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CLAMP writes for more than one demographic of manga-- _Cardcaptor Sakura_ is
shoujo while _Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle_ is shounen and _xxxHolic_ is
seinen.

Masashi Kishimoto, the author of _Naruto_ , however, has only written for
_Weekly Shōnen Jump_ , implying that he has only written shounen.

Is it common for writers/writing groups to do what CLAMP does and write for
more than one demographic or is it more common for them to do what Masashi
Kishimoto does?


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Is it common for a writer to write for more than one demographic?


Assuming the mangaka is still licensed when their last work is finished, they
would want to stay with the same magazine. If this magazine has a specific
demographic (i.e, _Shōnen Jump_ or _LaLa_ ), then their work would stay the
same demographic.

So, more often than not, they stay the same demographic.


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It is common for an author to experiment with different genres, art, and
media. But at the same time, it's also common that the same author uses
different names for different demographics.

You should distinguish between the writer and the pen name he/she uses, and
between individual authors and groups. CLAMP is a collective and they're
changing its components periodically. On the other hand, Masashi Kishimoto is
an individual author (that it doesn't mean that he hasn't any assistant).

Pseudonyms are common in this industry where we can have an individual author
[Sumomo Yumeka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumomo_Yumeka) writing yaoi with
this name, seinen manga using the pseudonym Mizu Sahara, and writing shoujo
manga as Sahara Keita. Any pen name is clearly associated with a single
demographic in this case, but the author herself actually write for different
demographics. It is the same with [Ken
Akamatsu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Akamatsu) (shounen) aka Awa Mizuno
(hentai doujinshi), so it seems that where publishing constraints are very
different, authors can use a pen name to differentiate their works.

Collectives and circles like CLAMP seems to explore different
genres/demographics more freely with the same name, probably because the
authority is shared among the members and the collective nature of the name is
clear to readers.


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