| Aeolus451 said: Does the age really matter, though? Everyone involved in anime knows that much older people watch any genre of anime. Terraformars has a lot of action and it's target demographic is males. Not much difference between seinen and shounen in my opinion. Alot of people use those words as a term for a genre. |
Yes it does! It's all about the intention behind the author that defines it's target demographic ...
You can't exactly say a series is meant for that particular audience aside from the creators themselves ...
| LuckyTrouble said: The thing with shonen is that it can be defined as a genre. We can say "targeted at young males", but what does that actually mean? It tends to mean a focus on action, the plot usually driven through repeated conflict resolved through battle of some kind, and it tends to have an absence of romance or only uses it as a comedic plot element (One Piece being a great, long running example of all of the above). Granted, not all shonen will necessarily stick to these basic guidelines, but I could rattle off about a dozen more prominent shonen anime that follow them practically to the letter. I mean, you can't say that shonen has a target audience and then say that there are no genre specific trends of appealing to a specific target audience. That literally makes no sense. |
It means that's what the author intended for it's audience to be. Nothing more and nothing less ...
The concept of "shounen" isn't tied to ANY specific genre. You can have a shounen manga focus on whatever genre the author wants like comedy, music, romance, crime drama's, slice of life, psychological, or anything else that also not action. Just because a manga is published in a magazine that targets younger males doesn't mean that it has to conform to the trends like it's other contemporaries do ...
Demographics and genres are practically orthogonal notions ...
