Forum - View topicNEWS: Romantic Killer Manga Gets Anime on Netflix on October 27
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MFrontier
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So is this a romcom?
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MagicPolly
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Announced this close to release, and no staff or cast? Kind of has me worried
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Ampharos
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$20 says this is gonna be an anime the way The Way of the Househusband was an anime.
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48 Rices
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They have announced them, but ANN has yet to put it. https://natalie.mu/comic/news/490602 |
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MagicPolly
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Oh, that trailer is a relief. Looks like it'll be actually enjoyable then! |
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Kenfra
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It almost feels nostalgic to see a run of the mill shoujo romance.
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r1chancellor
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Romantic Killer is a shōnen rom-com; it was serialized in Shōnen Jump+. It's a fairly common misconception that high-school romance is inherently shōjo, but there are a lot of shōnen and even seinen high-school romance series, for example Horimiya and Kaguya-sama, respectively. Romantic Killer has gained a bit of negative press due to being licensed by Viz Media under their Shojo Beat imprint, despite actually being a shōnen. This is because Viz, even though it has an imprint ostensibly dedicated to female-targeted manga, rarely licenses new shōjo, even letting best-sellers in Japan go unlicensed. Meanwhile, every licensing announcement from Viz has them picking up loads of shōnen, even ones that hardly make a splash in Japan. So putting a male-targeted manga like Romantic Killer under the Shojo Beat imprint feels like adding insult to injury for fans waiting for new shōjo manga; it's a bit of deceptive marketing. |
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DamianSalazar
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I read somewhere on Twitter that the author of this series, Wataru Momose, considers this series to be Shojo. About Shonen Jump+, that website doesn't only publish shonen content. World's End Harem: Fantasia, the fantasy-inspired spin-off of World's End Harem is marketed as being a seinen manga despite running on Shonen Jump+. (Though that could be because it had a serialization in Ultra Jump and the Young Jump app before becoming a digital series.). Another example would be the series Kimi ga Shinu Made Ato Hyaku Nichi, which is a series that was originally serialized on the Manga Mee website, before being simultaneously published on Shonen Jump+, and that series is marketed as a Shojo. |
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SHD
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All I could find was this, where they say someone called it a "gag manga masquerading as a shoujo manga", which they think is extremely fitting. Anyway, as I keep saying until I'm blue in the face, "shoujo" "shounen" etc. are just vague labels at this point and shouldn't be taken particularly seriously, because nobody really does anymore (except in some specific cases). What we have are publications (print and online) that have target demographics, which may or may not be gender (or age-) based, and even when they are gender based the degree of it varies extremely among publications/brands. That's all. The Jump brand in particular tends to target both genders, most of the manga at Jump+ and Shounen Jump specifically are the type that try to be attractive to male and female readers alike. Also, going by that trailer and what I've read, this manga is anything but a "run of the mill shoujo romance", in fact it seems to be a subversion of exactly that... 
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MFrontier
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This looks like a fun one!
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-Matthew-
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It will be in OVA format.
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Kadmos1
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At times shoujo might have more josei-looking art or vice versa and the same goes with shounen and seinen. Heck, sometimes a manga that is shounen has more shoujo-looking art or vice versa. At times, I think ultimately what could possibly determine if they are shoujo, shounen, josei, or seinen is the periodical that they are published in. |
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thepepin
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Was going to weigh in with a "nah this is shojuo" comment but then I investigated a bit and at the very least it became obvious to me why this almost certainly would never have been published in an actual shoujo magazine. It looks to me like it is aimed at boys (and some girls) as a parody of the manga/anime that their sisters and female friends are watching/reading and the otome games that they are playing maybe.
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Blazi
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Nah, the anime was like that because the author themselves wanted it that way, they never wanting an anime for some reason |
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OtomeGay
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As fun as this might be, it still kinda bums me out that yet another shonen rom-com gets an anime adaptation, when there are plenty of shojo ones not getting anything. Kanojo ga Kawaii Sugite Ubaenai, Furare Girl, My Love Mix-Up.
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