Blog post #6: Shojo's everything in between

We're going to get a little more in depth, but wait this may be a little more difficult to follow because a lot of genres of anime cross both shojo and shounen. When people think shojo they usually think of something that's over the top girly, but that's not always true. There are different categories, like a typical magical school girl is usually defined by a couple of things. One most is that the characters are girls of course with few to not having male support, and point  two there's this having magical transformation sequence. One of the most well known anime before was probably Sailor moon, and this anime have a slightly different transformation sequence. Tokyo Mew Mew, and one of the newest additions was Magi Puella rules, but Card Captor is part of this category in which there is no magical transformation series and there's this plenty of male supporting cast, but to counter act this it has a lot of different magical sequences. Other anime is based on real life, like talking about everyday life, boring right? Wrong, the characters in this kind of series are crazy, a lot of time the usually female main character is driven to find love due to past experience like I wanted to happen in my real life, or in other cases it's just about the daily life of people who live abnormal lives. There is some shounen anime that rivals the art of shojo , in these cases it's more of what the anime is about than the art.

According to an article entitled "Boys' comics versus Girls' comics in Japan", from the site www.sleepisfortheweak.org, Lianne writes that, "It doesn't take an expert to see the comic market in Japan is vastly different from our own." In Japan, where manga is a part of society, children, teenagers, mothers, office workers are all readers who are repeating reading, things work differently. The readership for manga in Japan, when it is compared to US is wide, based on what I have searched is that Dreamland Japan, the manga magazine Weekly Shounen Jump circulated and roamed as many as 6 million copies on just an issue. Manga are black and white and often printed on cheap newsprint, which it makes them more affordable than the all color comics we buy or read that we have in the West. Shounen and shojo manga portrays the relationships very differently. I can say that I have observed that art also differs, shounen manga usually gives its male characters ridiculous spiky hair and this thin eyes or small eyes, there girls I have seen has also big eyes too and also their chests, and is very cavalier about nudity. While my love for shojo usually features even bigger eyes, protective bishounen (pretty boys) and their nudity, perhaps they are less more sensual or sexual. While I love shounen too because the shounen art styles are using solid and has very black and white that I follow as a very easy to follow panel layout, that comparing to shojo is that its more artistic and less exact which makes my mind left hanging.

I agreed that shojo for me is everything in between, its manga has been related to the genre as a whole and specially a formative one for those Japanese girls' culture throughout the postwar era. Illuminating the ways that the issues of their mass media, gender, production, and consumption are all involved in the process of creating a shojo manga. They always use this and having their glittery pastel covers and of course their focusing more on human relationships and this romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender. Interacting between story development, having their interactive magazine features, and the relationships between male editors and female artists, in which shojo manga reflect, no not just reflect but refract and fabricate constructions of the gender. Human relations and the gender explains the unique world of shojo manga and to interpret its dramatic cultural and economic success on a national and increasingly global scale.

In another article called "The Dangers of Shojo", from the site www.sleepistheweak.org, Lianne and Nothayama writes that, "Our dream of getting these issues into the public forum for discussion is coming true in spectacular ways." Having all of these points is to argue that dangerous shojo can be dangerous to a reader if a reader is influenced by what she is reading. But does every girl seemed influenced by what she is reading, and to the same degree? Of course not. The effects of media on society have always been argued and while some believe media is the fault for all the giving ills in our world. Others think that movies and books have nothing to do with how the people will act in a way in reality. Most people likely, I believe that the truth lies somewhere in between. If a said shojo themes are discussed, I do believe that a teenage girl will agree that these other dangerous shojo titles will explore ideas that one should never attempt in real life. If said themes are discussed the danger of this romanticizing of complete submission is large thwart. Dangerous shojo themes are most often presented in having colorful and romantic packages with some little significant doses of realism, and when few people comment on how the said themes should be treated as an escapist fantasies, or for boredom as having opposed to sweet, romantic, touching love stories, that's when i'm afraid of readers idealizing abuse.

Based on what I have learned that shojo's everything in between is common particular in our daily lives, it may be dangerous, consumption involved in the process of just creating a manga. Think and talk, about what you're reading. Manga is fun, but don't think that it will hurt you mentally. I think these generalizations are reasonably fair to make, though considering they're based on years on experience that after you've read a million shounen titles like for instance Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, and there's many more in the world of shounen or seeing a thousand girls fall for the boy who sits just in front of her in homeroom, you will start to notice different kinds of trends.