著者

ウンサーシュッツ ジャンカーラ

出版者

立正大学心理学部

雑誌

立正大学心理学研究年報 The journal of psychology Rissho University (ISSN:21851069)

巻号頁・発行日

no.7, pp.41-53, 2016

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Using a corpus of ten manga series, this article analyzes the impact and meaning of the ratio of male to female characterson the popular shōjo-manga and shōnen-manga genres. The data shows that shōnen-manga series tended to be unbalanacedin their ratio of gendered characters, with female characters accounting for less than 20% of spoken lines onaverage. In comparison, while the number of characters overall was also lower, the ratio of gendered characters was relativelybalanced in shōjo-manga, with female characters accounting for an average of 55% of text. From these results, onecan predict that there will be a higher percentage of yakuwari-go (Kinsui, 2003), or stereotyped speech patterns inshōnen-manga, which is supported by the data on characters' speech patterns. The higher-use of yakuwari-go not only begsthe question of how shōnen-manga might influence readers, and has an important impact on the stories themselves. In particular,using specific examples from the text, I show that yakuwari-go play an important part of creating humor in thetext.