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Where's All the Shoujo Anime?
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2020
- Have shoujo anime disappeared from the seasonal charts, or are we just not noticing them?
A rambling guide to the directors behind the most popular shoujo anime.
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Do not assume something is shoujo/shounen/[insert demographic here] just because it feels right.
The Internet is a wonderful resource and you can easily find out what kind of magazine any manga was published in. If it runs in Weekly Shounen Sunday, it's shounen. If it runs in LaLa, it's shoujo. That is literally how these demographic tags work and there is no other factor involved in how these tags are assigned.
It is indeed that simple.
Correction: Hiroko Utsumi (Banana Fish) is a woman.
If shoujo anime fans are wondering where the new animes of the genre are, imagine how josei fans feel...I like both tho. Also I hate when they say its "romance" and its harem, they know nothing about romance then.
agree
Agree
Yep I'm done with anime for good but am loving manhwa, manhuwa, manga and webcomics/Webtoons.
OK boomer. If my romance MC isn't bisexual I'm already not interested.
@@RevolutionaryLoser ?
I never knew Vampire Knight was considered infamous. Wild how people cancel Shojo over one show when Shonen & Isekai has, um, it's own weirdness going on lmao.
Oh? I don't know too much about it. What's the controversy about?
Amen.
I mean she got with her damn brother 😭. Incest is generally a turn not taken well...
Cause at least shonen manages to keep their male audience. After reading shoujo for 6 years, as a girl, I am just tired of all the girl can’t defend herself cause...well cause she’s a girl.
@@thankyounext365 yeah but at least he DIED. xD
While I'm not a particularly huge fan of Shoujo, I always felt it was the more underappreciated of the Genre.
definitely! it makes me sad as someone who adores the genre to see not being appreciated enough. Instead we hv a plethora of generic harem ecchi isekai shows that seem to catch everyones eye
Only it isn't a genre! It a demograpic
Its so hard to find shoujo anime
true
why tho
Imo because the common is harem, most of the anime I watch always have a harem
Maisa Syahla bruh isn’t that less popular than shojo anime
yes that's true, but I always wanted more shoujo anime
I miss Shoujo Animes🥺❤️ although there are many good Animes these past years, but still 😔👏❤️
Same. I really wish they will make more shoujo animes.😭😭
same
Same 😭
I just realised that it's been like 5 years since a new shoujo oml
Fruit basket remake? Also I consider your name, a slient voice and kaguya sama are shoujo are to me?
@@gensischosen251 it's still a remake of something we already watched and yeah kaguya sama is the only one ik and it did well with audiences too
I wish more shoujo anime will come out soon.😭
Jibaku shounen hanako-kun is shoujo
And it came out this yr
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@@yermumstoe1670 isn't it actually a shonen since it was published in a shonen magazine? Tho I can definitely see where you're coming from, imo it feels way more like a shoujo too(which is probably due to the author being female)
I really hope that with the success of the fruits basket reboot, it can convince these production companies/ networks/ whoevers in charge of giving shows the green light that shoujos are worth investing in and adapting again (to a good standard like the classics i mean!)
In the last decade, shoujo manga have been made into live-action movies, and josei manga have been made into TV dramas.
In particular, there are many good TV dramas, such as "The Full-Time Wife Escapist", "An Incurable Case of Love", "Tokyo Tarareba Girls", "Chūgakusei Nikki" and "Nagi's Long Vacation".
but, Japanese TV dramas are completely geared toward the Japanese audience, so I am not sure if people in other countries will enjoy them as much as Korean dramas.
I just think it's less the genre has disappeared and more that the number of quality shows has gone down. You also have to add that there's a certain charm to 2000s shoujo anime. It's this period before social media and internet culture changed how we consume media. This isn't unique to romance series mind you but it feels as though there is a lack of those series that just make you feel warm during the winter months. Finding out My Little Monster and Kimi ni Todoke are by the same director just makes so much sense. I love both those shows and they are the series I use as comparison to other series. They just make you feel a certain way man. I also think we've run out of truly normal romance anime. Every series has to have some sort of gimmick. Like time travel or being in a video game or being an isekai. Just give us mature romance, whether that be college or high school. Those are the best type of romance series. The ones that treat day to day life as just that. Day to day. Normal. With all the series about Mechs or Super Saiyans or Magical Girls or OP Isekai boys some of the most powerful are about a boy and girl falling in love with each other.
i love this comment. I think u hit the nail on the head with "quality shows has gone down"
As I've noticed, shoujo manga adaptations lean more towards to live action drama series or movie rather than anime. I miss having new shoujo animes on my watchlist. It seems like it is a thing of the past. Too bad though since there is a lot of shoujo titles that is too great not to have an anime adaptation. The mecha genre too is actually fading. Sad tiimes really...
I mean the only shoujo from this year is Fruit Basket...
Literally and it’s a remake
@ema vowles - a damn good one. But yea, a remake.
Yeah um...if you mean 2020, that's not true:
Healin' Good♥Precure
Star☆Twinkle Precure
Aikatsu on Parade!
Kiratto Pri☆chan
IDOLiSH7: Second BEAT!
Mewkledreamy
@@SukiNoKoe They're all magical girls with the exception of the last one which is not a shoujo. Although they are shoujos, the kind that we are referring to are like Kimi ni Todoke, Lovely Complex and Ao Haru Ride
@@MotherNature43 nobody really said they were excluding magical girls so your statement's still false? I think Aikatsu is about music though, not magic, same for Pri-chan.
I guess I have no choice but to resort to reading shoujo manga as I have seen almost every shoujo anime in existence. It's a shame there are some manga that never gets an anime adaptation. Its such an underappreciated genre. The same goes for josei
Do you have any recommendations? I just keep rewatching Kamisama Kiss and OHSHC😅
@@a1exneedsahamdleplease watch fruits basket or kimi ni todoke, also I need recommendation too
@@emilymaybe5405 thanks a lot, I’ve watched a lot of the ones you just gave, but there’s also titles I’ve never heard of. I’ll take your suggestions. Also like I said before I’m not sure you watched these but please go watch kimi ni todoke and fruits basket if you haven’t already, 2 of my favourite anime of all time.
@@emilymaybe5405 lol yeah no problem you reminded me of lovely complex so I went and rewatched a bit of it, man it’s frustrating he’s she keeps on getting rejected and stuff, and “oh yeah, because there is you”. Also at least fruits basket season 3 airs every Monday now. If you wanna watch more you can watch horimiya that came out a while back, you probably watched it already anyway. You can watch nagatoro, it’s still airing and I love it. Something kinda romance is those Snow White notes, it’s not really romance but it’s really underrated, I really love it and the opening slaps SO hard, one of my favourite openings, the music is realllyyyyy good
@@a1exneedsahamdleplease have you watch glass mask, skip beat, mermaid melody, or kaleido star? if not give those a try
Remember people shoujo is a demographic not a genre
Honestly most Shojo anime usually end on a cliffhanger for some reason .People on twitter told me the original fruit basket ended on a cliffhanger
yup! the original got me confused even..
Izumi I saw it and I don’t really get all the hype .I remember watching the first episode back in 2013 when I first got into anime and didn’t like how it was animated
@@watchforever1724 the remake is much better. the hype is because fans assume that they wont end on a cliffhanger this time. The style of it changed of course, and the art is much cleaner. But i don't think people should judge an anime based on its art.
Izumi I think ember reviews criticized the soundtrack for the reboot and while I agree the original one is fine I still sorta perfer the reboot version .It’s the same how I felt about Hunter x Hunter 2009
Izumi this version is sticking to the manga
They've kind of been replace with otome game adaptions, which I don't consider the same thing even if similar
What Otome game anime is there apart from the currently airing villainess anime?
Gaz Clarke I think they meant anime’s based off of games like Brothers Conflict and Diabolik Lovers. That new villainess anime tho is A M A Z I N G
yea i agree! Instead of spending the time and resources in creating more quality shojo, they go and create these terrible reverse harems. And i say this as a fan of the reverse harem genre lol
Totally agree. The most recent shoujo adaptations are literally based off games, but fine with me honestly because I played some of them
@@lor383 Yeah I mean if people were complaining the trend wouldn't have lasted very long
I had no idea kamisama kiss's anime and the original fruits basket shared the same director. A lot of things make sense now.
God I miss shoujo anime. There's still tons of shoujo manga that would work well as an anime
i love gauken alice! although the anime is more friendly and kid the manga gets sad like omg but really good although there were some dumb parts i really enjoy gauken alice and recommend watching the anime and then read the manga as it continues on there!
I finally see someone who knows gakuen Alice! I've been re-reading the manga and sometimes rewatching the anime, but we all know the anime isn't complete so yea.. but I'm happy they came out with kageki no Kuni no alice ^^
Shoujo is my fab genres 😭😭😭 i don want it to die
I'm afraid it most likely will
it won't; people are just being dumb about it....Fruits Basket will definitely launch a new beginning for it.
@@SukiNoKoe yes!!!
Thank you for giving an answer to the question I've been having lately. Ive been re-consuming shojo media from my mid teens and was thinking of picking up something current, and all the lists of recommendations I saw just had titles from the last decade, not much anything new.
It seems to me that the anime industry has mostly given up on the shoujo demographic, unfortunately. Nowadays shoujo manga being made into live action is the new norm. Older popular titles like Fruits Basket and Natsume Yuujinchou still get made, but adaptations of newer (mid to late 2010s) shoujo manga are becoming more and more rare, it feels like.
I think the only hope we have left for the demographic in anime form is the booming otome fantasy novel genre, with My Life as a Villainess being the first adaptation of its kind. If it succeeds, I think we will start to get a flood of them the same way RPG power fantasy isekais started taking over the market after SAO's debut onto the scene. Only this time, it would be a flood of salvation instead of a wave of cancer.
Seems like Japan focuses their marketing towards grade school girls considering how massive Precure and Aikatsu are.
Older female otakus are targeted by fujoshi shows like Free, Bungo Stray Dogs, Yuri on Ice, IDOLiSH7, and the uprise of Pretty Boy Detective shows.
About Villainess auguring a new wave of adaptations from its genre, we can only hope. Maybe it's just because the sub-genre is so new, or maybe because being the doomed villainess of a story trying to escape your "fate" intrinsically doesn't lend itself as easily to soul-less power fantasies, but that segment has several very good manga to draw from. My favorites are Lady Rose Wants to Live as a Commoner, and The Banished Villainess, Living the Leisurely life of a Nun...
Also, no matter how many brain-dead isekais it's spawned, I will never see SAO as an isekai. It's one of my favorite stories, about one of my favorite topics: the dangers of living in a technologically empowered society, and the coming sociological singularity.
@@hannahettinger9088 Actually a seinen but a show anyone could enjoy
@@hannahettinger9088 I'm in charge of an anime club so I check out everything every new season. xD but yeah
@@_M_4 fujoshi shows are pretty much dead lmao
a staple of fujo stuff was mostly female oriented sports shows that try to ride off free wave, and they've been irrelevant for the last few years aside from sk8 making waves, but that's the only one honestly
idol shows and ikemen detectives are mostly yumejo property rather than fujo
also bsd is seinen, it has a big fujo fanbase but it's not a show targeted at fujos
i'm kinda glad the actual bl is on the rise now, sankaku no mado apparently didn't do much but sasaki to miyano is kinda popular?
i love shoujo and reverse harem these shows made my time watching anime the best
Yeah, too bad there aren’t many animes from a woman point of view
whERED THEY GO???! WHEREEEE 😩😔
Mannn, love this vid. Was super cool to see all these great titles I’ve never heard of before; needless to say I have some more additions to my plan to watch now !
Actually shoujo quite popular some countries like japan and Philippines and especially Korean, literally most if there Romance are based on shoujo manga or inspired,but The west are only interesting is shonen and seinen I don’t heard any west likes shoujo anime before shame
Korean weebs😃✊
True, I also noticed that most Chinese mangas are shoujo too. Here in Germany shoujo is also very popular so I have no idea why Americans don't seem to like it too much
@@An-qs6zj I think it's kinda the same here in the UK people tend to prefer Shonen rather than Shoujo
Its the age gap thing that they find in those genre, they complain about the fiction projecting on reality...
Frankly we need faithfull good full adaptation of darker shoujo not just the rom-coms and isekais. Hope they stick with it on the new try of a Tokyo Babylon adaptation (I am glad though they pulled the trainwreck that seemed to be the 2021 try). Good quality adaptation in general would be appreciated.
I’ve waited so long for new GOOD shoujo animes. I’ve been just rewatching my favorites for years now.
If only they can turn all top shoujo manga into anime and by manga I mean the FULL MANGA we would have amazing shoujo anime lists. Ao haru ride, dengeki daisy, strobe edge, hirunaka no ryuusei JUST NAMING A FEW MASTERPIECES
I was led to sheer disappointment with the undeveloped anime adaptation of Kamisama Kiss/Hajimemashita
While the manga had it’s a bit of filler here and there however in the end it was well worth the read. I still can’t believe one of the biggest arcs and one of the utmost important characters was only given a mere hint at. Even the OVA left out so much. Just….ugh! Screw this magical girl nonsense. Leave it be in the 80s/90s to early 2000s already. I grew up on Sailor Moon as a kid, but I’d be lying if I said I felt like sitting through a marathon of that again. I think Joan D’arc was probably the last magical shoujo series I watched over 20 years ago. Although I still try watch a bit of Utena here and there simply because I’m still trying to figure out just what the hell is going on.
Oh, come on! There are so many good shoujo manga out there but they don't get an anime adaptation :(
i loved this video. Thanks for taking the time to research and make this. I rly appreciate it as a shojo fan. Thanks for bringing shoujo some well deserved attention 💜
I know I’m a huge shoujo fan because every anime you mentioned in this video (that were shoujo) I knew
Great video, Ember! This was a fun video, especially seeing all the shoujo titles I grew up with! Damn, I miss the 90's...
I feel bad that shoujo doesn't get the love it deserves because there are some phenomenal titles out there (you mentioned two of my current faves, "Natsume's Book of Friends" and "O Maidens in Your Savage Season"). Shoujo may not be as "engaging" or "exciting" as shounen action titles or whatever, but I won't deny that they have a charm and appeal that shounen can't compete with. Anyway, great video as always, looking forward to your next one!
O Maidens is actually a shounen series! Its definitely one of the more shoujo-adjacent shounens though. Wouldnt have been out of place at all in a shoujo magazine.
@@lmaAsian Wow, I never would have guessed that! Thanks for the clarification!
@@lmaAsian ooh thats interesting..i would say the same about kono oto tomare. It defnitely has a more shojo feel altho its labelled as a shonen
Kodocha greatness
I really need to watch Princess Jellyfish. And yes, it does deserve a second season.
This was a very good analysis video on Shojo. While not my favourite genre, I can see why some people like it. I love Ouran High School host club for its comedy and enduring cast, though not because it is a Shojo. As long as the story, animation and cast are good and presented well, I will be content.
I LOVE PRINCESS JELLYFISH! One of my fave shoujo along with kimi no todoke
@@sully0613 kuragehime is josei
Princess Jellyfish and My Little Monster are godly!! 💜
kuragehime is josei
Idk what I'll do if I run out of shoujo animes...
Read shoujo manga like me 😭🔫
Try manhwa Korean comics and manhua Chinese comics both have a metric butt ton of stories for females to read and of course I assume you already read manga.
Most people have an hard time getting into Shojo anime/magical girl anime .Your be surprised that people recommend me to watch something like symphogear franchise and it’s not that I don’t want to watch it but I don’t have enough time.Most people don’t find shojo anime appealing because of cliches usually .I don’t hear that much popular youtubers praise it as much as shonen /action /sci fi /Fantasy shows because there easy to get into unless it’s slice of life
Isn't shonen as cliche as shojo? Well, whatever.
I found this demographic: "62% of RUclips users are Males."
And on MAL there seem to be more male users than female and those males also have watched more Anime in general.
So I guess the marked is bigger with Anime aimed at males. But I think it's possible that if there would be more Anime aimed at females, the viewer base would grow.
I find this pretty interesting...
GNORK_standard to be honest the majority of most audiences when watching a simple shonen series is most easier .I think some women can get into them as well .I mean we even have female authors make their own shonen series
GNORK_standard I do see some female youtubers but it’s not always magical girl shows on they would talk about on RUclips .It’s shonen ,drama, romance or any isekia series
GNORK_standard shonen series are cliche but to be honest it’s sometimes less annoying and easy to watch
@@watchforever1724 - I definitely agree that Shounen is easy to watch. But there are Shoujo who are really enjoyable too. I guess it depends on the individual.
I for example, like MHA but just can't continue to watch it currently bc "it's Shounen" and it's pretty much the same story-telling-format as any other Shounen show.
I guess I really am growing out of these.
On the other hand, Shounen Anime are extremely motivating and I often feel satisfaction when watching a character power up and overcome hardships just because he or she is doing anything to achieve their goals. Or to defend friends and family.
And it helps me to find new meaning in life.
Moreover, most shounen simplify many aspects of life (bc life isn't all that great for the most part) to tell a story that makes me feel that even I can get what I want if I work for it.
According to AnimePlus my fav genres are: Drama, SHOUNEN, Supernatural. So I guess in the end I just like Shounen.
But if you take the mean score instead of the weighted score (weighted takes the hours and shows into consideration while mean is just plainly the mean) my three fav types are: Police, Vampire Thriller. With Shoujo in 6th position and Shounen in 12th.
But yeah. I like Shounen and I watched a ton of it.
I don't even know if anyone can take anything from this comment.
I wrote it anyway xD
Have a good one! and thanks for reading, (I guess?)
OH SNAP SOME GUY HERE WAS WORKING ON NOBUNAGA NO SHINOBI I LOVE THAT SHOW!!!
It's *HILARIOUS*
Also hey I love that dead meme factory anime!
Sailor Moon Crystal is NOT a failure, there are lots of Anime fans who appreciate more faithful approach and it was going to get it's first Movie this year before the Pandemic happened. Crystal is a success unfairly hated on by people nostalgic for the 90s Anime. Also the main staff of Crystal previously worked on Suite Pretty Cure so I don't know why you ignored that.
@Paula Järvenpää There are a segment of Manga fans who were always praising Crystal.
I wanted to love Crystal; seriously I did....but the whole show lacks....passion and emotion so much that it's scary. The directing is bad. There is no question.
@@SukiNoKoe I feel the exact opposite.
@@Kuudere-Kun that's okay with me; glad you enjoyed it.
Crystal wasn’t a failure but the first 2 season were a bit-
Four words: Monthly. Girls. Nozaki. Kun. *Mic drop*
Not actually a shoujo anime. Just a shounen anime about a guy who writes shoujo.
@@emberreviews1364 Seinen. It's a Seinen Anime. To be Shounen, it needs at least three more power levels. XD
@@emberreviews1364 yet there's really nothing 'shounen' about it; it even started as a webcomic that a shoujo author (Ore-sama Teacher) draws.
I need more anime like kamisama kiss and yona of the dawn😭😭
You mentioned a video on manga artstyle to be linked in the description, but there is none in the description.
Edgy shoujo anime’s are my guilty pleasure
same 😅🙈
And I thought I was the only one who was sulking over it 😭😭😭😭
Sadly most Female mangaka makes Shonen titles nowadays
Tenho uma sugestão para você Ember, achei o vídeo rápido demais, não dá pra acompanhar tendo que prestar atenção nas milhares de imagens, nomes de diretores e ler a legenda ruim do youtube!
Pra ajudar pessoas que não falam inglês como eu você podia falar um pouco mais lento ou colocar legenda no vídeo, seria bom pra pesquisar os títulos depois!
Também senti falta de Lovely Complex e de Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san mas eu ameeeei o vídeo, parabéns pela pesquisa.
Sempre amei shoujo mas não conhecia a maioria das séries citadas ai então obrigada por me apresentar!
Ouran High School é meu mangá favorito, a Hatori Bisco é muito genial em ritmo, timing e comédia.
Beijos do Brasil
There's a ton of crossover between shoujo, josei, shounen ai, shoujo ai, slice of life, bishounen, magical girl, and harem anime. I've even seen some seinen be referred to as shoujo. The genres are mixing so much that it's harder to pinpoint what is and isn't shoujo. It's not as defined as it was in the 90-early 2000s. So the demographics are all over the place.
Shoujo is a demographic category, not a genre.
If it runs in a shoujo magazine, it's shoujo. If it doesn't, it's not.
That's literally the only thing that determines it.
@@emberreviews1364 a lot of josei is published in shoujo mags. The demographic for most of the genres I mentioned are girls. I think the confusion comes from the disparity between intended audience and actual audience.
@@fayemaka3037 No, that's not how it works at all.
Intended vs. Actual audience doesn't change its categorization. There was a period of time when My Hero Academia was being consumed mostly by adult women; that doesn't suddenly make it josei and not shounen.
Fruits Basket is published in Hana to Yume, a shoujo magazine, therefore it is a shoujo manga. Chihayafuru is published in Be Love, a josei magazine, therefore it is a josei manga.
That's it.
@@emberreviews1364 i don't agree but to each their own I guess
I haven't watched anime in years because it all feels the same mostly action shounen (usually with some kind of special ability) or fanservice shounen both of which are boring to me you rarely get anything outside of those two now. I've really been into manga manhua, manhwa, and webcomics/Webtoons later soooooo much choice for female readers.
I remember a shoujo manga about a young princess marrying a knight from her country or another. By young I mean like ten or younger. I remember enjoying it back in 2008 or so but it might've been older. If anyone knows it, please reply. I would like to read the ending.
whats the anime at 0:52 ?
shoujo fans sticks to reading mangas.
Fortunately it’s not “gone” but seriously the Shoujo stans need to kick the Isekai ecchi shit right in the balls
You know I felt that they fell off too before this video, I didn’t think so many were made. But I feel that they are so different now, And the voices are too 😹
Orange 😭✨
We have Horimiya coming though! God that manga is so good I can’t wait. I hope it becomes a new shoujo classic.
It’s LITERALLY SHOUNEN and turns into a BROMANCE
Horimiya ran in a shonen magazine. Just because it has romance in it, it does not automatically means shojo. Even shonen manga has romance. Suzuka and Nisekoi comes to mind
@@animelly Nisekoi is a harem anime. Of course it's going to be a shounen lol
Can someone write all animes in the comments please
Indeed 😭 I miss my fav genre 😭
The best shoujo anime I have watched of all them was ao haru rode for me I Just love it so much. I have watched most of all the shoujo anime and it really hurted me that there aren't more shoujo romance anime
I have to agree that yona of the dawn did not feel like a shoujo anime, even with reading the manga a lot of the most essential elements of the story had to deal with her male counterparts and their stories, rather than her own. Her own story was honestly being part of the finding of everyone else's and what the manga was about.
Idk it always felt very shoujo to me, but more old school shoujo, where we'd get action with the romance
So far in 2021 we have gotten horimiya, which is a good shojo but tends to lean on the more slice of life comedy side. Komi Can’t Communicate is coming some time in the fall which also is a lot like horimiya, considering it’s more funny then romantic.
Both of those are shonen
@@emberreviews1364
I am so confused. 👁--👁
Imao
@@rocks7473 just because something has romance doesn't mean it's a shoujo
Love you shojou!
"Yona doesn't feel like a shoujo anime"? Pffft how do you figure? Because it has action in it? So do Rose of Versailles and Rayearth.
I don't think shoujo is disappearing though...there is always a small ratio of it compared to shounen and seinen...really, there always has been. Also I HATE Fushigi Yugi don't even know why people like it nowadays; it does not hold up at all lol.
Well I mentioned Shirayuki-hime in the same section so clearly I'm not talking about the action.
It's the general aesthetic and tone that Yoneda's adaptation conveys. It's presented like a more general action/fantasy series rather than one that runs in one of the most popular shoujo magazines. I'm 27 volumes into the manga and it is a notably different experience than the anime in terms of having a shoujo aesthetic.
@@emberreviews1364 I've only read the manga up to 8 volumes but the tone and aesthetic feel exactly the same to me? The anime is gorgeous; it captures the author's art to a perfection which is really an achievement for how detailed she draws. It still includes the light-hearted and cutesy moments shoujo is known for...as well as the emotional ones; I definitely cried a few times.
Shirayuki is WAY more laid-back...it's Slice of Life more than action, I feel. Weird to compare them, really.
Nana is a Josei....not a Shoujo....but yeah some people tend to mistake as a shoujo because of romance theme.
Nana is shoujo but the author's other work, Paradise Kiss, is josei
@@lemon299 Why? I think both of them are josei. Shoujo is not not what they called platonic love to begin with? For me there are some diffrences in this genre. Could you please explain why then? Because I don't get what you are saying.
@@denisapasca154 shoujo has nothing to down the platonic.love. shoujo just means "young girl", which is a reference to the demographic its aiming for, just like josei means "young woman". nana is a shoujo bc it ran in a shoujo magazine. that's how we know its shojo.
@@lemon299 Ok. Thank you for meaning.
Obviously the shojo had so many relatable and entertaining things then theses too much harem shit💀
I'm reading more manga then anime because of it😤
Skip Beat and Kamisama Kiss are sooooo good :D Both animes have; excellent comedy and drama, beautiful openings and animation, likable and funny characters. I love them! I always have a good time when i watch them.
Wolf girl and Black prince is ok. The animation is pretty and the heroine is charming BUT the guy is really mean with her. Not only he treats her like a dog; do my homworks, go buy some drinks for me, come here and spin on yourself but he reject her feelings and made her cry. This jerk never appologises for his horrible attitude. All he did was giving her a necklace. That's lame and not romantic :S If he appologises and hug her it would be better.
Thanks shojou
I miss more shoujo anime
I do think that alot of reason why shoujo get no longer popularity in the western is how the people there get weirded out about age gaps relationships. Making the anime fictional things into a reality.
Watch kakkei gurei
kakegurui is shounen
1:30 's n'aime?
Super extra...
this vid felt like someone monotoneally reading Wikipedia page to you -_-
cardcaptor sakura is the only good shoujo anime to me tbh. I wish there were more 2000 vibe shoujo magical girl animes now a days
Skip Beat! is pretty great
"Abso-fucking-lutly". Is that a Tom Scott reference?
After reading shoujo for 6 years, as a girl, I am just tired of all the “girl can’t defend herself cause...well cause she’s a girl.” Thing. I just don’t have the will anymore.
The great ones are the only one that are still relevant for a reason: They all have female leads that have an actual personality and life goals aside from loving the main guy and trying to get with him.
Shoujo had to be cancelled too sexist.
Writers don’t care about anything and have been reusing the same fucking tropes and cliché over and over and over again. It feels like they don’t even care for originality at all.
sigh we need more shoujo bro...less romantic shoujo 😒
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I can solve the mystery. All the traditional shojo anime have been replaced by idol shows and isekai. Young girls always liked both these things the only difference is that now those genres have mass market appeal.
the problem is most isekais aren’t shoujo but shonen :/ a lot (not all, but a lot) of newer isekai animes have harams of girls going for the 1 male mc… which is more appealing to young boys than young girls
@@sphxx7995 The most successful isekai I'm aware of the has the most seasons is Ascendance of a Bookworm so they aren't doing that bad. Shojo practically invented the isekai with shows like Fushigi Yuugi, Vision of Escaflowne and Inuyasha cementing many of the tropes that are still popular today.
A lot of anime come out for girls all the time. Precure has been releasing a whole anime every year for 17 years straight. There's a shit ton of idol shows mostly watched by girls.
And lets not count all the softcore sex comedies made for girls that are coming out by the bucket. I'm surprised no one is even talking about the sudden explosion of 12 episode animes about sexy firemen that appeared out of nowhere.
the beginnings of isekai was female oriented now it's just for males mostly
@@yanstein8464 I'm not arguing there are more isekai for women than there are for men but we can't pretend isekai for girls have been coming out every season for years and a lot of them are getting several seasons. Ascendance of a Bookworm is currently on its third season. Show by Rock!! has 4 seasons.
Isekai aren't inherently bad just as highschool romcoms aren't either and there are plenty of awful examples of those.
I would welcome more variety in any case.
@@RevolutionaryLoser ascendance of a bookworm is seinen lmao, just beacuse it has a female lead dooesn't mean it's targeted to women
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