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Jul 5, 2023 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Hello! Colleen asked me to weigh in :)
First off, there are various factors that go into why a publisher labels a manga a certain way (combination of art style, story content, etc).
There’s also a difference between how publishers in Japan and abroad do things. 1/
Shoujosei/shounen/seinen categorization obviously is a Japanese thing. In America, there’s different but sometimes similar labels (young adult, for example) but it’s not a one-to-one imo.
Overseas publishers probably have more leeway on how they market things because of this. 2/
