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Age gape,Slow romance.
This is the cutest & most UNIQUE version of age gap shoujo i have ever read!! And I don't want to spoil this for anyone ^^
Smut, BUT not the romantic kind. Very disturbing contents ahead. So, please read at your own risk.
As the tags suggest, it's tragic & for mature audience only(prostitution, rape, miscarriage). But i think every shoujo/josei fans out there should read this one. Life is not always about love, sparkle & romance, you know. But even so it still goes on & we find a way to be happy.
Strong Female Lead, Angst,Relationship struggle.
Story of, a successful career woman who desperately wants to get married & a man at the peak of his career who never ever wants get married. These 2 pitiful characters end up falling in love with each other. But no one wants to compromise :P
This is a rare bundle of various types of shoujo oneshots - typical ones, different ones, sweet cute ones, serious ones. ALL of them recommended ^^
Short guy x Tall girl.
Just because the guy you fell in love with is shorter, cuter & more feminine than you & rest of the girls in your class, doesn't mean it's gonna stop a girl in love, right? ;)
I know it sounds like lovely complex but it's not, ok? Trust me! ^_^
Strong Female Lead, Time skip.
A girl who is brought up preciously by her loving gay parents gathers up all her courage to tell her boyfriend about her family. But to her utmost surprise he gets creeped out & they break up. Years later, they meet again as if fated....but can she forgive or forget what scarred her for life?
Age gap,Slow Roamnce.
A lovely tale of romance between a High school girl a Policeman. It's very different from the normal shoujo's because the girl isn't irritating like the typical ones & she doesn't bug the guy in every possible chance. She tries to understands the his situation as of a grown up being in a relationship with a high school girl & adapts to it. The guy too, in return slowly but surely falls only deeper for her....Sweeeeet!
Oyaji,Age gap,Teacher-student,Slow romance.
Teacher-student relationship romance where more than the romance aspect it shows the difficulties of carrying on this sort of high maintenance relationship.
Smut,Oyaji,Age gap.
Another rare species of oyaji age gap romance. The 1st chapter is REALLY Good. But from the 2nd chapter it started going downhill....or may be I should say towards an unexpectedly typical shoujo direction. The mesmerizing air of slow romance was gone & suddenly it became all about sex. But I am still keeping it here as the 1st chapter was worth it!
Smut.
I really really love this one!! Mangas like this remind me why i love josei more than shoujo! A nice collection of oneshots that shows, girls aren't always after money, fame or outside appearance of guys. Even gold diggers know how to choose the right person when it comes to love ^^
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Thanks for your list and also for the details...it really saved my time... I would like to suggest you a manga named "over- cumming writer's block" .
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/over_cumming_writer_s_block/
Personally i think the story is really good and the smut is really really good if we compare it with other hetero smut. You can give it a try.
And if you have any list of josei manga with good smut and story please lemme know. (=・ω・=)
Excuse my bad english btw.
I read most of them, i find your list helpful as I found some interesting mangas to read now.
Thanks for this list btw :)
Man I read some of them ! Thanks for a lot !!!! :3
You are welcome :)
Have a nice time (●'◡'●)ﾉ
Thanks for making such a comprehensive list (▰˘◡˘▰) I honestly appreciate it, because sometimes Mangago's categories don't include everything and it's difficult to find good josei and shoujo!
Sorry or the late reply! And Thank you very much for such a lovely complement! It's bcz Mangago has a dense population of fujoshis that the shoujo & josei genre gets less attention & sometimes a little neglected here, which drove me to make a list of my non-BL interest. So it makes me overjoyed whenever other fans find my list helpful or finds something worthwhile reading from this little collection. (▰˘◡˘▰)
omg im not a big fan of teacher student love story, especially after i read hirunaka no ryuusei (it was like a big bang in my life) n thanks to your list huhuhu i found many good shoujo manga (of course bout teacher n student) n though its point kinda low but cause of your explanation i could find them right away ヾ(☆▽☆)
Yes, I know that my list is pretty biased towards my personal preferences & taste. So it makes me immensely happy when I find other mangalovers with similar taste/preference enjoying my list. Glad that you are finding this list helpful & easy to navigate. Planning to update & intoduce some new changes over the New Years! So hopefully it'll be more fun & easier for followers to play around ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
whoa,, after seeing this list in a question's reply, and checking through the titles, now i want to read shoujo agaaaiiiin! waaah,, you've rekindled the hetero-fire in my heart,,, (づ￣ ³￣)づ
these past few years i've almost never touched shoujo/josei at all (yaoi most of the time, and sometimes yuri ^,^)
And i have to agree with you, i also often find josei better than shoujo,, maybe because it portrays more realistic problems? hahaa,,, i remember there was a time (before i know yaoi) when i got sooo bored reading shoujo, every shoujo that i came across was shallow and cliched with overly dramatic mc's, and i didn't know many good josei too,, then somehow yaoi stepped into my life as savior,,,
hahaa,, (￣∇￣")
(uh,, sorry for my sudden rant)
anyway you've compiled a very good list. And your reviews are perfect!
THank you very muuuuch~
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WOW! Your message made me SO HAPPY!! (≧∀≦) You're most Welcome Dear.
And, Thank you so much for taking your time writing such a wonderful comment! Honestly this is 1 of my neglected & least updated lists. But, recently I have been trying to review the mangas of this list whenever I get time. So your comment makes it totally worth it! My repertoire in shoujo & josei has also become very limited after I started reading BL. But I do miss the AMAZING shoujosei that I read before. So I compiled my list with them that are memorable to me & the ones I like to go back to when I want a quality shoujosei & a break from yaoi. I believe good things should be shared & appreciated. So, it makes me immensely happy when I find other people with similar taste & appreciating them too.
BTW, sorry to say this after you have wrote such a nice message, but there are in fact some(not many) typical shoujo's here too (￣∇￣"). But I have tried my best to mention that in my reviews & they are only added here because they are unique in some other aspects. Hope they don't ruin your happy reading time (●'◡'●)ﾉ
Thanks again for your lovely complement.
wow, i'm happy too that my comment makes you happy,,, hehee,, ^_^
don't worry,, even though i said what i said in my comment, i still like typical shoujo, and cliched stuff too,, (￣∇￣)
And just like you, sometimes i like mangas (shoujo/josei/yaoi/anything) that are actually just typical and just so-so, but have something that I find unique about them,, (▰˘◡˘▰)
I love your list and your reviews on the manga. Thank you for all your hard work organizing this list. Plz add more!
You're most welcome dear :)
And thank you for the lovely complement. I really appreciate it. I'll continue to update more & further improve this list ^ - ^
waaa thanks for the list, this is amazing (≧∀≦)
You are welcome dear :)
Enjoy (づ￣ ³￣)づ
bahaha I am much farther along in the manga than I am the anime...I watch animes very slowly. Its really good. Its kinda hilarious the male lead is like casually evil and its like "are we just not gonna talk about that?" stuff like turning people into turkeys and then fully intending to roast and eat them alive....
I like reading more too but I like having stuff to watch while I crochet...I haven't read love so life yet...I think I started it but decided to save it. I do that with all the good ones...I hate finishing them :D
I read Ze and liked it. whats your first favorite bl? Mines possibly Katekyo...or its high on my list...I love bully semes.
Then Kamisama Hajimemashita manga it is!
Oh...My most fav top no.1 bl was, is & forever will be ZE. I can read it thousand times over & never get bored with it ^^ I know I sound biased towards Shimizu Yuki. But she just writes exactly the kind of stuff I am looking for in a bl.
PS. I like Katekyo too! It's on fav list. Can't get enough of bully lovers!
whoa let me join this please,, I love KAtekyo tooooo~!
it was one of my first few yaois! I only just got into bl, and only had watched Junjou Romantica (anime, my first bl ever), and still clueless about what the characters are doing in there (i was still very innocent i didn't even understand what cumming/orgasm/anal sex is),,
then i watched manga-video of Katekyo (with the drama cd) by fluffy-sama in yaoiblisscollection. (anyone remember that blog? it's so sad it's no longer around) and then BAM! my eyes were opened!
Lol somehow my first yaoi wound up being viewfinder lol. It kinda left me feeling wtf but it was sooo good lol. Katekyo is amazing though...bully semes rock lol
waaah~ viewfinder~ i think it's one of the coolest yaoi ever! the actions and intrigues are perfect!
Lol right its pretty awesome. I enjoyed it. Theres not that many plot heavy ysoi....although I also really like fluffy cute ones
bahaha you talk about the list being biased toward your weaknesses and it being clear by the tags....and the first one is Age Gap :D I'm so excited to go through this now :D haha my favorites
Thanks dear :) I am glad that you found something worth while reading here.
And sorry, you have to fish the age gap shoujos from my reviews. This list is still semi-organized as I spend more time & effort on my BL lists. But I am planning to properly organize, review & categorize the mangas of this list over my year end break! Hope it'll be even more easier for age gap fans to navigate through here then ^_^
I understand my BL lists are way more organized than my shoujo :D Have you read VB Rose? It's an age gap...it is sorta a regular shoujo but it has way less angst and drama and is more of just a sweet romance. And the romance is slow.
Also don't cry girl. Its ending is a bit axed sadly but at least it has an ending and its screamingly hilarious I almost died.
LOL...the amount of time we fujoshis spend on our BL!! XD XD
OMG....A girl with a sister complex!! Now that is something I haven't come across till now! Thank you so much for the suggestion! I'll savor it slowly ^_^
Its a favorite. The MC is actually really cute and upbeat...the romance is slow and sweet, and she's a crafter like me :D
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/keishichou_tokuhanka_007/ is another awesome one...the romance is slow but there's a lot of sweetness and intamacy and flirting built up. Plus its got actual plot and action.
but enjoy V.B. Rose its long but I read it straight through cause I liked it that much. :D
Oh...now I am even more interested. Because, I don't think anyone's fav can be bad not worth reading :D
Yes, Keishichou...I've heard a lot about that. I have actually downloaded it months ago, to read. But thanks to my BL addiction, there are spider webs forming over my "plan to finish" shoujo stash (￣∇￣")
bahaha I kinda ran out of BL...at least bl I'm interested in. I still plan on reading love mode but haven't been in the mood...I have a few on reserve that I know are good...but I go through shoujo phases and I'm kinda back in one...mostly cause I was watching Kamisama Kiss while crocheting and that got me back on shoujo
IKR! I had a shoujo phase last month. Finished the entire "Love so Life" & "True Love" series. They weren't even completely scanlated. So hunted them down from Otakumole (￣∇￣"). I also want to watch Kamisama hajimemashita. But my shoujo addicted friend told me to read the manga 1st. And now I am freaking trapped between whether to watch/read it 1st (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ Cause I love reading more than watching. But reading takes up more time than watching（￣へ￣）
Love mode is my top 2nd, all time fav BL! I still re-read it time to time <3