who reads more manga?

Street Musician Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 402

just curious. who reads more manga , girls or boys? anyone know?

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 1:17 pm

what is more manga

Fan Boy Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Posts: 11

uh....

i dunt know about your countries.. But manga& comics are definetely more popular between boys here.
Altho lately lots of shoujo manga have been published so i could see more girls last time i visited the comic shop Very Happy

Street Musician Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 516

manga's more of a girl thing here in my school, but i dont know about anywhere else

Street Musician Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 402

im wondering about japan actually.
how bout on the net? seems like a lot of shoujo titles everytime i go to manganews.net

Fan Boy Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 30

In Japan, the male audience is far larger than the female audience. The most popular shounen manga anthology, Shounen Jump, sells around 6.5 million copies per issue. On the other hand, the most popluar shoujo anthology, Ribbon (I think another one might have overtaken it), only sells about 2.5 million copies per issue. The ratio of shounen to shoujo anthologies also leans heavily to shounen.

I don't know about the net, since there's no real way to measure it.

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 8:00 am

*reminises about when shounen monthly magazine was the highest seller...* wait, that wasn't too long ago... its all cause of one piece, naruto and hikaru no go that SJ took the lead

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 8:07 am

Izumi wrote:

*reminises about when shounen monthly magazine was the highest seller...* wait, that wasn't too long ago... its all cause of one piece, naruto and hikaru no go that SJ took the lead

Mmm...I think you mean Shonen Magazine Weekly, not Monthly. So Jump overtook Magazine again? No wonder. A lot of Magazine manga these days look like SJ manga wannabes.

Of course, Magazine's downfall began when they started running this horrible manga called Love Hina...

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 10:10 am

Summer Soldier wrote:

Of course, Magazine's downfall began when they started running this horrible manga called Love Hina...

Hey, don't say such terrible things! Only manga magazine in Poland is running LH now! And if it gonna fall down...
And consider that they had Black Jack before in it...

Street Musician Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 516

the thing with shonen jump and ribbon is, that shonen can appeal to girls, but a very small fraction of boys will be caught reading shojo(*coughs* piro!), so the sales of these magazines are completely irrelevant.

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:58 am

I'm so to saying monthly magazine that its become almost reflex, of course i ment weekly shounen magazine ~_~
I prefer Weekly Shounen Magazine simply because every manga doesn't turn into some permanent fighting competition... except for Hajime no Ippo, but its a boxing manga...

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:08 pm

You know, 5 years ago, Magazine would NEVER have run a series like Rave and Get Backers. But I think I would prefer Magazine over Jump too, although I really can't tell, because I'm not an avid reader of either of those magazines. Anyway, if I were to put a rank to the three major publishers, it would be 1) Shogakukan 2) Kodansha 3) Shueisha.

FartInAirConditioner wrote:

the thing with shonen jump and ribbon is, that shonen can appeal to girls, but a very small fraction of boys will be caught reading shojo(*coughs* piro!), so the sales of these magazines are completely irrelevant.

He has a point there. Girls DO read shonen manga. Whereas the only people of the male race that read shojo are insane people like me. Although even I wouldn't read Ribbon...

Reminds me of how Inachuu Takyuubu was really popular with the girls...

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 7:00 pm

I completely agree with your evaluation of the quality of the main manga producing companies. Although i kinda worry about guys who read girls comics... thats kind of like guys reading and liking romance novels *shivers*

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:00 pm

Izumi wrote:

.Although i kinda worry about guys who read girls comics... thats kind of like guys reading and liking romance novels *shivers*

Thanks for worrying Smile

Although it depends on your definition of shoujo. If you're talking about manga that are aimed at real shoujo, i.e. young girls, then no, I don't read 'em. But if you include manga that are aimed at mature women, then sure, I read them, and I'm not ashamed of the fact that I do. Heck, my favorite manga of all time is a Kyoko Okazaki work. I also enjoy works by Q-ta Minami, George Asakura, Kiriko Nananan, Yumi Unita, Marie Abiko among others. Besides, those artists that I mentioned aren't limited to the shoujo field. Q-ta Minami and Marie Abiko are regular contributors to Erotics F, George Asakura currently has a series running in Ikki, Yumi Unita used to have a series in Ikki, and Kiriko Nananan debuted in Garo, of all magazines!

If I was gonna be worried about something, I'd be worried about a guy that owns Candy Candy Smile

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 1:46 pm

sorry bout the stupid question earlier... I was confused cause I wasnt getting sleep, well anyway where I live I cant find mant ppl who read manga so realy its me and some girl who is littural mentaly ill... so half and half (seriuosly she has mental retardation and terets or something cause she shout some nonesence word every minute like "Doink!")(not to be mean though, she can be nice at time...)