1media/Big TK 2.jpg2016-06-13T15:49:18-07:00Seinen9gallery2018-04-29T19:44:31-07:00Seinen narratives are a phenomenon in Japan. Most recognized masterpieces and criti cally acclaimed works spring from this genre, for example: Akira, Berserk, Ghost in the Shell, and Afro Samurai (picture above as click-through slideshow). Frederik L. Schodt clarifies manga magazine genres as “often divided into four or five categories:
shōnen (boys)
shōjo (girls)
redisu (ladies)
seijin (adult as in erotic manga for men)
seinen (young men)” (95).
Schodt goes on to clarify that the term of “young men” is misleading: “despite its youthful connotations, is a wonderfully vague term that can refer to males between the ages of fifteen and forty” (96).
