#I know this looks like a shoujo

[upathosarts]

wtf revue of souls real (more pics below the cut)

#dont look too closely at the curtains ive never sewn anything in my life and may have been using glue by the end #hey excess if u see these tags i hope u know your “lego stop motion revue of souls when" comment is what lead to this #i finished this like last week and then procrastinated taking pictures #where the fuck in my room am i gonna put this. i have no surface left #revue starlight #shoujo kageki revue starlight #saijo claudine #tendo maya #maya tendo #claudine saijo #revstar #starira #revue starlight gekijouban #gekijouban revue starlight #im gonna tag this as #mykr #and no one can stop me #mayakuro #kuromaya #my art #saijou claudine #tendou maya #claudine saijou #maya tendou

[daily-hanamura]

#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 magician manga #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #you know despite all the evidence i dont think yosuke actually realises that he's actually quite attractive and good looking #kou talks about girls coming over to check him out and sure maybe it's just the novelty of him being a new student #but his hometown friend katsuragi FOR SURE has a crush on him look at this classic shoujo scene where katsuragi sees a text from yosuke and #smiles in a way that has him being teased like ooooh is that from a girl #getting a text from yosuke makes katsuragi smile in a way like one would when they havr a crush OK I DONT HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER #ITS TOO OBVIOUS AND I LOVE IT BUT #this is a yosuke centric blog and all these to say.... i wonder if yosuke is actually just seriously oblivious #to when people are interested in him #i think it stems from a place of low self esteem like “oh who could possibly like me” even when hes actually quite a solid catch #yosuke probably receives letters of confession in his shoebox and thinks they were placed in the wrong box so he politely returns them #when they actually have his name on it he just laughs and says wow theres another yosuke/hanamura in this school? #or assumes its a prank by someone else #i swear this boy had the most OUT THERE mental gymnastics going on #yosuke talks endlessly about how he wants a girlfriend but i bet you if a girl asks him out his response will be “go where?” #“oh maybe later? i have a shift today but if it's a junes related issue you can find me at the grocery dept! seeya!” #theres the whole “disappointment the moment he opens his mouth” thing but come on #theres going to be at least some confessions from people who have only seen him from afar #not to mention that yosuke canonically likes fashion and always dresses well #honestly maybe yosuke's rizz lvl is so high that it just circles down into the negatives #only joking i think he does get interest but he doesnt realise #and because everytime he does attempt to flirt hes immediately rejected he thinks hes never had any interest #which i think is just not true #and i havent even started talking about yu lmao #anyway the magician manga was devastating for my mental health and i beseech all of you to resd it as well and then cry about it with me #he's good with his queue

[nirrvana]

why do all of my favorite characters keep getting impaled both literally and metaphorically by a thousand sword blows representing the eternal weight of hatred and pain they must carry all by themselves why does this keep happening (this is about anthy himemiya and xie lian)

#im gonna go crazy one of these days #btw i know anthys character is far from ANYTHING else in fiction #suffering from all of patriarchy's hatred literally and so on and so forth THE blorbo of all time for me but like look at the parallels #can't phrase this any further bc my brain will explode but i could write a thesis about these two martyrs + #+ who fall down in the mud and make bad decisions bc victims are allowed to be flawed and theyre so so scared and so young #and just need to be truly loved and understood to be freed i rlly can't #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #tgcf #mxtx tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #anthy himemiya #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #rant #mine

[mistypluie]

binghe... ur boobies 😳 part 2

#svsss #lesbingqiu #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #genderbend #misty.art #i just felt like there needed to be a wlw version of this #sqq is lost in the sauce. hasnt replied to the past three things lbh has said #she's having a shoujo manga moment #me 🤝 sqq: distracted by binghe's mommy milkers #sorry dear followers. i am curing my artblock by drawing the most self indulgent fanart possible #lesbianism😎 #also. i Know the fan does not look uhh accurate but i only looked at a reference after finishing the lineart :'') pls dont look too hard

[benkyoutobentou]

hi! i'm sorry for the dumb question but i wanted to finally start reading manga in japanese (i already have a little list of titles beginner-friendly) buuuut i'm not sure where i actually find it ;; sorry again for the stupid question

Not a dumb question at all! There are a bunch of places to get manga, the most accessible probably being (unfortunately) amazon.jp. You need to have a Japanese address to buy things regardless of where it's being shipped to (or not, in the case of ebooks), but I believe just any address will do. You can also sometimes buy manga directly on the publisher's sites. Cmoa is another good place to check, and they also will often have entire volumes of manga available to read on their site for free (just look for the 無料 section). Bilingualmanga might also be of interest. It's free (and therefore sometimes gets taken down), but is exactly what it sounds like. Their selection isn't huge, but what they do have, they have in both English and Japanese.

If you want to buy physical volumes, CDJapan is my go-to. I'm in the USA, but I'm pretty sure they ship to most parts of the world. Kinokuniya is also a good place to buy manga from, especially if you're lucky enough to have a physical store near you. My main issue with them is that I think they're overpriced, though. Another thing that depends on luck, if you have any Book Off stores near you, go check them out! It's secondhand, so finding what you're looking for is definitely luck based, but I think it's a good experience to browse Japanese language books and manga regardless.

If you're having trouble finding something in particular, or want some... slightly less legal sources, feel free to contact me off anon!

#i hope this helps! #thank you for asking!! <3 #im sure there are way more places to buy ebooks of manga that i just dont know of because im so adamant about Only reading physicals #but i did read lots of trigun as ebooks #that i got... elsewhere #benkyou posting #langblr #studyblr #polyglot #manga #languages #language learning #oh btw bilingualmanga grew so much from when i last looked at it a few years ago #they have tons of good options #like 暁のヨナ and 三月のライオン #among many others #theyve also got a bunch of classic shoujo now like basara

[spacecadetin]

oct. 2023

#artists on tumblr #student work #this is my favorite from last semester because i had so much fun making it #wanted to draw an 90s shoujo character a la clamp and so i found a way to get that into one of my college projects #never let em know your next move #also #straight up looks like nunnally from code geass #so i guess its nunnally fan art now #nunnally vi britannia #code geass #watercolor btw #and gold ink #i swear i used the wrong paper for this because it had me in tears the way i thought i ruined it when i started painting #art

[mistykaru]

it’s not full ham 90s anime style i was mostly having fun with filters and different decoration brushes lol

#aftg #the foxhole court #neil josten #all for the game #andreil #bc this is definitely like andrew's shoujo vision of neil at some point idk lmao #i was just going heehee as i drew it #the flowers are stamp brushes everything that is not neil is a stamp brush bc this was very much for funsies #dont come for me #also i am so bad at a 90s anime style listen i've been trying since i was like 8 and that was the kind of art that the sister drew #so this is more my regular stuff but his eyes are colored differently #i lowered the opacity of the lines layer being like alright time to try for that anime 90s style #and i lost all steam so #maybe one day but i make no promises #i'm p sure other people have done the thing anyway so like go look at their stuff #i forgot to google it before i drew this so i actually don't know but i'm sure there must be #update google gave me nothing but i tried one (1) search #can you tell i haven't really spoken to anyone in like a week soz for the fuckin tag waterfall #myart #ashjdfklha i just realized i forgot his scars again lmafuckin o whatever this is a happy shoujo universe neil ok

[byeohzu]

hoyoverse i'll pay you--*looks at my bank account*--2 bucks to make wanderer and xiao meet.

#genshin impact #xiao #wanderer #scaramouche #in all seriousness i want to know how their dynamic would be like. #i know there's this consensus that these two are fond of traveler and so it would be the most shoujo thing ever where they fight over them #but again #that's fanon #for all we know they could just take one look at each other #click their tongues #and NEVER speak to each other ever again lmao #or they could even be besties somehow?? #AUGH i'm so curious

[curewhimsy]

Hot take: I actually don’t really believe it was Madoka Magica that kickstarted the edgy, gritty, dark (and usually seinen) magical girl trend. I feel like it was something that was sadly just bound to happen. Also Madoka honestly isn’t THAT grimdark in comparison and lacks the copious tasteless fanservice that many of those titles have. Madoka is depressing and existential but not violent and gory. Mahou Shoujo Site and Magical Girl of the End honestly did far worse things to the genre. I could be wrong though.

#I got recommended one of these edgy looking MG series recently. Called MachiMaho I think #Like if it’s your thing then great but they’re really not for me #Also try Doremi or Precure. I sadly don’t have much attention span for the latter but I love what I know and see #Magical girl #mahou shoujo

[g0rechan]

omg is this weezer

#they really said🧍‍♂️ #shoujo tsubaki #midori: shoujo tsubaki #mr. arashi's amazing freak show #midori: the camellia girl #the scene tickles my brain in a way I can’t describe #gonna delete soon #cuz I don’t like how Muchisute looks #what’s wrong with their faces #kanabun has a thigh gap #Midori get your hand away from your mouth everyone knows ur not impressed by ur 47 yr old boyfriend #pick me ass bitch /j #I’m joking I love her #don’t take this too seriously

[bmpmp3]

A COUPLE nights ago i had some dream about this very ._. girl who was an aspiring rockstar and in the dream she had hair that was like simultaneously pink and blonde BUT LIKE not like dyed or highlights it was like. you know. just pink and blonde at the same time. so i just layered pink over yellow paint LOL it made a sorta pinky orange....

#dream journal #art #traditional art #watercolour #you know how dreams are. things are pink and orange at the same time #she played guitar and had a pretty strong and expressive singing voice its just she looked like.. ._. #the plot was very shoujosei manga or maybe a little mid 2010s voltage-esque otome game #it was about some over confident 'bad boy player' type character who accidentally ends up as roommates with this o_o of an aspiring musician #(there was a third roommate who was a mutual friend but they mysterious disappeared a la the writer in scandal in the spotlight) #(leaving these two to figure out the new roomies situation on their own) #and then he kinda just gets into the music bizz of it all even more by accident LOL #im pretty sure my brain just mashed like five different media i like into this dream. probably a bunch of shoujo manga #absolutely some sitp. also some characters (like this ._. girl) definitely got elements from certain idol multimedia franchises i enjoy LOL #its fun when ur dreams are like that. mashing everything together

[cinnamon-guardian]

Next time I see Loid “For The Mission” Forger act like Yor and Anya aren’t his real family I will throw hands I swear to God—

This man has the gall to say that like 90% of this new OP isn’t taken straight from his point of view. He really sees Yor and Anya like this and still goes “Yep. Totally for the mission, guys.”

I love Loid, but the next time he says it, I’m going to literally crawl into the show and slap the shit out of him. Get it together, Loid!!

#i’m only half joking #I really do love Loid but SIR— #THE WAY HE SEES HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER AND STILL ACTS LIKE THIS #I love him but I also want to beat his ass just a little bit #until he accepts that the Shoujo Filter is on all the time when he looks at Yor #all of the time #every single time #spy x family #loid forger #agent twilight #yor forger #yor briar #yor briar forger #thorn princess #anya forger #spyxfamily #sxf #spy x family season 2 #this new OP really is beautiful and wholesome tho #I just know Loid would still live in denial even after getting caught in 4K #I know I’ve already made a post basically like this but it goes doubly so with this OP #Youtube

[snufkinya]

Look, I get that the shounen vs shoujo and “people hate things aimed at girls“ is and has been an issue for like....decades

but I don’t know how to tell you that the answer to “shounen but the characters are all women“ is NOT whatever magical girl show you have in mind

#this is about the previous post #people are getting so catty in the reblogs #telling each other to ''cope and seethe'' #like i get it. you're defensive over shoujo #but. and i dont know a better way to say this. you have to understand that our interests are different #if i wanted shoujo then id go looking for it #and i wouldnt be lamenting the status of women in shounen manga/anime #it's also just....embarassing....these recommendations.... #there's no nice way to say this next part #but i dont want cute girls in frilly dresses and bright colors fighting monsters #i want rough women fist fighting one another in jeans and tshirt while yelling about being each others only friend #honestly i will never be fulfilled until i see butch women everywhere #that's MY dream

[skyblep]

i actually wish, like, i'd really like to write something about why there's so much nazism present not just in FEWL, but yasuko aoike's body of work as a whole, even if a lot of it remains untranslated. explain it somehow

because like for as silly as the woman's creations are (literally gag BL manga with characters based on 1970s musicians), the existence of not just nazism but all of the politics, especially in FEWL, really do say something about like... postwar japan, the presentation of nazism in 60s and 70s, how nazis are portrayed in media as a whole, us imperialism, and probably so many other things

like, aoike didn't just randomly decide that her main character's father would be a nazi tank commander for no reason, this isn't just a "oh it was the 1970s" thing, there's intricate historical and cultural reasons this sort of thing happens, and as easy as chalking it up to that is, it undermines the fact this type of stuff can even happen today

#unfortunately i havent read any books on articles on this sort of thing and its just stuff that i like. vaguely know about and have seen #not just from looking over aoike's work but her influences and her contemporaries (and even a bit about her personal life as well) #maybe someday i will but uh again. only vaguely know about this sort of thing i'm no historian i just like stuff from the 70s #and i'm a socialist. lol #tw nazism #led zeppelin shoujo yaoi manga tag

[yeonwoos-innocence]

OMG YESSS I LOVE THEMMM!!!

Looking up to you is my favorite Shoujo manga of all time. It made me realize i just wanted a romance where the roles of male lead and female lead where switched and I've eaten up the crumbs of everything like that since. And now I'm obsessed with Yeonwoo's innoconce. The author decided to grace me with this amazing work of art and i need more people to LOOOOOOOOK!!! 🎄 Marry Christmas 🎄

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#Looking up to you #Miageru to Kimi wa #shoujo manga #roles reversal couple #manga art #manga #Imma soo write a rant about why this manga is perfect #you know like the girl in the more dominent one and boy is more submisive #They are my everything and I will fight for them #STAY TUNES FOLKS

[puremydoll]

第４０話 ー 夢の戦士，１９８３

#the gif looks weird but she's sighing i dont know why they made it choppy like that #my gif #minky momo #magical princess minky momo #魔法のプリンセス ミンキー モモ #ミンキー モモ #mahou shoujo #magical girl #gigi #sky momo #sora momo #空モモ