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2:53 pm, Apr 29 2008
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I know I'm not the only person that gets annoyed because the main characters in the shoujo won't get around to admitting their feelings or some do and they won't kiss. So what are some SHOUJO manga that have you waiting? Also what's the longest you have had to wait? Any shoujo that really should have had a kiss but they just ended?

*(Shoujo, I'm sorry Sakura and Naruto haven't made out but it's shounen so we'll just have to wait it out) XD

So I can't remember the longest I've had to wait but what I'm currently waiting on is Skip Beat. =__= I mean they don't have to kiss but I would love some more romance in it.

Oh Fruits Basket took forever as well, though I think it was a good wait. (I didn't then though XD)


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I know its so annoying. i love skip beat to bits and is very funny, but when is ren going to reveal to Kyoko that he's 'corn' and then get together. (121 chps so far)
also in BxB brothers, sono and Katsumi when will they get together! they like eachother just get together and stop dragging it out. she confessed to him and still its got nowhere. sad

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The wallflower!!! anytime anything even remotely romantic happens, she gets a nosebleed or something. I hope that changes soon because its been 74 chapters without all that much romance!! And I agree with Skip Beat too.

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Most definitely, Skip Beat. It is a great manga, even after 100+ chapters but it's kind of unfair that Ren's keeping a lot of important information to himself. He should just put everything out there and see how Kyoko reacts. She doesn't have to necessarily fall in love with him on the spot but at least she would see another dimension to Ren.

Also Penguin Revolution. I know it's not exactly a romance shoujo but it'd be nice to see something different than all the normal friendliness with celebrity boys.

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Skip Beat!
Kaichou wa Maid-sama
Beast Master
Beauty Pop (technically Stage 2, you people and your details)
Bitter Virgin
Cat Street
Crimson Hero - in the ones available in English, specifically
My Heavenly Hockey Club
Honey and Clover
Kaze Hikaru
Ojou-sama's Orders
... I'll stop there, since the list could go on forever otherwise, and those were the first ones I could think of. Arrrg, I'm dying for more romance/obvious romance/actual kissing in these! And more, of course. And for some of them, I don't really even care who the couples are, I just want couples to be formed in the first place!

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Same here. Wallflower and Skip Beat. I also waited for a kiss between Sakura and Li in Card Captor Sakura. sad

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I also waited for a kiss between Sakura and Li in Card Captor Sakura. sad


So did I! Seriously, I don't think CLAMP likes kissing very much cause I have yet to see a manga that shows it (and I mean a scene that really shows it, so Chobits doesn’t count).

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I also waited for a kiss between Sakura and Li in Card Captor Sakura. sad

So did I! Seriously, I don't think CLAMP likes kissing very much cause I have yet to see a manga that shows it (and I mean a scene that really shows it, so Chobits doesn’t count).

But Li and Sakura are only 14 years old* when the anime series end and although I haven't watched all the way to the end (I read the last volume of manga and have practically *seen* all the important relationship scenes of the last 30 episodes but I misplaced the CDs they were on... ^_^U), I don't really need them to kiss. I view it as a "friendship and young love" situation so the things like the teddy bears and the scarf speak a lot more to me than if the two had kissed.

* (which is a bit interesting to mention since, as I write this, there's that blow-up with Miley Cyrus about that 'artsy' Vanity Fair photo, the one that looks like she was covered ONLY by a bedsheet. There's 'outtakes' on the company's site showing 15 year-old Miley Cyrus was wearing pants in that but of course that isn't the impression one would get from the finish photo. But the 'artsy' factor should have been for an 18 or 20 year-old as I see it, and since they cut her off at the waist it just gives that impression that she wasn't wearing any bottoms and probably no bra since there were no straps. And that type of photo is used for a girl that's really beautiful, beautiful to be an artist's muse. Miley Cyrus at 15 years old that stars in her comedy-type show is a muse? none )

It doesn't really mean much to me if the kiss has no feelings between the characters. If there had been manga with people that act French or Italian kissing each other on the cheek, I'm not sure if more would be read into the 'friendly' kiss.

And oh yeah, for CCS, I think for at least the anime that Li and Sakura are really close or at least gave the 'look' of kissing when they were doing that Sleeping Beauty play. But maybe the "so close yet so far" for almost kisses stings more than if the matter hadn't been addressed at all.

And for Kare Kano's anime, I don't think like the first kiss between Arima and Yukino is even made a big deal about it. And when I think about episode 18, there relationship seems to go really fast since haven't they been together only about a year? And that they are 15 years old and yet they have this deep and profound relationship maybe like 20+ or even 30+ year-olds? It might be because Arima has a dark past, and that the matter is portrayed more eloquently than 15 year olds would express themselves.

But that issue of '15 year-old acting like 20 year-old' would be sort of how things happen on Gossip Girl or Dawson's Creek, before they went off to college. Since I recall for Degrassi they don't say pretend 'this actress is 22 but let's pretend she's 14', Degrassi: The New Generation seems more 'real' than the other two. But the former two would be more of soap opera, and my older sister has even commented that the conversational words were beyond what would be use by high schoolers (but the writers are probably of course the people that graduated college).

But I guess what would be the excuse for why Kare Kano does this? It doesn't have to cast real people or did the mangaka just like having young people in adolescence? Would the manga give the same feel if the people were in college? I would guess not since the students are more individual, and I guess most people are getting close to being set in their ways. And being at the top of the bell curve, does it have the same feeling when one doesn't even talk to 98% of the class? If Arima was just person working at a desk job, he would be about 20-or-so years old and that would mean he's pretty stuck in his ways. (According to old thinking and even the idea that happened in Beauty and the Beast, with the Beast having to be loved by his 21st birthday, it's a milestone age in which one has reached maturity.) Karo Kano's main characters are the exception to regular kids (there's only room for #1 smart kid in school...) but I still had to put this question out there.

I went crazy with the talking, but I still think it's worth posting about it. It's not all about anime and manga, but if anybody follows similar types of storylines outside of these two areas, does one judge a character in a show like Gossip Girl differently from something like Marmalade Boy's anime? I know the latter one is a bit dated, but it was off the top of my head and the love/relationship triangle/square/hexagon/etc. is the point I'm getting across. Do anime characters even feel 'real' like watching live action actors (the ones that pretend to be like real people, not the over-the-top ones)?


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I definitely think that Wallflower keeps you waiting. Yeah, they kiss and stuff, but everytime they do Kyouhei says "this can never turn into love" or stuff like that. It's really frustrating cause I just dont know what's going to happen dead

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well i have followed many series (mostly shounen though) and (few shoujos) where i REALLY Wish for that to happen...

like someone said before, there is no point to a a kiss in a manga if both sides aren't mutual.

but something like (yes in skip beat and furuba--->FB and wallflower and other manga you probably never heard of they keep you waiting for A real RELATIONShip)

for now i am waiting for the kiss between zero + yuki since kaname already has
and in S.A. where hikari kisses kei (not the other way around) (i know it happens)

but mostly, the characters in shoujo kiss pretty often, compared to shounen at least

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I'm waiting for:
Zero and Yuuki- Vampire Knight
Ren and Kyoko- Skip Beat!
Daisuke and Aikawa- Bitter Virgin
Tamaki and Haruhi- Ouran High
Hagiwara and Sayuki- Chocolate Cosmos
I know that Hagiwara-sensei kisses Sayuki, but he was messed up when he did that...so I want him to actually do it when he's like not partially dead... but those are just the characters that I really want to actually see end up together and be an actual couple

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Skip Beat: Ren x Kyoko (I'm sure this is in everyone's heads)
Vampire Knights: Zero x Yuuki, Kaname should die... >.>
Bleach: Rukia x Renji (XD shounens could have romance <3)
Deep Love Virus: Mitani x Shun
Sprout: not too sure who I'm cheering for here, but something should happen! >=(
DNAngel: Risa x Dark <-- properly get together
Arakure: Sachie x Rakuto
Shugo Chara: Amu x Ikuto <-- squeeee* AMUTO!! <3<3<3
Nana: I'm still hoping for Hachi x Nobu, Takumi is horrible >=(
Host Club: Hikaru x Haruhi <3

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My votes the same as everyone's Skip Beat! biggrin

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Host Club: Haruhi x Tamaki - we all saw that coming from the first chapter

And a shounen one: Sakura x Syaoran, even though that was almost happened in the first chapter.

Fruits Basket also had me waiting for forever because we also saw Kyo x Tohru from the first chapter (volume? not sure...) as well.

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Demian Syndrome - I mean come on...
And then I hear there is
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rape
and I'm all wt... Shocking...
A kiss, a real kiss would be really blessed.


Actually, in fruits basket, I didn't really wait for any kissing... (And I DO love romance)
The story itself about the curse was more interesting.
Only towrads the end, I remember thinking about Touru x Kyo..
Although at the begining I thought she was going to end up with price Yuki...
That's one of Furuba's best points- it didn't do all the "king of the school x poor little innocent girly girl"


Is skip beat! any good?^^ roll eyes

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