i feel loney when i read those mangas and i daydream about my prince. but i bet he will never come because there is none. at night i cry 😢 because i am so loney without someone to love. it ruined my realistic perspective on LIFE! but i like to read it now and forever and now i have manga as one of my best friend. 😀

I don't find perfection attractive. When people show imperfection is when they are being real and so those 'prince charmings' in manga have really done nothing to raise my expectation of men.

Anyway wouldn't a shoujo bishie irl make everyone else feel bad for not being a bundle of perfection? That doesn't sound like a good relationship to me at all.

I must admit, I do feel disappointed when no black and white flower petals come raining down when I and my boyfriend kiss so I can relate to your problem.

"I love you like the plant that never blooms yet carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul" - Sonnet XVII

Shoujo manga may portray males unrealistically, but shounen is often enough to make me (more of) a misandrist (than I already am).

Well I don't know... I've never been in a relationship so I can't say manga ruined anything. I get really nostalgic (?) and mushy when I read stuff about normal couples... mostly from slice of life stories. I think... "aaaah~~ that must feel so nice." But that's really it. Hahaha. Maybe I shouldn't have replied here because I really have no experience hahaha.

I also go by amatsu.