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A diferencia del manga shōnen, que se enfoca en adolescentes y presenta tramas más orientadas a la acción y aventura, el manga seinen aborda temas más profundos y complejos. Estos pueden incluir drama, romance, ciencia ficción, fantasía, historia, política, filosofía y exploración psicológica. [1]
Seinen manga (青年漫画) is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word seinen literally 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 ...
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Shōnen
The Japanese word shōnen(少年, /ɕoːnen/ lit. "few years"), meaning "young boy", historically referred to juveniles in a general sense, and was used by the Japanese publishing industry to designate publications aimed at children and young people until the end of the 19th century. The word shifted to its current usage of referring specifically to media aimed at adolescent boys beginning with the practice of segmenting periodicals (especially manga magazines) by sex and age-specific target groups,...
Shōnen manga
Shōnen manga refers to manga aimed at an audience of adolescent boys, with the primary target audience alternately defined as 9 to 18 years old and as 12 to 18 years old. Of the four primary demographic categories of manga (shōnen, shōjo, seinen, and josei), it is the most popular category in the Japanese market. The actual readership of shōnen manga, as is the case for all demographic categories of manga, extends significantly beyond this adolescent male target group to include all ages and...
Pre-war and wartime era
Children's magazines with sex-segregated readerships have existed in Japan since the early 1900s. While early youth magazines were ostensibly unisex – Shōnen Sekai was the first youth magazine in Japan in 1895, targeting a readership of both boys and girls – in practice, the editorial content of these publications largely concerned topics that were thought to be of interest to boys. This provoked the emergence of first exclusively shōjo (girls) magazines in 1902, and shōnen magazines subseque...
Post-war era
During the post-war occupation of Japan, the Japanese publishing industry was rebuilt under initially strict guidelines. Stories focused on war, combat, and most competitive sports were banned with the aim of discouraging belligerence and hindering the use of manga for pro-Imperial propaganda. Manga developed during this period under the influence of artist Osamu Tezuka, with series such as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Tezuka was inspired by American cartoons, and pioneered the so-call...
Modern era
Seinen manga became formalized as a category of manga aimed at an older male audience in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and many shōnen artists associated with the realist gekiga movement migrated to seinen manga. The demise of the kashi-hon (rental manga) market led many kashi-hon artists to move into magazine publishing, including shōnen manga, bringing their distinct themes and style with them. As a result, shōnen manga came to deal with more serious and political themes, and saw an incre...
Themes and genres
This thematic orientation of shōnen manga is readily inferred from the formal values or slogans that shōnen manga magazines assign themselves: for example, "friendship, perseverance, and victory" for Weekly Shōnen Jump, and "courage, friendship and fighting spirit" for CoroCoro Comic. The editorial focus of shōnen manga is primarily on action, adventure, and the fighting of monsters or other forces of evil. Action stories are so dominant in shōnen manga that some manga and non-manga works are...
Narrative conventions
A shōnen protagonist is often characterized by contradictory qualities: short-tempered and cool, mischievous and rebellious, serious and cynical, clumsy and infallible, or who appears as a good-for-nothing but possesses hidden abilities. In some cases, the contradiction takes on a literal form in the form of henshin(変身, lit. 'transformation'), where the hero is able to switch between two personas with different appearances and personalities; examples of this device include Yu-Gi-Oh by Kazuki...
Visual style
Comics theorist Neil Cohn regards the art style of shōnen as generally "edgier" than that of shōjo manga, and notes how most regular manga readers are able to easily distinguish between shōnen and shōjo based on visual appearance alone. Visually, a shōnen protagonist often possesses what manga critic Jason Thompson describes as "insanely spiky hair" that distinguishes the protagonist's silhouette from that of other characters. The eyes of shōnen characters in the post-war period are significa...
Shōnen manga is traditionally published in dedicated manga magazines that specifically target an audience of shōnen. At the industry's peak in the mid-1990s, there were 23 total shōnenmagazines, which collectively sold 662 million copies in 1995. The total manga magazine market that year included 265 magazines, with a total of 1.595 billion copies ...
Qué es el seinen. Como te decíamos antes, la palabra seinen está relacionada con el manga y el anime, pero también con las novelas ligeras y el manhwa. Según su traducción, significa «hombre joven» y esto te puede dar una idea de que es un género enfocado a un público masculino y mayor de edad.
17-sai. 20th Century Boys. 51 Ways to Save Her. 81diver. 86 (novel series) 87 Clockers. The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You. 365 Days to the Wedding. 888 (manga)
Manga, 1994 Finished 14 vol, 142 chp. Award Winning Drama Sci-Fi Slice of Life. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. In a post-apocalyptic world where an environmental disaster led to the eruption of Mt. Fuji and the inundation of Yokohama, the age of humans is in its twilight.
Seinen 「青年, Hombre joven?」 es una demografía para describir el tipo anime, manga, novelas ligeras y manhwa con el objetivo principal de atraer a una audiencia masculina mayor de edad. Este género es más sofisticado en cuanto al anime y manga que el género shōnen, por lo general sus temas más…
