#yeah sorry my tastes don't really lean shoujo-y usually sorry anon slkghsdf

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hey since u know about manga.. do you hace a manga recommendation? preferably shoujo?

excluding ao n/o flag bc i’ve yelled about it at length lMAO, and keeping in mind that i don’t actually read very much shoujo at all (if any?? i honestly don’t know what shimanami was classed as) so most of this list is technically shonen bc of the magazines that they were published in. also i haven’t actually read very much manga so there’s stuff i’ve heard is good that is not on this list bc i am terrible at actually reading anything loldoukyuusei: technically bl, but it’s a cute little high school love story thing. also v pretty. not much to say about it tbh but i like it shimanami tasogare: in the same vein as anf, probably THE lgbtq+ (general lgbtq+, there are those out there that are more focused on specific identities but this one covers literally everything) manga. pretty as hell, and gets very into the good and painful parts of being lgbtq in japan. author is also x-gender (the nonbinary-equivalent term used in japan) and aroace so they know what they’re talking about!! it’s good shit though the ending is unfortunately a bit abrupt since i think it got cancelled :(

tetsugaku letra: another one of those growing up stories, kid trades his basketball shoes for flamenco shoes and makes friends along the way. hard to describe this one tbh but it’s real pretty and and only 6 vols so it’s easy to read in an afternoon!

kanojo ni naritai kimi to boku: only one on this list that’s actually still ongoing (and it’s only like 20 chapters rn so it’s not particularly long yet), about a girl who’s been in love w her childhood best friend since they were kids and said childhood best friend being a trans girl trying to transition in high school and all the shit that entails. can’t say much about it yet bc, again, it’s not that long, but probably worth keeping up with!

a silent voice/koe no katachi: holy fuck. i don’t even know how to put into words why i love this manga so much but it just. damn. goddamn. it’s so real and honest about the trauma of childhood bullying and goes so in depth (in a SUPER sympathetic way) w depression and suicidality stuff and. god. god!!! i love knk so much. beck (called beck: mongolian chop squad in the us because of musical artist beck existing): this one is long as fuck (30+ volumes??) and honestly has kinda meh art until like halfway through, but it’s a really really interesting look into the rise of a band from formation, to playing their first gig, to getting signed to a label, etc. etc. i’m not a musician in any sense of the word but a lot of music people i know really love it bc it really does go into detail w everything that being a musician entails

boku dake ga inai machi: reccing the manga mildly over the anime even though i think you should probably watch the anime first lol. mid-20′s mangaka tries to solve a murder mystery that’s haunted him since he was a kid. there is so much more to it than that but if i try to talk about it at ALL i will spoil it so like. just trust me on that one it’s fuckin good. if you’re a ze fan in particular you will love this

also this is a very, VERY cautious rec because it’s absolutely not for everyone and there are so many fuckin problems i have with it but: yuureitou is a horror manga where two dudes try to solve the mystery of a hidden treasure. again, more to it than that, but it is absolutely a horror manga lmao. very gay, one of the leads is a trans guy (!!!!!) and absolutely none of the horror is Because he’s trans, he just is, but he is also sexualized to hell and back (like. worse than the girls who are there. it’s really bad) and theres uh. a lot of shit that makes me super wary about reccing it lmao. it’s a good read if you’re already into horror stuff but man. m a n