Top 10 Shoujo Anime Even Guys Can Enjoy
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 5, 2012 12:15 JST
- Tags: Card Captor Sakura, Nodame Cantabile, Otaku, Rankings, Shoujo, Shugo Chara
Those anime which target a female audience – shoujo or otherwise – yet can still somehow be enjoyed by males have been ranked, opening up a wealth of possibilities for the more adventurous male anime fan.
1. Fruits Basket
2. Chihayafuru
3. Nodame Cantabile
4. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
5. Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000%
6. Kamisama Kiss
7. Kimi ni Todoke
8. Sukitte Ii Na Yo
9. Card Captor Sakura
10. Shugo Chara
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errr... kaichou wa maid sama?
This.
And Skip Beat.
What? I enjoyed it, it had zero baby's momma drama. Ending was a bit of a punch-out, but overall the show was great.
Incidentally, it'd be good to see a list on the opposite side of the spectrum, like if we saw a list of the top ten anime males should watch growing up, like GTO and Slam Dunk. I don't even recognize most of the anime on this list, which means the males of Japan have really lost touch with what it means to....you know, be a guy. And the presence of Card Captor on this list just plain disturbs me. [/tangent]
Oh, and Mobile Fighter G-Gundam! [/srs finish]
CCS? Sure, I'm all for loli mahou shoujo
Are you sure it's loli ? see the age description again
guess noone remembers saiyuki :(
Er....Saiyuki wasn't really a shojo anime. Probably even less so than Hakuouki. Setting aside the usual internet fanfic drama over the boyslove, it was a decent action show. You'd be nowhere closer to the mark in saying Bubblegum Crisis was a Mahou shojo anime.
You know what this list needs? More Vision of Escaflowne. It was technically a girl's show, but it had enough gore to offend Fox when they were airing it. I'm really surprised that Inuyasha's not on this list either, though the story arc did kind of plummet rather sharply after a while.
Oh, and Kimi ni Todoke? The chicks can keep that show. It was warm and fuzzy, but 2 seasons of the same crap bored me to tears.
Prefer Clannad and Clannad After Story to Kimi ni Todoke (both season).
Clannad 1st season >> Kimi ni Todoke 2nd season
But Clannad isnt shoujo.
Kimi ni Todoke was infuriating, and the same shit repeated to fucking death..
Seeing girls comment about loving it even admitting to how repetitive and not that great it was still makes me groan.
The action is actually just decent.
Since all the main characters are male and the lack of female characters, plus to top it off, the male are all bishounens it's surely guaranteed that there are a wealthy internet fanfics of boyslove.
It's basically a reverse-harem show with bishounens + a little bit action and comedy.
( I prefer the live action show of this Gensou Maden Saiyuki )
Saiyuki was #12 with 112 votes.
Card Captor Sakura a Shoujo anime, why? I thought it was a shounen...
All CLAMP's Works mostly directed to girls/women audience.
Eventhough it can be enjoyed by boys/girls. So, it's not the audience but the maker/publisher label it Shounen/Shoujo.
cannot unsee all the long legs and pointy face male -_-
Actually, is even simpler.
Published on a shounen magazine: shounen.
Published on a shoujo magazine: shoujo.
Published on a kodomo... you can guess it.
There's no gray area, and once or twice there are titles where the publication magazione quite frankly have to be double checked before you believe it. Banana Fish: shoujo. Evangelion & Aria: shounen. Shirokuma Cafe: josei. K-On:
seinen.
But the adventures of our cute penguin slacker are totally directed towards grown women.
At least in this area, elevens are pretty open to trying out new things, I guess.
And... Chobits: seinen, pretty clearly (well, that or a shounen, I mean, FANSERVICE EVERYWHERE. Pretty tasty for sure, but pantsu shots nontheless). So, no, Clamp works are not everytime directed prominently towards women/girls, at the most you can say that there is no Clamp manga without a strong chick fanbase (probably they also cling to many males in any case, but I'm not sure there are tons of Clover male fans).
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is really good. It's really funny and the girl is not retarded.
Yumeiro Pâtissière. I enjoyed.
Yes enjoy your Yaoi
Tonari is crap. Completely unoriginal and cliche
...Just like the majority of Shoujo Anime.
Might want to expand that to damn near all anime.
Your crap and unoriginal.
WHATS UTTER CRAP IS MOE, FANSERVICE AND FUCKING SHITTY BRIANLESS HAREM!
SHOUJO = KICK ASS
The Moe Gods Demand Your Head.
WHATS SHOUJO ?
SOME SHITTY UTTER CRAP SMUT DRAMA ROMANCE HIDDEN FEELINGS, EXPECTING MEN TO UNDERSTAND WOMEN, DAMSEL IN DISTRESS,
SHITTY BRAINLESS REVERSE HAREM, FANSERVICE, BUTLER AND HIS YAOI PARTNER ?
SHOUNEN = KICK ASS
Attention: Do not feed the troll. It's fat enough as it is.
Eh you, don't spoil it >,<
It gets us excited to feel the "dialogue" getting hotter with feeding troll ! yes, oh more please ! :3
@Anon 17:59
I'm cumming to this
Your text is as empty as your soul.
Anime fans illneed a pundit such as you.
Would you mind telling me what it's ripping off of, then? Because I'm fucking loving it so far, and I'd like to know.
I think the real issue here is that there's no Ouran Highschool Host Club!
All men should enjoy shoujo. Women who watch are emo, and easy to manipulate, just pretend to like a show as much as they do, and incorperate themes of the show into the daily routine you have together, they're to materialistic to realize it anyway.
Don't be bitter, you may find someone someday.
Yep anon 12:37 BUT he states the TRUTH! Women, 98% of them are materialistic whores!
One should be extremely lucky to find one that its not.
I have met one in my life, only a good friend thou, always loved how she could date the average guy or the kindhearted chubby one in most cases, she did not care if he had a car, she was fine with public transportation, in dates many times she paid the whole bill or she paid for half of it! The downside is she is extremely jealous person thou.
Ghost Hunt
CardCaptor Sakura
Showing me all the relationships since childhood.
Loli and teacher? Check.
Yaoi? Check.
Yuri? Check.
Incest? Check.
What I miss?
Regular male/female? Sometimes it's nice for a change.
Shota and Teacher: Check. (Eriol x Mizuki)
So true, but it's quite disturbing to read the "real story version" manga after watching the censored TV show.
you missed bestiality
Kero becomes a 'beast' in the last few arcs, I think that counts.
A boy's pure love and dedication to protect the girl he loves without expecting anything in return?
You simply don't see a main male character like that in recent anime anymore...most male leads these day don't have to do anything and just be "kind and gentle" (sometimes not even that), and all the female characters will fall for him.
Well, in Kannazuki no Miko, Soma was like that as well...he gave everything for the girl he loves till the he could give no more with the last spark of his life to try to protect her...shame about the show is being mainly yuri-thremed and he got NTRed by a girl lol
Btw, Chikane gave up way more for Himeko. Also Soma did expect certain thing in return: that Himeko would love him back. Only Chikane didn't demand anything. Soma is just minor side character made only to emphasis the main pair and obviously had no chance to begin with.
We'd just have to agree to disagree.
I know people like the Chikane X Himeko pairing, but to brush Soma off as a minor side character is going too far. The fact was that Soma has been the one that's really protected Himeko from the very beginning, go up against the brother that he loves, and fought literally the last his breath, whereas while Chikane's intent was for the sake of protecting Himeko, she did it in a way seriously hurting her (physically and psychologically) in the process.
The only reason why Chikane was so memorable was because the show kept the viewers guessing the reasons behind her actions as it's been kept secret till toward the end...but the thing is if Soma didn't protect Himeko, she wouldn't had been alive long enough to even get to the point which Chikane sacrificed herself for her...
You do hardly see that anymore, maybe they think people got tired of blind manly love.
I do think shows like The world god only Knows have an interesting male lead so it's not just another trashy harem.
Oh god, you reminded me of how lol-worthy the first episode of Kannadzuki no Miko was. Here you see this guy piloting a giant mecha whilst giving a hot-blooded statement about how he'll protect his girl, and at that very moment, said girl is making out with the school's diva. XD
the only anime that pops out in my mind when i heard about a boy's pure love and dedication to protect a girl is eureka 7 i like that one cause its about both the girl and the boy not just ones dedication.
Male protagonists are dying out anyway. they're in the way of meaningless moeblobbing.
Well I do believe it is kinda strange that it wasn't on top. I mean god dammit I've watched the series since I was like 10 years old.
You miss :
Shota and Teacher ( adding up there )
Again, read the manga of CCS to see my statement