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⌈ Secret Post #373 ⌋

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32: I see what you're saying. In my early manga-reading days, I got confused by seeing Banana Fish described as "shoujo". All those guns and explosions, and almost no female characters, and no romance to speak of (well, except the sort-of-kind-of thing with Ash and Eiji), and an incredibly sparse art style -- not what people tend to think of as "shoujo" at all. Kind of an eye-opener.

But, that said... there are characteristic genres associated with each demographic... or, not genres so much as aesthetic modes. You're absolutely right that "it's not shoujo because it has sparkles and flowers and romance", but there's a lot less sparkles and flowers and romance in shounen, seinen and josei, ne? Just like shoujo doesn't tend to feature stories about teenage boys wanting to Be The Very Best at some competitive sport or sport-like activity. There are some pretty deep-rooted assumptions about what each demographic group is interested in that results in the distinction between "demographic" and "genre" being blurrier than it looks at first glance.

(Personally I think the whole divide-manga-by-demographic thing is unutterably stupid, but that's how they do it in Japan. Blech.)

Noooo, I understand that there's certain aspects typical to each demographic, of course--that's how it is with everything. But this mostly came from a poll of my f-list I did asking what kind genre of fiction they preferred, and a lot of them said..."shounen." That...doesn't tell me anything. There's sci-fi shounen, there's fantasy shounen, there's tournament/sports shounen. They told me the style they liked, not the genre. That's where it stems from.

Well, it's defined by the demographic it's aimed at (referring to the OP), not by the people who actually buy it, and since the people marketing it and creating it have this in mind and often follow the conventions of shoujo, and seinen and so on you could almost call it a genre. :/
Still, I'd have to agree none-the-less? At least partially?

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