it's got what I think of as the stereotypical marker of shounen, which is that about 75% of the plot is fighting.
Hah! Not a bad metric.
I generally use the terms in reference to whom the comics are marketed towards in Japan, i.e. what sort of magazine they're published in. It's an artificial classification system, to be sure, and sometimes you've got to wonder how a particular manga ended up in a magazine full of an entirely different type of story, but it provides a baseline for discussing artistic decisions and such.
What xxxHolic reminds me most of, manga-wise, is Petshop of Horrors, which is squarely in the shoujo camp. But, xxxHolic is just enough less girly, and just enough more action-oriented, to pull it into genre-busting land.
I'm pretty sure I had a point, somewhere, but I seem to have lost it. Oh well.
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Date: 2005-07-28 06:04 pm (UTC)Hah! Not a bad metric.
I generally use the terms in reference to whom the comics are marketed towards in Japan, i.e. what sort of magazine they're published in. It's an artificial classification system, to be sure, and sometimes you've got to wonder how a particular manga ended up in a magazine full of an entirely different type of story, but it provides a baseline for discussing artistic decisions and such.
What xxxHolic reminds me most of, manga-wise, is Petshop of Horrors, which is squarely in the shoujo camp. But, xxxHolic is just enough less girly, and just enough more action-oriented, to pull it into genre-busting land.
I'm pretty sure I had a point, somewhere, but I seem to have lost it. Oh well.