What Can You See From There?: Bande Déssinée and the West in TekkonKinkreet

Seinen

Seinen 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: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).  

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