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Shoujo or Shounen?
sanlyn:
i like scrapped princess, pretears,full moon, Tsubasa, card captor sakura, black cat, kyou kara Maou, and bleach. I also read shounen jump and nakayoshi manga magazine therefore i like both shoujo and shounen genre. It doesn't matter as long as it has a good plot/ story and nice characters.
Jeannette:
Hmm... I generally find stories focusing on relationships the most interesting, but action manga isn't too bad usually. Relationships come in all kinds of varieties, but there seem to be only a certain amount of variations on the action manga/anime story lines. Or perhaps I'm just bitter, after being forced to watch some bad shounen anime. CLAMP often strikes a good balance between relationships and action for me... even though their main focus is usually relationships. But shoujo manga where everything is sweet and perfect drive me crazy as much as bad shounen manga.
And Okamirei, I wouldn't call Tsubasa shounen. I guess it could be argued, but I've always thought of it as more shoujo or gender ambiguous.
wishingstarx:
--- Quote from: Jeannette on March 28 2006, 01:39 am ---Hmm... I generally find stories focusing on relationships the most interesting, but action manga isn't too bad usually. Relationships come in all kinds of varieties, but there seem to be only a certain amount of variations on the action manga/anime story lines. Or perhaps I'm just bitter, after being forced to watch some bad shounen anime. CLAMP often strikes a good balance between relationships and action for me... even though their main focus is usually relationships. But shoujo manga where everything is sweet and perfect drive me crazy as much as bad shounen manga.
And Okamirei, I wouldn't call Tsubasa shounen. I guess it could be argued, but I've always thought of it as more shoujo or gender ambiguous.
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I agree with Okamirei, because Syaoran is the main chara, plus it has a lot more action in it, but because of Syaoran's relationship with Sakura, I guess it can be called shoujo, too... ^_^ It's how you look at it...i guess...
Jeannette:
Many shoujo series have male leads; look at 'X' with Kamui. As for the action, 'X' also is one of the most violent, bloody manga I've ever read, with many incredible fight scenes. Plenty of action there, even if the focus of the story is the relationships. Plus, shounen-ai and yaoi, which are considered by many to be sub-genres of shoujo, are all about males. The thing is, men and boys tend not to want to read stories that have only female leads; most men tend towards stories that either have a male as the lead, or have a female lead balanced by a male equal. Women, however, are far more comfortable with either male or female leads. There are far more female fans of shounen manga than male fans of shoujo manga, I find.
Plus, I wouldn't really say that Syaoran is THE single lead character of Tsubasa: I'd say that he shares the spot with Sakura. She's just as important as he to the story. But that point could very easily be argued. And I think I'm getting off-topic. ^__^;
Hikari B.:
Let's see...
Pokemon
Yu-Gi-Oh (Shounen)
Cardcaptor Sakura (Shojo)
DNAngel (Shounen?)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Shounen)
Yotsuba&!
Tokyo Mew Mew (Shojo)
Fruits Basket (Shojo)
Kare Kano (Shojo)
Shojo wins.
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