Comment on [Discussion] What are some anime whose demographics fans tend to get wrong?
missingno@fedia.io 3 weeks ago The reason Frieren is classified as shounen is because the manga is serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday.
missingno@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Today I learned the “shounen” label is useless for categorization lol
I wouldn't exactly say that. It's a broad category, but it is a fairly well defined category. Frieren ticks pretty much every shounen box.
Yeah it’s definitely half battle shounen. But “battle shounen” is a genre, while “shounen” does not appear to be a genre. It’s just the groupings by age and gender (at least according to OP), but they’re only decided by the company that prints them, and determined before the actual fanbase is found, and don’t change according to reception. Doesn’t seem very meaningful for us.
Unboxious@ani.social 2 weeks ago
It’s both. It’s telling you “hey, if you’re a teenage boy you’re more likely to like this.” It’s also telling you that the writing is less likely to be difficult to read or understand. Once you’re familiar with what gets published for these demographics it tells you all sorts of things, really.
Endmaker@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I cannot remember the title off the top of my head but I remember reading about at least one manga that changed the magazine it was serialised in to reach a different audience segment.
Disagree. I found it useful.
After watching a substantial amount of anime, I noticed - based on my AniList stats - that I enjoy seinen anime more than those of shounen and shoujo. (You can guess which demographic I am a part of.)
This made it easier for me to seek out anime that fit my taste - though it certainly is a self-reinforcing loop.
I’d still check shounen / shoujo anime out; they simply have a higher bar to clear.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It’s like the fact that you cannot create a category that includes all “fish” that doesn’t also include humans (or, if you want to exclude humans by way of things like body plan or living on land, then you have to include cetaceans and start excluding things like lungfish).
To use your example, most people would probably say there are actually pretty clear expectations of tone & pacing between “a Netflix show” vs. “an HBO show” vs. “a syndicated television show (from before streaming services)” despite them all being the same on the surface.