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louis6578
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There are a lot of titles. I dunno what crunchyroll is talking about, unless they're just referring to what there's access to on their platform specifically.
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Lord Geo
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It's neat to see that Crunchyroll really does want to see more shojo & female-focused anime to be made, so as to appeal more to those viewers, but this line is what caught my attention the most:
Like, I know that Crunchyroll is going to try to promote themselves as the future of anime streaming, but maybe they should try to avoid blatantly going "Please allow us to become a literal monopoly" with their messaging. |
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FireChick
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Gee, it's almost like people are tired of all the boiler-plate isekai stuff and recognize that shoujo titles do have an audience outside of Japan, and always have had one.
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Saeryen
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This exactly. My favorite anime of all time is Natsume's Book of Friends, and I also love shoujo magical girl shows and idol shows. Fruits Basket, Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits and Kamisama Kiss are all excellent shoujo romances. |
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cchigu
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As a person who reads a lot of manga, shoujo demographic is my least favorite by a mile. 90 percent of the stuff is unoriginal and tropy af. There are a few titles here and there that are worth reading but not going to lie, if I notice that a manga is being published in a shojo magazine, I get very skeptical. I mean, shonen demographic manga are also full of tropes but you can always find more entertainment in them in general compared to shojo manga.
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cchigu
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MFrontier
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It does feel like there are less Shojo anime adaptions lately, at least compared to before. Nowadays they usually get Jdrama or movie adaptions.
Which as a big Shojo manga fan I would love to see change. Also stating the appeal of well-produced romcoms. |
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Saeryen
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I don't think that's fair. You could easily say the same thing about shounen stuff (like battle shounen and the male power fantasy isekai trend). And saying "you can always find more entertainment" in shounen makes me feel like you don't like reading about female protagonists which star in most shoujos (most shounens have male protagonists). I respect that you like what you like, but saying "most shoujo is less fun than shounen" just seems to be a rehash of "it's for girls so therefore it's automatically worse."
I totally agree with this. |
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garfield15
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I understand the logic and wouldn't be remiss to it but there's a reason the number of shojo anime have steeply dropped off in recent years compared to the past
This is funny because this article literally says "shonen battle anime and "isekai" fantasy series continue to dominate". I'm sick of them too but that's unrealistic to say people are tired of them |
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yuna49
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Now if they only cared as much about josei titles.
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Sariachan
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Shouji is a demographic, not a genre. I still see people confused about this and such article titles don't help. ^^'
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Lord Geo
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And a demographic can be used to help describe a type of anime. All "shojo anime" indicates is anime that is made primarily to appeal to the shojo (i.e. "young woman") demographic. In appealing to that demographic, though, there are many often-used tropes, concepts, & ideas, because they have been proven to consistently work, which in turn can also make "shojo anime" feel like a genre, in & of itself. It really comes down to how you want to interpret it, and all Crunchyroll was saying was that they'd like to see companies produce more anime that appeals to that demographic, as the few that are getting made have been consistently doing better than expected, which shows that it's a larger demographic than the industry thinks. |
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Covnam
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Presumably this is a good sign of growth. As an audience expands, so too does the variety of content they desire.
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FireChick
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Okay, you're really jumping the gun on those assumptions there. First of all, High Guardian Spice isn't political, or at least your interpretation of the word. HGS was just a cartoon that got dealt a really bad hand in terms of both marketing, lack of money, and how CR treated all the staff that worked on it, something that the staff on said show have outright told people point blank multiple times online. Any flaws the show had were the result of CR not allowing the writers to go back and rectify them. The only reason the first initial trailer came out the way it did was that CR had the final say in how the show was marketed, not the creators, which the creators of Onyx Equinox flat-out confirmed. Also, the claim that Crunchyroll used subscribers' money to make HGS is a lie, as several articles confirmed that other companies gave CR funding to invest in both co-productions and original programming, one of which ANN even published on here. Seriously, do your research before going off on tangents like this. |
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MagicPolly
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I think the issue is that there genuinely just aren't that many josei anime out there. Going off of MAL statistics, there are only 99 entries tagged with josei compared to 698 shoujo, 893 seinen, and 2013 shounen. And that's not even 99 tv series either, included in that are recap episodes, spinoff OVAs, and comicfesta smut series. 2021 didn't even have any josei anime released aside from the new Hakuoki ova series which started all the way in November, and before that was BokuHaka in winter 2020. |
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