Urg, I'm having a REALLY hard time finding good shoujo anime. I'm really looking for love triangles, a tough heroine, and of course HOT BISHES!!! XD Hahaha! Oh, and the anime has to be out between 2000 to present year.

For the plot, I don't really care...I'm fine with the aggressive guy vs tough heroine or gentleman-like guy chasing after the girl or whatever. I'm pretty cool with anything. I guess I would fit into the category of prefering ART than PLOT >_<

I don't even mind if anyone has less than 10 or MORE! hahaha

So far I've seen La Corda D'oro, Ouran High School Host Club, Nana, and...umm...geez...lots more but can't think of them. I'm really looking forward to Vampire Knight and Special A anime!!! Yeeesss!!!

Nodame Cantabile (If you liked la corda d'oro then ull really like nodame)
Paradise Kiss (short which is nice by same person who did NANA)
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (anime has something to be desired compared to manga, reverse harem).
Fruits Basket (I hated it but if u want bishies...)?
Lovely Complex
Aishiteruze Baby


this should really go in I'm Looking For even tho this is about anime rather than manga

Criteria - after 2000

Gokusen (it's josei tho; the male lead is somewhat a bishie)
Kimi Kiss Pure Rouge
Saiunkoku Monogatari
Tokimeki Memorial Only Love (-ahem-)
Ceres, The Celestial Legend

You can always lose time with the recent fanservice/harems or smth like Canvas2.

Shoujo dramas I find good - Ef: A Tale of Memories and True Tears.

Last edited by itadakumasu at 7:25 pm, Mar 25 2008

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No. None of the above.

This should go in the BU ANIME forums. -_-

In no particular order...

Kare First Love
Mars
Peach Girl
Bokura ga Ita
Kokou Debut
Nana
Skip Beat
Akuma de Souru
Hot Gimmick
Goong
Lovely Complex
You're So Cool

My top 10 :

Kaichou wa Maid-sama
Special A (try Minami Maki's other works as well esp. Kimi wa girlfriend)
Beast Master
Chocolate Cosmos (basically anything by Haruta Nana)
S no Yuiitsu M no Zettai (or anything by Ogura Akane)
Akuma to Dolce
Jun'ai Tokkou Taichou (funny!)
Kisu Yori mo Hayaku
Shiawase Kissa Sanchoume
Akagami no Shirayukihime

p/s : And I know what you mean.. I'm a sucker for good art as well! Haha..


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Are those anime? I don't think so... And Special A's anime isn't out yet.

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Kimikiss and Tokimeki are both seinen

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You mean, in demographic profile? Well, I don't know actually. You could be right. By genre are romantic series.

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Actually, Kimikiss, Ef, Tokimeki, and True Tears are not only seinen, but all based on hentai games (or at least dating sims). Yeah, they're romance-dramas, but that doesn't indicate whether or not a series is shoujo.

Fanservice/harems are also typically seinen or shounen (unless it's a reverse harem) for more or less obvious reasons.

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I would have to recommend the following shojou animes...
Note: I am a guy, but I prefer Shoujo... is that so wrong?
~In No Particular Order~
1. Da Capo
2. Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~
3. Manabi Straight!
4. Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
5. Clannad
6. Gift ~Eternal Rainbow~

There are a few more... but that's all I can think of atm...

I haven't wacthed many shojo anime so I can't give you a list. You have to try the Rose of Versailles anime. It's better than the manga and one of my all time favorites, though a bit old. In terms of characterization, psychological complexity and plot, not many anime can compare with it. There is one bishie but he's not a main character so don't let that bother you.

If you want something a little different with high production values and maturity, not the usual "romance anime", try Meine Liebe. It's a good one adapted from a female targeted dating sim game.

BTW, Clanned. Air, etc are shonen anime. Those that are adapted from dating sim games/visual novels are obviously for guys. And Looking Up at the Half Moon (I like it) is shonen too if anyone wants to mention it. It is adapted from a light novel published in a shonen magazine.

There's nothing wrong with guys liking shojo. Lots of girls like shonen and seinen. I am tired of the crap of liking shojo making you less manly or stuff like that. I don't see being yourself, liking whatever you want to like,and appreciating art styles, charaterization and stories have anything to be with being manly or not.

Last edited by coffee_11 at 8:04 am, Oct 13 2008

best shoujo anime so far (must 2000-):
1. Aizhiteruze baby
2. Fullmoon o sagashite
3. Ultramaniac
4. Nana
5. Honey & cLover (actually it's josei)
6. Shugo chara
7. nodame cantabile
8. vampire knight
9. mamote lollipop
10.kamichama karin


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i guess this post is a little old but what about the new skip beat anime?
it's awesome and pretty much exactly like the manga

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