plain female
16 years ago
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I'm looking for a manga with these qualities:
- Target audience is male (shounen/seinen)
- Is a manga with romance in it
- Male protagonist
- Plain female romantic interest
A majority of the shounen romance manga I've read have beautiful female leads. I'm looking for shounen(or seinen if no shounen) with a male lead and a plain female romantic interest.
Feed your head.
16 years ago
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Gokusen - the protagonist is female and the target audience is josei, but it'd appeal to the shounen or seinen crowd just as much... Kumiko isn't particularly attractive and she's flat as a board (as is pointed out lol) but the main guy (her student) falls for her. I suggest it despite it not fulfilling all your points because I think it might appeal to what you're looking for regardless...
...and I can't think of anything else right now.
16 years ago
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What do you mean by "plain girl"?
You looking for a heroine who is un-cute but energetic
Yesterday o Utatte
Inu Neko Jump!
Or cute girl but dumb or klutz
Mousou Shoujo Otakukei
Kage Kara Mamoru!
Yuria 100 Shiki
because it's mostly impossible for a heroine both un-cute and dumb =.= they draw her cute even she doesn't have to be cute anyway...
16 years ago
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A shounen with an average/plain female lead... Hajimete no Aku perhaps?
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I am eagerly awaiting new releases.
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Hajimete no Aku sounds like what you're looking for
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Practically every shounen/seinen romance by Adachi Mitsuru is like this... 🙂
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@tarfuto: do you really understand the meaning of the word "plain"? I've never seen any heroine who is plain in Adachi Mitsuru's mangas. Super-cute (at least pretty), smart... Never plain!
I think that there is a seinen manga fits your standards - it's Gantz. The love Kurono gives Tae-chan is very impressive and special.
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...! Yes, I guess - I mean it must be because I read uber-pretty shoujo all the time that comparatively, Adachi Mitsuru's heroines look plain, lol. 😀
Solanin does count, I think.
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That's plain, right? Agh, it's hard for a shoujo reader to tell - I mean she IS cute, but not conventionally beautiful?
Same goes for Goodnight Punpun, where one of the girls even has a missing tooth, but... well, this only counts if you don't mind a male protagonist that is (or is metaphorically represented as) a bird. Yes, a bird! Lol, I love this manga.
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^ lol, you're such a Shoujo reader~
I don't think the OP is asking "plain" appearance
-wise either, more like in personality/demeanor.
And hey, that missing tooth adds character!
You can't appreciate Seinen environment. 😛
Though I do agree with the Oyasumi suggestion, I suppose.
Chokotto Sister fits too, and some stories in Girlfriend.
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Love roma maybe?
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Genshiken - Not Saki, but Chika. She appears later on in the manga and is the girl the main character likes.
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