OSAMU DEZAKI

Cobra is a literal masterpiece

no

It really is, honestly

No actually.

In an interview he implied that loved shounen and generally disliked shoujo.

Rose of Versailles is the only shoujo manga he claimed to have actually liked.

source?

From an interview with ANIMERICA:
>You know, I’ll admit that the first time I ever read girls’ manga was the time when I was asked to direct Ace o Nerae!. Up until that time, girls’ manga was rather similar to boys’ manga. A little before Ace o Nerae! came out, girls’ manga started to go into its own unique world and I stopped reading. I just happened to be working on Ace, so I asked for a copy of the manga. Then, I wasn’t sure if I could do it. After all, it’s the story about a high school girls’ tennis team and there’s the main character’s love interest, Coach Munakata, who’s dying with a disease. If you extract all these plot elements, you can still get good drama. But I still had to translate the indescribable atmosphere of girls’ manga to animation. I thought that would be a good challenge.

What I get from this is that he thought that Ace was something that was difficult to work with as a source material since it was something he wasn't used to. It is just an an implication, though.

>there’s the main character’s love interest, Coach Munakata, who’s dying with a disease
weird as shit considering the first series had no indication of these developments

this has no implication that he loves shonen

also, shonen and shoujo are not genres

Yes, but which is his magnum opus?

Ashita or ROV.