| Back in the late 80's/early 90's, the majority of anime that came out in the U.S. were OVA's, many of which were the more juvenile, plotless, blood and guts kinda stuff. Even though I watched a lot of those, along with a scattered number of random oddities, it wasn't until I saw stuff like Akira and Ghost in the Shell that I really started to develop a concentrated interest in anime, and it just kind of grew from there. Even though a lot of people consider them shonen, I'd also credit Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D with developing my interest in seinen, too. On the manga side, I started reading stuff like Blade of the Immortal, Battle Angel Alita, Ah! My Goddess, Gunsmith Cats, Legend of Mother Sarah, and Ghost in the Shell very early on, and that definitely had an impact on my preferences. For the most part, I've never been anything but a seinen fan :D |
insektmuteAug 6, 2010 9:05 AM
| Well, for me it was Akira, GITS, Lain, & Trigun, in that order. Hook, line, ...line, & sink! They all still remain favorites of mine. |
  |
| Berserk for sure. |
| surprisingly what got me started onto the genre was actually xxxHolic anime (thou not part of the genre) as it was from the anime that i started the manga.. then MPD Psycho came along and i got hooked.. however getting MPD Psycho at my bookstores were just so tough and there was not much scanlation at that time that i had to drop the series then there was this blank period before i found kino journey and aria... |
Justicar said: 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. It was the same for me, Gantz (manga) filled the gap between seinen and and shounen nicely. Then after reading series like Berserk, Eden (its an endless world) and Monster, shounen anime/manga doesn't seem to satisfy anymore. |
| "Monster" really got me. It became my favorite anime series after I had finished watching it. And after I had watched it I realized that I actually liked those more serious and realistic type of shows more than those other pointless ones filled with fanservice and other shit destroying them. |
 |
| Definitely 'Uzumaki'. I had lost interest in manga years ago, and saw that on the shelf at the bookstore one day and bought it on a whim. It brought me back in the fold, and made me curious to see what I've been missing out on. |
| ... and EAT IT !! |
| I've read, watched and enjoyed a lot of seinen titles before, but I didn't really think the "maturity" of them were given a genre (never bothered with genres before). Not before Homunculus, at least. It might just be that Homunculus is different in and of itself, and therefore I noticed something very peculiar about the series, with the atmosphere and all, and thought that this should at least have a genre. Well, I quickly discovered that there isn't a genre that defines... whatever I'm referring to in Homunculus, and that it's just a very outlandish type of manga. Regardless, it made me finally check out the genre. I'm always looking for something mature and engaging. |
| For me, it was Paradise Kiss. |
 |
| hmmmmmmmmmmm, darker than black, probably....yes, i classify it as seinen....or maybe even hellsing ultimate |
 |
| berserk |
| Darker Than Black introduced me to the seinen genre. But I wasn't aware it was a separate genre until I looked it up (because of DtB) - I had already watched some previous seinen anime. So, yeah, Darker than Black. It still remains as my favourite. |
| |ω・) |
| I don't thiknk it's really a matter of what series got me hooked on Seinen and Josei, it was more like 'argh I can't take any more brainless shonen series!' and so I started to look for more mature series. So it's not that I got hooked on seinen/josei, it's more like I'm repulsed by brain-dead anime (and I really hope not to offend anyone by saying this). Anyway, some of the first titles I watched and that I absolutely loved were Mononoke, Usagi Drop, Monster (the manga version, which is a llot better than the anime ^^y ), Kuragehime, Mushishi and Nodame Cantabile. They're all still at the top of my favorites list <3 |
 |
| Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom started my search of seinen anime |
 Active Military, Prior Service and Veteran's Anime Club do not forget the sound of my voice until the day we reunite |
| 20th Century Boys. |
 |
| Solanin. |
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ⛩️  |
| it was spice and wolf for me. main character in his 20's, very dialogue driven and plenty of character development. first series i liked so much that i went out and bought the book! |
 |
| It was a combination of masamune's work, Appleseed and Ghost in the shell. :D then berserk and monster, psycho pass etc. i was very interesed in adult themed animes and love serious plot, even gory ones , i live detective and crime stories :P |
insektmute said: Back in the late 80's/early 90's, the majority of anime that came out in the U.S. were OVA's, many of which were the more juvenile, plotless, blood and guts kinda stuff. Even though I watched a lot of those, along with a scattered number of random oddities, it wasn't until I saw stuff like Akira and Ghost in the Shell that I really started to develop a concentrated interest in anime, and it just kind of grew from there. Even though a lot of people consider them shonen, I'd also credit Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D with developing my interest in seinen, too. For the most part, I've never been anything but a seinen fan :D I have to agree with this in general.. When i started getting into Anime/Manga(i thought they were all called Manga at the start, since the only distributor we had in Australia was 'Manga Entertainment'), and most if not all of the titles offered were R rated.. or at least the ones that looked the most interesting! Of course most were OVA, because that's what they had at the video store(VHS). Remember those? hehe. Like Golgo 13, Fist of the North Star, Ninja Scroll, Akira, Urotsukidōji(hehe), PatLabor etc.. but then came Ghost in the Shell, and that changed my view on 'anime/manga medium' forever. Before that they were 'merely' awesome cartoons from Japan. After 'that', i knew that they were an actual legit artform to be taken seriously, and not just something that could hold it's own against the best live action movies out there, but it could actually transcend the mediums and even be the BEST medium out there for certain types of concepts.. or at least for SCI-FI/Fantasy, like just being EPIC and cool. It wasn't until Matrix came out that i thought a live action matched it. But that just goes to show how good Ghost in the Shell was. As for series, there are too many. Check out my profile for more information on my history, and also my anime/manga list. But I'd like to mention Cowboy Bebop as one of the first/best(even now it's still one of a kind and very watchable), and is also goes with Ghost in the shell as one of those that is PERFECT ART and i don't think it can be matched or outdone on any other medium. Live action will never match it. CGI will never match it. Even if they got the same music/score that Yoko Kanno did for the anime. Berserk also deserves to be listed for manga. Along with stuff like Lone Wolf and Cub, and lots of other period or samurai stuff. The rest is as they say, 'history'. |
 |
| Paradise Kiss was the first Josei manga I'd ever read and I loved it. After that I became interested in series like Kimi wa Petto, Hachimitsu to Kuroba, and Kuragehime. I also like a lot of Seinen series like Blame!, Hellsing, and Ghost in the Shell. I just wish they would release more series that fit into the Josei/Seinen categories, especially Josei. There really aren't that many titles compared to other genres. |
| For seinen it was probably Berserk. It wasn't my first seinen manga but I fell in love with it while reading it and it cemented my manga geek status. I haven't read a lot of josei though but I do have few on my to-read list that I've heard good things about like Nana and 7Seeds. |
| Mugen no Juunin and The Ravages Of Time. These are two manga that showed me that there are more mature and interesting manga out there, other than those boring shounens I used to read. |
| ....of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important. -- Vladimir Lenin |
| I'm first initial interest in seinen (anime to be more precise) sprung after watching Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal after which I looked into the more popular seinen titles. With josei, well i can't remember when I was introduced. I guess it was Bunny Drop. I haven't really checked out that many josei titles. |
| I think I've read loads of seinen and josei before this, but it was after I read Emma did I really become fascinated in the world of seinen and josei. Also, Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan helps, too. :) |
| Probably for me the best Seinen I've watched until now, and I'm still watching, is Uchuu Kyoudai. I really got hooked to it from the very start, and now that I'm at chapter 95 I can say that It'll be hard for me all alone to find something better. About josei, I'm just starting, there's nothing I can say as long as the people I know are addicted to Ecchi, Action, Shounen stuff... |
  |
| The best Josei I have watched would be Kids on the Slope, and Nodame Cantabile. |
 |
| Started my love for manga with shoujo-romance. By the time I was done with a dozen of them or so, I could almost tell the story of the next shoujo manga i was about to read. Too cliched. Same old bishonens, school-romance, doki-doki, etc etc. Then came Oyasumi Punpun. It totally changed my view of the anime-manga world. It was so undeniably close to reality, it took me aback, and I needed to reconcile with that fact for some time. Even now, I feel I don't have the maturity to fully appreciate the depth of Oyasumi, so it is currently at hold, while in the meantime, I have gotten to read many amazing seinen titles and unearth the real gems among mangaka. |
Akashkun_otakuNov 6, 2014 8:50 AM
| The first seinen I watched was cowboy bebop but, what really hooked me on seinens was Monster. |
 |
| gantz i guess, but i'm not very sure, i was first into horror and then i really liked super dark themes without the horror stuff. but there were other title's like vagabond, zetman and akuemtsu which fixed me even more. |
 |
| My first -Josei anime was NANA -Josei manga was Shuukatsu! Kimi ni Naitei My first -Seinen anime was Basilisk -Seinen manga was Vagabond After these series, Seinen & Josei became my favourite genres :) |
| Btooom! probably. |
     |
| Chihayafuru was one of my first Josei but Nodame got me hooked on the demographic For Seinen, it's Space Brothers. |
| I believe what got me hooked would be Piano no Mori. Wonderful story of two piano prodigies growing up and entering into the world of competitive competitions and world class challenges. One is a poor boy of which piano comes to him naturally, the other is a rich boy with the blood of a legendary pianist. |
| Akira was my first experience with more mature manga (my dad recommended it to me), the first seinen anime to actually get me interested in the genre was Paranoia Agent. |
More topics from this board
» Seinen & Josei reviewsMaegil - Apr 6, 2014 |
1 |
by ElenirLachlagos
»»
Aug 21, 2014 1:28 PM |
|
Sticky: » The bootYuunagi - Feb 17, 2009 |
32 |
by Maegil
»»
Apr 5, 2014 4:35 AM |
|
» Current seinen and joseiorion_black - Jun 6, 2013 |
3 |
by Baharuka
»»
Jul 24, 2013 11:43 AM |
|
» FavoritesKvothe-sama - Aug 23, 2007 |
47 |
by OutlawImmortal
»»
May 27, 2013 6:45 AM |
|
Sticky: » Anime and Manga Relations ( 1 2 3 )Yuunagi - Aug 26, 2007 |
123 |
by Antalk
»»
Aug 15, 2012 5:26 AM |