Can someone tell me a good Shoujo manga?!
Question: I'm really into Shoujo manga and I want a new one to read.
If it has been serialized or published by VIZ's Shojo Beat, I've read it.
I really like school ones.
And characters with little quirks.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated!
Answers: I'm really into Shoujo manga and I want a new one to read.
If it has been serialized or published by VIZ's Shojo Beat, I've read it.
I really like school ones.
And characters with little quirks.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated!
If you keep up with scanlations much at all, I'd recommend looking up some "Parfait Tic!" The name sounds a bit strange, and it still hasn't been licenced by any American companies that I know of, but it's extremely good and addicting - very well drawn and very much into exploring the emotional ups and downs of relationships in a way that's rather realistic while still being everything we love about shoujo.
A lot of the Viz ones that they've given preview chapters of in ShojoBeat I've found I really like:
"Love*Com" is cute and has that slightly more realistic feel to the relationships while still being funny, and the main characters are definately quirky.
"S.A." is the whole high school student council romantic comedy stuff that's very genre but still never really gets old.
"Wild Ones" has a lot of school stuff and is pretty quirky as well - that's the one where the main character suddenly becomes a yakuza princess and the school idol is sort of her undercover...ish...guardian.
"Aishiteruze Baby" is just a sweet story.
Other stuff...um....
I've always been a huge fan of "Marmalade Boy" - the quirkiest characters in that one are the parents and they're hilarious. Lots of back and forth drama otherwise and the plot is a little more classic shoujo, but it was one of the first I ever read and I still love it.
"Ultra Maniac" by the same manga-ka is nothing spectacular, but fairly simple and lighthearted - still a school setting but with a little bit of magic thrown in.
"Kill Me, Kiss Me", "Peach Girl", and "Land of the Blindfolded" are a few other good ones.
Two others that I have to recommend because they're probably my absolute favorites, though they're more serious and not really "school ones" are "Planet Ladder" and "Please Save My Earth". Both are more sci-fi/fantasy-ish, though PSME does take place in a modern day and sometimes school setting for most of it. These two I just have to mention though because they don't really fit the general idea of fantasy shoujo either...both are extremely unique, intense, thought-provoking, and very unlike almost anything else out there.
these are my faves
ouran high school host club
ayashino ceres
fushigi yuugi
paradise kiss
hmm...not all of them are 'school-type' ones but here goes:
-Ouran High School Host Club
-Forbidden Dance(same creator as Sand Chronicles in SB)
-Shinshi Doumei Cross/The Gentlemen's Alliance
-Magic Girls(this is pretty old so you might have a hard time finding it)
-Sailor Moon
-My Sweet Dragon
-Sennen no Yuki/Millenium Snow
-Suki
and if you dont mind if its a Manhwa then I suggest 'Goong' too=)
wall flower is a good one so is hana-kimi
DNAngel has beautiful graphics
Honey and Clover, a story about five artschool students struggling in love and life.
LOVE MONSTER!!! Its really good! i love it! a little smut, but really sweet!
another good one is
Junai Tokkou Taichou!< really funny!!
Girls got game AKA POWER!
Power! is really good! its cute and really romantic!
Download them free:
http://www.mangatraders.com/manga/series...
Backstage Prince: Akari is drawn into the exciting world of kabuki theatre, She then spends her time after school assisting the famous actor, Shonosuke Ichimura. In the real world, however, this prince of kabuki is actually a high school cutie named Ryusei. The pair's relationship gets off on the wrong foot but eventually, with the help of a cat known as Mr. Ken, might start to fall in love.
High school Debut: When Haruna Nagashima was in junior high her life consisted of playing softball and reading comics. But now that she's going to high school, Haruna decides to put all of her energy towards getting a boyfriend and having the high school romance of a lifetime. To help in her quest, she enlists cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to coach her as she eschews her jock tendencies and turns herself into the kind of girl who can catch a guy. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!
Skip Beat: Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz!
Vampire Knight: Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, there to protect the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires.
Special A: Her whole life, Hikari Hanazono has been consumed with the desire to win against her school rival, Kei Takishima—at anything. He always comes out on top no matter what he does, and Hikari is determined to do whatever it takes to beat this guy...somehow!
At age 6 Hikari lost to Kei in an impromptu wrestling match. Now, at 15, Hikari joins "Special A," a group of the top seven students at a private academy, for the opportunity to trounce the guy who made her suffer her first defeat.
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Here is my list of manga. All of these are shoujo and they are THE BEST!!! I recommend you read ALL OF THEM.
A Fairy Tale for You (1 volume)
A Thousand Years of Snow (2 volumes)
A Wish to Lie Beside You (3 chapters)
Alice 19th (7 volumes)
Angel Love Song (oneshot which means it is only a few chapters)
Baby Love (9 volumes)
Backstage Prince (2 volumes)
Cat Street (8 volumes)
Datte Suki Nan Damon (2 volumes)
Elite Sama Koi Shiyo (1 volume)
Epotoransu! Mai (2 volumes)
Fall in Love like a Comic (2 volumes)
Good Morning Call (11 volumes)
Goong (16 volumes - ongoing)
Happy Hustle High (5 volumes)
Hana Yori Dango (36 volumes)
Her Majesty’s Dog (11 volumes)
Honey Bitter (4 volumes - ongoing)
Hot Blooded Woman (24 volumes)
Imadoki! (5 volumes)
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (7 volumes)
Kare First Love (10 volumes)
Kiss Dake Ja Kaesanai (4 volumes)
Koukou Debut (10 volumes)
Legend of Nereid (15 volumes)
Love Monster (12 volumes)
Oishii Study (1 volume)
Ookami Nanka Kowakunai (1 volume)
Othello (7 volumes)
Pump Up! (1 volume)
Random Walk (3 volumes)
Rich Girl 120 (3 volumes - not completely scanned and I can't wait for them to scan it because the first volume is really good)
Rumors (only a few chapters)
Shinshi Doumei Cross (11 volumes - ongoing)
Shounen X Cinderella (2 chapters)
Special A (11 volumes - ongoing)
Sugar Princess (2 volumes)
The King’s Pawnshop (1 volume)
The Prince Who Fell in Love (1 volume)
Time Stranger Kyoko (3 volumes)
Tokyo Boys and Girls (5 volumes)
Tokyo Crazy Paradise (19 volumes)
Tokyo Juliet (13 volumes - very good romantic manga and I can't wait till they finish scanning it, they are only on v2)
Vampire Knight (6 volumes - ongoing)
W Juliet (14 volumes)
W Juliet II (1 volume)
Waltz in a White Dress (4 volumes - a little old, drawings don't seem to be that good)
WANTED (1 volume)
Here are websites with manga scans:
manga.bleachexile.com
www.mangavolume.com
www.rootmanga.com
www.mangarun.com
www.mangatraders.com (have to register)
onemanga.com
www.mangahut.com
www.mangafox.com (very good)