How do female characters depicted in shoujo differ from female characters in Shonen?

Star_Of_Hope

Star_Of_Hope

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To be honest, I believe the female characters in Shojo can be a little high spirited and a little self centered.
Do you agree with this?
If not, why is that?
 
[quote="Grungie" pid='211557' dateline='1596737642']
There’s a lot of self centered girls in Shonen...
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I do agree with that.
In my opinion, Shojo got even more self centered girls. Probably because of the main story and all
 
MadaraUchiha said:
You can look at Josei if you want well-written female characters.
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do they have better female characters?
or an overall well developed characters of both genders? i don't know much about that genre
 
[quote="Grungie" pid='211626' dateline='1596792515']
Josei isn’t a genre, it’s just manga targeted at adult women So basically the female equivalent of seinen, which is manga for adult men.
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oh now i feel like such a dork
i should have known. thank you for telling me that and don't even seinen got female protagonists? i have to search for that
 
[quote="Blackangel" pid='211632' dateline='1596793006']

oh now i feel like such a dork
i should have known. thank you for telling me that and don't even seinen got female protagonists? i have to search for that
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Most schoolgirl comedies are seinen, but nobody watches those for well developed characters. You’re there for goofy mundane stuff.
 
[quote="Grungie" pid='211642' dateline='1596793551']

Most schoolgirl comedies are seinen, but nobody watches those for well developed characters. You’re there for goofy mundane stuff.
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like that girl you were annoyed with who treats her brother like crap
i think i understand the plot and target audience minds
 
[quote="Grungie" pid='211666' dateline='1596794755']
I’m trying to remember the show I’m talking about. Sister treating her brother like crap isn’t descriptive enough, since that’s half of the little sister trope.
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i think it's called umaru chan
do we have a lot of such sisters? i don't think there are many but i am no expert
 
Blackangel said:
i think it's called umaru chan
do we have a lot of such sisters? i don't think there are many but i am no expert
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Oh yeah, I forgot I talked about her on here. Most little sister characters are either overly doting, or overly tsundere with not a lot of middle ground.

Incestual themes are also starting to get popular...

I blame To Love Ru and Oreimo.
 
Grungie said:
Oh yeah, I forgot I talked about her on here. Most little sister characters are either overly doting, or overly tsundere with not a lot of middle ground.

Incestual themes are also starting to get popular...

I blame To Love Ru and Oreimo.
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i think so too
and i used to think so bad of it but now i wouldn't even blink. some twins like brother and sister is my first anime for this
 
I know that anime.
Isn't it very the siblings don't start out that way? I think it has a character names Yoru .
 
Because shojo intended for girl and shonen for guy, and also.. usually shojo's realm is within romance genre. Of course those affected how the characters in the series depicted
 
White_Tiger said:
Because shojo intended for girl and shonen for guy, and also.. usually shojo's realm is within romance genre. Of course those affected how the characters in the series depicted
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lol that i agree
but shojo genre can be exaggerated when it's trying to portray the female characters.
 
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