... Or most seinen-like josei!

I've realized that my favorite shoujo/josei mangas are the ones that actually have a lot in common with shounen/seinen - they seem less stereotyped because they in fact borrow on several tropes from their so-called "opposite" genres. This makes them more interesting and unusual than the typical shoujo/josei stories.

Like a shoujo where action/adventure/fighting is emphasized as much as or more than the romance... Or the heroine is more like a shounen hero, or the main character is actually a shounen-like hero himself, etc.

My top 5 are:

Banana Fish - bloody, action-filled josei about the drug trade
Gokusen - lolarious fighting comedy!
Himitsu - intense psychological drama with seinen-like grit
Planet of the Beast King - science fiction tribal warfare!
From Eroica With Love - tense, thrilling action plots

Those are my shounen/seinen-like favorites. What about yours?

Lol, I might do a "most shoujo-like shounen" thread, too... It's like manga in drag! Or cross-dressing manga. Or something. >_>;

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Lurk moar, tartufo. And I'm sure there
are more threads than these three out there.

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Doc, she's not looking for any.
She's asking everyone what are their favorites.
This is fine. xD (And you say I fail~)

Anyways, I'm not sure I have a top 5...but I like these:
-Chrome Breaker
-Gokusen
-Itoshi no Nina
-Kiri seems interesting. x3
-Saver
-Tetsuichi

That was really hard to even think of titles...

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Dr. Love is totally right that there are other threads! They're awesome too. But I just wanted the "most favorite" of ppl's reading lists, like StarlightDreams said.

@StarlightDreams, I'm in total agreement about Kiri! Am looking forward to more scanlations. One thing I love about these "shounen-like" shoujo mangas is that the characterization of the female characters is in my opinion of a generally much higher standard. I mean I can relate to them more.

I like the fact that your faves list also includes so much recent manga! Now I feel tempted to re-work my own list because somehow I always forget recent mangas when I do favorite lists... Lol I must have short-term memory loss or something!

You deceived me, Tartufo!

I am so used of you making "I'm Looking for..." threads that I immediately assumed this was another one! : x Fine, Starrie, you win, I failed this time~ You fail constantly though.

Anywho...

C-Blossom~♥♥♥
Forever Honey
Hakushaku to Yousei
Itoshi no Nina
Shinobi Life


I haven't read that many Shoujo though.


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XD
Those are the only ones that come to mind because they're recent haha. There's not a lot of them so it's hard to remember~

Pshh, Doc, I will never let you live this down. >:3

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Very nice topic!

My favourites are:
Kaze Hikaru
Kaguya Hime (and any other Sci-fi Shojo mangas of SHIMIZU Reiko sensei)
Banana fish
Gokusen

... and Inuyasha (it is actually a Shounen but i think it is kinda "sissy" lol)

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I left off Gokusen because I think it's too obviously female-oriented to be seinen-like. I also didn't count any action mangas with obvious female fanservice -- just because it's action, it doesn't make it unfeminine. This is hard... I don't think I even know five mangas that are truly shounen/seinen-like. And I'm not sure if I really like the five I listed. Erm.

Moving on to the good stuff...!
Coelacanth - Murder dramas seem rare in shoujo.
Good Father - Feels like a boy's coming-of-age story because the main characters are the boy and his girlfriend's father.
Itoshi no Nina - The male lead's point of view is convincing.
Nemuranai Machi kara - Shoujo that is like a seinen (at least nowadays it's hard to find a shoujo like this)... Just wonderful and for all ages.
Pig Bride - Somehow very Shounen Jump-like.

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I am quite a reactionary then So long as the only shounen-ish shoujo title I have happened to enjoy is Eastcoast.

Crimson Hero is the only one I can think of that I like. ^^;

Some of Kanno Aya's stuff might count. But then I'm not really sure what makes a shoujo shounen-like. :/

I agree with Odette. Being action/fighting, etc or having a male hero doesn't make something truly shounen-like. Most of those mentioned are still very female-oriented (too obvious female fanservice) and I fail to see that they are shounen or seinen-like (e.g. Juuousei, Himitsu, Count and Fairy, anyone?).

I personally think these are relatively shounen-like:
Monochrome Factor (hero is like a shounen action hero)
Tactics: only the beginning. It's been moved to a shoujo magazine and has become more and more shoujo-like.
Working Holiday: maybe? Not sure whether it will become more and more "feminine" during the serialization like most shoujo manga

Dear and anything else by this author are shounen but a bit shoujo-like?

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Let's say any shoujo or josei manga is female-oriented by definition. The answer depends on what type of series each respondent believes to be shoujo-like and shounen-like. In other words, on our personal stereotypes People that associate demographic with anything more than the gender and the age range of the targeted audience also tend to see more shounen-like shoujo around and vice versa. The only example of shoujo manifestly similar to shounen I can think about is Sixth Star Supika. But it's way too far from being my favourite =/

I-Revo, definitely.

EDIT: Haha, wait, upon checking it again, it's Shounen with a female lead that's chasing after a boy, so I assumed Shoujo... Ahh, I suppose that's why it's Shounen-like

In that case, I'll add Gokusen, but I think it's already been said a couple of times.
And also Oresama Teacher.


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