Manga is actually pretty gender neutral nowadays, but that’s probably because “manga” is really a supset. For every sci-fi/fantasy/superhero manga there is a romance/magical-girl/etc manga. So basically manga contains a subset of all the same genres we see in the diagram.
Additionally by breaking up graphic novels, comics, and manga you’re probably splitting the “male” readership up more letting manga have a “female” bias.
Did the authors just leave it up to us to figure out the X axis?
Also, I notice “comics” skews different from “manga”. Interesting.
It means log(males/females). Base 10 I suppose (not relevant to the visual)
I think its actually gender color coded. The “male” side leans blue-ish, with the “female” side leaning towards pink.
Using controversial forced gender roles colors as a axis is certainly a choice.
The whole study (behavior+gender correlation) is biased. I didn’t see the colors on the other screen anyway.
For the case you had issues with understanding the log thing:
And my partial color blindness gets in my way again…
Manga is actually pretty gender neutral nowadays, but that’s probably because “manga” is really a supset. For every sci-fi/fantasy/superhero manga there is a romance/magical-girl/etc manga. So basically manga contains a subset of all the same genres we see in the diagram.
Additionally by breaking up graphic novels, comics, and manga you’re probably splitting the “male” readership up more letting manga have a “female” bias.