Thread 280599891

Why is the range of Shonen getting wider, while Shojo gets smaller? You can find pretty much every genre in existence under Shonen, while Shojo is almost exclusively romance stories now. And even then, Shonen romance and Shojo romance are getting harder to tell apart. You think something is Shojo, but nope, turns out it's Shonen.

Because girls read shounen romance instead of shojo. That's it, there's nothing else. Who cares what demographic your chinese cartoon was meant for anyway it doesn't change much just because you swapped publishers

>>280600720
the demographics are basically genres at this point
now its muh why is X genre dead

>>280599891 (OP)
shojo became isekai (villainess)

>You think something is Shojo, but nope, turns out it's Shonen.
Why would you think that? The label should make it blatantly obvious.

>>280599891 (OP)
Kinda like >>280601385 said. Girls read shonen but boys don't read shoujo.

>>280599891 (OP)
I'd like to see the stats you base your statement on.

>>280599891 (OP)
Because more and more people read shounen, while less and less people read shoujo.
More diverse audience = more diverse products for the fringes.
Oyuki Konno warned shoujo publishers and writers 30 years ago they would be losing most of their target demographic if they keep making stories not actually about girls and thats precisely what happened. Shows like Precure drove the nail into that coffin.

>>280600720
Publishers aren't demographics. The bigger publishers try to cover all bases. At best you have Hakusensha that only serves Shojo and Seinen.
Switching publishers can have a lot of different reasons. Shonen magazines from the same publishers can have notable differences in content and the same applies to shojo.

>>280599891 (OP)
shonen, shoujo, seinen and josei are no longer genre definers, they are simply supercategories that encompass magazines. If it's published in a shoujo manga, it gets labeled shoujo, if published in shonen magazine, then it's shonen, and so on. Plenty of shonen romance have majority female audiences, for example just off the top of my head, tomo-chan, tonikaku cawaii, combat butler, ghost reaper girl, rosario to vampire, hayate no gotoku, etc. all shonen but majority female audiences and tries to appeal to both sides of the aisle anyway.

what are some shoujo anime/manga that the majority of otakus and weebs of both male and female kind have watched/read?

>>280604700
Seinen or josei were never genre definers. There's stereotypical shonen and shojo series but it wasn't all those were about either.
>If it's published in a shoujo manga, it gets labeled shoujo,
That depends. Some publishers have multiple labels they apply to a magazine. This series for instance runs in Dengeki Daioh but is printed under the FLOS Comic label.