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DavetheUsher
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 Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:45 am
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Might just be anecdotal, but none of the female anime fans I know really read shoujo, outside a couple of who like Chihayafuru. They're all into shounen and stuff like Promare these days.
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IceLeaf
Joined: 08 Sep 2019
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 3:09 am
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| DavetheUsher wrote: | | Might just be anecdotal, but none of the female anime fans I know really read shoujo, outside a couple of who like Chihayafuru. They're all into shounen and stuff like Promare these days. |
It's in part due to the majority of shoujo manga/anime coming out now have no features which make them stand out from any other series. It's stuck in a phase of this has worked before and was popular so this is what we will all do, kind of like how shounen series got stuck in an isekai phase. Most of the good shoujo anime came out 10-20 years ago, getting a good quality shoujo is now the exception rather than the rule.
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:41 am
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There are plenty of shounen manga these days that appeal to a cross-gender audience anyway. Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka is a good example, written by a woman, most of the major characters are female, and the focus is more on the young witches' day to day lives rather than the occasional huge magical setpieces. It's in no way a traditional mahou shoujo series but it still has enough magic to possibly be of interest to that general audience.
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enurtsol
Joined: 01 May 2007
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:35 am
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Shoujo is not as it used to be - in N. America, we're far from the days of the shoujo boom in the first half of 00's
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BSW
Joined: 22 Jun 2012
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:40 am
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| Tenchi wrote: | | most of the major characters are female, and the focus is more on the young witches' day to day lives rather than the occasional huge magical setpieces. |
You know that's text-book seinen appeal though, right?
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:19 pm
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| BSW wrote: | |
You know that's text-book seinen appeal though, right? |
I know it seems seinen but Flying Witch is published in a shounen magazine, Kodansha's Bessatsu Shounen monthly. I think the distinction between "shounen", "seinen' and "shoujo" for a title with cross-demographic appeal like Flying Witch is blurred and has more to do with which advertisers the magazine attracts than it does with which demographic cubby holes the readers are in.
WataMote is another manga title I read featuring mostly female characters that seems like it could be seinen but which is technically shounen due to where it's published, Gangan Joker.
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ThrowMeOut
Joined: 10 Oct 2018
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:39 pm
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| DavetheUsher wrote: | | Might just be anecdotal, but none of the female anime fans I know really read shoujo, outside a couple of who like Chihayafuru. They're all into shounen and stuff like Promare these days. |
Come to think of it, this is true in my friend group too. If they mention shojo they've read, it's stuff from 10+ years ago. I think the last shojo any of us got really excited over was Yona, and that anime came out over five years ago.
Honestly in the last few years genres have really started to mesh together, so maybe this whole girl's comics vs boy's comics thing will start fading out. A lot of guys dig romance, a lot of girls dig action and adventure.
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Cutiebunny
Joined: 18 Apr 2010
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Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:13 am
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Princess GOLD used to send out original nengajo on January 1 featuring artwork from whatever series they're running. Over the years, I've managed to add a few of these sketches that were sent out to prize winners. I always looked forward to seeing what would be up for grabs, even if I had 0 shot of ever winning them as I don't reside in Japan. I'm going to miss that magazine because of that. More and more magazines aren't running the contests that they used to run. Maybe the target audience isn't interested in original, one-of-a-kind stuff anymore.
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