I'm sure there are tons of popular shoujo that I ended up not liking but currently the ones most obvious to me are Kimi ni Todoke and Kaichou wa Maid-sama just 'cause I see people fangirl them so much and I'm just like..'I don't get it yo~'.
As a mindless fluff - maybe..sure, but nothing so special to get all excited over.

mm the devil does exist..-_-

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Fruits Basket, Nana and Skip Beat! and the first that come to mind.
I really tried to read them, actually, I read ALL FB and didn't like it one bit, but they are just 'meh' to me XD

Now that I think of it, I tried Vampire Knight and Bokura ga ita and didn't like them at all ò_ò

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i have a lot actually... i don't know if i can remember them all but i'll do my best to list them:

+anything by shinju mayu, yuu watase( i know she is really popular, but trust me, i've tried reading a lot of her works and i don't like them all), hwang mi ri, Kotomi Aoki (Her art is really weird and ugly)
+That Maid-sama manga
+Kare Kano
+Sugar Addiction
+Cynical Orange
+Goong
+Vampire Knight
+Skip Beat
+Special A
+Parfait Tic
+La Corda D' Oro
+The Wallflower
+Crimson Hero

i'm sure there's more but that's all i can think of for now. Glad to see i'm not the only ones who hate some of these titles!

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Fushigi Yuugi: too cheesy . Don't get me wrong, i still like Yuu Watase other works: Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, Sakura Gari, Absolute boyfriend
Ouke no Monshou: even cheesier Can't believe this series was once popular in my country.

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Vampire Knight, Kaichou wa Maid-sama. I don't see the appeal anymore, the arts nice but the plot leaves a lot to be desired, i guess.

I haven't read some of these, but just their summaries turn me off and I don't feel like even giving them a try:
High School Debut
Nana
Maid-Sama
Vampire Knight
Any shojo by Yuu Watase
Skip Beat
Kimi ni Todoke

As for ones I've actually read:
Oniichan to Issho (Me and My Brothers)
Tsubasa o Motsu Mono (Tsubasa: Those with Wings)
Akuma na Eros (Virgin Crisis)
Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu

Maybe I'm picky but...

Vampire Knight- I just don't find vampires attractive, at all. Sorry.
Koukou Debut- Don't know? Just didn't find it as funny as I was led to believe.
Maid-Sama- Liked Special A a lot more, in comparison
Nana, the Wallflower, wasn't especially impressed with Kare Kano

and
Fruits Basket
Actually, I did like this one but... it depressed me, too. I only liked parts of it, and it had a surprising number of characters that sort of irritated me. But I did love Tohru very much. And the ending was sweet. That psychological stuff just isn't my style.

Ooh, and Hana Yori Dango. No, not because of the art. I actually read the first three volumes, then dropped it... then picked it back up and read the first eleven... then dropped it again. I'll probably try again, later, since I keep hearing how good it is. Maybe someone can explain why they like it? Because I'm trying, but I really just can't get into it.

Aw guys I actually do like Kimi ni Todoke haha

Bokura ga ita. the male lead is an idoit. And special a. not a fan of the noodle people art.

anything by yuu watase(fushigi yuugi,absolute boyfriend,sakura gari,ayashi no ceres) her works are just too horrible
fruits basket-pointless story,characters are not believable
Akuma de Sourou-seriously?i just dont get why people like this ,it doesnt even have a plot
Hana yori Dango-bhahaha i was laughing while reading this,its just too dumb
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e-bhahaha so guys,listen to this...she came all the way from america,disguised as a boy coz the guy's high jumping inspired her -_-
Kimi ni Todoke-too shallow
nana-i hated hachi...could a girl get more stupid ?
anatolia story-WHY is this popular?its a piece of crap
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge-uggh !
Vampire Knight-piece of crap
special a-wtf was that
La Corda D'Oro-dumb and shallow
we were there-the guy is an ass and the girl is an idiot,perfect match
hot gimmick-bhahaha wtf was that,he calls her "slave" -__-

Series I cannot stand:
-Fruits Basket
-Vampire Knight
-Koukou Debut
-Hot Gimmick
-Special A
-Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
-Desire Climax
-Venus Capriccio

Some series mentioned here that I like:
-Ouran High School Host Club - One of my all-time favorite shoujos actually; sadness, but alas, you can't please them all. =(
-Kimi ni Todoke
-Oniichan to Issho
-Skip Beat! - I reallyreallyreally like this. BUT I cannot stand the art, and I feel like sometimes I just read chapters and chapters and nothing happens. So I did stop reading this one, but not before getting about 100 chapters into the series. x)

Liked the summaries of these but I can't stand the characters -.-

Ouran High School Host Club
Kimi ni Todoke
The Wallflower
Special A
Kare Kano
100% Perfect Girl
Parfait Tic
Fushigi Yuugi
Absolute Boyfriend
Fruit Basket
Tokyo Crazy Paradise
A Kiss to the Prince
DN Angel
Kanata Kara
Saver
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
Nodame Cantabile
Hot Blooded Woman
Charming Junkie
Barajou no Kiss

So.. a lot of manga that is mentioned here..I watched the anime. And I liked the anime, but I never read the manga afterwards so, can't say I hate the manga.

But hands of Perfect girl evolution I loved that one so much I started reading the manga.I think most of the manga is different than the anime, and everyone has their likes and dislikes.

So, manga that I liked while reading, but when I finished I realized it was quite..boring:

koukou debut; I mean, drama the whole time.
Hot blooded woman; I dropped this one at the end, I actually hate everything by this author.

so..There must be other manga's but they just don't pop to my mind, anime though:

-I'm going to hate on OHSHC if they don't continue the story since it was a drag and it didn't have a proper ending.
-Same on skip beat, I loved the anime, but come on, is this the ending, and I'm just to lazy to read the manga.
-Special A was kind of..boring
-Kare kano, was to dramatic
-same for Vampire Knight
-La corda d'ore; I mean I stopped watching the anime after the second episode
-same for nana, though I stopped that after the first episode
-Fruits Basket bored the hell out of me too.

Anything written by Hwang Mi Ri. Actually, it's unfair to put her on the same list as the others... My loathing for her is on a completely different scale. The fact that anyone likes her boggles the mind.



Manga I read more than a handful of chapters of:

I think Ouran stretched on too long. Which is to say, I found the anime to be fine. So, thinking that I wanted more, I switched to the manga... and realized that actually the anime had been exactly enough, thank you.

Special A was cute... for the first 3 chapters. After that it was incredibly boring, and the fact that all the characters are ridiculously overpowered became increasingly more annoying. The idiocy of the main character did not help.

I can't say "I just don't like" Fruits Basket, because there were certain parts, tiny and far between, that I thought were really sweet. The problem was everything else, unfortunately.

I really liked Kimi ni Todoke. Then the author threw in a completely ridiculous angsty confession plot, which completely threw me off, since I had assumed that it was obvious that they were already /dating/, forget even "liking" each other. Then I just... never picked it up again.

Vampire Knight was way too confusing and weird, I lost interest.


Manga I simply could not get past the first couple of chapters:

I cannot read Kaichou wa Maid sama. I tried several times, simply because it was always at the top of the list, before I gave up for good. I cannot stand any of the characters, but especially the main ones.

I don;t think I ever managed to read past chapter 1 of akuma de sorou, it annoyed me so much. What an awful, annoying manga.

I hated Absolute Boyfriend from very early on. The main character was sooo shallow. Ew. So I stopped reading shortly in.

I feel as if, if I persevered, I'd stand a chance of liking Perfect Girl Evolution... But I just can't force myself to go past the first couple of chapters. It loses me very fast. *sigh*

I liked the beginning of Kare Kano, and then I dropped it before the melodrama started.

Ew ew Kyou Koi wo Hajimemasu or-whatever-it's-name-is, within two chapters had to stop reading.



Manga listed in the thread that I never even bothered to read, usually based on the description alone:
Parfait Tic
Sugar Addiction
Cynical Orange
Goong
La Corda D' Oro
Crimson Hero
Fushigi Yuugi
etc etc...
too long a list...


in addition:
most but not all manga that heavily feature an overly melodramatic love triangle.
EVERY manga with a love triangle in which the the second leg of the triangle (the one that doesn't get the girl) is about a trillion times more appealing than the first leg. (obviously, a somewhat personal preference, but in general if one leg is nice and sweet and the other leg is a jerk, the choice is obvious)
EVERY manga with abusive boyfriends being glamorized as sexy or romantic.
EVERY manga with the guy being a jerk to everyone "except for one special girl". Sorry, you're still a jerk. And therefore gross.
EVERY manga where the main character is a wet dishrag, unless this is considered a problem. Also included: any manga where the characters' stupidity makes me want to scream.
Pretty much every manga where "love"=="infatuation". ((It would be all, except that I have a guilty weakness for some of Toma Rei's manga. Not all, but some. (I'm sorry, I know, her plots are cliche and her characters flat, but-but-- her drawings are soooo pretty *is shot*)))

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Just for contrast:

I liked Skip Beat. Lately the pacing has slowed to a crawl, though, so my affection for it is fading fast.

I like most manga by Nakahara Aya (Lovely Complex). she might be predictable, but she does it with flair, and humor.

I liked Koukou Debut. Thus far, I like Aozora Yell even better, though.

I like Oresama Teacher. Mafuyu is badass. ((And not shoujo-heroine fake-badass (generally identified by needing to be constantly rescued despite supposedly being super strong) or shoujo-heroine annoying-badass (generally identified by being ridiculously, exaggeratedly aggressive).))

And others, etc.

Ouran Koukou Host Club
Special A

I just really couldn't get into them so i dropped them..