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I like shojo anime

RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
edited 2011-09-25 12:13:19 in IJAM
I feel that shojo fills in a void left by American cartoons, namely the lack of shows from a girl's perspective (or maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention; I liked The Powerpuff Girls, I guess). And it's so hopeful. You don't get that kind of feel-good stuff so much from boys' shows.
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  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    PURGE THE HERETIC!

    :P
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I don't think I've ever watched a shojo.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I feel that shojo fills in a void left by American cartoons, namely the lack of shows from a girl's perspective

    > Buffy
    > Dollhouse
    > Veronica Mars
    > Pan Am
    > Mad Men (Sorta)

  • ViviVivi
    edited 2011-09-25 12:29:47
    $80+ per session
    Is Pan Am any good? I keep seeing stuff for it.

    My mom likes dramas that take place in the past. (and classic movies). It looks like her kind of thing.

    Also

    Powerpuff Girls
    Juniper Lee
    Gilmore Girls
    Weeds
    And also every live action show on Disney Channel and Nick.
  • AHRAHR
    Ghost Whisperer, Desperate Housewives, that new show with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Charmed...
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Is Pan Am any good? I keep seeing stuff for it.

    Hasn't debuted yet. I just thought it was worth mentioning because, well, it is a show from a female perspective. And it's recent, which gives it a bonus.
  • DYREDYRE

    Shoujo anime can be good, yeah.  At the very least, typical generic shoujo is infinitely more tolerable than typical generic shounen.

    Also, most good magical girl series are shoujo, and therefore shoujo is good.  Or something.

  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    edited 2011-09-25 12:42:02
    Note that I said cartoons. Most of those are live-action (out of that list, I recognize Powerpuff Girls and Sabrina The Teenage Witch as being cartoons in some form).
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    oh.

    i fail reading comprehension forever
  • AHRAHR
    Cartoons are a limited form in the US period.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Juniper Lee is a cartoon, though.

    Also, isn't the Legend of Korra supposed to be about a female avatar?
  • AHRAHR
    YESH :3
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    YES

    LEGEND OF KORRA

    SO FUCKING EXCITED.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Veronica Mars is a good show.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    ^Never pegged you for someone with good taste, Glenn.

    (I kid, I kid)
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "At the very least, typical generic shoujo is infinitely more tolerable than typical generic shounen."

    Shounen has people beating the shit out of each other in epic fights, your argument is invalid.
  • DYREDYRE

    And shoujo doesn't usually have that, which is why shoujo is usually better.

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    What kind of demographic is Ranma?

    Because it has romance stuff.

    But it also has people beating each other.

    And titties
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Shounen has people beating the shit out of each other in epic repetitive fights
    Fixed.
  • DYREDYRE

    What kind of demographic is Ranma?

    Shounen.

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    INUH: Read Negima and say that again.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ^^ Shonen with benefits fangirls.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-09-25 14:21:15
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^^I did. I got bored, albeit for different reasons than generic Shonen usually bores me.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    You know,after watching Nichijou I wish KyoAni would actually animate an action show for once
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-09-25 14:21:09
    INUH: Read Negima and say that again. 

    From everything I've heard, Negima sounds like just about the least appealing anime/manga series I've ever heard of.  Starts out as harem series, which is already pretty much the second-worst animu genre, and then turns into a generic shounen action series while maintaining some of its harem elements.  It's like... I don't think they could come up with a worse premise if they tried.

    ^ Munto.

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Anyone who says Negima is boring has clearly never gotten to the Magic World Arc. At all.

    Yes, I will defend this series to my death
  • AHRAHR
    Shojo has starry eyed romances.

    I'd rather have repetitive fights than repetitive romances.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-09-25 14:26:46
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Actually, that was where I started finding it intolerable.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I don't really like repetitive romances or repetitive fights.
  • AHRAHR
    WAN PEESE
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