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Shōnen manga at a glance
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History
Characteristics
Magazines
Overview
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Overview
- Comics
- Romanized Romanization of Japanese
- Japanese comics Manga
- Adolescent
- Shōjo manga
- Seinen manga
- Young adult
- Josei manga
- Japanese anime Anime
- Action Action fiction
- Adventure Adventure fiction
- Monsters
- Evil
- Comedy
- Crime Crime fiction
- Slice of life
- Sports Sports manga
Terminology and etymology
History
- Shōnen Sekai
- Shōnen Pakku Shōnen Pakku?action=edit&redlink=1
- Shōnen Club
- Yōnen Club Yōnen Club?action=edit&redlink=1
- Norakuro
- Suihō Tagawa
- Anthropomorphic
- Tank Tankuro
- Gajo Sakamoto Gajo Sakamoto?action=edit&redlink=1
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Second World War
- Wartime propaganda purposes Propaganda in Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II
- Samurai
- Superhero comics
- Occupation of Japan
- Osamu Tezuka
- Astro Boy
- Kimba the White Lion
- Cartoons Cartoon
- Continuity Continuity (fiction)
- Science fiction
- Tetsujin 28-go
- Mitsuteru Yokoyama
- Manga Shōnen
- Leiji Matsumoto
- Shōtarō Ishinomori
- Igaguri-kun Igaguri-kun?action=edit&redlink=1
- Jp イガグリくん
- Eiichi Fukui
- Ashita no Joe
Characteristics
- Values Business value
- CoroCoro Comic
- Romance Romance film
- Historical Historical drama
- Fantasy
- Barefoot Gen
- Keiji Nakazawa
- Cowboys Cowboy
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Kazuki Takahashi
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Akimine Kamijyo
- Hero's journey
- Story arc
- Interior monologue
- Happy endings Happy ending
- Neil Cohn
- Silhouette
- Significantly smaller than those of characters in shōjo manga Manga iconography
- Motion lines
- The Abashiri Family
- Dr. Slump
- Arale Norimaki
- Kei Kusunoki
- Rumiko Takahashi
- Urusei Yatsura
- Ranma 1⁄2
- Bishōjos Bishōjo
- Fan service
Magazines
- One-shots One-shot (comics)
- Shueisha
- Kodansha
- Weekly Shōnen Sunday
- Shogakukan
- Weekly Shōnen Champion
- Akita Shoten
- Comic BomBom
- Kodomo Children's anime and manga
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Shōnen manga
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Important terminology
manga shōnen magazines shōjo target series category female often japanese action magazine characters audience demographic male stories protagonist also popular
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astro Boy | instance of | with series | 0.80 | text |
| Kimba the White Lion | instance of | with series | 0.80 | text |
| Dragon Ball | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| One Piece | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| and Naruto.The stylistic | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| thematic differences between shōnen | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| shōjo began to narrow considerably beginning in the 1980s | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| with widespread exchange of stylistic devices | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| themes | instance of | particularly through globally successful series | 0.80 | text |
| City Hunter | instance of | as originating a trend that has persisted to contemporary shōnen manga of favoring cartoonish art styles over the more mature art styles of shōnen titles | 0.80 | text |
| Fist of the North Star.Female manga artists also began to enjoy increasing critical | instance of | as originating a trend that has persisted to contemporary shōnen manga of favoring cartoonish art styles over the more mature art styles of shōnen titles | 0.80 | text |
| commercial success as shōnen manga creators | instance of | as originating a trend that has persisted to contemporary shōnen manga of favoring cartoonish art styles over the more mature art styles of shōnen titles | 0.80 | text |
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