Shounen Seinen Shoujo Josei

Seinen > Shounen >>> Josei > Shoujo

>audience = genre
The only way this can possibly work is because 99% of all manga is so fucking derivative by design, because that's what consumers of manga want.
With that in mind, none of them are actually better or worse than each other - they are all equally trash, and the few standard entries into these generalized categories that are worth reading are worth it precisely because they can't be shoe-horned into these generalized categories. They are either foundational works that predate the establishment of the tropes; or they are targeted towards one of the four generalized audiences by default, since they have few to none of the tropes typically sold to that audience; or the subvert the expectations entirely and defy this overly generalized characterization; or - rarely - they are simply so well executed that they are worth reading despite being so goddamned derivative as to allow you to guess the entirety of the plot simply by being able to categorize it into one of these four audience groups with a high rate of success.

If you like any of the hyper-derivative tropes that help you immediately identify a work as being able to fit one of these generalized audiences, you've got shit taste - end of discussion.

I mean it's common sense if you have a brain. Sho means few/less, nen means year. So, shonen is few years while shojo is less woman. Seinen is young years while josei is female sex.

You sound like a super-pretentious faggot. That is all.

seinen>josei>>>>>>shounen>>>shoujo

kiddies btfo

Hikaru Yuzuki is the perfect example of why these distinctions are meaningless. The guy got famous in the late 60's, through the 70's for making tons of shojo manga but now in the digital era, almost all of them are sold as seinen manga.

One of the stupidest posts I ever read.

no u

bump

I like a good seinen more than anything else but the vast majority of them are edgelord shit or slightly edgier retreads of genres popular in shounen.
Also I don't think I read a single Josei magazine manga in the last decade.

>I like a good seinen more than anything else but the vast majority of them are edgelord shit or slightly edgier retreads of genres popular in shounen.
You're not doing a very good job of looking for seinen manga.

Nah. I like seinen because the composition has room to be a lot better than shounen, but most seinen fail in that regard. Something that's super edgy or something that would be right at home in a shounen magazine fail at the same thing.
For the most part. There's body horror stuff that's supported by a strong story every once in a while.

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Childhood is preferring shonen.
Adolescence is preferring seinen.
Adulthood is realizing soft-seinen was always the peak.

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I never saw a single good Josei or Shoujo.

Dorohedoro is a seinen manga. It ran in a seinen magazine. Devilman did not get published as a seinen but Devilman Lady and Devilman Saga did.

tbni (this but non ironically)
but one piece isn't a soft seinen lol. although its probly a bait image in the first place

Nope it run in shonen mag too

What shoujo have you read/watched? Shoujo is probably good at about the same rate as shonen is. The kinds of things that get annoying in shoujo may just annoy you more than the things that get annoying in shonen though.

Dorohedoro moved to a shonen magazine for its last several chapters. The fact that something like that can even happen just shows why using these terms like Yas Forums does really means nothing.

>the vast majority of seinen are edgy
Seriously, what. Quality aside, if you flip through a typical seinen magazine you'll see tons of stuff that isn't even dark at all. For fuck's sake, most Kirara magazines are seinen.

Well, was the content different? It was technically always published in alternative manga magazines, not generic seinen ones so the fact it appeared in a more mainstream magazine at all was weird but it only did that because the previous magazines it appeared in failed. If you look at magazines ending, it is interesting to see what goes where, there are seinen magazines that end and the content goes to josei magazines or josei magazines ending and the content goes to shonen webservices.

shoujo > shounen > seinen > (power gap)> josei

I have seriously never seen a work outright target the josei demographic be any good.

also, individual seinen works tend to beat out the best shoujo and shonen works
but in terms of the majority of works targeting the demographic, no

Only seinen cgdct adaptations are worth watching