#7 seeds

[arataka-reigen]

hello!! i saw the tags on your pinned post abt how shoujo wasn't just romance and it got me curious bc i've read some nice shoujo but really dislike romance-heavy plots. are there any shoujos you like that don't have much or any romance in them? ty and i hope you have a good day! 💛

Oh, there are lots of mangas that are classified as shoujo and don't have romance!!

I am just now beginning my journey through shoujo as well, so I don't have a lot of recommendations for stuff I actually read, but the ones I did read or watch so far are:

Natsume Yuujinchou and basically anything else by its author, Yuki Midorikawa. Sometimes, her works do include romance, but the focus is almost always in the interpersonal relationships and the difficulties her characters go through in life. NatsuYuu is about an orphan boy who can see yokai, and for that reason he acts in "weird" ways and his foster families dislike him, so he keeps going from family to family. The story is about how he finds a good family who accepts and loves him, makes friends, and learns to make friends even with yokais.

There are currently 6 anime seasons out, and a 7th season is on its way, so you can either read the manga or watch the anime.

Akatsuki no Yona - i mean, this one does include romance, but i'll still put it on the list because as far as the anime went the focus is heavy on Yona's actual journey to gather the dragons of legend to be able to recover the kingdom that was stolen from her. It shows how Yona goes from a sheltered spoiled girl to a person befitting the title of dragon king.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom - this one is the og villainess isekai and it truly deserves the hype. It is about a girl who wakes up in the child body of the villainess of her favorite otome game. She remembers that the villainess' fate in the game was always either death or exile, so she tries her hardest to change her fate. This one is classified as a reverse harem, but the main character is pretty oblivious and worries more about farming and eating sweets and generally being the best girl ever than actually worrying about romance. Aro ace queen tbh. And her harem is just happy to be with her and be dragged along for her stupid adventures. Plus, the female members of her harem are taken seriously as well, Mary is a raging lesbian and it is not subtext. I mean, it is a shoujo, so of course the female characters would be important lol.

Usagi Drop - listen to me. You will absolutely not look for anything related to this manga. If you like the premise you can watch the anime. But, please, do not look for the manga. You will only be extremely disappointed by it. That being said, I recommend the anime. It is about a man who returns home for his grandfather's funeral and then finds out his grandfather had an illegitimate daughter who has now become an orphan. He ends up having to take care of her because the rest of the family considers her a shame to the family.

Now, for the stuff I havent seen yet, I'll just write some that are on my "plan to read" list and put their genres next to their names so you can check it out if you think the genre's sound interesting:

7 Seeds (drama, horror, psychological, sci fi, survival)

Requiem of the Rose King (drama, historical, supernatural, gender identity)

Basara (drama, fantasy, adventure) (i think this one has romance, but from what i've heard, the main character's story is a lot deeper as she takes her brother's identity in order to fight against the king who killed her brother, it is pretty famous and considered a classic)

Ghost Hunt (horror, mystery, psychological, supernatural)

Helter Skelter (horror, psychological)

My Stepmother and Stepsisters aren't Wicked (comedy, historical, slice of life)

Ikoku Nikki (drama) (this one is the one i'm currently most interested on, i hear it's about a distant woman who's never had a good relationship with her sister and now has to take care of her teenage niece because her sister died)

Itsuwari no Freya (crossdressing, historical)

Limit (drama, psychological, school) (this one sounds incredible tbh, on a field trip their bus gets into an accident and only 5 girls remain, having to learn to survive and trying to assert themselves over one another because they hate each other.)

Machida-kun no sekai (school)

Mitarai-ke, Enjou suru (drama) (the main character wants to infiltrate the household of the family who blamed her mother for a fire, in order to prove her mother's innocence)

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (comedy)

Uramichi Oniisan (comedy, showbiz, workplace)

Usotoki Rhetoric (mystery, historical)

Don't Call It Mystery (mystery)

If anyone has more things to recommend I would also love to hear about it!!

[ceyskywalker]

THIS SEQUENCE

the expression of the feelings without dialogue or any background setting, just by body language and face features alone. unmatched

[aqua-fluminis]

hey hey, long time no fanart of distressed children! the horror aspects are some of my favourite bits of 7 Seeds, even though I'm not even a big horror fan or anything, but this scene is my roman empire at this point

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: 7 SEEDS Artist: Tamura Yumi Publication: Gekkan Flowers (05/2013) Details: Tamura Yumi 30th Anniversary Postcard Calendar (January) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[ladyloveandjustice]

anime really tapped into something powerful with the scarily devoted gay light-haired boy with loose morals and a likely body count.

[highresshojosei]

7SEEDS by Yumi Tamura || Volumes 1-9

[sleepless-miles]

7SEEDS, by Tamura Yumi

[haveyoureadthismanga-poll]

[obscureanimeoftheday]

Obscure Anime of The Day:

7 Seeds

Aired: 2019

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, SciFi, Shoujo

[avocadotoast0]

I feel like if Requiem of the rose king hadn’t been a shoujo and 7 Seeds a josei, there’s no way these studios would have butchered them so badly. It’s such a shame because these are some of the best written manga I’ve read, especially 7 Seeds (A literal Masterpiece).

If their adaptations had been good and successful, it probably would have opened so many doors for shoujo and josei outside of the romance genre to get animated.

[mercyll]

[blog-withcass]

H is for Hana from 7seeds, one of the best manga in the world by one of the best mangaka in the world

[stackslip]

in so many usamerican or british post-apocalyptic stories, characters finding former landmarks is like, a way for the audience to recognize these things and be shocked by their deterioration/loss, but often the actual characters don't look impacted at all. which is why i really appreciate that in 7 seeds characters recognize these landmarks as personal things--they saw it in a book, they went there on a school trip, their house was thirty minutes away, they used to draw it all the time as a kid, they hated that place, they loved that place, and it's gone now, all of it. you can't even find home anymore because it's long gone and destroyed and underwater, but seeing this place that you were so used to being part of your everyday life absolutely shatters you and this is where you realize that it's all gone and you can't ever go back to what you knew and loved and hated

[generaterandom]

More Drawtectives in the 7Seeds post-apocalypse doodles ft. the end to Eugene’s misadventures in parenting! A man dies but since when have the trio cared all that much about people dying

Ango and Koruri are both gonna have breakdowns later about the fact that Eugene got to bring his entire found family with him into the future

My first batch of doodles (which is much more Summer B focused) is here :)

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: 7 SEEDS Artist: Tamura Yumi Publication: Gekkan Flowers (05/2013) Details: Tamura Yumi 30th Anniversary Postcard Calendar (August) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[fancylala7]