idk how to answer 'what makes a good josei' because josei can be a million different types of shows and there will be as many different answers.
But I know I fucking love a lot of Josei titles, it's easily the demographic with the highest % of titles that made it to my favorites. It has the lowest numbers of entries in the DB, but with Nodame Cantabile, Rakugo, Chihayafuru it has 3 10/10 shows/franchises in my list and I'm very stingy with 10s, only 0.5% of my list get that score.
Not to mention the 9s and 8s that aren't far behind them: Sakamichi no Apollon, Usagi Drop, Honey & Clover, Paradise Kiss, Ristorante Paradiso and Kuragehime.
Nana is tagged as shoujo in the DB btw @Clemonpie
Otherwise I'd have also included it in my listing since I have it as 9/10. Only being incomplete really prevented it from possibly getting 10/10 as well.
Also I'm astonished how many people still don't understand how demographic tags work in 2019. How in the world could you consider Mushishi a Josei for example, it was clearly published in a Seinen Magazine. The same magazine that published works like Blame!, Vinland Saga, Parasyte and Blade of the Immortal. It is completely fucking irrelevant that it 'feels different' because a demographic tag says nothing about the content anyway, only about the means of publication.
Stuff like Death Parade or Utena don't have any demographic tags because they have not been adapted from manga, they are original anime.
One or the other is true for every other title people listed as 'could easily be josei'. It's not a matter of how you feel about them, it's a factual description of what kind of magazine the source material manga was published it, if it was published in any manga magazine.
If the source was published in a non-josei magazine, was not a manga, or there is no source because it's original, there is no josei tag. It's really not that hard to understand. MAL is relatively consistent in that regard and the only 'incorrect' application of these demographic tags are made by people in this thread who want to arbitrarily apply them based on their personal feelings.
There are some seemingly contradictive taggings like Sakamichi having a josei tag and 7Seeds having a shoujo tag despite being listed as being published in the same magazine, but that may be explained by the difference in WHEN they were published since magazines can switch up their target audience over the years. |