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Aparrently the Kill la Kill manga was published in a Seinen magazine, Young Ace
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There seems to be a bit (actually a lot) of disagreement over whether seinen should be defined as a genre or a demographic. I think this needs some closure, lest the editing wars continue indefinitely. The tricky thing is, it's both: seinen is simultaneously an explicit, objectively-defined demographic, and a set of genre traits that may or may not correspond with the ostensible demographic (if there even is one - how would theatrical releases fall on the scale?). So, do we go with one or both?
A lot of shounen sources get anime adaptations that air in more seinen time slots.
For example, Shana is a LN, which is inherently shounen or shoujo, but the anime aired at like 0130.
Do you think these should fit under seinen?
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Doesn't qualify, me who made the disclaimer in the description warned that the anime must have a late time slot, glaring mature imagery of its own, and if its based from a Shōnen work the adaptation must be way more mature than the original, and I mean way more; taking violence as an example: the original had splashes of blood while the adaptation had Ludicrous Gibs and Gorn Up To Eleven, a perfect example of this is Violence Jack.
I know Shakugan No Shana very well, the light novels even as I'm the one who made most of Yuji's spoiler entries, so I'm removing Shana from the Seinen entry, it doesn't fit here at all.
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I'm somewhat baffled as to how Neon Genesis Evangelion can be classified as shonen while FLCL and Code Geass are listed under seinen.
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Evangelion is now legit because it moved to a genuine Seinen magazine (Young Ace) not many years ago, FLCL was removed from the list ever since but I've put it back because the manga ran in a Seinen magazine (Magazine Z), CodeGeass is for anime only due its very late time slot in Japan and the suggestive scenes, the manga adaptations are all Shōnen and some Shoujo.
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Wouldn't Fullmetal Alchemist be considered a Seinen? Or at least a series easily mistaken as one? Because, as I read the description, FMA was the first thing to come to mind, so it seems odd that it's not o the page. Should I add it?
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Are you sure Princess Mononoke is seinen, because word of Miyazaki makes it more of a shonen