As title states, this is my personal response to Classified Info's "Why male characters often push away willing girls?". This is neither parody nor corruption of that thread but more like my personal opinion/views on shoujo romance.
I know I should judge entire shoujo genre by seeing at least one of them but Yumeiro Patissire(am I spelled it right?) is the latest anime that makes my blood boil, in bad way. I wonder why the red-haired heroine ignores nicer green-haired boy and went straight to the ignorant blonde-haired boy What worse she also seems to forget how many times the green-haired one helped her(along with purple haired boy who also nice to her as well). What makes my blood boil is YP is a shoujo show aimed for preteen girls, rather than older ones. I'm not even touching the ones made for older girls and young women like "smut" and such. I'm sure this trend got even worse.
I hate to say this but please make sure you don't bring reverse harem in our discussion, like Ouran High School Host Club and Fruit Basket for examples. For me Ouran is nothing but shoujo parody of popular shounen harems like an unpopular guy meet bunch of beautiful girls and each with pros and cons, Ouran only reversed the gender. If there is a shounen/seinen version of Ouran and I bet it will not be as popular.
I know I should judge entire shoujo genre by seeing at least one of them but Yumeiro Patissire(am I spelled it right?) is the latest anime that makes my blood boil, in bad way. I wonder why the red-haired heroine ignores nicer green-haired boy and went straight to the ignorant blonde-haired boy What worse she also seems to forget how many times the green-haired one helped her(along with purple haired boy who also nice to her as well). What makes my blood boil is YP is a shoujo show aimed for preteen girls, rather than older ones. I'm not even touching the ones made for older girls and young women like "smut" and such. I'm sure this trend got even worse.
I hate to say this but please make sure you don't bring reverse harem in our discussion, like Ouran High School Host Club and Fruit Basket for examples. For me Ouran is nothing but shoujo parody of popular shounen harems like an unpopular guy meet bunch of beautiful girls and each with pros and cons, Ouran only reversed the gender. If there is a shounen/seinen version of Ouran and I bet it will not be as popular.