What this genre is
Section Chief Kosaku Shima, Naniwa Kinyudo. Salaryman society, the back rooms of finance — this is where manga established itself as a way to learn how the world works.
Seinen — about this band: Manga for adults, born out of gekiga. Realism, society, work, science fiction.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↓ Flowed into this
Key works
The byword for salaryman manga: climbing the ladder inside a major electronics maker. Its hero has since been president and chairman, and is still going.
Human greed and the loopholes in the law, seen from the floor of a back-street lending firm. Financial gekiga that recorded the reality of the years the bubble burst.
A former biker-gang leader turned salaryman moves a company by speaking plainly and acting. The standard-bearer of the satisfying business manga.
A strategy drama about getting into the University of Tokyo from a failing high school. The byword for the study-method manga.
Middle-schoolers running their school's endowment in an investment club. An informational manga that teaches money and economics through story.
Koichi Asakura, a designer at an ad agency, and Ellen Yamagishi, a genius painter. Written for everyone who did not turn out to be a genius, it follows people making peace with envy and carrying on working — a web-born ensemble piece about creators.
Seinen — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 1957 Gekiga↓
- 1967 Seinen Magazines↓
- 1970 Historical Gekiga↓
- 1982 SF & Cyberpunk↓
- 1983 Gourmet Manga↓
- 1983 Business Manga（you are here）↓
- 1990 Social Drama↓
- 1991 Gambling & Outlaw
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About this entry
Genre boundaries are drawn where the network of manga happens to concentrate, not by decree. Years are approximate. Where opinions differ, this page says so rather than picking a winner.