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No.477037
Anonymous
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You ever find it weird how we don't really have proper "Shojo" series? Like the last real one I'd classify as fitting the niche properly is like Star Vs and that came out like nearly a decade ago at this point. It's extra bizarre cause companies like Disney have clearly been trying to corner the girl market with their push for more female MCs, but none of them really feel like they're actually trying to appeal to your average teen girl.
Amphibia is more Shonen with female main characters than Shojo and Owl House doesn't even try to get the average girl interested. Even series like Fionna and Cake are more "Josei" in it's attempt to capture the "middle age woman" experience. Like why is there such an inability to make series that would actually appeal to teen girl. Is it really that hard?
No.477038
Anonymous
>>477037
Lauren Faust is that you?
No.477412
Anonymous
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>>477037
Man I just want someone to make a western magical girl series without some layer of irony or subversion strapped on.
No.477421
Anonymous
>>477412
Be hard to do without it looking goofy
Even Japan is sick of magical girl shows
One of the reasons why madoka is coming back while sailor moon sits on the shelf
No.477500
Anonymous
>>477421
How would it be any goofier than normal western cartoons though?
No.477576
Anonymous
>>477421
You could just say you don't care for it without blatantly lying. Also there's way more to magical girls than just Sailor Moon.
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Anonymous
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>>477037
>Amphibia is more Shonen with female main characters than Shojo
I feel like Amphibia had some influence from
Magic Knight Rayearth (which is a shojo series), so I think it still has some Shojo stylings in it
No.479004
Anonymous
>>477037
I'll recoon the last true show from girls to girls with no layers or irony or twists was Ginger a fuck yon of years ago.
No.479396
Billy
>>477037
There's that concept about the little black girl who grows tired of being one. I hope it gets picked up, and if it does, i extra hope it's good