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I think I've figured out why I don't like shoujo
A few days ago on a whim I decided to read the shoujo manga, W-Juliet. Basically I was bored at onemanga.com (since until last night none of the manga I'm currently reading was updated, oh Agito/Akito you idiot, you better not get yourself hurt again or killed), so I closed my eyes and randomly clicked, if it was something I hadn't read, I would give it a try.
My fist pick was Ichigo100% but after reading a few pages of the first chapter, I ran to wiki to read the plot, it sounded dumb, so I decided to try again. W-Juliet was my second pick.
And I was indeed enjoying it in the beginning, it's about Makoto who has a bet with his father to pretend to be a girl for two years so he can live his dream as an actor and Ito the drama club president at the high school who finds out Mako's secret and eventually falls in love him. It was cute and the couple looks adorable together. But the exact same plot keeps going on and on in every freakin' chapter.
Seriously, every chapter is this: Makoto and Ito are out somewhere, something happens where Mako almost gets caught being a boy and therefore they have to do something crazy to keep people from finding out. And the thing is fourteen volumes long!
And that's where the problem lies with your typical shoujo manga (and by typical shougo manga I'm talking about the ones where it's just a girl and guy falling in love). Telling a simple love story shouldn't take 14 volumes!
My fist pick was Ichigo100% but after reading a few pages of the first chapter, I ran to wiki to read the plot, it sounded dumb, so I decided to try again. W-Juliet was my second pick.
And I was indeed enjoying it in the beginning, it's about Makoto who has a bet with his father to pretend to be a girl for two years so he can live his dream as an actor and Ito the drama club president at the high school who finds out Mako's secret and eventually falls in love him. It was cute and the couple looks adorable together. But the exact same plot keeps going on and on in every freakin' chapter.
Seriously, every chapter is this: Makoto and Ito are out somewhere, something happens where Mako almost gets caught being a boy and therefore they have to do something crazy to keep people from finding out. And the thing is fourteen volumes long!
And that's where the problem lies with your typical shoujo manga (and by typical shougo manga I'm talking about the ones where it's just a girl and guy falling in love). Telling a simple love story shouldn't take 14 volumes!
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May you should try Honey and Clover? That's supposed to be good. Ouran is good for crack. And Princess Tutu is one of the best anime's I've seen (though it's not my cup of tea for the most part.)
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Ouran I do like, although I like it a lot better when it's just being fun crack instead of focusing on the pairings (mainly because I've seen what can happen to fandoms because of pairings wars and all the implied stuff between various characters in Ouran is just begging for trouble).
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