Kaichou no Maid-sama episode 1

Call me back when they make a shoujo series that truly breaks bey­ond the bound­ar­ies of its genre.
Is that even con­sidered shoujo any­more? Well, there’s ARISA… It really just focuses on the mys­tery and sus­pense over everything else.

Heh. I got a good laugh out of that. :‘D This.
It’s not that all pre­dict­able until you’re read­ing it in Japan­ese monthly like me. I figured out a cer­tain pat­tern for the plot, but as I say that, it throws me off again.

Unfor­tu­nately, it does not have enough mater­ial to be adap­ted into an anime yet. It’s pop­u­lar though, enough to have it licensed already.

Haha, com­bin­ing shoujo back­grounds into fear­some new combinations!

At least for the first half, Kare Kano is the best shoujo romance ever because it actu­ally explores the rela­tion­ship between the leads (they get together in, like, the first three epis­odes), and it has this manic energy and style to it that hasn’t been rep­lic­ated in any other romance series I’ve seen (though Tor­adora! comes close at times). The end­ing is a total mess, of course, but I love the series all the same.

(Rose of Ver­sailles is my per­sonal favor­ite shoujo series, but I hes­it­ate to label it purely a “romance” series, since it devel­ops the his­tor­ical angle just as much.)

As for Maid-sama, the first epis­ode is bet­ter than I expec­ted, but I agree with you in that it is just OK for now. Solid pro­duc­tion val­ues, poten­tially likable characters.

lol How did I for­get Utena? Guess it slipped my mind because it rips apart everything shoujo … but it still counts, really, so that is my true favor­ite (it being my favor­ite series and all, haha). And I love Utena’s sense of humor; it’s the closest any anime has ever — or will ever, frankly — come to Looney Tunes-level of insane slap­stick humor. There’s such a sur­real ded­ic­a­tion to its comedic stor­ies, and the com­edy epis­odes come in at the most awk­ward times, that they floored me every time. The cow epis­ode is still one of my all-time favor­ite anime episodes.

I per­son­ally enjoyed the over­dra­matic scenes in the early part of Rose of Ver­sailles, because the emphasis on bitchy cat­fights and absurd drama about the stu­pid­est, most insig­ni­fic­ant things, because it seemed like a delib­er­ate them­atic choice to emphas­ize the dis­con­nect between Ver­sailles and the real­ity of France. It’s def­in­itely over­done (hard not to be over­done when you give in com­pletely to melo­drama, haha), but it’s so crazy that I can’t help but love it.

If it helps, RoV’s main char­ac­ter, Oscar, is a total badass. She’ll carry you through the dorama, because she takes it in, cool as a very badass cucumber.

Per­son­ally I thought the intro epis­ode messed up a few things (com­pared to manga). But Kaichou was meant to be the excess­ively gen­eric shoujo. And… nice way of vent­ing your frus­tra­tions xDDDD

Most shoujo will be mood-driven and stay mood-driven. So unless you turn off your logic circuits—

Try stuff like Kare Kano for fast-paced shoujo, or Saiunkoku Monogatari for your very intriguing shoujo (because it’s a polit­ical drama, don’t see much of that in the genre).

There’s Ashita no Nadja. I don’t remem­ber if there were any bubbles or stuff, but it’s a rather girly show. (The char­ac­ter design is based off the 1970s shoujo style.) How­ever, it’s my favor­ite shoujo because the char­ac­ter devel­op­ment in that is simply amazing.

Urgh.

Spot on, but this one looks truly awful. In fact this was the first shoujo my wife has wanted to drop before the first epis­ode even ended. In fact, I was hav­ing so much fun watch­ing her get frus­trated that I only remem­ber this being about an incred­ibly unlikable ball-busting bitch, and some robot that stalks her for no reason.

Your post is actu­ally very true about all the sparkles and such. Gave me a laugh I still plan to watch this though, I am very guilty to lik­ing these kinds of shows.