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Looking for refreshing historical shoujo/josei with strong female lead

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skat	Post #573098
Member 12:40 am, Oct 10 2012 Posts: 183	Recently fell in love with historical/ancient setting manga! I am looking for more, refreshing historical shoujos/josei where it's not all about romance and where not every other good-looking guy is head-over-heels for the girl! The girl has to be strong in personality, or she has to be the type who can grow up and mature through the series into a strong lead, no Mary Sue-type female lead please Some examples of series that I really love in this category are: Koukyuu Days - Shichisei Kuni Monogatari, Joou no Hana, Dokuhime,Akatsuki no Yona, Bride of the Water God, and Basara. Does anyone have any other mangas to recommend?
theLettuceGarden04	Post #573104
the Dream Catcher Member 2:20 am, Oct 10 2012 Posts: 102	I'm not a big fan of historical mangas, but here are the ones I know, some I read, some I haven't: Red River The Story of Saiunkoku (watch the anime for this one) Ookami-heika no Hanayome The Great Merchant Kim Manduk Akatsuki no Aria Some may not completely suit your request, but I still recommend them. I highly recommend this one too: Otoyomegatari- it fist your request perfectly, it has very elaborate art and well, breathtaking (well, romance is not really there though). ________________ Silent war... Love never fades away here, we've got an army of angels... silently bleeding... silently dreaming... not living in Lettuce Garden...
FrostyNoire	Post #573107
Member 3:14 am, Oct 10 2012 Posts: 21	The first thing that comes to mind is Ichi.
jahu	Post #573117
Member 5:45 am, Oct 10 2012 Posts: 673	Tales from the Land of Daughters - ShengNan's Story
Mafuane	Post #573298
Member 9:43 pm, Oct 11 2012 Posts: 56	you've read saver right?
Roughan	Post #573304
Member 11:30 pm, Oct 11 2012 Posts: 250	you should read Ooku ________________
skat	Post #573332
Member 6:49 am, Oct 12 2012 Posts: 183	thanks for the suggestions guys! I'm already reading Ooku, and I've watched the Saiunkoku anime and read Saver as well. Hmm, anymore to recommend?
Snakering	Post #573641
Member 8:16 pm, Oct 14 2012 Posts: 218	The only ones I have left to suggest aren't perfect fits. Nevertheless, they're quite good. Sengoku Strays has a girl from the present going back to the Sengoku era. The first thing that came to mind for me was Rurouni Kenshin... but it isn't a shoujo/josei, and the main character is male. However, if you somehow haven't read it, by all means do. It's phenomenal. Anyways I bring this up because Donten ni Warau is a shoujo apparently similar in genre and categories.
soja75	Post #573643
Member 8:50 pm, Oct 14 2012 Posts: 89	Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori realy good but realy loong ________________
MaskedAngel	Post #573644
Member 8:52 pm, Oct 14 2012 Posts: 39	As an addition to other people's suggestions, I would add Yume no Shizuku, Ougon no Torikago and Kaze Hikaru.