Category:Seinen
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Manga demographic target groups:
- Kodomomuke: children age 10 or younger
- Shonen: "tween" or young-teen boys
- Shoujo: "tween" or young-teen girls
- Seinen: older-teen boys or young men (in modern usage, up to age 40)
- ヤングレディース (literally "young ladies", does not appear to have a Western name): older-teen girls or young women
- Redikomi (literally "ladies' comics"): women who are older than the audience for ヤングレディース
- Josei: females age 18-40 (an academic and Western-fan term, not in general use in Japan)
Other Japanese comic styles:
- Gekiga (literally "dramatic pictures"): adults
Seinen (Japanese for "young man" or "young men") is a demographic designation of male audiences aged 18 to 40. It is not a genre.
It is the older counterpart of Shonen and effectively makes for the majority of anime in the older demographic, since major Josei manga titles rarely get adapted on screen. Compared to shonen, seinen caters to a much smaller viewing crowd, since younger audiences have much more time to spare on anime, which makes them a more attractive target, and thus is slightly less known.
Thanks to the older target audience, seinen shows tend to be much more sophisticated and mature than their shonen counterparts.[please verify] While sharing many of the same sub-genres[context?] and themes, they are commonly more psychological, satirical, violent, and sexual.[please verify] Much more attention is paid to the plot and the interaction between characters than to action and fights,[please verify] which are the main attraction for the younger viewers,[please verify] and the characters are well fleshed out.[please verify] The latter trait often leads to confusion of seinen with Shojo but the key difference is that seinen does not idealize romance, instead opting for more realistic and pragmatic approach to relationships.[please verify] Realism is indeed the calling card of seinen shows,[please verify] commonly earning them the acclaim for their depth and maturity and Multiple Demographic Appeal.[context?]<1-- How can a single demographic have multiple demographic appeal? --> On the other hand, one shouldn't forget that the vast majority of Hentai except Yaoi is aimed at older male viewers as well. This is the other side of the realism coin.
A typical seinen protagonist -- if that phrase has any meaning[1] -- can be of any gender and age (in stark contrast to shonen, whose protagonists are almost exclusively young and male).[please verify] Romance-wise, anything goes, from Romantic Two-Girl Friendship to obscure examples of Boys Love.[please verify] In fact, Schoolgirl Lesbians are a distinctive trait of seinen,[please verify] rarely if ever present in shonen shows.[please verify] Relationships are portrayed in a less idealistic light than in shojo,[please verify] with many grays and uncertainties like in Real Life, and don't tend to indulge the shonen over-simplification of "which heroine will be hooked up with the hero".[please verify] There is a reverse side to this, too: ironically, seinen is most infamous for its sub-category of Fundamentally Female Cast and Harem Series[please verify] that rely heavily on cutesy Moe Fan Service[please verify] (again, juxtaposed to plain sex appeal of female characters in shonen; see Hot Shounen Mom, for example) to attract viewers.
Recently,[when?] there has been a considerable influx of Shojo fans into the Seinen demographic, thanks to the latter's traditional thoroughness in relationships and, more importantly, general retraction from blatant Fan Service. This migration was particularly paved by such Gateway Series as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Kanon, Clannad, and AIR.
Most of the anime stuff shown on Adult Swim is seinen,[please verify] EXCLUDING the likes of Inuyasha, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Kekkaishi, and (taking only the anime as reference) Neon Genesis Evangelion[2] which are shonen.
Compare Josei, which is females of the same age.
Before adding a new title, please double check your sources. A Seinen manga has to be published in a Seinen magazine for it truly be part of the demographic. For an anime, go check its usually late night time slot in Japan, or any slot if it airs in a satelite channel (again in Japan). Also check if it obviously has glaring mature imagery; especially if the anime is based from a Shonen work, the animation must be way more mature than its source material.
- ↑ One doesn't talk about "a typical Hollywood movie protagonist", after all.
- ↑ Yes, really.
Pages in category "Seinen"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 348 total.
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A
- A Channel
- Afro Samurai
- Agent Aika
- Ah! My Goddess
- Ai Yori Aoshi
- Ai-Ren
- Aiki
- Airmaster
- Akagi
- Akame ga Kill!
- Aki Sora
- Akikan
- Alien Nine
- All Rounder Meguru
- Amagami
- And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?
- Android Announcer Maico 2010
- Angel Heart (manga)
- Angel Links
- Arachnid
- Aria the Scarlet Ammo
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova-
- Asagiri no Miko
- Astro Fighter Sunred
- Axis Powers Hetalia
B
- B Gata H Kei
- Baccano!
- Bartender
- Basquash
- Bastard!!
- Battle Royale
- Berserk
- The Big O
- Binbou Shimai Monogatari
- Biomega
- Bitter Virgin
- Black Lagoon
- Blade of the Immortal
- Blade of the Phantom Master
- Blame!
- Blaster Knuckle
- Blood Lad
- Blood+
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
- Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa
- Bokurano
- Bonnouji
- A Bride's Story
- Brocken Blood
- Btooom!
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
- Bungou Stray Dogs
C
D
F
G
- G-Taste
- Gangsta
- Gankutsuou
- Gantz
- The Garden of Sinners
- Genshiken
- Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
- Ghost in the Shell (manga)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Gingitsune
- Girl Friend (manga)
- Girl Friends
- Girls und Panzer
- Glass no Megami
- Golden Boy
- Golgo 13
- Goodnight Punpun
- Great Teacher Onizuka
- Guin Saga
- Gunjo
- Gunka no Balzer
- Gunnm
- Gunsmith Cats
- Gyo
H
I
J
K
- K-On!
- Kagaku Na Yatsura
- Kaiji
- Kanokon
- Kanon (visual novel)
- Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Kill la Kill
- Killing Bites
- Kimi wa Midara na Boku no Joō
- King of Bandit Jing
- King of Thorn
- Kinnikuman Nisei
- Kirakira
- Kiss×sis
- Kiwaguro no Brynhildr
- Kodomo no Jikan
- Koe de Oshigoto!
- Koihime Musou
- Kono S wo, Mi Yo
- Kurau: Phantom Memory
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
L
- Lady Snowblood
- Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing
- The Last Uniform
- The Legend of Koizumi
- Let's Lagoon
- Liar Game
- Liar Game: Roots of A
- Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!
- Little House With an Orange Roof
- Living for the Day After Tomorrow
- Living Game
- Lone Wolf and Cub
- Love Junkies
- Love Lucky
- Love Roma
- Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
- Lupin III
- Lyrical Nanoha