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Seinen anime is a genre of anime that’s aimed towards a slightly older male audience. While not as popular as shonen, they often tell some of the same stories but with more mature ways of handling themes with more morally complex characters.
Interestingly enough, seinen anime don’t have to feature only male characters, nor do they have to be dark, psychological anime either. As long as the story is meant for an older male audience, seinen anime can even feature largely female casts.
10 Coppelion Follows A Group Of Girls Assigned To Rescue People From A Radioactive Tokyo
Coppelion was originally published in Weekly Young Magazine that ran from 2008 to 2016. It takes place twenty years after a nuclear power plant had a meltdown in Tokyo. Tokyo is now an empty ruin thanks to all the radiation. Still, there’s a special unit known as Coppelion that travels into Tokyo to search for survivors. This group consists of girls who have a resistance to radiation and special powers to help them in their job. Coppelion is a gorgeous anime thanks to studio GoHands, but there’s not much to the series plot-wise, especially with only a single season to its name.
9 K-On! Focuses On A High School Girl’s Light Music Club
This slice-of-life series about a group of high school girls forming a band was originally a seinen series. The manga was published in Manga Time Kirara and follows a young girl attending a private girls-only high school named Yui Hirasawa. Yui has to find a club to join and is persuaded to join the Light Music Club to save the club from being disbanded due to a lack of members. K-On! was mega-popular for its time, getting spin-off manga, OVAs, and even a film adaptation, where the cast went overseas to London.
8 Love Lab Shows A Group Of Girls Trying To Research Romance
Love Lab was originally published in seinen magazine Manga Home, then later Manga Time Special. It ran for over a decade, ending up with 15 manga volumes. Student council president Natsuo Maki is seemingly a perfect student.
However, when she’s caught practicing kissing by her classmate Riko Kurahashi, suddenly her largest flaw is on display – she doesn’t know anything about romance. Riko decides to help Natsuo, but, eventually, the entire student council gets in on the act, and they all try to learn what romance really is.
7 +Tic Elder Sister Gives Viewers A Peek Into A Club For Plastic Model Building
+Tic Elder Sister follows Iroe Genma, the head of her school’s Model Club. Known as “Big Sister” by the other members of the group, Genma leads her underclassman Hazuki and Makina in their model-building goals. The series is a gag anime with plenty of humor for those who also have a love for plastic models. The series is based on a manga that’s published in Young Gangan, which is actually still running. Interestingly enough, this series was originally released online before making its way to traditional disc media.
6 Re-Kan! Stars A Girl With The Ability To Talk To Supernatural Beings
Re-Kan is the story of Hibiki Amami, who has the ability to see ghosts and talk to animals. Recently transferring to a new high school, she makes a bunch of new friends who accept her abilities and what she can do… all except one. Her class representative is terrified of mysticism and refuses to believe Hibiki can do what she says, though she still tries to make friends with Hibiki and help her in her mission to help the ghosts that she meets. Re-Kan was originally published in monthly seinen magazine Manga Time Jumbo, and is still being published there today.
5 Magic of Stella Centers Around Girls Making Doujin Games
With a title like Magic of Stella, most people might think the series was a fantasy anime. However, the series is actually about a group known as the SNS Club, which spends their time making video games.
Tamaki Honda is an illustrator for the group and has an obsession with shonen manga. Magic of Stella was published for a decade from October 2012 until February 2022 in the magazine Manga Time Kirara Max. The series was eventually turned into an anime by studio Silver Link in 2016. It ran for a single season and a few OVA episodes as well.
4 New Game! Sees It’s Protagonist Join The Developers Of Her Favorite Game
Aoba Suzukaze is a high school graduate with a love of the “Fairies Story” series of video games. She loves them so much, she gets a job working at the development studio responsible for those games, Eagle Jump. While there, Aoba learns that Eagle Jump’s next project is Fairies Story 3, giving her the chance to contribute to a world she loves so much. New Game! was a seinen manga published in the magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat and ran from 2013 to 2021. It got an anime adaptation from studio Doga Kobo in 2016, running for two seasons.
3 Yuru Camp Follows A Group Of Girls Who Enjoy Camping
The protagonist of Yuru Camp is Rin Shima, who prefers to go camping by herself at Mount Fuji. But when she runs into Nadeshiko, she’s forced to help the lost girl, giving her a chance to get close to and camp with someone for the first time. Over time, their camping group expands as more people join them. Yuru Camp was a seinen series from the magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward, and it got multiple anime seasons – one in 2018 and a second in 2021.
2 Minami-ke Features A Trio Of Sisters Living Together On Their Own
Minami-ke was originally published in Weekly Young Magazine, and it’s still going strong today, eighteen years after the series started. The series is about the Minami family, a trio of sisters who somehow live alone with no adults around. The Minami sisters maintain a happy life together, balancing their home chores with their studying. There’s plenty of other characters in the universe, including a second, unrelated Minami family, and the girls’ classmates at school, which allow for developing friendships and blossoming romances.
1 Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Shows What Happens When Someone Invites A Dragon To Live With Them
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is one of the more popular fantasy slice-of-life series to come out in the last decade. It features Kobayashi, a young programmer who finds herself with a dragon offering to be her maid. After Kobayashi ran into her the previous night while completely drunk, she saved Tohru from the brink of death and offers her the opportunity to stay at her place and be her maid. Though this situation brings Kobayashi nothing but trouble, she settles into her new life with her new dragon maid. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid has been running in the seinen magazine Monthly Action for almost a decade now.
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