r/shoujo

I'm a guy who happens to love shoujo way more than shonen and I'm proud of it. Sakura Cardcaptor is my first anime I watched and remember enjoying it. The thing I loved about shoujo is how unexpected it can be. Most shoujo tend be unhinged and it's something I live on. Plus, shoujo is more appealing to me is how much it reminds of telenovelas (I'm Hispanic) and growing up watching telenovelas with my family made shoujo be more interesting to read. I recommend guys to give shoujo a try, honestly, y'all sleeping on some good stories. Before I end, I'll share my favorites shoujo mangas which are Red River, Fushigi Yugi, Rose of Versailles, Angel Sanctuary, and Hana Kimi.

Yep, it’s in the title, I have loved Shoujo all my life, but, my parents HATEEEEEEEEE ITTTTT. The “problem” is that my friends might get me Shoujo manga for my birthday and I think they are getting me the Shugo Chara! (I’m very grateful) if you’ve seen the cover for the 20th anniversary edition, you will know what I’m talking about. I might also be gifted Sailor Moon & Cardcaptor Sakura. How do I get them to get off my case?

Hi all, I just caught up to chapter 20 of Fall in Love You False Angels and im going crazy with the cliff hanger. I heard its up to Ch24 with the raws and was wondering if anyone know if those chapters or even just ch21 is available to read anywhere?? or if anyone knows when it will be updated? Id be okay with even just the raw chapter and using google translate honestly. I would greatly appreciate any info! thank you!

I can't remember the name of this manga, it's about two exes reuniting as neighbours. The ML is trying hard to get back together with the FL, while she is just trying to have a good first year in college and isn't so sure about getting back together. I think there was some sort of misunderstanding that lead to their breakup but I'm not sure.

I'm looking for shoujo/josei manga where the female lead works hard to accomplish her dream. Stuff like Skip Beat and Full Moon o Sagashite.

Hey 👋! I need clean shoujo anime suggestions. No r-rated or kissing scenes.

Where the overall anime/manga/lightnovel is at least a solid 8/10 or at least a 7.8? It doesn’t have to be shoujo, any other genre is fine too. Something where you would tear up or straight up cry in awe or with pure empathy from the depths of their emotions? I’m tired of reading those villainess isekais whose everything is shallow or school shoujos where the feelings feel kinda small scale haha. Err, nothing too depressing though 😆 I just want to really feel the feelings 😅

I think Yona of the Dawn might have lots of this because of its setting and how highly rated it is. I’m waiting for it to be fully translated to read.

Some examples:

Super Supportive (not an anime but a webnovel. Most recent memory of this. It’s not a romance but this is the most intense, communicative non-romantic romantic relations I’ve ever read lol)  

- Alden choosing to >!stop hiding his powers in order to join his friend/chosen brother to enter a life of war because he couldn’t bear the thought of the guy dying isolated and alone without him knowing!<.

- The guy, Stu’arth, after realising there was some binding preventing Alden from speaking about himself, went to some insane efforts >!to trick the guy who bound Alden to remove it!<. I was in awe at just how earnest, sincere and wholehearted he was about the act.

Ascendance of a bookworm

- RM’s rampages for Ferdinand’s safety. What comes to mind were her bulldozing >!her way to Ahrenbach to save Ferdinand.!<

- The reveal at the end of the story where Ferdinand set it all up where RM could >!meet with her family as herself!<. The whole scene had me bawling for ages. Because we all know  just how much it meant to her after everything she gone through since. Everything she did, was to protect her family.

Colourcloud Palace

- A surprising plot twist near the end of the anime where Rou Ensei, a pretty reliable, cheerful and rough kind of man of a supporting character that was present for the whole series was revealed that >!he had feeling for Shuurei! It was such an arrow to the heart because of how much he did not show this at all so that Shuurei doesn’t have to worry about it. It was more impactful because so many other male characters had showed they had fallen for Shuurei causing all kinds of stress for her and he just kept quiet about his own feelings, hid it completely and lived his life purely helping her out as a good friend. He friendzoned himself for her sake. It was so moving because he was the only one in this haremlike story that had no selfish intentions towards her.!<

Apothecary Diaries

- In the novels, Jinshi >!branded his skin with the symbol of Empress Gokyuyou in front of her and the Emperor, to show to her that he will not be her son’s enemy to the throne as the emperor’s brother. This is because he wants to be able to get together with MaoMao without the threat of a potential son from their coupling being a threat to the Empress’ own son.!< I was shocked and moved at how far he was going to go to show his sincerity and his feelings for MaoMao.

Cardcaptor Sakura

- It’s not quite moving me to tears but it was hella romantic. When Touya >!gave up his powers for Yue to be able to exist because he loves him.!< It’s CLAMP so it was so pretty, romantic and swoony. 👍

Fyi I alrd watched/read:

- Basara

- Red River

- Please Save My Earth

- 7Seeds

- NG Life

- Threads of Time

- Colourcloud Palace/Saiunkoku Monogatari

- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

- xxxHolic

- Tokyo Babylon

- X

- Mars

- Ludwig Kakumei

- Ascendance of a Bookworm

- Apothecary Diaries

- Pandora Hearts

- Gakuen Alice

- The Cain Saga

- Godchild

- Revolutionary Girl Utena

- Princess Tutu

- After School Nightmare

- Land of the Blindfolded

- Penguin Kakumei

- Snow White with the Red Hair

- Cardcaptor Sakura

- Full Moon wo Sagashite

- RG Veda

- Fruits Basket

- Chihayafuru

- 3-Gatsu no Lion

- Skip to Loafer

- RELife

- La Corda d'Oro

- Maid-sama

- Kare Kano

- Ao Haru Ride

- Strobe Edge

- The One

- Kimi ni Todoke

- My Love Story With Yamada at Level999

- Ouran Host Club

- Nodame Cantabile

- Anohana

- Clannad and After Story

- Cross Game

- Touch

- Rough

- H2

- Katsu!

- Maria Watches Over Us

- Ranma ½(But when its bad, its reeeeally bad)

- Your Lie in April

- Prétear: The New Legend of Snow White

- Skip Beat

- Can’t See Can’t Hear but love

- Cat Street

- Chobits

- Hana Yori Dango

- Kodocha

Average or Didn’t Like:

- Kodocha

- Honey and Clover (The wavering back and forth got too annoying)

- Fushigi Yuugi(didn’t like it)

- Kamisama Hajime (I don’t understand why people say this is their fav. It’s so shallow…)

- Sailor Moon

- Clover

- A Silent Voice

- A sign of affection(Didn’t catch my interest)

- Horimiya (It’s so… bland? Was expecting a bit more Kare Kano but none of the tropes was done straight)

- Gekan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (Too episodic and I got bored)

- Love is War (Too over the top and episodic)

- My Happy Marriage (good god the mc needs to grow a spine. She sound so breathless it annoys me)

- Ginban Kalaidescope

- Given

- Hyouka

- Smile Down the Runway

- Shugo Chara

- Koukou Debut

- Accomplishment of the Duke’s Daughter

- Love in the Mask

- Love Hina

- Dengeki Daisy

- Sasaki and Miyano (feels draggy and like nothing is happening)

Estou me sentindo sozinha nisso. Esse anime foi sem sal, os personagens todos opacos, principalmente o kite, nunca senti tanto tédio e desprezo por um personagem fictício. Sem contar o pior ponto, a química dele com a Lily. Devo dizer corretamente como; a falta de química deles. É sério que não tem ninguém falando sobre isso? Eu vejo que a vibe desse anime é tão boa, as artes e tudo é tão mágico, menos as dinâmicas que envolvem os personagens, são completamentes tediosas. E nem ligo que os secundários sejam assim, mas o problema que o casal principal é assim. Tinha tanto potencial. Essa é a minha opinião.

E mais um ponto; eu achei a amizade da Lily e a garoto ruiva muito rápida, tudo muito superficial, não sei se é porque sou uma pessoa com poucos amigos e péssima em fazer amizades, mas tenho certeza que as amizades não começam assim tão simples e ao mesmo tempo, desde o início tão profundas e sinceras assim. Eu sei eu sei, é um romance para espairecer e esquecer que a realidade não é tão glamourosa. Apesar que amo isso, esse caso foi tão superficial e sem química que ele não trouxe esse sentimento de conforto, só me lembrava que era tudo mentira o tempo todo, acabou que não me levou ao nível de apreciação 🫤