Seinen
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Seinen (Japanese: 青年) is a subset of anime or manga that is generally targeted at a 18 - 25 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s.
Sometimes it is classified as shōjo or shonen, but it has distinct features, usually classified by a wider variety of art styles (particularly in manga) and more variation in subject matter, ranging from the avant garde to the pornographic. The female equivalent to seinen is josei.
A common way to tell if a comic is seinen is by looking at whether or not furigana is used over the original kanji text. A lack of furigana would imply that the title is intended for a mature audience. The title of the magazine it was published in is also an important indicator. Usually Japanese manga magazines with the word young in the title (Young Jump for instance) are seinen. Other popular seinen manga magazines include Ultra Jump, Afternoon, and Big Comic. Many of these manga were published in English in the now defunct pulp magazine.
List of seinen anime and manga
- 20th Century Boys (manga)
- Akira (film) (manga and anime)
- Alien Nine (manga and anime)
- Osamu Tezuka's Adolf (manga)
- Azumanga Daioh (anime and manga)
- Berserk (manga and anime)
- Blame! (manga)
- Chobits (manga and anime)
- Dragon head (manga)
- Eden (manga)
- Victorian Romance Emma (anime)
- Emma (manga)
- ES: Eternal Sabbath (manga)
- Freesia (manga)
- G Senjou Heaven's Door (manga)
- Ghost in the Shell (anime and manga)
- Kachou Shima Kosaku (manga)
- Maison Ikkoku (anime and manga)
- MONSTER (anime and manga)
- MPD Psycho (manga)
- Nasu (manga)
- Natsuko no Sake (manga)
- Oh My Goddess! (manga and anime)
- Perfect Blue (anime movie)
- Some chapters of Phoenix (Hi no tori) manga
- Sanctuary (manga)
- Sexy Voice and Robo (manga)
- Skyhigh (manga)
- Strain (manga)
- Tenjho Tenge (anime and manga)
- Tetsuwan Girl (manga)
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (anime and manga)