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shōnen

Manga marketed primarily to adolescent boys

Entitytarget audience for manga manga genreQ231302

Also known as shonen · shounen manga · shōnen manga · shounen

Instance of: target audience for manga
, manga genre
Subclass of: manga

Overview

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Shōnen manga is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of mainly adolescent boys. It is, along with shōjo manga, seinen manga, and josei manga, one of the primary demographic categories of manga and, by extension, of Japanese anime. Shōnen manga is traditionally published in dedicated manga magazines that often almost exclusively target the shōnen demographic group.

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18 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Intended public: boy
Hashtag: shounen

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13 identifiers linking shōnen across the web's reference databases

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17%

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AIDB. (2026). shōnen (Q231302). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/shonen-Q231302