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Post by Herms » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:15 pm

Piccolo Daimao wrote:Perhaps it's because Dragon Ball Z can be percieved as a manga/anime directed at a male audience, what with all the extreme fighting and massive explosions etc. It's a stereotype, really.
And because it came out in Shonen Jump, a magazine target at boys (or at least it was originally, but I hear Jump has a huge number of female readers).
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Post by Freeza Heika » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:42 pm

Herms wrote:
Piccolo Daimao wrote:Perhaps it's because Dragon Ball Z can be percieved as a manga/anime directed at a male audience, what with all the extreme fighting and massive explosions etc. It's a stereotype, really.
And because it came out in Shonen Jump, a magazine target at boys (or at least it was originally, but I hear Jump has a huge number of female readers).
I'm not sure about the Japanese run, but I believe I heard that the US version has 40% female readership.
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