 What happened? These are the start dates of shoujo anime between the start of 2020 to 2022 and these are just a handful. There is especially no new stuff, only remakes (not that I complain) and nly a few established franchises. Let me open this topic to mourn the death of a wonderful demographic. |
| Good to know you're still alive. Shoujo has been all downhill since Ouran. I guess Orange was good? |
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_Maneki-Neko_ said: the death of a wonderful demographic. Haven't you heard? 100% of young women in japan died of the Coronavirus. |
| I did grow up with Mirmo and a Little Snow Fairy Sugar so part of me is hurt plus I really like Aishiteruze Baby. But whatever, other genres/demographics exist and I'm more of a Josei/Seinen guy anyway |
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| Yeah, idk what the hell happened, but that old shoujo anime was good shit. Hey at least there is a Fruits basket remake and some Natsume Yuujinchou. |
| well natsume's book of friends and fruits basket are still good anime (haven't watched them but they've got a good rep) |
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| I never noticed how much this demographic has dried up, although I do think its worth noting how much what was typically associated with Shoujo has sort of branched outside of the demographic. Obviously not all of them were but its undeniable how much romance and romcoms made up a visible portion of the demographic, and just how much that genre has been prevalent especially in recent years. Like you could totally of convinced me hyper-successful series like Takagi or especially Kaguya-Sama could of been in a shoujo magazine |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| That looks no worse than anything else we've gotten over the past 20 years. |
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| Women became based and started consuming shounen/seinen |
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Crow_Black said: You have oversaturation of isekai shonen jrpg style stories to blame. Good - maybe well get more SAO, RE:Zero, and Log Horizon :) |
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| Wow, they still haven't finished with that notorious Netflix Sailor Moon? I didn't know that. Yeah, sadly, shoujo niche today is being replaced by fujo bait shows (you know, those shows with wooden bishounens, veiled yaoi hints and literally no girls) |
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| Yeah shoujo will never recover, its been dead for so long |
| Huh, that's interesting. I never noticed how scarce shoujo anime are these days. Then again, even though I'm part of the targeted demographic, I'm not a big fan of the genre. I just realized that Horimiya is categorized as a shounen, not a shoujo lol. At least there's Fruits Basket...but yeah, it would be nice if there were more shoujo anime adaptations, especially since there're so many great shoujo manga out there that have yet to have one. |
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| The new trash isekai anime's are to blame. |
| I wasn't aware that 7seeds could be considered shoujo shdjdkdls. Either way it's nothing too shocking. Shoujo /Josei or in general Anime targeted towards Women has never been adapted as much as Shounen /Seinen etc. It's very frustrated to think about but it's always been like this. Just think about how many Isekai Anime exist and then the number of that with female MC. I guess it's also because a lot of Series would classify under Shoujo but they do not have the official Tag for it. |
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_Maneki-Neko_ said: Yeah RIP, there's even less magical girl shoujo coming out these days too. Not counting Sailor Moon or Pretty Cure, the new Tokyo Mew Mew has been the only shoujo magical girl show announced within these past couple of years...What happened? These are the start dates of shoujo anime between the start of 2020 to 2022 and these are just a handful. There is especially no new stuff, only remakes (not that I complain) and nly a few established franchises. Let me open this topic to mourn the death of a wonderful demographic. You can really see how long it's been with web pages like these: https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/all?include_tags=218,191&sort=year&order=desc Johan said: Nah, screw that. I want more shows about CGI hamsters shaped like vehicles cementing themselves in the top 200, let's gooooooCrow_Black said: You have oversaturation of isekai shonen jrpg style stories to blame. Good - maybe well get more SAO, RE:Zero, and Log Horizon :) Zelkiiro said: Ayyy nice to see a fellow Full Moon fan here, aw hell yeah I'd love a more faithful adaptation for it!!Time for Yona Season 2 and Full Moon wo Sagashite: Brotherhood. |
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| The target audience nowadays is for people who like mediocre isekai, ya hate to see it :/ |
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Fario-P said: _Maneki-Neko_ said: Yeah RIP, there's even less magical girl shoujo coming out these days too. Not counting Sailor Moon or Pretty Cure, the new Tokyo Mew Mew has been the only shoujo magical girl show announced within these past couple of years...What happened? These are the start dates of shoujo anime between the start of 2020 to 2022 and these are just a handful. There is especially no new stuff, only remakes (not that I complain) and nly a few established franchises. Let me open this topic to mourn the death of a wonderful demographic. You can really see how long it's been with web pages like these: https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/all?include_tags=218,191&sort=year&order=desc Nah, screw that. I want more shows about CGI hamsters shaped like vehicles cementing themselves in the top 200, let's goooooo Zelkiiro said: Ayyy nice to see a fellow Full Moon fan here, aw hell yeah I'd love a more faithful adaptation for it!!Time for Yona Season 2 and Full Moon wo Sagashite: Brotherhood. Damn why am I so popular :( LOL. Thanks for the reply , but we already have had 4 cours of Re:Zero, 5 of Log Horizon, and ... even more than that of SAO :) Hopefully that continues :* |
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| As a big shoujo fan, it is really sad to see the lack of new ones being produced. And then, many of the ones that do come out aren't even that good. I miss the days of the Ourans, Skip-Beats, Kaichou wa Maid-samas, Akatuski no Yona...Hopefully we will get a rise in popularity sometime soon. |
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| Yeah, it's a shame that there's not much new shoujo anime coming out these days. Instead, there's all these seinen adaptations that nobody cares for. I recently watched "Ace wo Nerae!," which was great, but I don't think we're gonna get gems like that in the future, sadly. |
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| well there is Koi to Yobu adaptation (which is josei close enough) which was completely unexpected so you never know plus there seems to be a gradual increase in shounen romcoms lately so you never know there might be a shoujo boom sson :P JizzyHitler said: I never noticed how much this demographic has dried up, although I do think its worth noting how much what was typically associated with Shoujo has sort of branched outside of the demographic. Obviously not all of them were but its undeniable how much romance and romcoms made up a visible portion of the demographic, and just how much that genre has been prevalent especially in recent years. Like you could totally of convinced me hyper-successful series like Takagi or especially Kaguya-Sama could of been in a shoujo magazine idk I don't think Takagi would really be believable in a shoujo mag. tbh. like shoujo usually focuses on the more emotional side of things, but Takagi is literally just repetitive shits and giggles (which pretty much sums up shounen romcoms). Kaguya-sama would be believable though |
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| Isn't 7 Seeds like josei - even less covered demographic? And 7 Seeds being a genuine trash show which comes as even sadder tendency. |
| Goddamn, rip. Aikatsu/PreCure we still in this biiiitch |
| Especially sucks that excluding Fruits Basket(which is a remake) there are no shoujo romance anime anymore. No Josei either. Big F |
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| Good riddance, last show that was remotely entertaining was this... https://myanimelist.net/anime/32899/Watashi_ga_Motete_Dousunda |
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| I haven't watched much shoujo anime in my life and even I've noticed this and it is pretty sad. Kind of like the dementia genre where a lot of shows had it back then but not as much in recent times |
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| Shoujo hasn't been replaced by isekai or seinen or whatever pet peeve genre one might want to attack; when it comes to adapting shoujo works, there's been a shift from anime to live-action. |
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| Man I just want my akayona s2 and an anime adaptation of taiyou no ie. Guess we're not really gonna get it huh? Shame. |
| Sad to see.It had a great potential.I'm currently watching Fruits Basket and it has a unique plot and am loving it.The only anime that's keeping it alive is Fruits Basket and now that it is finished the genre is completely dead jus like Mecha and Space will it be the same for Shounen?Jump sales are also decreasing so eventually the whole of anime will be dead and will not be a thing anymore in the future.Even though it is just getting popular. Most of the females just watch anime for ships and not for the story and the reason why some of the shojos even got popular is because even males are watching it. (Note;This is just me giving baseless theory Viln said: _Maneki-Neko_ said: the death of a wonderful demographic. Haven't you heard? 100% of young women in japan died of the Coronavirus. Lmaaoooo |
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| Well, we've got Horimiya. It's pretty good. |
skysurf said: Content-wise, some of them are simply in disguise using the Shounen label: https://myanimelist.net/anime/42897/Horimiya Horimiya fits in the shonen category.It doesn't have generic looking handsome boys like how most shojos have. |
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skysurf said: Content-wise, some of them are simply in disguise using the Shounen label: https://myanimelist.net/anime/42897/Horimiya WTF I just realised Horimiya has a shounen rather than a shoujo tag... what even [insert jackie chan wtf meme] |
| Girls nowadays are moving to a different demographic called Shounen since the time is changing. Shounen nowadays has more hot guys like Gojo, Giyuu, Hanako, Todoroki, etch. Feels bad since I have a lot of memories in shoujo, especially manga since my friends and I have some past about recommending shoujo manga to each other. Good ol' times. |
 I wasted all my time in rewatching to the point of my rewatch total is higher than my overall anime total lmao |
| Everyone is watching shonen and seinen. lol |
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| @spaesu saying Shoujo is aimed at kids is just plain stupid. |
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