Categories of manga

Manga is for everyone.

Many people would think that reading manga or watching animation is childish way to do. They normally see manga just like how they see western comics that are a superhero like, something that would rarely appeal big in adults.

Another reason why manga is depicted as a childish way is because on how many manga was drawn in a way that it would appeal to children or to young adult.

The reason behind it is that many popular manga or anime shown or promoted was almost one category in manga. Yes. And that category is almost the popular. The shounen mamga which is targeted to appeal to young men(shounen).

Manga really differs to western comics, Just like how anime differs big in western animation.

Manga does have different categories. It really depends on who were the target readers.

From here, we will differentiate general categories of manga:

Shounen. This is the very popular and almost the well known.This category targets young men or boy in their high school. This type manga depicts on how young boys imagine of the real world. The themes of a shouen manga is more focused on fighting or something to protect or even a adventure like manga or almost many sports oriented manga was in shounen. some popular shounen manga would be naruto, fairy tail, detective conan,bleach, hajime no ippo

Shoujo. It targets the young women. It focuses on romnce that young women would imagine. It depicts high school romance most of the time Some shoujo manga have been created into live action.

Some popular shoujo were hana yori dango, itazura name kiss(it states with a kiss), hanazakari no kimitachi e.

Seinen. This category of manga is targeted to mature men. This category is almost like a shounen but this is more gory than shounen. Fighting in this manga includes more blood and goresome killings. It could also have nude and sex scene. It also depicts some realistic experiences of mature men in the real world.

Some no table seinen is gantz, Drifters.

Josei. This category depicts a more realistic love than the shoujo manga. Since this category is targeted to mature women. The romantic love that was depicted here is more of the experiences of mature women in real world. But there are also some josei manga that might give a more romantic way to women whom love to see a love between men. Which is called BL or boy’s love. Some popular josei was also been created a live action. Some examples of this were Nodame Cantabile, Paradise Kiss

Hentai. Is one category of manga. it was targeted more to mature men. More of a seinen type of readers. What sets different to seinen is that. This type of manga is focused and more erotic scenes that a mature men would imagine. (Personally I would not review this type of manga here in my blog. I would really not recommend it to the readers specially young adult or even adults.This type of manga would create a stimulus that would make the reader make this mangas real.)

Most of the people would just see one category and it was the shounen manga. Since they normally see people read or watch shounen manga like naruto, bleach, one piece. This depicts that manga are for young children. Or worst for people who does have childish mind. Yes normally you could see it like that. But for people who read different kinds of manga. You  would see that normally you just need to try a category that best suits you. I myself have tried rading some in the four categories. And I think the best that suit me right now is seinen and some shounen. I’ve tried to read some shoujo and even josei but I think its not the type of manga that I can be related of.

Reading manga is fun and not much of childish way to try. It was not just a waste of time. Why? Because there are manga that would best suit a reader, that a reader mighyt relate it to his/her own life. The reviews in this blogs would help you see what manga to read that it might suit you well.