Forum - View topicThe Train Man?
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SHOJOISCOOL3
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I read there were three versions of this licenced by CMX , Del Ray, and Viz. I know the CMX versions comes out OCt. 11, but when do the other versions come out and who licenced the shojo version? I think CMX licenced the shoenen version, but there is also a sienen and shojo version.
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hagakure|returns
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All you have to do is check the news for trainman. It's not that hard, the answer is right there.
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marie-antoinette
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To summarize: Del Rey has the shoujo, Viz has one of the seinen, and CMX has shounen. The other seinen is unlicensed.
Viz has also licensed the live-action movie and Del Rey is considering licensing the novel they are all based on. This thing sounds fairly interesting to me, I might pick up one of the versions (most likely Del Rey, since I'm a shoujo fan). Last edited by marie-antoinette on Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:16 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Kagemusha
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It's "seinen." |
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marie-antoinette
Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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Oops. *goes to fix* I could never remember how to spell that one...or even remember what exactly the term for manga/anime/whatever aimed at an older female audience is (josei? It's something like that). |
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frentymon
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Yep, it's "josei", which pretty much just means "woman". In kanji, it is 女性; 女 is "jo" which means "female" and 性 is "sei" which means sex/gender. It should be noted that the kanji for "sei" in "seinen" and "sei" in "josei" is not the same; the "sei" in "seinen" is 青, which means blue/green. |
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marie-antoinette
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That's pretty cool. I don't usually use seinen and josei, preferring to just stick with shounen and shoujo, though I think most of the stuff I watch/read does fall into those categories anyway, if you can categorize it at all.
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Kagemusha
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The bounds of seinen and josei are somewhat difficult to define. For instance, Tenjo Tenge is can be considered seinen because of the graphic content, despite bearing a good deal of similarity to many shonen manga in terms of storytelling. One title that often comes up is Nana, as it's clearly intended for an older audience than most shojo titles (college aged) but also is diffrent than alot of women's manga and does have many aspects of shojo in it. In any case, labels are just labels, and it's the content inside that matters. |
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Urd
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The genre (shounen, shoujo, seinen...) is defined via the public the prepublication magazine aims at.
For example, there is a mistake in this page, Maison Ikkoku is not shounen but seinen because Big Comic Spirits is a seinen manga magazine. |
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marie-antoinette
Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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If I define things, I honestly don't care what magazine it ran in, but what it's content actually is. Sometimes things run in odd places (like I believe it was Cowboy Bebop that someone mentioned running in a shoujo magazine, which seems rather odd to me).
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SHOJOISCOOL3
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thanks, I read that article you linked too, but I must have missed that part. I'm glad that Del Ray got the shojo one, since they seem to choose high quality manga.
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