History PeripheryDemographic / AnimeAndManga

* A fair number of guys like ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. While they don't really care about the [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys bishonen bunch]], the story is well-structured enough for them to care, and its humor is pretty much universal. It doesn't hurt that the female characters are well developed and cute to boot.

* Let's see. Attractive male characters? Many prominent, competent and well-written female characters (majority of whom are Action Girl)? Numerous romance subplots? No wonder ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has a large female demographic that typically doesn't follow a mystery shonen.

* In another strange example, the "main target" of ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' is said to be females ages 4-12... and males ages 16-35. It's telling that the director of the original series, ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', has ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' on his resume. There's also blatant {{Yuri}} subtext between the two main characters that would [[ParentalBonus go over the heads]] of younger viewers.

** Ditto for ''Franchise/LoveLive''. Some of the merchandise says it's intended for ages six and up (mainly the chocolate wafers collection) and in one of the recordings of the live concerts for ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' (HAPPY PARTY TRAIN TOUR), when they cut to the audience, you can occasionally see a young girl or two with their parents. And in some countries, ''Love Live!'' is a kids' show: in Taiwan, it airs on the same channel as ''[[VideoGame/PriPara [=PriPara=]]]'' and is featured in Angel, a girl's magazine covering popular things for girls like ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' and Disney.

* ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'' is, rather surprisingly, a {{seinen}} series, but it enjoys attention from all the other demographics. A great deal of the interest in the show is in the fact that it's a show about a maid, but it's not a {{Meido}} show.

* This also applies to the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime itself, although to a lesser extent than the games and (possibly) the manga. This may be because unlike the games and manga, the anime's writers very rarely cater to the PeripheryDemographic itself.

** The fact that Grell is {{Transgender}} helps for some people, particularly trans people looking for representation. Ditto for Haruhi from ''Ouran High School Host Club'' (see below), who comes off as genderfluid (she's more comfortable in masculine clothing, and seems to be pretty indifferent in regards to her own gender).

* ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is a seinen aimed at adult men, but its focus on the life of two {{transgender}} preteens as they grow into adults makes it very popular with [[LGBTFanbase trans youths]]. Its English translation has even been given an award for teenage-aimed media.

* Many IdolSinger anime aimed at children, such as ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'', ''Franchise/PrettyRhythm'' and ''VideoGame/PriPara'' tend to have fans who are grown men that do everything from [[http://kotaku.com/these-gamers-are-not-little-girls-1509706556 hog the arcade games upon which the shows are based]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-P07mXv-0E attending screenings of the film]] in which fans of the shows are encouraged to cheer and sing along with their favorite idols.

** There's also a surprising amount of children in Japan who are even younger than the target demographic who enjoy the series (despite [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids how violent and gory it can get]]), likely because they watch it with their parents. This contributed greatly to the record-smashing opening of the movie sequel in 2020.

* ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', the anime anyway, got hit with this pretty hard. ThatÂ’s e manga is a relatively gory shonen, aimed at an 11-16 male audience; the anime toned down the violence to make it more suitable for children, so it was probably aiming for a 9-14 gender-neutral audience. However, the anime also ramped up the Fanservice, but only really in terms of Yuri and Yaoi fanservice, which attracted a HUGE audience of Yaoi fans that pretty much overtook the fandom. The show's biggest {{broken base}}s are all caused by what the Yaoi fans liked or didn't like and what everyone else liked or didn't like. Poor Snow has become TheScrappy to many for being caught in the middle. (As she's the only girl NOT exploited for fanservice but whose emotional connection to the protagonist interferes with possible Yaoi pairings.)

* Although ''Manga/BlackClover'' is a {{Shonen}} marketed primarily for young boys, it has amassed a fairly large number of female fans due to its more respectful handling of women for the genre, with the third popularity poll having half its top ten characters being female. Noelle is the {{Deuteragonist}} and gets a lot of CharacterFocus on her becoming a powerful mage and growing out of her insecurities. The other female Black Bulls — Charmy, Vanessa, Grey, and Nero — all get important moments and aren't overshadowed by their male squadmates. Mereoleona is an inhumanly powerful mage who believes in the strength of female determination. Even Mimosa, who starts off as a recovery mage, resolves to get stronger and becomes a competent fighter herself.

* ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', the anime anyway, got hit with this pretty hard. That’s e manga is a relatively gory shonen, aimed at an 11-16 male audience; the anime toned down the violence to make it more suitable for children, so it was probably aiming for a 9-14 gender-neutral audience. However, the anime also ramped up the Fanservice, but only really in terms of Yuri and Yaoi fanservice, which attracted a HUGE audience of Yaoi fans that pretty much overtook the fandom. The show's biggest {{broken base}}s are all caused by what the Yaoi fans liked or didn't like and what everyone else liked or didn't like. Poor Snow has become TheScrappy to many for being caught in the middle. (As she's the only girl NOT exploited for fanservice but whose emotional connection to the protagonist interferes with possible Yaoi pairings.)

* Although ''Manga/BlackClover'' is a {{Shonen}} marketed primarily for young boys, it has amassed a fairly large number of female fans due to its more respectful handling of women for the genre, with the third popularity poll having half its top ten characters being female. Noelle is the {{Deuteragonist}} and gets a lot of CharacterFocus on her becoming a powerful mage and growing out of her insecurities. The other female Black Bulls — Charmy, Vanessa, Grey, and Nero — all get important moments and aren't overshadowed by their male squadmates. Mereoleona is an inhumanly powerful mage who believes in the strength of female determination. Even Mimosa, who starts off as a recovery mage, resolves to get stronger and becomes a competent fighter herself.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerNoYaiba'':

* Go to any anime group on Facebook, especially some groups that focuses on English dubs, and you'll find parents saying that their kids enjoyed animes that are above their demographic like Anime/MyHeroAcademia, Anime/FairyTail, Anime/OnePiece and Manga/DemonSlayerNoYaiba.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'':

* Go to any anime group on Facebook, especially some groups that focuses on English dubs, and you'll find parents saying that their kids enjoyed animes that are above their demographic like Anime/MyHeroAcademia, Anime/FairyTail, Anime/OnePiece and Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba.

** There's also a surprising amount of children in Japan who are even younger than the target demographic who enjoy the series (despite [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids how violent and gory it can get]]), likely because they watch it with their parents. This contributed greatly to the record smashing opening of the movie sequel in 2020.
* While ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' is aimed at the high-school crowd, it has a fair number of fans who have been been out of school for quite a while, leading to confusion for {{seinen}} and WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids in some circles.
* A fair number of guys like ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. While they don't really care about the [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys bishonen bunch]], the story is well-structured enough for them to care, and its humor is pretty much universal. It doesn't hurt that the female characters are well developed, and cute to boot.
* Since it's been out of style with little kids since about 2004, ''Anime/YuGiOh'''s current fandom is composed almost entirely of teenage girls. In the anime -- the [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh Card Game]] however are chock full of boys and men [[SeriousBusiness bickering on effects, spell speeds and priority]].
** The Anime/YuGiOh anime and its spinoffs has also drawn a large fandom of teenagers and young adults for its surprisingly complex and layered storytelling that younger audiences may not be able to grasp. Since statistically, men tend to focus on the technical aspects of a franchise and women tend to focus on the emotional/literary aspects of a franchise, this is where most of the "teenage girl" fanbase tends to end up. (The same could probably be said for a lot of examples on this page.)

** In fact, most of Takahashi's works count. She is a shonen author, and most of her series are a mix of action and comedy with a male protagonist surrounded by impossibly attractive girls in fanservice-ish outfits, but as she is a woman, the female characters are more than eye-candy and are well rounded characters with actual ambitions and personalities and often take a central role in the story, they are also physically strong and quite skilled in battle. The series of Takahashi also feature a lot of romance and gags that are enjoyed by males and females alike, and because of that, her series are extremely popular amongst women and that sure had helped her to become one of the best selling manga authors of all time.

* ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'' is a Seinen series about a teenage who also happens to be a ''kishi'', a professional player of TabletopGame/{{Shogi}}. Despite being about a relatively unknown game outside of Japan, the series' heavy focus on character development allows the series fanbase to both genders and a wide age range, something that's even subtly implied to be one of its selling points in the commercials for its volume releases.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' is an action-packed series meant for teen males and certainly delivers on the action but the male cast, which is the majority by far, are quite handsome men of varying tastes who manage to stay beautiful either when delivering major and gruesome beatdowns or being on the receiving end of one, with that the series is very popular with females in Japan resulting in most of the fan works being primally about the handsome dudes being even more fabulous to flat out being {{Yaoi}} pieces. At the other end of the spectrum there are beautiful females as well but they are very few and their fan works are equally so.
** And then there are the little boys and girls and their parents (<3rd graders) that picked up the Anime after it finished airing, which contributed greatly to the record smashing opening of the movie sequel in 2020.

* One of the biggest foundations of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' is the HoYay among the {{Moe Anthropomorphism}}s of several ''countries'', which the more history-based fans often find... weird. Hetalia is an odd case in that it started off as a webcomic, with no real demographic in mind. It's a Seinen manga by default, as it was picked up for serialization in the Seinen monthly magazine, Comic Birz.
* The anime for ''Manga/KOn'', a moe series aimed at otaku, became so popular with young girls that it also airs on the Japanese Disney Channel, right alongside ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' and ''Manga/AliceAcademy''.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' is also a shonen series, but a fairly large minority of its readers are {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s. The WAY too many bishounen characters in that series help, and yet it's adding ''more''. Well, you can't make a show about a teenage boy who spends most of the first season running around in his underwear without atracting at least ''some'' female fans. Rebocon is a concert dedicated for this series; if you watch the video you will only hear girls screaming.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' can be loosely described as a HaremComedy-[[GenreShift turned]]-[[FightingSeries fighting manga]], with [[TasteTheRainbow loads]] of {{fanservice}} and {{moe}}. The fanbase in Japan is 60% female, with a not-insignificant chunk being preteen girls. [[ItMakesSenseInContext This makes more sense]] if you know the series. Starting from about the same time as the GenreShift, Ken Akamatsu, the creator, began adding little hints of HoYay to the series. Whether this was a result of the Periphery Demographic or the cause of it is extremely debatable.

* Sports anime and manga like ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke'', ''{{Manga/Eyeshield 21}}'', ''Manga/BigWindup'', and ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'' are shonen yet their fandoms consist almost entirely of [[YaoiFangirl screaming fangirls]]. Actually, pretty much all sports anime and manga is shonen and 9 out of 10 times there will be an all-male cast. Is it any wonder why this genre is the most popular one among female otaku in Japan? ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' even has OtomeGame spinoffs!

* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' was initially aimed at teenage girls, what's with its melodramatic story and dreamy atmosphere. But since it's {{Yuri}}, it has strong male fanbase. The author herself have satirized this phenomenon many times in the story. This even crosses into MultipleDemographicAppeal, as evident with the OVA release. The ending was performed by KOTOKO, who is known for performing opening and ending of {{Eroge}} aimed at men.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' (Shonen) and Trigun Maximum (Seinen) is very popular with women, something even the author has noted, likely due to the very attractive male characters and realistic and relatable female characters that aren't sexualized. Most fanart for the series, especially in Japan, is either BL slash or "cute guys doing cute things". This goes doubly so for the author's other shonen manga ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'', which seemed to milk this for all its worth by having officially licensed ''body pillows' of all things.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' (Shonen) and Trigun Maximum (Seinen) is very popular with [[YaoiFangirl fujoshi]] over in Japan. Most doujinshi, and fan art on Pixiv and artists' personal sites, are either yaoi or a "cute guys doing cute and funny things" type deal.

* Despite being aimed more for people with an interest in learning about anime production, ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'' has garnered a surprisingly large following among the neurodivergent community, especially once the anime adaptation began airing, thanks to two of its lead characters, Midori Asakusa and Tsubame Mizusaki, [[https://grrlofswirls.tumblr.com/post/190794662211/from-the-first-episode-asakusa-midori-always embodying a large]] [[https://autisticheadcanons.tumblr.com/tagged/keep-your-hands-off-eizouken! number of characteristics]] common among autistic people and people with ADHD (particularly the former). While Asakusa and Mizusaki are never actually specified to have a neurological condition, the similarities have made them characters with whom autistic viewers and viewers with ADHD tend to identify and embrace, and a number of autistic fans even headcanon them as being autistic[[note]]though the reveal that author Sumito Owara has ADHD seems to have galvanized the apparently mutually exclusive headcanon of Asakusa having the same condition among fans with ADHD; that said, many autistic fans, fans with ADHD, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs autistic fans with ADHD]] are willing to headcanon her as having both, given that the two conditions can co-occur[[/note]]. It helps that these traits are never used to paint Asakusa or Mizusaki as "weird" or worthy of scorn, but are rather treated as just part of who they are, being counteracted and complemented by their passion for animation (with their skills in the field being shown as the result of years of practice rather than being inherent talents) as well as the two being able to realistically connect and make friends with each other and with the show's other lead, Sayaka Kanamori, a far cry from stereotypical depictions of neurodivergent individuals not only in the west, but also and especially Japan (particularly in regards to autism, the stereotypes about which in Japanese society are still rooted in outdated and debunked theories from the 1950's).

*** While ''Franchise/LoveLive'' is firmly aimed at a male audience in Japan, outside of Japan it has a huge female following, much of it [[LGBTFanbase not exactly heterosexual]]; many of these girls and women aspire to sing, and some arguably match the quality of the original. Russian-speaking fandom is nearly exclusively female. It helps that the characters were originally designed by a female writer in Sakurako Kimino, who was also known for ''Anime/StrawberryPanic'' In addition, the series itself is fairly light on MaleGaze relative to other franchises, to the point fans unaware of the main IdolSinger demographic would see it as a typical girls' series.