There are 5 main anime types appear to be:
1)Shojo- aimed at young girls
2)Shonen-- aimed at young boys
3)Seinen-- aimed at teenage boys or young male
4)Josei-- aimed at young women
Below are some examples of characters from of the anime genres listed above.
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| Light Yagami - Death Note |
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| Goku - Dragon Ball Z |
Shonen generally preferred by young/teenage males, a predominate feature is a supernatural force such as a Shinigami (God of Death) in series such as Death Note, or characters such as Goku (left) who have supernatural powers and often fight a main antagonist during the course of the series. They focus on promoting ideologies such as team work and friendship and sometimes even challenge the reader with contrivershal topics such as in Death Note were the protagonist can be seen as both good and bad character.
Shojo (少女漫画 shōjo manga) is manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The nameromanizes the Japanese 少女 (shōjo), literally "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong focus on human and romantic relationships and emotions.
Examples of the shojo genre include Cardcaptors, Fruits Basket, Fushigi Yuugi, Ouran High School Host Club, Pretty Cure, Princess Ai, Princess Tutu, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Romeo x Juliet, Sailor Moon, Skip Beat, Shugo Chara!, Tokyo Mew
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Seinen is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 18–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters. (The female equivalent to seinen manga is josei manga.)
It has a wide variety of art styles and more variation in subject matter, ranging from the avant-garde to the pornographic. Because of the emphasis on storyline and character development instead of action, some seinen series are often confused with shōjo, or girls' manga.[citation needed] This is especially true of seinen comedy series such as Chobits, and Chi's Sweet Home, or seinen drama such as Twin Spica. Other examples of seinen manga include:Gantz, Battle Royale, 20th Century Boys, Monster, Blame!, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Berserk, Battle Angel Alita, Drifters and Elfen Lied.
Josei comics for women, pronounced [dʑosei]) also known as "ladies" (レディース redīsu) or "ladies' comics" (レディコミ redikomi, lit. "LadyComi"), is a term that refers to the target demographic of manga created mostly by women for late teenage and adult female audiences. Readers range from 15-44.[1] In Japanese, the word josei means simply "woman", "female", "feminine", "womanhood" and has no manga-related connotations at all.
The stories tend to be about everyday experiences of women living in Japan. Though there are some that cover high school, most cover the lives of adult women. The style also tends to be a more restrained, realistic version of shōjo manga, keeping some of the wispy features and getting rid of the very large sparkly eyes. There are exceptions in the style described above, but what defines josei is some degree of stylistic continuity of comics within this particular demographic (the same is true with different demographics that have different stylistic tendencies).
Josei comics can portray realistic romance, as opposed to the mostly idealized romance of shōjo manga, but it does not always have to be. A famous example of a josei is Honey and Clover, which was animated, which is unusual for josei comics.[original research?] Josei tends to be both more sexually explicit and contain more mature storytelling, although that is not always true either. It
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