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I have a theory that the quality of a shoujo manga is inversely proportional to the number of times the heroine gets rescued from rapists by a love interest. Can anyone name an exception to this rule? Also, I started on Kimi Ni Todoke and it is pretty enjoyable so far.
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I hate Fushigi Yuugi. The entire thing just infuriates me for some reason.
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Dec 29, 2010 23:18
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Sindai posted:Gokusen pretty much owns. It is obviously aimed jousei but there's enough comedy and action that most people would probably enjoy it. Gokusen was great until it got mired in romance. It was really too bad, because every other aspect (aside from perhaps the art) was excellent.
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Jan 4, 2011 19:21
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pandabear posted:Gakuen Alice I liked Gakuen Alice at first. However, it later became all about romance between 12 year olds. That is the absolute dullest subject known to man, and I cannot stand it.
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Jan 5, 2011 17:40
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I wouldn't know, because I dropped it a while back. Life is too short to continue reading something you loathe for the sake of finishing it.
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Jan 5, 2011 18:36
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Before this thread was around the shounen thread was used for shoujo and josei too. It doesn't really matter if there is some overlap. Anyone who wants a seinen thread can just make one.
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Jan 10, 2011 00:48
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chelsea clinton posted:Chapter 31 is messed up, though. There are several pages that are replaced with multiples of one page. My stooriees That's a common problem with somemanga. Just read it on a different site.
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Jan 12, 2011 18:47
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buzmeg posted:Tell that to the Rumiko Takahashi fans ... It seems like very good advice for Rumiko Takahashi fans.
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Jan 16, 2011 10:19
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I've been reading through Tokyo Crazy Paradise, but every time they awkwardly use a japanese word instead of translating it makes me laugh harder than any of the actual content. Gaki alone is pretty amusing, but every time they talk about the kagi I start laughing far more than is warranted. Also, it needs to loving stop with the older men and 14 year old girls already.
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Mar 1, 2011 00:16
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Ahahaha, this is so badly written and creepy. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/zutto_suki_datta_kuse_ni/
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Mar 6, 2011 04:32
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Wow, this was loving terrible. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/skip_beat/v29/c172/1.html
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Mar 18, 2011 09:17
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The anime is probably better than the manga, considering that it actually ended before it had a chance to get terrible.
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Mar 20, 2011 09:50
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http://www.mangafox.com/manga/show_princess/ This has the best description of any shoujo manga ever made. I don't think I'll actually read it, because it could never live up to my expectations.
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Mar 31, 2011 05:40
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Well now, I have apparently read the finest work of poetry mankind will ever produce. I'm not going to bother reading the manwha, though. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/taming_the_cat_master/
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May 22, 2011 23:25
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The thing is, for all intents and purposes Rin was Daikichi's daughter. That was how they both saw each other. Indeed, it was the basis for their entire relationship for most of Rin's life. Maybe if Rin had had a mother figure (like Kouki's mom) she wouldn't have gotten so hosed up in the head. So really, the true villain of Usagi Drop is Kouki's mom.
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Aug 15, 2011 03:10
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Tae posted:Despite only having 6 chapters, I really like Trinity Seven. Dude accidentally recreates his hometown that was destroyed. Then chapter 2 comes along, and they get rid of all that in favor of a high school setting. It is like the guy had a halfway decent idea for a manga, then decided to go for the proven (wretched) standard formula of harem manga. Also, how is that even remotely shoujo?
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Aug 16, 2011 00:20
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to it tones it down.
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Tae posted:Oh, I thought this was all romance stuff. Sorry about that. Well, I guess it is technically romance. Still, harem love comedies aren't generally considered as such. Because, well, the emphasis is on fanservice more than any aspect of the plot.
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Aug 16, 2011 00:48
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Mayonnaise? How would that even work?
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Dec 16, 2011 03:45
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Oh god, I can't stop laughing at this description. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/sakura_zensen/
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Jan 18, 2012 07:07
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...huh? http://www.mangafox.com/manga/neko_mix_genkitan_toraji/
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Feb 4, 2012 02:39
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Nate RFB posted:I recently read through the available chapters of a manga called Yandere Kanojo. It's about a deliquent girl who falls in love with a normal guy, but has to hide their relationship keep her reputation intact. If that sounds like Onidere to you, that's because it's pretty much the same. Except for me personally, I dropped Onidere after a couple of chapters while I found this to be pretty endearing. It's not all dawwwwww but there are a lot of good moments. Yandere Kanojo constantly tries and fails to be funny, but gets better when it goes for the drama or saccharine romance. Onidere constantly tries and frequently succeeds at being funny, but the handful of times it tries to be serious aren't worth mentioning. Really though, aside from the basic premise they aren't even the same genre.
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Apr 27, 2012 03:53
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Wasn't please save my earth the one where the girl ends up with a 12 year old boy?
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coathat posted:Thats not shoujo mate. I'd say it is a bit of a stretch to call it romance, even.
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Oct 15, 2012 02:30
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Skychrono posted:Thanks! I read the first chapter and it seemed pretty great. I'll pick it up on the next Viz sale. Is that the one where the main romance is between a girl in high school and a boy in elementary school?
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Feb 28, 2013 03:30
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Yaaaayyyyy. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Bonnouji/Bonnouji-027?id=160421
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Baron Snow posted:KnT: Pretty sure he's yelling at his son. The question is Why? Isn't it obvious? His dad wants him to go to college.
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May 22, 2013 08:48
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Ytlaya posted:Honestly, it's even more depressing once you realize that a lot of readers probably did want it. Who the hell reads a heartwarming single dad manga and then thinks "You know what? This should be more like tale of genji."
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Dec 12, 2013 04:47
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I dropped Skip Beat when Ren started treating Kyoko like a possession. Poor girl is never gonna get away from 8 foot tall walking stick assholes.
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Mar 5, 2014 18:26
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Blhue posted:You've described 70% of shoujo right there. I know. She isn't going to get away from them because she is in a shoujo manga. Even if Skip Beat ditched the two current dickbags, there would always be more 8 foot tall walking stick assholes to take their place. Kyoko being the star of her own life is unthinkable because of the genre.
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Mar 6, 2014 04:34
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jackofarcades posted:The side chapter is kind of a prequel to that other series Mors Rattus mentioned, Game Over Teenage girls are also completely insufferable, but they get idealized all the time. Same thing, really.
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Mar 12, 2014 17:32
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In Koi Dano Ai Dano, the guy does eventually realize that he is being a creep and cuts back on it. He is still clingy and obsessive, but he stops trying to molest and control her. It is worth reading for that alone- shoujo never loving acknowledges how bad that sort of behavior is. However, the manga is in kind of a dull place right now.
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Apr 1, 2014 21:30
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Everything about 14-sai is great except for that drat thing with the teacher. Too bad it seems to have taken up half of the manga now. It isn't forbidden love or anything like that, it is just an adult abusing her position to play with a child.
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Jun 1, 2014 20:01
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Nozaki tries to make fun of shoujo manga on two different levels and succeeds admirably.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:38
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Ryas posted:Nozaki deserves its own thread. The manga is funny and cute and the adaptation loses none of that. It's really good. Good thing it has one, then. Edit: Huh, could have sworn it had a thread. Whoops!
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Compendium posted:Does anyone here read March Comes in Like a Lion by Chica Umino? Haven't seen it mentioned here, but decided to bring it up again if it's been a while. While I loved Honey & Clover (the ending felt unsatisfying though), there's something about this manga I like a little better. Unlike H&C, it seems like most of the cast might end up doing okay eventually. The sister is obviously going to gently caress up everything she can on her way down, but the root of her issues are so incredibly clear that I can't quite hate her.
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Aug 9, 2014 23:50
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So she has a nasty temper, beats up her boyfriend and then tries to make him think it is his fault. Miyamura needs to get the gently caress out of that situation.
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Sep 30, 2014 02:26
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Hori snaps very easily. It seems that her father used to bear the brunt of it, which says a lot about the likely origin of that behavior. You could also read her killer massages as being the result of a lack of empathy, but that's probably a bit too harsh.
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Sep 30, 2014 03:18
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Everything Burrito posted:When the jokey tone is removed and there's actual lingering damage not just cartoonish instant recovery Hori's violence is a little disturbing. I did like how their friends encouraged both of them to do the right thing. If Miyamura had automatically apologized when he did nothing wrong that would have been kind of a dark turn for the story to take.
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Sep 30, 2014 11:52
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I still liked the resolution of that chapter because they both had to work against their natural inclination and got some positive growth out of it.
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Tonari no kaibutsu was kind of amazing because both of the leads had enormous piles of personal issues, but they gradually worked through them together and became better people in the process. The difference is that in TnK, they communicated with each other even though it was very difficult. In Horimiya, Hori saw nothing wrong with her behavior even though she regretted it. She certainly isn't going to talk it over with Miyamura, and likewise he won't ever confront her if he has a problem with something she does. I guess it is just kind of sad that the profoundly damaged Haru and Shizuku could learn and grow but the comparatively sane Hori and Miyamura likely never will. Oh well, that's what comes from comparing works by different authors.
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organism posted:Some author is going to make a fortune writing a manga that shows real consequences of ridiculous tropes. Like, guy accidentally walks in on a girl in her underwear, girl screams and hits him, guy falls over and cracks his head on a table and bleeds out on the floor, girl goes to jail for manslaughter. Or, magical girl shows up naked in guy's bed and immediately falls in love with him for no reason and guy proceeds to take the week off school for an epic sex marathon. Or a person confesses their feelings to a friend of the same gender and friend says "yeah, just because I like you as a person doesn't mean that translates into sexual attraction". Knights of Sidonia. Yes, really. That's not the primary focus at all, but it kind of takes the piss out of manga cliches sometimes. In fact, one of your examples appears in an early chapter.
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