Why don't shoujo mangas get as much anime adaptions as shounens?
Why don't shoujo mangas get as much anime adaptions as shounens?
They don't have as much to gain from adaptions unless it's an action manga.
Maybe because modern shojo mangas suck
they don't sell nearly as well
Because it's a smaller market. Duh.
Because we need generic harem romcoms for the 100th time
They should make more kid-friendly shojo's like Kodocha
That one was a massive success in Japan especially with it's amazing anime adaptation
Which is weird cause in the Manga it had uncle-niece incest and teen pregnancy
>uncle-niece incest
I always took that as one Obana's quirky shit
>teen pregnancy
That was a thing in the anime too same as in the manga
Either way the series appealed to a broader audience rather than just pandering to degenerate fujoshi teens like nowadays
Because there are only a few non-fujoshi girls that actually like this.
You don't know who is saving anime don't you?
Most western women hate Anime girls. They want gay shit like yuri on ice
Shoujo is boring.
These. WSJ sells twice as much as the top five shoujo magazines combined.
>implying shounen don't suck
>implying quality has anything to do with getting adaptations
What the fuck do Western women have to do with anything?
There are plenty of kid-friendly shoujo manga being published. No one except actual little girls cares about them.
>implying shounen don't suck
I never implied that
But let's face it...boys are more into manga/comics than girls so even if they're shit they'll get anime adaptations
>Why do shoujo not get adapted as much as shounen?
>Because they suck.
You sort of did imply that.
>There are plenty of kid-friendly shoujo manga being published.
Any that is actually a good one?
There's a reason why Shojo manga isn't as popular as it used to be in the '80s and '90s
Shojo manga used to be more down-to-earth relatable stuff. Now most shojo's are just rape fantasies
I didn't imply Modern Shonen don't suck
I just said Modern Shojo suck
Clamp is dead
>Now most shojo's are just rape fantasies
Written by women
The little girl audience market share is already taken by other shows
>Any that is actually a good one?
That seems sort of irrelevant to the point, but 12-sai was pretty nice. I only know that because it got an anime, though - most actual little girl series don't get translated because, like I just said, no one except little girls cares about them.
>Shojo manga used to be more down-to-earth relatable stuff. Now most shojo's are just rape fantasies
This whole "all shoujo is smut!" shit is one of the dumbest stereotypes on Sup Forums, honestly. That stuff is mostly limited to a handful of magazines like Cheese or Shocomi. Pick up Ciao, Ribon, Nakayoshi, Princess, Mystery Bonita, Hana to Yume, etc., LaLa, etc. and find me all these rape fantasies that are supposedly dominating shoujo manga.
Of course
Women are the ones who fantasize about being raped the most
I wish they would just classify all of this rape shit as "Josei"
It's disgusting that young girls read this kind of crap
>Now most shojo's are just rape fantasies
What the hell are you reading?
Boy/boy is cuter
But even if they're not rape fantasies they're not really down to earth or relatable anymore
And the fucking art is atrocious...what happened to the charming art of 20th century shojo manga?
It got replaced by this fucking disgusting abomination where everything looks like plastic
Shojo manga used to be enjoyable for a lot of people to read...now I don't even know who it's audience is anymore
Even girls are reading more shonen nowadays because shojo has gotten that bad while shonen manga has maintained it's broad appeal
How do we go from stuff like Sailor Moon to basically fucking nothing nowadays
I get the feeling you don't actually read shoujo manga.
Because they have less weekly magazine(or zero, I think they have bi-weekly or monthly).
Because usually the series are 1 volume , Story collection, or interminable series about the same topic and same arquetipe
Because those manga don't sell like shonen, shonen ai, shojo ai manga.
Because only hana to yume is a decent magazine.
Still like the demography
>shojo ai
I have to say seinen here
No I don't read today's shojo manga because they're eye-inducing cancer
What, you want Glass Mask type art? That would make it look like satire
What's wrong with that?
Looks 1000 times better than the flowery bullshit artstyle they use in modern shojo manga
> No I don't read today's shojo manga
So all your complaints aside from the artstyle ones are automatically invalidated.
> because they're eye-inducing cancer
Ignoring everything else dumb about this generalization, you do realize there are fucktons of shoujo mangaka from the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, and 50s who are still active and drawing more or less the same way as they always have, right? The new generation doesn't just magically take over while the old one all retire after ~15 years of work.
>eye-inducing cancer
>cancer that causes your cells to grow out of control into eyes everywhere
This sounds like a horrifying disease indeed.
neither artstyle is "wrong"
Shoujo manga adaptions are dead in a ditch. The trend for female fans that want a straight romance are anime adaptions of otome games. Shoujo manga usually behind male oriented series in sales and fans. Girls still read stuff in shonen magazines but you'd be hard pressed to find guys that read shoujo. Some even complain about any series that doesn't pander to them and call the fans degenerate fujoshi teens or whatever.
There were a lot of popular shoujo series that never say the light of adaption back when too. Shonen series have greater appeal and merchandising. There are so few romance shoujo that can sell to female fans. The ones that get big are usually magical series for a younger audience that adults enjoy.