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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
Can someone who follows manga fill us in on the state of josei manga these days? I've been wondering if the shift in content that we've seen over the past year or so on noitaminA reflects a decline in josei manga. Are there just fewer works like Paradise Kiss, Hataraki Man, and Nodame Cantabile that were the foundation for noitaminA at its inception?
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From it's inception Noitamina was not purely Josei, and there is going to be Usagi Drop in Summer (which seems Josei to me), likewise in winter they had Horou Musuko.
But generally Josei is, and has always been the smallest manga demographic. I suppose at it's inception Noitamina had many succesful Josei series that had been around for a while to be used for adaptations.
I think the current shift towards original works is a good trend however. Anime shouldn't just parrot Manga.