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7/7/2025, 4:40:12 PM
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>>280330390
>me, trying to read some seinen manga
>pick up what should be mature psychological thriller
>it’s literally just tall dark handsome man with trauma falls for quirky girl
EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? What the absolute FUCK happened to seinen? I swear to god, sometime in the last decade women just decided “you know what, we’re gonna write shoujo but call it seinen and there’s nothing you can do about it” and the industry just fucking rolled over and took it.
I’m so fucking tired of this shit. You want to read about adult men dealing with actual adult problems? HAHA GET FUCKED. Here’s your 6’4” emotionally unavailable coffee shop owner with dead parents and hands the size of dinner plates. Here’s your stoic assassin who’s actually just a big softie who needs the right woman to fix him. Here’s your corporate salary man who’s secretly a vampire/demon/whatever but he’s SENSITIVE about it.
These aren’t seinen protagonists, they’re fucking self-insert fantasy boyfriends for women who read too much fanfiction. And the worst part is IT’S WORKING. These series are selling like hotcakes while actual seinen gets buried under mountains of “he’s so baby girl” tweets made by normalfag casuals.
Remember when seinen meant Berserk? Monster? 20th Century Boys? Stories about MEN dealing with MEN problems in a MEN way? Now it’s “what if Guts but he owns a bakery and has anxiety about his ex-girlfriend?”
The female mangaka figured out the cheat code: slap enough blood/office setting/mentions of taxes on your shoujo romance and woAh, it’s “mature storytelling” now. Meanwhile actual seinen gets pushed to the back because it doesn’t have enough pretty boys for the fujoshi market.
>>280330390
>me, trying to read some seinen manga
>pick up what should be mature psychological thriller
>it’s literally just tall dark handsome man with trauma falls for quirky girl
EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? What the absolute FUCK happened to seinen? I swear to god, sometime in the last decade women just decided “you know what, we’re gonna write shoujo but call it seinen and there’s nothing you can do about it” and the industry just fucking rolled over and took it.
I’m so fucking tired of this shit. You want to read about adult men dealing with actual adult problems? HAHA GET FUCKED. Here’s your 6’4” emotionally unavailable coffee shop owner with dead parents and hands the size of dinner plates. Here’s your stoic assassin who’s actually just a big softie who needs the right woman to fix him. Here’s your corporate salary man who’s secretly a vampire/demon/whatever but he’s SENSITIVE about it.
These aren’t seinen protagonists, they’re fucking self-insert fantasy boyfriends for women who read too much fanfiction. And the worst part is IT’S WORKING. These series are selling like hotcakes while actual seinen gets buried under mountains of “he’s so baby girl” tweets made by normalfag casuals.
Remember when seinen meant Berserk? Monster? 20th Century Boys? Stories about MEN dealing with MEN problems in a MEN way? Now it’s “what if Guts but he owns a bakery and has anxiety about his ex-girlfriend?”
The female mangaka figured out the cheat code: slap enough blood/office setting/mentions of taxes on your shoujo romance and woAh, it’s “mature storytelling” now. Meanwhile actual seinen gets pushed to the back because it doesn’t have enough pretty boys for the fujoshi market.
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