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djmaca, you obvious have no idea how manga/LN and in extension how anime are categorized demographically in Japan and ACg community. It's not about content, it about the magazine the work is serialized on which determines it's target audience.
Mysterious Girlfriend X is Seinen, while it has being around for a while and is a nice little series that I enjoy, it is one of those series that did just enough in tankoban sales to stay serialized in it's published magazine.
The series is published monthly on "Afternoon", one of the longest running and popular "Seinen" magazine. The magazine also currently features Ah My Goddess, Genshiken, Blade of Immortal, Historie, Vinland Saga, Okiku Furikabutte and more. Former serialization includes Parasyte, Gunsmith Cat, Shadow Skill, Mushishi, Shion no Ō, You are Under Arrest, etc.
Mysterious Girlfriend X is at best an slightly above-average title in that magazine in terms of popularity and by far not the main draw of readership for that magazine based on tankoban sales and reader response.
Since the magazine is categorized as Seinen, by definition the title is a Seinen series targets said demographic (17+).
Even if you want to talk about content, the implied sexual tension and the showing of nipples in nude scene should automatically disqualify it as shounen which is aimed at 13-17. Granted there are shounen that have more "fan service" (like Nagima or To Love) but those series kept the skin hidden and doesn't change the fact that those two are Shounen and Mysterious Girlfriend X is Seinen as far as categorization goes.
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