My Dress Up Darling is very much a classic romance story. Nagatoro is more unabashedly a fetish series, so its audience is a bit more niche and male-skewed
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My Dress Up Darling is very much a classic romance story. Nagatoro is more unabashedly a fetish series, so its audience is a bit more niche and male-skewed
The pinks gave me the hardest time too
The red/pink ones gave me the hardest time
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And... Finished. Yeah, it's pretty much perfect.
I'm worried about the Hana Kimi effect - acceptable first episode, then everything else looks awful
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i cannot possibly convey to you how incredibly horny i was for gilkidu #fgo
Utage is confused about Tamon's two different personas
Chatty AF 241: 2026 Winter Mid-Season Check-In
This season has an amazing spread of excellent shojo, josei, and romance anime!
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post on tumblr with the caption: "dorohedoro fans will post pictures of their fave characters with the caption “omg they’re so cuteeee 😍😍😍” and the character looks like this" and the photo is just the most fucked up looking cake guy with like a top row of fake human teeth and gums and a bunch of fuckin pocky or something sticking out of the top for hair
time to pull this banger back out
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Screenshot from the video game Persona 4. In the halls of Yasogami High, the protagonist talks to a male student labeled "Stylish student". His dialogue window reads: "Hanging out with women, going on dates with them, that's fine. Killing them? Not so much."
happy international women's day
the hunter lies in the cut
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
The first time I saw them, they were cute and charming!
Then I saw them again at another booth at the same fair
Then another...
There are multiple booths selling these hand-made crochet and amigarumi dolls at the show, and they aren’t being honest about their sourcing. They are indeed “handmade” but they’re handmade in overseas sweatshops and dropshipped to resellers.
one of the simple pleasures in life is saying 'wow it looks like silent hill out there' when it's really foggy
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Dorohedoro good
Maya looking VERY happy in an unfamiliar living room
Fucking weirdo
Normal cats: shy with new people, nervous in unfamiliar places
Maya: gets so excited to be in an unfamiliar apartment that she starts shaking her tail, only upset about new people picking her up because it stops her exploring
The White House shitter account posted a pro-iran war propaganda video that included clips of the yugioh anime, so I figure this is a good time to remind everyone that Kazuki Takahashi was staunchly anti-war and he died a hero, unlike any american in Iran right now.
Screenshot from youraislopbores.me featuring the prompt "draw the most beautiful thing in the universe" and a picture of an stick figure adult holding the hand of a stick figure child.
What if I sobbed?
My Pomeranian Crunchwrap with eyebrows added onto her (with nontoxic black eyeshadow)
did you know? you can just put eyebrows on a dog if you want
It may not be the most rigorously researched statement but I'm not going purely on my personal impressions
I think that intensifies it, but my statement comes from posts by @sakaimii.bsky.social, a published shoujo mangaka who is trying to get a new series off the ground, @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social, and a few vaguely snide comments from Mizuho Kusanagi in the back of Yona volumes
I don't generally mind terribly, but it gives me cold sweats to try to account for them in conversations about series aimed at female audiences.
I think that's a large part of what happened and will continue to happen. Marketing demographics are based on what magazine the manga runs in, after all. If a series doesn't run in a magazine, it becomes a judgment call who the story is aimed at.
Things I also believe:
-The lines around marketing demographics has become increasingly blurry
-The emphasis on relatably awkward protagonists and romance has limited the growth of shoujo and its audience
-Creators and audiences have moved to seinen where there is greater freedom and flexibility
Things I believe:
-Shoujo deserves respect as a historically influential form of expression
-Eliminating it as a category further marginalizes media aimed at a female audience