Shoujo is a pretty lighthearted genre, but it does have many complexities. However, despite being aimed at younger girls, many people can have an appreciation for shoujo anime and manga. Surprisingly enough, the Koreans and the Chinese have a form of shoujo in their own manhwa and manhua so...
One of the most well-known examples is Takaya Natsuki's mangaFruits Basketwhich was fully adapted into an anime series. While the series has a female main character who goes to high school, creates fun memories with her friends, and spends time with idealized boys, this is not...
Here in the west, as anime and manga fandom grew quickly in the 1990s, the termYuriwas often, but not exclusively, used to represent explicit stories with sexual relations between women. In short, it was considered “porn for guys.” The termshoujoai(Girls’ Love) was created by an Ameri...
Our main protagonist in the story is a young girl named Yuu Koito. Being a huge fan of Shoujo manga, Yuu has always wanted to experience love first-hand. However, she doesn’t really know how to react when a boy finally confesses his love for her. Sometime later, Yuu finds herself in...
there’s darn few manga artists that don’t do a find and replace face. That’s exactly why hair styles and colors are so strange inshoujoandshounenmanga – because otherwise all the characters have the same features. And yet, those lines are lovely, feminine and appealing. Takeuchi wasn’...