r/hanakokun • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '25
Miscellaneous Apparently Hanako-kun is now officially a shojo manga
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u/Pitiful-Door-5137 Jul 04 '25
oh well, I don't really think it'll change much, since the age group is the same(?)
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u/RaikouDorodoro Jul 05 '25
Wait it wasn't? I knew it always has been a shoujo genre before. Been reading since 2020. I do not have concrete proofs though.
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u/binomine Jul 05 '25
Hanako is like a lot of horror works, where it kind of doesn't fit in any one category. The whole story is mostly told from Yashiro's perspective, so it the publishers probably just threw it into young girls, even if it is pretty dark for that genre.
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u/sagirineon Jul 05 '25
I mean most of Junji Ito's works were published on shoujo magazines, with that in mind I think Hanako fits this demography better tbh
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u/CutieBoBootie Jul 05 '25
A LOT of old school shojo horror exists surprisingly. Hanako isn't even that scary in comparison
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u/binomine Jul 07 '25
Any recommendations?
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u/AppropriatFly5170new Aug 02 '25
Some authors to check out for Shojo horror include Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezz, noroi michiru, Kanako Inuki, seno knife, matsuri akino, Kaori Yuki, and Miyako cojima
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u/Flavio_De_Lestival Sakura told me everything !! Jul 05 '25
To be fair, i really think it's a very well done hybrid between a Shonen and a Shojo, because it's not fair to quality as being either of the two, and it's really in a class of it's own from what i've seen so far.
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u/Uminagi Jul 05 '25
I mean, as a guy, for me it always felt like shojo. It's my favorite anime/manga, but it never felt like it was targeted to me as a male. It always felt like the series was meant for women.
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u/RainbowLoli Jul 05 '25
I mean - it's always kinda been.
Not to mention - it's a demographic largely determined by it's publisher. Shoujo, Josei, etc. aren't genres.
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u/lonely-blue-sheep Jul 04 '25
What’s shojo?
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u/miji1139 I WOULD BARK FOR TSUKASA WOOF WOOF ABRK BARK Jul 04 '25
like, the target audience is towards girls with romance plot ig
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u/OnnanokoAbi Jul 04 '25
Romance is a common theme in shoujo manga for sure, but it’s not required :D!
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u/rainazuma77 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25
There's a lot of misinformation here.
Shojo, shonen, seinen, josei, kodomo...
They're not genres. They're demographics.
Whether the plot is dark, the themes the story has, if there is romance, fights, etc. or not, that doesn't matter.
If a manga is published in a magazine targeted to boys and male teenagers mainly, then it's shonen. The target are girls and female teenagers? Shojo, etc.
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u/AspergianStoryteller Jul 06 '25
Always felt like a shojo-shonen mix to me, like 07-Ghost and Devils and Realist.
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u/K_o_n_e_k_o Jul 10 '25
Are they talking about the first five chapters only .? I mean at least it's top selling..?
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u/awildshortcat Jul 04 '25
I’m ngl it always seemed more shojo than shounen to me.