Comments on: Seinen sign-in http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/ Spending too much on comics, then talking too much about them Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: ed http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2614 ed Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:47:13 +0000 http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2614 <i>Unless the seinen audience is frighteningly large.</i> Cough, cough.. It is, but we don't tell people. Look at how many magazines we read and how they are on the forefront of technology (being some of the first to go digital and cell only). Oh and from the looks at the number of circles at comiket dedicated to seinen... Yeah seinen teh big time!! Why else would Moyoco Anno draw seinen ^_^ Unless the seinen audience is frighteningly large.

Cough, cough.. It is, but we don’t tell people. Look at how many magazines we read and how they are on the forefront of technology (being some of the first to go digital and cell only). Oh and from the looks at the number of circles at comiket dedicated to seinen… Yeah seinen teh big time!!

Why else would Moyoco Anno draw seinen ^_^

]]> By: davidpwelsh http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2553 davidpwelsh Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:01:44 +0000 http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2553 True enough, Huff, and obviously more people are buying the <i>Yotsuba&!</i> digests than just a seinen audience, given how well the latest did in the Japanese sales charts. Unless the seinen audience is frighteningly large. True enough, Huff, and obviously more people are buying the Yotsuba&! digests than just a seinen audience, given how well the latest did in the Japanese sales charts. Unless the seinen audience is frighteningly large.

]]> By: Huff http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2548 Huff Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:45:28 +0000 http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2548 Well Dengeki Daioh is a pretty otaku-oriented magazine, so it probobly isn't a good representation of the average seinen magazine (I could see Yotsuba&! running in Afternoon, Monthly Beam or even Ikki though). I think alot of people take labels like "seinen" a bit too literally; adult men (and of course women for that matter) are probobly going to be more open to diffrent kinds of stories than children, which is probobly why there's such a wide range of titles that could be considered seinen when compared to shonen manga. And maybe its just be, but the fact that Strawberry Marshmallow's target audience is older than 16 is a bit creepy... Well Dengeki Daioh is a pretty otaku-oriented magazine, so it probobly isn’t a good representation of the average seinen magazine (I could see Yotsuba&! running in Afternoon, Monthly Beam or even Ikki though). I think alot of people take labels like “seinen” a bit too literally; adult men (and of course women for that matter) are probobly going to be more open to diffrent kinds of stories than children, which is probobly why there’s such a wide range of titles that could be considered seinen when compared to shonen manga.
And maybe its just be, but the fact that Strawberry Marshmallow’s target audience is older than 16 is a bit creepy…

]]> By: davidpwelsh http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2547 davidpwelsh Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:10:39 +0000 http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2547 Good point on the <i>Twilight Zone</i> intros to the chapters. Those were nice touches. Good point on the Twilight Zone intros to the chapters. Those were nice touches.

]]> By: Ed http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2546 Ed Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:51:47 +0000 http://precur.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/seinen-sign-in/#comment-2546 <i>I mean… Yotsuba&! is seinen? Who knew?</i> No one who ever listens to my reviews apparently <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/mangacast/232092.html" rel="nofollow">―(T_T)→</a>. Actually I bought MAIL the night before I left for Japan and had a good time with that. A little episodic but I enjoyed the Alfred Hitchcock feel to it as the lead (was also narrated) had a great sense of humor despite his deep personal connection to the supernatural. A bit of poetry before firing guns helps as well. I mean… Yotsuba&! is seinen? Who knew?

No one who ever listens to my reviews apparently ―(T_T)→.

Actually I bought MAIL the night before I left for Japan and had a good time with that. A little episodic but I enjoyed the Alfred Hitchcock feel to it as the lead (was also narrated) had a great sense of humor despite his deep personal connection to the supernatural. A bit of poetry before firing guns helps as well.

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