I really want to know why we have to be guys to read/watch the following maga's/animes.

1. Chobits
2. Tenjo Tenge
3. A.I. Love You
4. Love Hina
5. Sensual Fraze

These are only just a few. I know they were originally intended for boys but I get crap on it every day, and I want to know why.

Because...it makes it seem like you like chick schtuff and...schtuff.

Weird... I was under the impression that Chobits and RabuHina are shonen manga...

Some of mei's male friends have watched/read a few of the ones listed above, and they have mentioned that those are more geared towards a male audience. But really, one doesn't have to be a certain demographic to watch anything.

Actually, mei has enjoyed several episodes of Love Hina, with the above-mentioned male friends. They were perfectly okay with mei's joining them. The people who criticize you are just narrow-minded.

They're pretty much all shonen manga for the fact that they have excessive amounts of fanservice, but really because of their general cuteness factors and largely female casts, they're often assumed to be shoujo, and are widely appealing to both sexes. I don't get why you'd get flack for it.

I meant it makes you seem lesbian I guess.

Well excuse us girls if we like to watch that stuff and don't want to be called a friggin' lesbian!

I'm a girl, and I'd like to defend my rights to watch these shows as well! I watch Love Hina and I enjoy it very much, yet I'm a GIRL, so what do I know? *sheesh...*

Hey, no one's accusing you...I'm just saying, that's why girls get judged.

Yeah, but it still makes me mad...sorry if I offended anyone.

I thought Chobits was shoujo. It only goes for 26 episodes. I know the manga's shounen, though.

OMG, I'm a lesbian? Do I have to tell mother?

I know more girls who read/watch those series than I do guys (no, not like that).

^ (look, I'm a pervert)

It makes sense. Not most guys are willing to admit that they enjoy something that has high doses of cuteness within it. I guess in Japan, they're more comfortable with that. (In the land of Hello Kitty, cuteness reigns.)

Like my friend who refuses to enjoy Fruits Basket (Well, then again he refuses to enjoy pretty much everything I like, animewise. He held out with hating FMA for about 40 episodes before he finally caved.)

^!!!!!!



I prefer the cuteness.. Am I weired for prefering cute/fluffy/romantic anime?

Not at all! Although, I prefer action/fantasy myself... anyway, I read Chobits in 7th grade at the age of 12. I didn't find it that bad. I mean... there were some... questionable parts. But I don't think only guys should read it. I mean, for Heaven's sake... it was written/drawn by a group of women !

I'm a straight girl and I laughed my ass off reading Love Hina.


Su is just... <3

*Sighs* What I was trying to say is...A lot of times, those animes have high doses of sexual schtuff, you know, hentai or ecchi moments that mostly men would enjoy. So if you're a girl and you read that, I suppose people would think you like chicks or are a perv or something.

In theory. But it also goes the other way, where if guys start to enjoy something romantic or cute, then they're clearly pansies. (That's probably more of an issue in the west.)

Yeah, either way, if you live in a Western country and read those, you're kind of screwed. So you gotta say "Forget them" and read it anyway if you want to.

Well, there's also the third taboo in them for any gender that if you read manga then you're clearly an illiterate trendwhore, a japanophile and a rabid otaku fanperson.

So hide your manga inside hollowed out copies of Catcher in the Rye.

Well that problem's always one I'm dealing with. And Toby dear, maybe you should suggest what a NORMAL manga/anime reading/watching person should do, not a thespian or writer

You make it sound like I really am cultured or something. I've actually been horrible with reading actual literature lately, and it's a joke among my friends that gets really annoying. It probably goes to prove the opposite point that anime/manga kills the attention span, since I haven't read many novels lately.

*In a books store*
Me: *Browses*
Friend: Hey Margo, the Manga's over there. *Points*
Me: STFU! t>_<t

That's why you hide your manga in the disguise of 'proper' literature, much akin to grown men hiding their superman comics inside playboy magazines so they won't be laughed at.

I've read Love Hina and Chobits... I own all of Chobits and 1-4 of Love Hina. Ya, it's a bit perverted.
Love Hina is funny though and I would recommend it and Chobits has such a cute story.


How about FMA?
I know this question is directed to Toby, but I couldn't help from answering...

lol Love Hina makes me cringe. I read it all anyway.
Chobits is the only manga me and my semi-manga friends have all read

I'll just add that I think Ken Akamatsu [Rabu Hina, Negima] is a complete hack as a writer.

Is it wrong to watch or read Yaoi sometimes I know that this question has been used but I thought it would be...Kazaya Minekura the creator of Gensomaden Saiyuki did some of that stuff too didn't she ? Cause I knida seen parts of Wild Adapter...

Is it wrong to read that type of manga?

I dont think so,
if it's made for people to read and enjoy,
and i enjoy reading it
i dont care if it wrong to read it

I know plenty of people who read yaoi, so your not alone. I personally don't care for it as much, but I'll read it on occasion.

Morally, likely it is.

I knew it...I'm a strange little child..

You're not a 'little' anything.

Really then what am I?

Edit: No wait...would someone like to delete this post for me...?

What the...?

Two ultimate rules:

Don't like, don't read/watch. Like, read/watch.

You suddenly think you're weird because someone you don't even know, if I'm not mistaken, told you 'Yes, morally, it is'? No offence, but it looks like you've got some dependance problems...May I ask how old you are?

No I don't have dependence problems...I'm fifteen if you must know...;; I just have personal social problems...

Now off that type of topic...I also get judged by reading gorry bloodly horror manga as well

i don't know why we got judge? a lot of my friends always ask me the same question and i just tell it good or funny.

Hey.... ...heh heh....Sorry I haven't been able to be on to check out my topic...But thanks alot for your opinions and stuff. It's nice to know I've got people who are on the same side of the battle as myself....Words of advice to all Barne's & Noble is having a sale 30% of all manga's. Woot! Yeah and they overstocked on Full Metal Alchemist, Sensual Fraze, and Tengo Tenge. So There even cheaper to but online! .....Yeah I'll just go back to blending in to the background...



T_T I know how you feel!!! Especially from older people. That is why whenever I receive a comment from an older person on it, I politely reply "Thank you for your concern, but I rather sit here and read what you call 'bad literature' then sit around waiting for 'good literature' to come out. Because by the time that happens I'll be old and need to find large print books, which would be cutting into my time to complain about the new generations taste in 'bad literature'."

Don't double post, please.

UmmmmI hate to bring this up but it's very bad to double post...

I really don't get it, sure Love Hina is a bit perverted... just a bit? But I thought Chobits to be quite mellow.
I love chobits! (point's at avatar) Chii is really adorable. The only shocking thing for me was the location of the ON-switch

Oh and I read some yaoi, but it was by accident, and it freaked me out! (I'm too young to see this! Aaaaah!)

Anywayz if you get stupid remarks about it, just tell them it's really nice and you like it so bugger off!

Love Hina is disturbingly cute!!!!
Don't think my parents would love it though...

Anyway, I think that it's shocking that girls would get flak for it... everyone that I know (other than myself) who reads Love Hina and those others are girls. (I get more flak than they do for loving the 'cute' mangas as much as action ones like FMA, Bleach, and Naruto) It's interesting to know that the situation is reversed in most places.

Hey, I said "Morally LIKELY it is" Just saying that's probably what society thinks, not what I think necessarily, or what's important.

I don't have any problems when it comes to those kinds of manga, since most of my friends are gys and they could care less, but I do get judged when I read stuff like Gravitation and all those other shonen-ai/yaoi mangas.

Hmm...these are very cutsey, but I only know one guy who's read Love Hina, and the rest of my friends who read Chobits and Love Hina are girls...so maybe we're all secret perverts? I have to think about this...oh, my GOD! We must all be lesbians because we like that stuff! *laughs evilly and sarcasticly*

haha. I love love hina and chobits (A.I. love you I have never read but I saw an ad for it like "wtf") Chobits was intended for guys. It's kinda a shojo/shounen mix. it's appealing to both! (I know guys who are OBSESSED with it) as for love hina the anime isnt that bad. But the manga is pretty perverted. Most guys I know are into both lol. I personally like both (does that make me a lesbian? w/e) lol. I think both are good and if you like them, w/e! you like them! XD

so far, i know more girls read love hina and chobits... love hina has lots of funny scenes and chii is adorable, i guess this's why...

doesn't mean that girls are lesbians when they read these.. after all, im a girl too, not a lesbian =X

well... i watched chobits before... no da... My very first nosebleed, as in like in animes, came from. no da. however, I AM STILL NOT A PERVERT SO DON'T GET THE WRONG IDEA! NO DA!

o_o; maybe I'm an exception...? I've never been judged by anyone for reading any kind of manga. ^^; Granted most of my friends are guys, but they really could care less. And even if I was to be judged for it, I still doubt I'd care

Yes I do that too...but I just say "For the record no I am not gay and yes I am reading a strange book where all the main characters die horrible deaths now go away I must continue to read" although I wouldn't actully say that...that usually happens when I'm in Zonaki Mode

i agree we shouldn't be judged on what we read or watch

Why did you add that pic to your post? Stick it in your sig if you really want it to appear in every post you make.

Anywyas I don't think gender really matters when it comes to maga and anime. both can enjoy then eaqualy.
Being judged on the content though is a diffrent matter. We all do it anyway, even if you think you don't. We judge people more by the content of the media they watch/read than the actual media itself.(By media I mean things like TV as one form of Media and books as another. not the News kind of Media.)

If you read a Manga that had racist overtones then I would judge you on that as equaly if you read a Novel with the same overtones.

im a boy and frankly i dont care . so what girls read manga. i dont get why people judge people on what they read.

I'm always just called a loser for reading any kind of manga, especially in school. Because most people who are actually going to critisize me for it is people I hardly know, so I don't usually pay any attension to it.