xxxHolic has an ending. right? i didn't just dream this up, did i?!

But also, yes- Drug and Drop needs an ending!

@@franzibubbles395 Yes xxHolic has an "ending" but xxHolic: Rei is honestly the same damn series and it is on Haitus. Same as Legal drug/Drug and Drop.

@@WalrusJoy Oh i hadn't got round to Rei yet. Saw it wasn't done and didn't want to put myself through that again!

Ikr i need Yuko back in my life

I think i enjoy shojo more than most shonen. There's something about the story that just makes you feel good and gets you invested with the characters. Fights are nice but sometimes i need a break from all the action. There was a point i only was watching slice of lifes and shojo because they just made me feel good inside.

For what it's worth, the biggest shoujo fans at my admittedly very weird high school were all boys! Now myself and many of the other girls did watch shoujo some, but none of us could compete with those guys. And now that I'm in college, the two male officers in my current school's anime club are also the two officers most enthusiastic about romantic comedy shows and thus often champion shoujo series when we put together the lists of shows our members vote on watching each semester. Usually at least one shoujo series wins (we watch 3 shows per semester)

@@zairoray True! I'm usually more of a shounen person myself, but if I'm stressed or down in the dumps about something, I usually wind up reading some nice wholesome shoujo series

gay ;)

Wow, someone besides me remembers Corrector Yui! Never could get my hands on the anime, but I was a big Kia Asamiya fan, and read all his manga back in the day.

They grow up so fast - Jacob

I know right yay

@@BeyondTheBot Can you guys do high school dxd with jojo stand

We can only hope

do we even want that?

@@Moayad56 it would be hilarious

I was JUST about to comment something similar lol

1999 sounds really good, but I don't want to watch what's available and then join in on the collective despair over its cancellation if I love it as much as everyone else.

@@Deoxys911 Run. Run away and don't look back. Leave us to our misery and save yourself. In all seriousness, the anime IS complete, though it takes a lot of liberties compared to the manga, because it was still ongoing at the time. Given that the manga went "on hiatus" in 2003(!)...

It's been 19 years...! I'm past PTSD and more like slightly annoyed that I have accepted they might never finish the damn thing LOL

No it doesn't, keep trying to understand it more.

Chobits is... very interesting. Like, the main romance is problematic: it may be healthy within the diagesis of the manga/anime, but that's not realistic, and I was always uncomfortable with how sexualized Chii was (especially given her mental age). That having been said, a lot of the secondary characters and relationships were very compelling! Even if I've forgotten some of their names, I've never forgotten about the pastry chef falling in love with his persocom, how his new love interest thought she couldn't compare; the teacher whose husband forgot about her when they got a persocom, and how she didn't end up hating persocoms because the same could've happened with a real person; Freya's situation... Which, with that last one, I'm honestly glad CLAMP was willing to go to some taboo places, because it was thought-provoking, and seemed like something that could happen. The story really did explore a lot of potential societal issues with humanoid robots. And... In some ways I think the central theme is underdeveloped, to the extent that I didn't even get it for a long time. On the other hand, I'm impressed with the subtlety. Because I did finally figure it out, one English degree and many years later. The question is this: can we ever have functional relationships with robots, despite being unable to know whether they're sentient like we are? The reason it's kind of confusing is because we, the audience, know that Chii and the others are indeed conscious from seeing their internal experience. On the other hand, the human characters in the story can't know this: conscious experience is unobservable because it is observation itself; we can look for signs and behaviors. A lot of the issues the manga raises are tangential to this (e.g. the question of whether Chobits can function outside of their programming has to do with free will). But yeah, letting the audience know the truth of the matter while also not having the other characters address the issue directly made things really confusing. In any case! Those themes resonate with me because of my own intense attachments to fictional characters. Sure, in that case it's not a question of sentience, but Hideki's decision and his reasons for it spoke to me. I have a sneaking suspicion that CLAMP Is also interested in relationships with fiction, because... I'm not sure if this was the intention, but it occured to me once while reading Cardcaptor Sakura that I could read Clow/Eriol as author stand-ins, making predictions about where the story's going to go and purposefully putting the characters through stuff for the sake of character development. Also with Tsubasa, what happens at the end with the clones, where they end up...

SAME HERE! It caught my interest and a bookstore and I was hooked!

Even the “bad” shoujo isekais were still leagues better than the best shounen isekais in the past ten years.

Fushigi yugi was superior

Escaflowne is fantastic! Magic Knight(s?) Rayearth is also forgotten way too much. Inuyasha as well. Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure (yes I know it's not as good as the others but I love so). Also the series mentioned by others. I used to love Isekai but I auto refuse most current series.

A lot of my friends, regardless of gender, love CLAMP. Besides general Shounen series, it's an easy topic for us to get hyped about and I noticed it's the same for a lot of the general Anime community too!!! Hope you find more people to be excited about them with!!!

There really is no need to separate markets that way. Girls like pink and dolls, boys like blue and trucks. I thought we were moving past that :(

@@llIlIlllII well Japan is pretty conservative, they looovvee their gender roles

The world doesn't revolve around what the west thinks.

@@hikari9433 ​ and what does the west think hikari? enlighten me please

@@_.Max.i.mus._ That men are women are the same, traditional gender roles is now backward thinking and always a bad thing and anyone who doesn't have the same view is wrong and should be educated (the typical western moral superiority complex). Just look at Japan or even Korea these societies are modern and are the amongst most developed in the world but they're fine with their traditional and cultural values (that's what makes them different and why we are attracted to them in the first place) and in many cases women themselves are the main keepers of these values. A Japanese feminist officials actually spoke up against the UN attempt to paint manga and anime as sexist and misogynistic stating that a lot of these stories are imagined, written and drawn by women (the entire Clamp studio and animes like Rising of the shield hero are good examples) and Japan always opposed any attempt to censor or dictate their creations. Even if you check the audience you'll see that although a lot of women read shonen mangas, the majority of the audience is still men and although shojo also catch the interest of men (Chobbit, Tsubasa reservoir chronicle, DN Angel, etc) the majority of the audience is still composed of women. So we can criticize as much as we want because it doesn't suit our views but as long as Japan is fine with it, it's not our place to say they should change. Remember that mangas and anime are made first and foremost for the Japanese audience, the rest of the world is just a nice bonus for their market.

I was like impossible

Big facts

@@KenzoSunya Yep and I'm DESPERATE

If nothing else, they should finish the OVAs for the series. But a reboot would be incredible!!

Brand new works!

Either one would be cool, but I think Funi has most of their older stuff at this point.