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12:41 pm, Sep 5 2007
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Currently, I'm interested in reading SEIJIN type of manga. Can anyone recommend me something good? laugh

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Looking for seijin genre, like: 1+2=Paradise, Manga Bangaichi and Lemon People.
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1:08 pm, Sep 5 2007
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seinin? if so it still really depends are you more into gore, psychological, crime, etc.

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3:01 pm, Sep 5 2007
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SEINEN and SEIJIN are different. Just came up with this information:

Seinen Manga (Young Men's Comics)

In spite of the term "Seinen", the actual age group these comics are targeting ranges from mid-teens all the way up to men in their 30's, so when you pop open a seinen manga, you might get a story more akin to a shônen manga or something you certainly would not want your child (if you have one) to read. The artistic style in seinen manga is just a variable as the plots. Artistic style can range from the very simplistic, if not crude, all the way up to near realistic. Animé watchers in the U.S.A. are also familiar with seinen manga through adapted animé shows like Maison Ikkoku, Yawara, 3x3 Eyes, and many others.

Seinen manga magazines are generally one-third the thickness of a typical shônen/shôjo, around 200 pages, size B5, saddle-stapled, and can be published weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Popular manga magazines include "Young Jump", "Young Sunday", "Young Magazine", "Young King", "Big Comics", "Mr. Magazine". "Young" seems to be a popular name element, so if you pick up a compiled manga or magazine with the word "young" in the spine or masthead, you can bet that it is a seinen manga.

Seijin Manga (Adult Men's Comics)

These are erotic comics that are targeted at adult men (or adolescent boys, depending on your personal taste). Explicit sex and many subjects that would be taboo outside the manga form are covered in this category. A word of warning to those adventurous types who like to special order manga by author, you might be surprised at what you get. Some manga artists draw adult and more "mainstream" manga, so be sure to check out the magazine or manga label associated with what you are ordering. Some adult manga are actually refugees from shônen manga magazines!

A recent "shônen" immigrant to the seijin is 1+2=Paradise (some might even remember an OVA based on the manga) by Kamimura Sumiko, a soft-core sex comedy that originally ran in Monthly Shônen Magazine. At the time, it caused a minor scandal with headlines like "This Is Supposed to Be Shônen Manga?!" in various newspapers. Now it is published under Seinen Comics (a brand name, not the generic term) of Fujimi Shuppan. Let the buyer beware!

Typical seijin manga magazines have suggestive names like "Hot Milk", "Manga Bangaichi", "Lemon People" with equally suggestive covers that leave little to the imagination. Most are the same size as the typical seinen manga: about 200 pages, size B5, and saddle-stapled. Seijin Manga Magazines have vanished from the Japanese book superstores like Kinokuniya because of the likelihood of being charged with breaking U.S.A. obscenity laws, but one can still find them in smaller "mom and pop" stores.

daed, as long as it fits the SEIJIN genre, I'll definetely try reading it... smile wink grin

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Looking for seijin genre, like: 1+2=Paradise, Manga Bangaichi and Lemon People.
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4:57 pm, Sep 5 2007
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Hmm... that isn't listed as a genre here.

Why not search for a combination of genres using "Seinen", and some other genre that they frequently take? But most of us here are quite young, so probably not too many of them listed here.

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6:01 pm, Sep 5 2007
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I think that this is the first time I've seen somebody use the correct term when referring to this genre. And to answer your request, well, it's kind of hard to recommend something because it depends of what you consider "good". Do you consider a seijin manga "good" if it focuses in the artwork and the intercourse scenes but lacks a solid story? Because this is what most readers want when they buy seijin manga (If they were looking for something that would focus primary in the argumentative part they were buying some seinen instead).

But I avidly recommend you that in order to have more results you should open a new topic and name this genre with the popular (and incorrect) term by which is most known in the Western world: Hentai. (And write a specific topic title this time. Put something like "Recommend me a good Hentai title" (or "i Luv Teh HENTAI"...) and I assure you that in one week you'd get two or three times more replies than the whole lifespan of this thread.

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8:53 am, Jun 14 2011
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At first, sorry by my english. It's not my main language.
At second: as I know, seijin manga isn't exactly porn manga, although all porn manga is technically seijin manga. "Seijin" are a term targeted for "adults responsible by him-selves/her-selves". Basically, it's the age where you can read what you want, including taboo themes. But there are a lot of different seijin manga, about workmarket, social relations, food, cars and technical manga about specifical issues. Magazines like Jitsugyon no Nihonsha's Manga Sunday and Shueisha's Business Jump are Seijin, not seinen manga.
But to make it simple: seinen is what you read at 18-25yo, seijin is targeted to thirties and later twenties. That's all. smile

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2:32 am, Jun 16 2011
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To be clear, is seijin the same as hentai? Or is it a different category all together?

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