The mood of the piece doesn't matter, what matters is the demographics the title is marketed towards and we have to base that on the general audience of the magazine that it runs in(which is neither seinen nor josei). Interestingly enough, when I google "seinen aoi hana" and "josei aoi hana", I get more general anime/manga sites telling me that Aoi Hana matches with seinen than josei.
Even if you don't trust Erica, perhaps we should just leave it off until definitive proof can be found one way or the other.
Edited by CBanana and that's how Equestria was made!If you don't trust me perhaps you'll trust Wikipedia Japan, which states that Manga Erotics F is a magazine "for adults, with manga that are created by artists who drawn Seinen, Josei and Boy's Love in other magazines."
That's pretty conclusively inconclusive, which I what I say about this magazine, not that it is Seinen or Josei. There is a fifth column these days - comics for people who read comics. Manga Erotics F doesn't fit into anyone of the old four demographic categories, much like Comic Beam.
As for your claim that I'm "often ill-informed" I'll have to trust you. But as I tend to speak directly to the manga artists, I'm confident that my level of knowledge is at least as good as anyone else's. ^_^
Cheers,
Erica
Aoi Hana is jousei? Actually, no. Aoi Hana ran in Manga Erotics F which as a magazine is neither targeted towards the seinen nor jousei audiences. Admittedly Aoi Hana does have a bit of a jousei feel to it but it isn't jousei unless it's targeted primarily towards an adult female audience such as the works from Yuri Hime.
Some proof
Dentaku: Friedman tends to be rather ill-informed about many things, so excuse me if I don't care too much about her opinion. Aoi Hana is typical of a work that is all over the map, seen from a traditional marketing point of view—which is exactly what Manga Erotics F is all about. The manga's mood and style are somewhere between josei (the sedate mood and serious theme) and Shōjo (the off-kilter jokes and typical girl-bonding stories). What settles the point for me is that J.C. Staff executed the anime in very much the same style as their other Josei works, like Honey And Clover and (somewhat less) Nodame Cantabile.
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