| Hmm, not a single series, really, more like an author. I discovered Miwa Sakai, and really like her. A lot of her stuff happens to be josei though she does have some shoujo stuff too. Actually, it can be rather annoying, as her series keep getting reprinted over and over under different labels and have even been rerun in different magazines, so some of them are sort of shoujo AND josei :) |
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| Probably Eden: It's an Endless World! and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. |
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| In my case though, it was actually a scanslation group (the now apparently defunct Project Omanga). It was more like a baptism of black ink rather than fire since most of the titles there were pretty damn dark (Alive, Blame!, MPD Psycho, Leviathan, Skyhigh). |
| I'll have to say Battle Royale although it may be violent there were some generally realistic reactions in there. What kept me on Seisen is Ah! My Goddess and Monster. |
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| I don't really remember, but it might just be Kenshin OAV Tsuiokuhen. |
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| My case it was a several series of "slice of life" manga. Maison Ikkoku, Living Game, & Hotman. After that, I went out of my way to dig up obscure slice of life series, just to see how other people live, and how they react to adversity. |
| Honey and Clover was the first anime I've really enjoyed that is intended for older audiences. It was not a gateway or anything of the sort, I was never closed off to the genre. I just hadn't watched any of it yet. The earliest seinen manga I read through were Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and D-ASH. Two very different titles, which are basically impossible to compare. D-ASH was probably the first kinda disturbing manga I have read, and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou was the first one that didn't thrust anything at me. I never once felt that I "needed" to finish it, the ending just came. In the beginning, the rave reviews made me extremely critical, but as the art style became softer, so did my opinions. I enjoyed it very leisurely. No specific series has changed my taste or has lead to a revelation of some sort, it is just the passage of time that has moved my distinctions between what I enjoy and what I avoid. |
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| It was on a cold winter night in january 2001. *sigh* To my shame I have to admit that I was browsing the internet for "adult cartoon content" (...at that time the terms "hentai" and "ecchi" were unknown to me) when I accidently found pictures of the show "cowboy bebop". They were so intense, that I had to watch it. The rest is history..... ^^ |
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| Actually, prior to Honey and Clover, I did watch Cowboy Bebop and Trigun, which are apparently considered seinen by this club. I suppose I should rephrase it to Honey and Clover was the first non-violent anime I've ever really enjoyed that is intended for older audiences. |
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| @Wind-UpBird: Interesting....the second anime I enjoyed right after Cowboy Bebob was Trigun as well. And it deepened my addiction for anime. Unfortunately after that only very few shows could move me deeply like they did at that time. ;) |
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| Kino no tabi - i love it's furtive psychological idea . kino's intrepidity and logical analysis enahances my liking for it even more |
| I remember just absentmindedly watching some anime without knowing what the style titles meant; Cowboy Bebop, Trigun (the first anime I ever saw), Shingetsutan Tsukihime, Hellsing. then upon looking into a bit, I noticed that most of the anime I particularly enjoyed were considered seinen, so I started looking exclusively for "seinen" anime and found my new love - Darker than Black. |
| As for me I started where many start, with the big shonens (Naruto, Bleach etc..) Then when I saw Gantz I knew I had found something that entertained me far more then the predictable immature animes i had seen before. After that I started to look for more and more mature mangas/animes and came across the term seinen. Though I still enjoy some shonen, nothing can beat a really good seinen. One of my favourites is still the Gantz manga, but i also really enjoy the slice of life genre (Genshiken and Living Game come to mind) |
| Well, if we're going to allow for anime titles, I'd have to say Cowboy Bebop. Before that I thought anime was only good for Sailor Moon and Pokemon. Seriously. I really can't pick a manga title since by then I had already developed a great preference for seinen/josei titles anyway - in fact I had begun to write seinen fanfiction long before actually reading any manga (long story, maybe I'll post a link here one of these days :p) |
| It was my natural inclination to seek out seinen when I first got into anime a few months back. No one title really got me into it (although Elfen Lied was the first one I saw), but rather it was what I wanted to watch in the first place- before then I thought all anime was stupid kiddy nonsense like Pokémon. But then a few titles caught my eye (e.g. Elfen Lied, Cowboy Bebop and Trigun), I decided to give them a chance, and learned it's not all bad. |
| I would have to say that Cowboy Bepop, Trigun, and Kino no Tabi were my first main introductions into anime that made you think more than the average I had seen before(Sailor Moon, Pokémon, and the likes) and before then I had been reading Jiraishin(Known as Ice Blade in the US). As I got older, I discovered josei series, especially due to the recent publications of licensed josei manga States side. Being an older female, I can relate better to the females in these types of stories where women have already gone through the fluttering love of high school/jr. high when kissing and holding hands could still make us blush; instead they are going into the more realistic aspect of love life. |
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| This is going to sound really stupid but frankly, I had no idea the anime I was watching was being categorized like this. I just watch the type of shows that got captured in this category simply because I found them appealing. Oh well... Carry on. |
| Hmm Aria, Chobits (my two true loves) and probably Aa! Megami-sama. As for anime... Aria, Ookami to Koshinryo, Shinkai Makoto's works (especially 5 cm... and The Place...), Mushishi and Kino no Tabi. Yup those are probably the most important but not all ;] |
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| None, I just got tired of Shonen after seeing the same old, same old for the umpteenth time. |
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| I think the first josei title I had read was Doll by Mitsukazu Mihara. I remember buying it because I wanted something more cerebral to read, and these sorts of titles were still a bit thin in the market at the time. Then again, maybe the first more mature manga I read was Maison Ikkoku, but I never finished reading it because I had come to learn that I really wasn't a fan of Rumiko Takahashi's stuff. First seinen or josei anime I've seen: probably Cowboy Bebop. I've never seen all of it, but I'd like to. |
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| kimi wa petto I adore the manga and movie! |
| Monster. Before that, I didn't watch anime at all. Monster showed me that there's more than shonen action soap operas. I admit I haven't finished watching it, but later I read manga and it was simply epic. |
| Monster and then 20th Century boys |
d-yaro said: This is going to sound really stupid but frankly, I had no idea the anime I was watching was being categorized like this. I just watch the type of shows that got captured in this category simply because I found them appealing. Oh well... Carry on. Same here, haha. I didn't even hear of the terms josei and seinen until a few years ago, and I've been a big fan of anime since around fifth grade (now nineteen). Before then, I thought all of it was just classified as either shounen and shoujo. Honey & Clover was the first josei series I watched with the knowledge that it was josei. Not sure what my first seinen anime was... maybe Cowboy Bebop. |
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| My first brush with this genre is Trigun and Cowboy Bebop. I didn't really get hooked until Ergo Proxy, Nana, and Darker Than Black. |
| Nodame Cantabile got me hooked. |
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| I would have to say it was Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, it's actually what got me really into watching anime in the first place. It was quickly followed by Honey and Clover, which I really enjoyed. |
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| Pale Cocoon was the first one that had me really addicted |
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Prede said: No offense, but Miyazaki has NOTHING do with seinen or josei. His films are all children stories. You can like them all you want, but they are not aimed at adults, or even older audiences. One could argue most anime is aimed at an older audience then his films. That's not to say that they are "bad" (that would be an opinion), or that you shouldn't watch films for children (that would be stupid/rude), but I am letting you know it's not seinen or anything. I agree with what you say, but for some of us, me included, we label seinen and josei based on themes and not intended audience. Miyazaki's films are some of the most loaded animated movies. You can watch them many times and pick up new things here and there. Again, his movies are often marketed toward children, but I think that a lot of his movies are more universal and can be enjoyed by both adults and children due to the way the content is presented. Western equivalent would be The Last Unicorn or the Narnia books. Back on topic, my first seinen was actually Miyazaki's manga, Nausicaa (which is demographically and thematically seinen). When I first read it back in grade 9, I missed a lot of stuff that I picked up when reading it later. And I only really appreciated it once I read it a couple of times and picked up on the connections he wanted to draw between the different themes in his manga. First josei would probably be Deep Love Ayu. It made me reconsider the romance genre in general. I used to think all romances were unrealistic, but then I got introduced to josei romance through Deep Love Ayu and I was converted. XD Also the first manga to make me cry. (PS- if people are considering NANA josei then it was actually my first josei manga, but I've only read a bit of it at the time, so I still consider Ayu my first true josei manga). |
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| ohhh Nausicaa is without a doubt in my mind still to date my favorite Miyazaki. The characters and story were both simply stellar |
| I won't be fooled by a mere 3-d girl!!! |
| I think it was Monster for Seinen, and Kimi wa Petto for Josei, though I'm not 100% sure. I read them eons ago. |
| I would say that most Miyazaki anime are made for a young audience, but don't forget Miyazaki's contribution to Monkey Punch's Lupin III franchise. Some of the first anime I watched were Golgo 13, Vampire Hunter D, and Fist of the Northstar. However, I didn't get really hooked on anime until I started watching Cowboy Bebop. So when I began reading manga I was naturally drawn to the seinen. Some of the series that really made an impression on me, and helped reinforce my love of all things seinen, were Trigun and Elfen Lied. Both of those manga are considerably superior to their anime counterparts. |
| well elfen lied was my first but the manga version of berserk got me hooked |
| I believe my first josei was Honey and clover, and I wanted more series like that, so I got into josei. I havent seen that many seinen, but I really dislike stereotypical anime at the moment, so Im looking for something a bit more mature and intellectual. |
MichaelMCP said: I'll have to say Battle Royale although it may be violent there were some generally realistic reactions in there. this! |
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| Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan was the first one I read and then Momonchi. I think both of them got me hooked. |
| Can't remember, probably the MPD Psycho (still going on...) or Blue Heaven psychology and darkness was a good alternative to the shounen works |
| At the time, I didn't really pay attention to genres, but I could tell I was getting tired of shonen and had given up on shojo altogether. Parasyte, 20th Century Boys and Planetes are some titles that really got me hooked. I later realized that most of the real jems were really seinen and josei. For me, Solanin and Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan are titles that have confirmed that idea. |
| I went pretty much straight into seinen without watching any shounen or shoujo apart from what I saw when I was younger. I started on ecchi (a genre with a lot of shounen and less intellectual "seinen") like Re: Cutie Honey, which I liked, but I got bored with those type of anime quickly. I think my first completed seinen was either Haruhi Suzumiya (which I watched because I liked the concept) and Evangelion (because everybody was saying how good it was), but it was a combination of Azumanga Daioh (know to me at the time as that one anime from AMV hell 3 that I REALLY wanted to watch) and Serial Experiments Lain (those two also shows the massive contrast between seinen titles, incidentally) that got me hooked. I saw Azumanga first, but by the time I finished Lain, I was truely hooked. I streamed both of those at the time, by the way. My first downloaded anime were Kaiba and Dennou Coil (which I may have actually saw before Lain, but my memory is a bit hazy), so I was already well into seinen anime by that time. I wasn't paying much attention to what demographic they were aimed towards at that time, but I liked them more than stuff like Haruhi Suzumiya (also seinen, but whatever...) and stuff like that. |
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| Hmmm one of the very first anime titles I watched was Neon Genesis Evangelion. I was probably too young to understand it well but it captivated me. Then I started reading manga and comparing the differences. I discovered that seinen series were much better, especially once I started reading series such as Gantz. |
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