5 Best Seinen Anime Films 2024, Must Watch!

Who are Wibu and Otaku? Surely you often read manga or watch a series or movie anime right when you're relaxing or on holiday?

Maybe for those of you who often read manga and watch anime, you must already be familiar with common terms in the world of anime and manga such as Shoujo, Shounen, Seinen and Josei.

These terms are market categories or genres of anime and manga (animanga) and these terms are used to determine the age and target market for anime or manga to be distributed based on demographics.

In this article, we will discuss a list of the best anime films in 2024 from one of these genres, namely Seinen.

This animanga genre is quite popular and in demand all over the world, you know! But first, let's get to know the term Seinen itself so we can understand it better.

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Seinen

Before you find out the recommendations for the best anime films in the Seinen genre in 2024, it would be good to know first about Seinen itself.

Seinen is a genre of anime and manga that is specifically aimed at adult male readers or viewers. In Japanese, the term 'Seinen' means young man.

Since the mid-20th century, Seinen began to develop according to the demands of the audience or readers so that this genre was used more for material, anime and more complex manga with heavy themes.

These themes are suitable for adults, such as violence, social issues, work problems, personal, political, human relations, psychology, morality, family, personal experiences and sexuality.

The target is adult men ranging from 20-40 years old, so this genre always presents stories with complex, serious and difficult problems to follow and even contains elements of violence.

The more we come here, the more Seinen develops and is increasingly popular with anime and manga lovers.

Therefore, there are many anime or manga works in the Seinen genre that are already popular, such as Tokyo Ghoul to Attack on Titan.

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List of the Best Seinen Anime Movies 2024

We have arrived at the sub-discussion of the recommended list of the best Seinen genre anime films that you can watch in 2024, which are as follows:

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

The first best Seinen genre anime film that we recommend comes from the title Ghost in the Shell. This anime is an old film because it was released on November 18 1995 in Japan.

This anime film is the work of Kazunori Itō and produced by Production IG as the anime production studio. The genres are Seinen, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller.

The story in this anime is set in 2029 where there are Cybernetic Enhancements and Virtual Reality in that era.

A police woman named Matoko Kusanagi, leads a cyber security division in order to deal with various hacker threats.

He will solve the case called Puppet Master, where he discovered several irregularities regarding human rights and even his own identity.

The Garden of Words (2013)

The recommendation for the best anime film in the Seinen genre comes from the title The Garden of Words or Kotonoha no Niwa by Makoto Shinkai which was released on May 31 2013 in Japan.

The genre of this anime film The Garden of Words, apart from Seinen, is Melodrama, Romance, Slice of Life and Comedy.

The story is that during the rainy season in Tokyo, Takao Akizuki, a 15 year old high school student, dreamed of becoming a shoe production businessman.

One day he skipped the first day of school and went to a park in Shinjuk Gyoen to sketch shoes there.

At the park he met Yukari Yukino, a 27 year old woman who skipped work and was busy drinking her beer.

Then, Yukari Yukino saw the school symbol on Takao Akizuki's uniform and gave him a Tanka (Japanese Poetry) and left him in the park.

Every day they met in the park and chatted until they became friends. At one point, Yukari Yukino was amazed by the shoes that Takao Akizuki made so that Takao made shoes for her.

When summer arrived, Takao Akizuki entered school and he saw Yukari Yukino at her school.

It turns out, in the plot twist, Yukari Yukino is a literature teacher at her school who becomes the subject of gossip at her school so that in the end Yukari Yukino resigns.

One afternoon, Takao Akizuki met Yukari Yukino again at the building. Then, it rained heavily and they went to Yukari Yukino's apartment late at night.

That night at Yukari Yukino's apartment, he confessed his feelings to her. However, Yukari indirectly rejected this because he was only a teacher and he was going back to his hometown in Shikoku.

So in the end, Takao Akizuki felt disappointed with Yukari Yukino so he left her. Yukari chased after him and felt sorry for hurting Takao Akizuki so they hugged each other while crying.

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In This Corner of the World (2016)

The third best Seinen anime film in 2024 is In This Corner of the World by Sunao Katabuchi and Chie Uratani which was released on November 12 2016 in Japan and produced by Studio MAPPA and Genco. Apart from the Seinen genre, it turns out it contains the Drama, History and Romance genres.

In This Corner of the World tells the story of a teenage girl named Suzo Urano, who dreams of becoming an artist.

The setting of the story is in 1933 when little Suzo lived in Eba City. She was a cheerful person when she was little and she grew up to be an ambitious girl.

When he was a teenager, he was proposed to by the Hojo family in Kure City. After getting married, he had to adapt to his new life and take care of his household, as it was approaching World War II, where he had to face difficult times.

Of course there will be emotions and lessons learned from the war and the daily life experienced by Suzo Urano to continue being a strong girl.

A Silent Voice (2016)

The best Seinen genre anime film is A Silent Voice: The Movie which is a Japanese animated film released on September 17 2016 in Japan.

A Silent Voice was produced by Kyoto Animation and screened globally in February and June 2017, while in Indonesia itself it aired on May 3 2017.

Actually, this anime not only has Seinen elements, but is also a sad anime because this anime film tells the story of a high school student who is deaf, namely Shoko Nishimiya, who tries to adapt to his friends at his school.

Meanwhile, a cool boy named Shoya Ishida is a high school student who is very naughty and often bullies his friends at school.

One day, Shoya met Shoko and he pranked her so he removed the hearing aid that was installed in Shoko's ear.

This case was widely discussed at one school because of the incident experienced by Shoko, then the principal called Shoya to face him and Shoya denied this so he accused his friends.

As a result of this case, Shoya was finally shunned by his friends and after graduating, Shoya felt guilty for bullying and bothering Shoko so he wanted to apologize to make up for his guilt towards everyone he had bullied and bullied when he was still at school.

Promare (2019)

The final recommendation for the best Seinen anime comes from the title Promare by Kazuki Nakashima which was produced by Studio Trigger and released on May 24 2019 globally with the Action, Mecha and Sci-Fi genres.

The story itself revolves around the emergence of a creature called Burnish who can control fire so that they are a threat to humans.

Galo Thymos is a firefighter, he chases the Burnish group and meets the leader of the group.

One day, they realized that there was a conspiracy regarding the Earth's Governing Council organization which caused the fire at that time and resulted in a heated conflict between the two of them.

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So, those are the best Seinen genre anime films in 2024 that you can watch this weekend. So, which anime do you want to watch?

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