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jymmy
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There's Magic Knight Rayearth. I haven't looked through the whole list, but that leaped out at me.
No, it says shoujo manga. Blame BookLive! and or the respondents. |
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Ashen Phoenix
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100% Agree! It's such a fantastic story I fell for the anime hard and fast and now desperately want to own it and the manga. |
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zawa113
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Hooray! They still recommend Banana Fish to others! It is a pretty damn badass manga, I must admit. Viz really needs to republish this series under their Sig line, I don't think it would sell well under their shojo line. And then I could buy copies and pass them out like a crazed evangelist or something. Seriously though, this is my favorite manga of all time. Add in anime and video games, it's still my favorite. The only thing I like more is my precious cat.
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Cetais
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What's wrong with men recommending shonen-ai? |
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encrypted12345
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My tastes in shoujo tend to be pretty cliche for some reason. Ore Monotagari and Nozaki-kun are good, non-cliche manga, but I like Love So Life, Faster than a Kiss, and Aishteruze Baby because of family themes. Hana to Akuma is one of my less well known favorites, and I doubt I'm the only one who likes The World is Still Beautiful. I also have fond memories of Moe Kare and Special A, and both Card Captor Sakura and Daa Daa Daa are classic must watch shoujo manga anime adaptations for different reasons.
I rarely read josei because it's usually less good due to beong more prone to exaggerated melodrama (more than in shoujo and seinen usually.) There are some gems in manga for that demographic though. Game Over is a good short series, and Liar x Liar is pretty engaging even if the characters aren't completely likable. I may dislike them, but I understand them and they interest me regardless. |
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CCTakato
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sailor Moon yet. I think Sailor Moon is probably the one shoujo manga that would have the most broad gender appeal. Sailor Moon has a great balance of action and romance to appeal to all kinds of fans and I think the Sailor Guardians are easily relatable to most fans even if you're a guy. Even though I'm a guy, I feel like I can still relate pretty easily to Usagi and Sailor Moon seems to have as many guy fans as it does women and the manga can get pretty dark. I think most CLAMP manga also have a lot of appeal. If you don't mind the lack of an ending, I think most guys would really enjoy X/1999 with all the apocalyptic action. Even though it's a more cuter series, I know plenty of guys who love Cardcaptor Sakura. It's basically magical girl with a gotta catch em all monster battle theme to it. Magic Knight Rayearth is another one that might be good with its combination of fantasy and giant robots. I also second My Love Story and I think Fruits Basket and Ouran High School Host Club would also have a lot of appeal to guys.
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AnimeLordLuis
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My favorite shojo manga would have to be Sailor Moon since I tend to lean more towards action series.
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Agent355
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Too many typical romances (although My Love Story! has that *perfect* humor factor!). Shojo manga can have fantastical (scifi and/or fantasy) and action elements that rivals the best of shonen! Yona of the Dawn is the latest in a long line of shojo manga populated by badass female protagonists in an action packed plot--Basara, Red River, Fushigi Yuugi & Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden...basically everything by Yuu Watase, actually. Eh, I'm just upset that so few of these get published regularly in English (and those that were published were only rereleased digitally, if at all--poor Banana Fish!) after the so many were put out in the 90's and 00's that apparently didn't sell as well as hoped. I just want Basara's Yumi Tamura's post-apocalyptic sci-fi josei 7Seeds to come out in English, but we barely got Yona after a successful anime run. Viz in particular seems nervous about long running action shojo, unless there's a vampire romance involved!
 
Second part of the poll--relieved to see so few guys want to block someone's path via kabe-don. I doubt it comes off as charming in real life! |
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Topgunguy
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So.... why the Maison Ikkoku image?
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Kruszer
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As far as actual shoujo manga I've read which isn't much I'd recommend Kare Kano and Black Bird. The list recommendations that might be shoujo would be longer if we were talking anime though, since I watch far more than I read.
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TheTsunami
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"The poll then asked if there were any physical gestures in shōjo manga that the male readers would try out" The image from MI was an example of the most selected choice, "asunaro daki". |
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invalidname
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Looking through my collection, I think my top recommendation would be the soapy thriller Arisa, which has great plot twists and solid line-art. Beyond that, Orange is obvious, and if you're still up for downbeat (or flat-out depressing) drama, Sand Chronicles fits the bill. Also, the classic shoujo sci fi To Terra and They Were 11.
At the moment, I'm enjoying the dumb fun So Cute It Hurts! and Idol Dreams, but let's wait a few more volumes to see how those turn out. From the "does it count" department: Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is published in Gangan Online, so I'm not sure if that disqualifies it as genuine shoujo? And I don't know if the yuri classification overrides shoujo for Girl Friends, because (problems with male-gaze creepers reading yuri aside), I like the way it speeds though its story in just a couple volumes, whereas I've tired of long running romances that won't get to the point (I flaked on Lovely Complex after 14 volumes because it was just coasting and not going anywhere… a fate I fear may hit Say I Love You., which I'm 4 volumes into). |
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jymmy
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It wouldn't, but no shoujo classification exists: it was aimed at men and published in a seinen magazine. The fact that it's really well written and penned by a female author are meaningless – no one's saying Kodomo no Jikan was written for children.
Why is a problem for anyone to read something that appeals to them, whether or it is or isn't aimed towards them (which in this case it is)? |
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invalidname
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The discourse! :D |
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HikariGo
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A few of my favourites made the list in; Chihayafuru, Nodame Cantabile and Kimi ni Todoke.
I am surprised Akatsuki no Yona is not getting any love on this list though, definitely fits this category. |
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face was seeing them recommending, out of all things,  |
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