What the hell happened to shojo? Is it just completely dead at this point?
Romcoms these days are gender neutral (Kaguya, Komi) at best, and blatantly male-oriented (Bisque Doll, Rent A Girlfriend) at worst. And the magical girl genre is just plain nonexistent at this point.
Why is there no relevant shojo anymore???
T.frustrated female anime/manga fan
>What is yuri? The superior evolution of the shoujo genre that removed the unnecessary aspects out of it.
Dividing the audience neatly by gender is a very low-resolution perception of the world.
Once you learn more of people, you begin targeting different things.
Girls in Japan are still reading manga, but they are now catered for better than when they were all considered just "girls."
You could start dumping shoujo manga here and see if anyone bites. Because all the shoujo discussion is also in the jdrama circles and girly spaces that Yea Forums doesn't like touching
The market realized that shonen is more popular with women than shojo these days.
if you are a female you should be sucking my cock not watching anime
Demon Slayer is the most popular anime among females. Ever.
And it's a fucking Shonen.
What the hell do we need Shojo for?
I think just like how fantasy stories all have to be isekai and wish-fulfillment for men, almost all material aimed at female otaku nowadays have BL/yaoi elements (Yuri on Ice, Free!, etc.). The anime demographic has become a lot more hardcore and studios have gotten a lot more cynical about what series they create.
Kisekoi is pretty much if a shoujo romcom was written to attract men with its fanservice though.
Anyway upcoming shoujo/josei anime:
>Koukyuu no Karasu
>Seijono s2
>Akulas
>Niehime to Kemono no Ou
>Endou-kun to Kobayashi-san
>Mushikaburi Hime
>Sugar Apple Fairytale
Most of this is just Kadokawa filling up their 40 anime a year quota though.
IIRC some CR exec recently stated that "the female audience is a growing demographic" as if there weren't plenty of shows before the whole thing died off.
>gender neutral
>seinen and shounen
Bro...