.. so my sincerest apologies for any thing that might offend anyone in advance..shoujo cliches I hate are:-
- Girl falls on bishie cool guy who seems to be good in EVERYTHING while for some impossibly odd reason, she cant do a single thing! Thats GOTTA be impossible right?
-Main girl often doesnt have any back bone and is extremely shy and impossibly unattractive...u would think we would want a girl, us gals can look up to once in a while..oh! she is dense and never has an inkling of what is going around her...
- Guy is surprisingly mature, has had hordes of previous ex gfs or at least one super attractive one who always will come back and want her guy back..Honey! I still love u! Please leave ur current girl and come back to me..
-Jealous girls ganging up on main girl, saying "Oh! You dont deserve to be by his side! Look how plain u are!" + rumours or whispering around them "Oh! Is that his gf? cant be, she's soo plain."
- Guy seems to 'yasashi' despite u goin WTF! he offers a hanky for Chris's sakes! Sure, he believes in humanity! Yoh in Koukou debut seems a bit more humane than many guys out there as in he cares for his girl friend as naturally as a boyfriend would and acknowledges that..
- The accidental or forceful kiss or rather being interrupted so many times..accidental is really...come on!! help me here! .....and the forceful kiss, how do u make sure u dont kiss her nose instead?
- The guy doesnt have bloopers. I know it for a fact, Shoujo guys can not be humiliated, commit no mistakes, are always cool even if they poop, never have weaknesses, rarely smile and if they do, female (strangers on street or school girls ) audience go ~Kyaa~
I would like a normal guy as a shoujo hero, u like him more for that- like Dice
- Tom boys are unattractive, y? girls with muscles, girls who arent girly arent popular..is that really so? The most popular girl in my well..educational institution when we were 18 was a purely tom girl who couldnt move gracefully even if the Sun rose from the west..n she had more muscles than me, but anyways, she was tall and had a pretty face- not cute..
- main girl has small boobs and has a complex about her appearance- face it! all girls do have such complexes but big boobs is more common in general and I havent met any girl who had a complex about her boobs..
- It always starts from the girl's side....y? dont guys have crushes? though it might defeat the purpose of a shoujo manga...but utter desperation is a turn off..
- Also, come on girls, there are unpopular or simple nice guys who have been ur crushes, havent they? I would like a shoujo on that ..
Ok, I have stopped ranting, anyone else got anything to add, I would be gratified but no flames please
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