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i think overseas readers/booksellers are attracted to "shonen/shojo manga" genre classifications b/c it fits our mental model of 'OK for a certain age group' + general stereotypes of "what boys like/what girls like," but we get confused the lines are blurred more than we expect

@_Ridley_ true. but there's enough of it in manga that is unique and worth spotlighting as something special to readers other than during "Pride Month" if you know what i mean.

I’m saying that because it feels like all the “that’s not shojo manga!” / “that’s not appropriate for all-ages readers” discussions is about helping overseas manga readers find books that they’ll love, & the shojo/shonen/josei/seinen labels are in flux now & aren’t always helpful

Is it more useful to overseas readers to discover manga they might like if we classify them by readers’ gender? By age rating (all ages, teens, older teens or age 18+)? By story genre (romance, sci-fi, fantasy, horror)? Or combos like “mature romance” or “all-ages fantasy”?

All of this is just to say that age/gender-based manga genre classifications aren’t as strictly defined as overseas readers might want or expect them to be. Knowing the original intended target audience in JP can provide helpful context, but it’s evolving as we speak

Added to the “originally published on a digital comics site” group of titles is Comics Pool, a collab btwn Pixiv & Ichijinsha, the original home of Wotakoi and The Yakuza’s Bias (fr @KodanshaManga) & Life Lessons from Uramichi Oniisan (fr @gomanga). Is it josei manga? Seinen? 🤔

@greenlitmeteor Emma was serialized in Comic Beam, a seinen manga magazine from Enterbrain

We’re already seeing this with Romantic Killer, a full-color, webtoon-esque vertical-scrolling rom-com serialized on Jump + webcomics site in JP https://t.co/7eE9yMGCVh offered to English @shonenjump subscribers & published as a @shojobeat title in print https://t.co/cZmBEZMW75

we haven’t even delved into defining the other major genres, like boys love, girls love/yuri, gay manga, yon-koma/4-panel manga, “teen love/TL” manga, and various other sub-classifications. They defy strict definitions b/c manga, like languages, is constantly evolving