young" in its name denotes its target demographic as a seinen manga magazine, aimed at young adult men. [4] In 2008, an offshoot issue similar to Monthly Shōnen Jump was released called Monthly Young Jump; [6] the magazine was rebranded as Miracle Jump in 2011, [7] and was suspended in 2017. [8]
This Japanese tankōbon edition of Love Hina volume 11 is smaller than this English tankōbon edition of Genshiken volume 8.. Increasingly after 1959, [citation needed] manga came to be published in thick, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology manga magazines (such as Weekly Shōnen Magazine or Weekly Shōnen Jump).