Seinen (青年?) is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at an 18–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly A businessperson (also businessman or businesswoman) is someone who is employed at usually a profit-oriented enterprise, or more specifically someone It has a wide variety of art styles and more variation in subject matter, ranging from the avant-garde to the pornographic. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer The female equivalent to seinen manga is josei manga. In Japanese, the word Seinen only means "young man" or "young men", and it is not indicative of sexual matter. Examples include Berserk, 3×3 Eyes, Boogiepop Phantom, Chobits, Tenjho Tenge, Elfen Lied, Fate/stay night, Oh My Goddess!, Trigun Maximum, Rozen Maiden, xxxHolic, and Zero no Tsukaima. |} is a long-running Dark fantasy Manga by Mangaka Kentarō Miura. 3×3 Eyes (pronounced Sazan Eyes in Japanese) is a Manga created by acclaimed Mangaka Yuzo Takada, and is a twelve episode Anime Television series produced by Madhouse Studios, based on the Boogiepop Light novel series by is a Japanese Manga created by Clamp. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from February 2001 and November 2002 and collected is an is a Japanese Manga series created by manga author Lynn Okamoto. is a Japanese Eroge Visual novel game created by Type-Moon, which was originally released on January 30 2004 for the PC. also known as Ah! My Goddess!, is a Seinen Manga series by Kosuke Fujishima currently serialized in Kodansha 's monthly is a Manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow, published from 1995 to 2007 and spanning 14 collected volumes. is a Manga by the group Peach-Pit, with an Anime series of the same name pronounced "holic" is a Seinen Manga series planned and presented by Clamp.
A common way to tell if a manga is seinen is by looking at whether or not furigana is used over the original kanji text: if there are furigana on all kanji, the title is generally aimed at a younger audience. is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller Kana printed next to a Kanji or other character to indicate its Pronunciation. are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with Hiragana (ひらがな 平仮名 Katakana The title of the magazine it was published in is also an important indicator. Usually Japanese manga magazines with the word young in the title (Young Jump for instance) are seinen. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. launched in 1979, is a weekly Japanese Magazine that publishes various Seinen Manga in each issue Other popular seinen manga magazines include Ultra Jump, Afternoon, and Big Comic. is a monthly Seinen Manga magazine published by Shueisha. It was first issued in 1999. Afternoon (アフタヌーン is a Japanese Seinen Manga magazine published by Kodansha.
List of seinen anime and manga
- Please see the category Seinen for a list of anime and manga that are considered "seinen".
See also
- Shōnen: intended for boys
- Shōjo: intended for girls
- Josei: intended for adult women
- Kodomo: intended for children
- List of seinen magazines
External links
- Definition of seinen at the Anime News Network
- Anime for men (Japanese)
- Japanese Magazine Publishers Association (Japanese)
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