well I started out being all I LOVE LOVE teenage girl, but years of reading manga I actually realized guys are nothing like Mangas especially shoujos because most shoujos are written by women. So now I just don't believe men are capable of being anything like mangas present them to be. It makes me very untrustworthy of men hahahah.

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I'm so depressed I never had a first kiss or date but the strange thing is I've been like way before I started reading manga 3 yrs ago. Never once have I seen anyone as a manga character in friends or family. nor do I want to mix reality with manga because then that when I draw the line that I might be insane. I'm not much of a people person, manga is the only thing that keep me from getting bored as well as games. I don't see any why anyone would be interested with me anywhere you can really talk about is manga, give tech advice and knowledge of game.

you people are just whack! and foolish. Reading Manga for about 4 years now and guess what? Every sort of people i'm still able to have an enjoyable day. South Park, Philosophy, English, name it and i'm interested. pfft you do not revolve around manga! take some effort to leap out of the square box!!!

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Lol and some boys might think anyway I know I wont find a girl as cute or loving as in the shoujos (like lovely sango ^^ ) bue in the end your mind isn't the one who picks ur love, its ur heart.... so most probably we will get in love <3 madly for someone that dosent fits in ur ideal couple like in mangas

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i'm sorry you guys

gee i feel the same as most of you. and to be honest i've sadly told myself that i choose manga over girls. and just adopt.
but i'm just saying this now.
i know i will continue talking to females and trying to get closer and end up ruining something. well i'm trying my best to fix it.
me and friends will go to clubs/parties/meet people. i'll end up talking to them trying to act cool and eventually ruin something by trying to turn it into a shojo drama)
....te-te-te-teeee.... not good

i know i should get real. but i'm lost in the beautiful art and dramatic plots. =(

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why because i am the president of the student council of course

Well for me not because me current boyfriend is so handsome and he know how i am and accept me 5 moths but the way we meet is well like a manga at a book store(borders) but he was in my in my school (and never ever knew he existed yeah yeah i was in my word )any way in my school and a week or so in my class he had to change because of his class and notes any way we where at the book store and he ask me for book while i was reading ( Skip Beat ) and i say sorry don't know he left and come back he said "sorry i ask but what is your name" i say who wants to know he tell me he tell me his name and then i left without telling him i am a pretty confident person and i don't care what other people think about me the next day he found e at the hall way ad yell "Oh the girl without name" pointing at me everyone look at me and i was like I this can't be true after that happen the thing in the beginning
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT A BOY THAT I HAVE NEVER NOTICE IN SCHOOL COULD ACTUALLY CHANGE MY VIEW OF REAL LIVE AND WHEN I NEVER NOTICE HIM BEFORE WHEN WE MEET I STARED TO NOTICE HIM MORE cool huh this is my real live maybe i will make a book hehe kidding to much time and i am way too lazy

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I keep reality and my fantasy world strictly separate. Even if I talk about it a lot, I don't look for a guy that's like a guy from a shojo manga. Just someone who knows how to laugh and shares common interests, as well as doesn't try to fart at me and blame it on a ghost then accidentally shitting his pants within the first month of a relationship.

[sighs] you're right,.. i can't seem to be interested in love right now [bad luck in love] >.> sucks not to be in a shoujo-manga.

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Great, another life story :/

amen! life its just life... its all generes in one story, but sometimes suks a bit too much T_T

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I have it worse, I read yaoi so everytime I see a nice guy my first thought is ''....he must be gay....''



No seriously, I'm doomed, real life don't have the same kind of hotties as the 2d world...Sad but true*sob*

Ha ha ha ha! God, what a topic!

I think this is a common problem with romantic comedies, romance novels, chicklit, YA vampire romances, and everything else fluffy and romantic that's aimed at women. Manga is no more or less guilty as a medium than tv is. Romantic shoujo manga is no more or less guilty as a genre than any of those others.

But there are other types of shoujo manga and other types of manga aimed at women. If you guys are really worried about being influenced like this, just read something more highbrow or arty or excessively modern--all qualities that tend to negate the hearts-and-flowers effect of generic shoujo romance.

It's not actually that hard to date someone who's "out of your league" in terms of physical beauty. All you need to do is either be extremely emotionally vulnerable and hang around creepy predators (they'll come to you) or be extremely self confident and go after shy, insecure beautiful people. Sure, you'll get turned down a lot, but if you continue to be self confident and you continue to pursue shy, insecure people, you'll eventually have plenty of luck.

That said, dating beautiful but vacant (or insecure or insane) people gets old pretty fast.

Of course, if you really do want a real person who looks like a manga character, you should probably be looking for a nice Takarazuka actor to settle down with...

And really, MissNobody, you should just pursue bi guys (or, hell, take a walk on the wild side and go for some crossdressing girls).

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Wow I must be like the most social person who has written in this topic O.o. Which I find scary since I hate going outside, talking to people and my dream is to one day make a fortress of manga and call it my `happy place`

God I would love it if there was a guy that looked like cloud strife running around. I know he's not in shojo but i would tag that any day.
I like him so much I fear my boyfriend won't be watching/playing anything to do with Cloud in a long time.

I think manga in general gives us high standards in what to look for. Damn those japanese people.....but I can't help but thank them for the eye candy.



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whatever that means....

Yes, because now I am attracted to both girls and schizophrenic+cynical teen-aged boys.

Actually I think manga helped my relationships, because I can be a bit emotionally retarded (low EQ or in other words "too stoic"), and I can get insights into how people tend to feel or communicate through romance mangas. I mean, of course it isn't realistic, but just the emotions manga evokes can help me get in touch with my feelings lol. I'm weird that way...

Like, believe it or not I used to be the sort of person who didn't realize when I was in love, because I didn't always understand my own emotions. Through simple shoujo mangas, I got to recognize and relate to patterns of behavior and therefore actually understood what I was feeling. >.> Yes I know it's pathetic. But it's true.

Also when I saw some couple in a manga being really bad at communicating with each other, I realized how to improve my own communications with my partner. Lol.

Anyway, manga actually helped me. I'm curious if it also helped other people, maybe in different ways but... you know.