Lenka Li
Introduction:
The main fans community is the girls, and this kind of anime always talk about love, school’s life, and it also can have some actions, the article had said “Shojo manga is Usually the story is from the point of view of a girl and deals with romance.”. However, the painting style is very different for “Shōnen”, Shojo manga’s painting is more delicate than Shōnen manga. Shōnen manga is more focusing on the actions, but for some of the Shojo manga still have actions and fighting parts. Just like the article said “These tend to focus on romance and interpersonal relationships though this does not mean they are necessarily without action or adventure.”. Shojo manga always have a female to lead the story. However, male homosexual love stories also included in this category. A very big different between earlier Shojo manga and now is the main male character’s characteristic. Earlier Shojo manga have more kind of male character characteristic, such as gentle, indifferent, and amused; however, at present Shojo manga, “strong” take more percentage in the male characteristic. The left anime is the earlier type, the painting style have a very distinct different you can see between the right one, which is the modern one.
The right side anime is Inu × Boku SS , the anime is written by Cocoa Fujiwara, the anime is coming out in 2012. It is talk about the people who are atavism, they are half human and half monster, in Japanese which is called Yokai,this anime introduce some Yokai in Japan. The story is take place in the Ayakashikan, a high security apartment building where the Yokai lived in, every Yokai have their own Secret Service bodyguard, the reason why their need bodyguard is because their only half monster, the whole monster will attack them so they always come together to be safe. The main character is a girl whose name is Shirakiin Ririchiyo, Ririchiyo is a girl with half blood of ghost, she really wants to be independent, but don’t know how to communicate with others, then she leave home and go to Ayakashikan. Over there she meet her SS (Secret Service) Miketsukami Sōshi who descended from the evil nine tailed fox, some month after their become a couple. They also have 6 of other atavism, and the old Sakura Tree connect different parallel space of them together. All the story is around Yokai and their love story, the anime is very popular because it’s nice painting style, and the plot.