@article{oai:rissho.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004093, author = {ウンサーシュッツ, ジャンカーラ and UNSER-SCHUTZ, Giancarla}, journal = {立正大学心理学研究年報}, month = {Mar}, note = {Using a corpus of ten manga series, this article analyzes the impact and meaning of the ratio of male to female characters on the popular shōjo-manga and shōnen-manga genres. The data shows that shōnen-manga series tended to be unbalanaced in their ratio of gendered characters, with female characters accounting for less than 20% of spoken lines on average. In comparison, while the number of characters overall was also lower, the ratio of gendered characters was relatively balanced in shōjo-manga, with female characters accounting for an average of 55% of text. From these results, one can predict that there will be a higher percentage of yakuwari-go (Kinsui, 2003), or stereotyped speech patterns in shōnen-manga, which is supported by the data on characters’ speech patterns. The higher-use of yakuwari-go not only begs the 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 the text.}, pages = {41--53}, title = {「誰のためのマンガ」から「誰についてのマンガ」へ ―人気マンガにおける登場人物の男女比率を考察して―}, volume = {7}, year = {2016} }