Shonen - what is this? Anime by genre. Anime genre sönen

Anime is a Japanese animation with many painted characters. It differs from the cartoons of other countries with a wide age range. Most anime genres are designed for teenage, adolescent and adult audiences. The anime has a follower called "manga", it's the same as the first, but in the form of comics - a kind of book edition that repeats the cartoon stories on its pages.

Anime is divided into several categories, each of which is intended for the audience of different age groups:

• Komodo - for children under 12 years.
• Anime genre senen - for teenagers and boys from 12 to 18 years.
• Shojo - anime and manga, is intended for girls and girls 12-18 years old.
• Sainen - anime for adults of men from 18 years.
• Josei - anime and manga for adult women from 18 years.

Anime komodo - what is it?

Anime-komodo - a genre of Japanese animation, designed for children under 12 years old and featuring a lack of ideological components. The drawing of a komodo in style is close to the European school of animation films, and in some films imitation of American animated series is felt. The similarity is not limited to the style of the picture, the story line of the anime-comodo often copies events from the overseas life of cartoon characters. Nevertheless, Japanese cartoons in the genre of anime-komodo can always be distinguished by the absence of cruelty. They, as a rule, are kind and entertaining. Examples of such films can serve as such films as "Speed Racer", "Maya Bee", "Grendazer."

Senen - what is it?

The most popular and popular direction is anime-senen and manga-senen, which have the largest audience. The main features of the genre of senen - the dynamics in the development of the storyline, pronounced impulsiveness of characters and high motor skills in their behavior. The works in the anime genre of senen are filled with humorous scenes, in the plot the ideas of male friendship are a red thread. In addition, the whole cartoon (and sometimes this full-length one and a half hour picture) is permeated with the spirit of rivalry in anything: in sports or martial arts, in ordinary life or at work. Style senen-anime is immediately recognizable , it is distinguished by bright female characters, which are in the background in the second scenario, but are strikingly beautiful and sexy. Feminity is contrasted with the masculinity of heroes and advantageously emphasizes it.

Varieties of the genre anime-senen

A common reception in the movies of the senen-anime, as well as in the comics of the manga, is the plot scheme, when a large number of super-beautiful girls craves the attention of the main character. Contenders do not always receive it, but the plot, nevertheless, develops. Genre Senen has several branches: santai, spokon and harem, each of which can be an independent genre in view of popularity. Each genre has its own, quite a large audience. All subspecies of the genre answer the question: "Senen - what is it?" In the first sub-genre, santai, there is usually a permanent close-knit team of five people who fights with something or someone. In the second, spokon, the adventures of athletes of a fairly young age are reflected, achieving fantastic successes at the cost of selflessness and unprecedented will to win. And finally, a harem in which the plot content boils down to the worship of hundreds of women to the protagonist who is forced to live in their entourage.

The best anime-senen are films:

• "Pearls of the Dragon" (640 series).
• "With Love, Hina" (4 series).
• "The Rosary and the Vampire" (13 episodes).
• "The Hobo Kensin" (190 series).

Each cartoon is interesting in its own way, the number of footage shot is an indicator of popularity, films are made in accordance with the demand. All of the above films answer the question "Senen - what is it?" fully. The genre of anime-senen has the most extensive audience. The audience, able to view hundreds of episodes, is not just people who went to the cinema, they are fans of "top anime-senen", and they number in the millions.

Heroes of senen are not surprised by their superpopularity in the fair sex, they feel themselves masters of life, help friends, are lucky and invincible. A typical image of the protagonist is a muscular optimist, an unshakable defender of all and all, constantly saving someone.

Movies in the genre anime-senen, list:

• "Air track" (Air Gear).
• "Beelzebub" (Beelzebub).
• "Fairy Teil" (Fairy Teil).
• "Big Piece" (One Piece).
• "Killer Reborn" (Reborn).
• "Eater of Souls" (Soul Eater).
• "Torico" (Torico).
• "Fang" (Kiba).
• "The Silver Soul" (Gintama).

Saneen

Another type of senen is sainen, an anime for men from 18 years. Sainen is usually removed from the script with a shallow psychological overtones, the plot is full of satirical insets, and erotic scenes are also present. In filmmakers in the genre, sainen is considered a good form to show the character in the process of self-improvement. Romanticism is usually not present, although there are stories with love stories. In some cases, anime films and manga comics contain business stories of a criminal nature, they are watched by business people 35-40 years old.

The female version of senen - what is it? This is a shojo and a josei. Shojo - anime for teenage girls and girls under 18. Josei - anime and manga for adult women.

Shojo

Shojo - an anime for older girls, from 12 to 16 years, and girls from 16 to 18. In the anime-shojo stories, there is usually a theme of love relationships, the degree of affinity of young people under the script is different, depending on the age of the potential viewer, for the youngest ones only Kisses on the cheek, and for an older audience, the love scenes are more frank, although they are also chaste enough. Shoujo is distinguished by the grotesqueness of the drawing, with a humorous connotation, and if the script develops deep love relationships, the film is drawn in a manner of romantic refinement. Heroes-men in the films of the syodz are necessarily endowed with outstanding external data and heroic character. The offshoot of anime-shojo is "macho", this style describes girls with magical powers who are not looking for adventures, but which adventures find themselves. Sometimes the film is made in the manner of "harem", when the girl lives surrounded by young guys who are in her complete submission.

Josei

Anime for older women is a josei, a calm narrative movie without dramatic collisions, telling about the everyday life of a simple Japanese woman. The narrative begins, as a rule, from the school years of the heroine, from her acquaintance with other characters. Then there is a further development of the plot, in which the characters of the film do not do anything unusual, and nothing special happens with them. At first glance, the genre is boring, but it should be remembered that josei is an anime for adult women, in most housewives who adore movies about nothing, without any shakes. The style of the josei pattern is more realistic than the shyojo, it is characterized by careful study of the details, especially if the plot contains a love story. Artists in this case prefer a sad expression on the face of the heroine, who never smiles throughout the film. Examples of films in the manner of anime-josei can be "Paradise Kiss" and "Honey and Clover".

Manga-senen - what is it?

Manga - stories in pictures, or comics. Manga is a part of Japanese culture and occupies 25 percent of printed products in the country. Quite often the anime-senen stories go into the manga format (although much more often the opposite happens when the manga gives the theme for the film's script) and then the manga comics are published in huge editions, an endless series of series. Like fiction, manga-senen is published in separate books, and in case of a large amount of material, it is combined into volumes, the so-called tankobons. Manga is characterized by a characteristic style of drawing, in most cases the image is black and white, the pictures are as great as possible, not requiring extensive explanations, in this they are different from American comic books.

Manga Industry

In recent decades, the manga industry has formed, the popularity of the book anime is so high that projects for publishing stories in pictures are bought from Japan by the largest publishing houses of the USA and Canada, France, Great Britain and other countries. In 2007, the "International Manga Prize" was established, for which artists from all over the world are now fighting annually.

Magazines of the manga

For the general public, the manga is published in a magazine version, printed on good paper, comics printing is applied at the highest quality, millions of copies. List of the best manga magazines:

• The weekly Shonen Magazine, published since 1959, prints manga in the genre of senen.
• The weekly Shonen Jamp, released since 1968, the genre of senen.
• The monthly ShonenJump, printed in the genre of Senen since 1970.
• Weekly Shonen Sunday, the beginning of release - 1959, genre senen and seinen.
• The monthly Jump Square, released in 2007 in the genre of senen.
• The monthly Shonen Ace, the release since 1994, the genre of senen.
• Monthly Magazine Special, is released since 1983 in the genre of Senen and shyojo.
• Weekly Sunday Gene-X, the beginning of release in 2000, the genre of senen.
• The weekly Shonen Rival, is released in 2008 in the genre of senen, shoyo and josei.

Anime-senen on TV channels

Megazhanr senen is distributed among the reading and audience audience and in other variants, for example, broadcasting anime-senen, as well as other sub-genres, is widely practiced in the format of a television series. To date, anime TV shows have the highest viewing ratings among television programs. Japanese television channels allocate a certain time for the next episode of anime, and these hours become "sacred", no one can cancel them any more. The series is mostly short, within half an hour, so there is no narcotic addiction to the anime on the television screen - I watched the next episode and went on to do my own business. As a rule, a TV series is a screen version of a popular manga.

Typically, the seasonal display consists of 12-14 series, organically fit into a 12-week broadcast. The series is long, in which the number of series for a hundred or more, evenly distributed for several seasons, this practice has long been worked out on television, using the example of cinematographic series. The length of the anime series directly depends on the level of its popularity, the record was "Doraemon", which consists of more than two thousand episodes, and this is not the only example.

Anime-senen and computer games

Recently, with the development of computer technology, the number of games in the genre Visual novel has increased. These computer entertainment became the basis for creating anime for the games, militants, "shooters" and other interesting developments of programmers. Today, the films in the anime genre are not only manga adaptation, but also the direct adaptation of computer games. The regulation of innovation was determined immediately, most digital entertainment has no plot as such, except for a simple sequence of episodes. Therefore, the director, who deals with the transfer of the game from the computer to anime-senen, is limited in the material. But the interest of the audience in the sensei, taken from the game, is huge, everyone wants to see on the big screen their favorite characters.