Why is this anime tagged as shonen?

Dec 31, 2021 11:34 AM

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Not that it really bothers me, but I always felt that Samurai Champloo was an anime that's targeted towards older people, it really feels like a seinen show. This is confusing. Also I get the feeling that there's already a thread similar to this one.

Dec 31, 2021 11:52 AM

Potatoboy11

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Dude. Fricking Banana Fish is tagged shoujo. I don't really trust the tags until i actuall see the show

Dec 31, 2021 11:54 AM

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because the source material was published in a shounen magazine.

Fun fact: This is seinen:

Dec 31, 2021 11:55 AM

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Potatoboy11 said:
Dude. Fricking Banana Fish is tagged shoujo. I don't really trust the tags until i actuall see the show

For real I watched the anime and I never knew it was tagged as shoujo. WOW

Dec 31, 2021 11:59 AM

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I don’t even know what 99% of tags are

Dec 31, 2021 12:09 PM

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epidemia78 said:
because the source material was published in a shounen magazine.

Fun fact: This is seinen:

But Samurai Champloo is an original anime, not an adaptation

Dec 31, 2021 12:12 PM

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MathValim said:

But Samurai Champloo is an original anime, not an adaptation

You're right, it does say "original"... But when you click on "adaptation" it links to a manga page and the date of publication is several months prior to the anime debut.

Dec 31, 2021 12:15 PM

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epidemia78 said:

MathValim said:

But Samurai Champloo is an original anime, not an adaptation

You're right, it does say "original"... But when you click on "adaptation" it links to a manga page and the date of publication is several months prior to the anime debut.

Yes, because frequently original anime will have manga adaptations to advertise the anime, and because making manga is so much quicker and easier than making anime, the manga will often begin publishing before the anime airs. Evangelion did the same thing.

Dec 31, 2021 12:26 PM

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Because it’s for babies. J/k, I think most Japanese editors stopped caring about the demographic tags a long time ago

Dec 31, 2021 12:27 PM

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Austin_Beale said:

epidemia78 said:

You're right, it does say "original"... But when you click on "adaptation" it links to a manga page and the date of publication is several months prior to the anime debut.

Whoever authored MAL's page for this anime probably wasn't aware of this and made a mistake based on assumptions. Maybe someone should let the admins know.

Dec 31, 2021 1:12 PM

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epidemia78 said:

Austin_Beale said:

Whoever authored MAL's page for this anime probably wasn't aware of this and made a mistake based on assumptions. Maybe someone should let the admins know.

What do you mean? There’s nothing wrong with the page. Just because the manga happened to release first doesn’t mean it isn’t an original anime.

Dec 31, 2021 1:15 PM

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Austin_Beale said:

epidemia78 said:

Whoever authored MAL's page for this anime probably wasn't aware of this and made a mistake based on assumptions. Maybe someone should let the admins know.

What do you mean? There’s nothing wrong with the page. Just because the manga happened to release first doesn’t mean it isn’t an original anime.

I meant what I said. The shounen tag on this anime appears to be a mistake so somebody should fix it. Not that I care.

Dec 31, 2021 1:21 PM

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Potatoboy11 said:
Dude. Fricking Banana Fish is tagged shoujo. I don't really trust the tags until i actuall see the show

Because Banana Fish was released in a shoujo magazine

Dec 31, 2021 1:57 PM

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That doesn't explain tagging it as something it isn't.

Dec 31, 2021 2:41 PM

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[quote=Potatoboy11 message=65339517]Dude. Fricking Banana Fish is tagged shoujo. I don't really trust the tags until i actuall see the show[/quote
That because manga it published by a shoujo publisher.

Dec 31, 2021 8:18 PM

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Why is it tagged as historical? None of that shit that happens in the show happened in real life.

Dec 31, 2021 9:30 PM

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Anime_God_King said:
Why is it tagged as historical? None of that shit that happens in the show happened in real life.

Historical doesn’t mean real history. Just events happening in a past era.

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Jan 1, 2022 12:19 AM

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Potatoboy11 said:
Dude. Fricking Banana Fish is tagged shoujo. I don't really trust the tags until i actuall see the show

I mean it is a shoujo, Akimi Yoshida is a shoujo manga artist and it was also published in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic so like...

Jan 1, 2022 5:50 AM

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maki-zenin said:

Potatoboy11 said:
Dude. Fricking Banana Fish is tagged shoujo. I don't really trust the tags until i actuall see the show

I mean it is a shoujo, Akimi Yoshida is a shoujo manga artist and it was also published in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic so like...

Exactly.
Also, people who think Banana Fish isn’t “shoujo” haven’t read much shoujo, especially from the 80s-90s. Some of that shit gets dark as hell (hell, most of Junji Ito’s stuff was serialized in shoujo pubs). It’s not all Sailor Moons and Boys Over Flowers.

Jan 1, 2022 10:09 PM

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Because there is an adventure and... swords... 😁
One have to keep in mind that the categorization of seinen/jousei, shounen/shoujo serves marketing purposes and not literacy, i.e they are used to target a particular category of consumers.
Hence, it is, from my perspective, obviously meaningful since this anime can be meant towards teens, like any shounen with swords...

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