lady_freyja said: I agree. In reality, it's not a thing that as to be important, because it's pure marketing.SuzuMine-chan said: I don't even think that "boys/shonen anime" and "girls/shojo anime" even really exist... (what I mean is that, not because you're a boy you will like action or if you're a girl you will like romance) Considering that the shōjo/shōnen distinction is a manga thing, not an anime one. And they are publishing categories, more or less associated with a demographic. Thus theoretically the distinction between the two is only a marketing one. In order to makes that marketing substantial, each category works tend to follow some common traits, characteristics. Because of that you can end up developing preferences toward a particular category. But nobody is enforcing those categories into the customers, fortunately. |
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| My anime experience would've been a barren wasteland without the likes of Nodame Cantabile, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Utena, Oniisama e, Kimi ni Todoke, Lovely Complex, Nana, Chihayafuru to name just a few. |
| Avatar: Anzu Kadotani from Girls und Panzer. Sig by MissIntrovert.  |
| It's fine in my opinion. As long as the characters seem neutral and are not designed to be appealing for a certain sex, like Usagi Drop. |
| Not at all, shoujo has some great titles going for it, especially when it comes to romance or fantasy anime/manga. Female leads are also, for the most part, way less cringy to watch. For me atleast. |
| yes it makes you a weirdo, but being a weirdo it's not a bad thing. Personally i like mahou shoujo animes for young girls |
| Shoujo anime/manga.. so particularly romance genre is something I hold pretty highly overall among the many of them created, it's one of my favorite overall genres and content produced. |
| I just looked shoujo anime here on MAL and yes. Yes I watch shoujo. From the looks of it, shoujo is basically my favorite type of anime. Learn something new every day... |
| Man, I have to stop falling in love with fictitious high school girls'...moms! |
| If you're a guy and you like reading shoujo manga that's fine just do you. It's like this almost: Just because you like girly things (like a shoujo manga) that society has deemed as girly doesn't make you any less of a man. If you love that genre then it's perfectly fine because we all have our own preferred tastes. And you don't have to be a girl to like the shoujo genre just like you don't have to be a boy to like the shounen genre....it's all about preferred tastes. |
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