Random question. What makes shoujo to be generally off-putting to you guys? Surely, plot i...

chachacha November 3, 2016 2:06 pm

Random question. What makes shoujo to be generally off-putting to you guys? Surely, plot isn't the only reason right? There are tons of shit yaoi with shit characters too.

I recently came across a shoujo+shounen ai plot and everyone's like "if it's shoujo I'm out", so I was curious.

Responses
    zephyr4 November 3, 2016 2:19 pm

    There are things that put me off regardless of the genre .(be it yaoi or shoujo)
    •Clumsy, idiotic and super naive MC....at first they seem cute and then they start to get on my nerves. I can't bear the manga if the MC has no common sense, which is often the case with most shoujo heroines and some ukes.
    •Unnecessary over thinking about a certain situation which in most cases is so stupid that can be easily sort out with a few words between the two parties.
    The silly thing is that I have to read half a volume or sometimes even a whole volume just to clear up so random misunderstanding that took place cuz the MC just wouldn't communicate enough with their significant other.
    •Some shoujo heroines are tsundere and that's a mood killer. While some are so sweet and innocent and over bullied that I want to cry in a corner. Realistically speaking, there is no way a high schooler can be that naive and innocent...as some heroines are.
    •Some girls and uke (mind you) have a habit of crying every fu***ing time....and that's the death blow.
    In all honesty some shoujo have really interesting plots...and I'm not the type to over look a potential manga just because of its freaking genre except if it contains excess nudity (ecchi gone overboard)

    Anonymous November 3, 2016 4:12 pm

    I don't like that often the plot is either too slow or too fast. Many shoujo's I read are like only focussing on the development of the romance, but it still takes 50+ chapters for them to get together. In other shoujo's it happens a lot that a guy and girl meet and nothing happens and BOOM they kiss and are immediately like " Ooh I love him so much, kyakya" and stuff. I also don't like how every shoujo female has to be cute, talented and either extremely shy or extremely childish, and how the males are often considered princes but are actually huge assholes. In yaoi I (often) find the characters more realistic in how they think and act