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for me from the begining shoujo and josei did suck, the female protagonist is always kind of shy idiot and low self stemmed and the male protagonist is almost always a chauvinist so I got to yaoi with time, I do read 1 or 2 webtoon in a year about female x male but not a common thing for me anymore ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
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I personally think that there are some great josei out there, although not enough. Some of my favourite series ever are josei, after all. I adore BL, and I do love GL although I'm I'm not well versed in it become BL found me first (^^;;) I wish there were more good josei out there. There's some really interesting female protags out there, y'know? My favourite of them is Yankumi, from a series called Gokusen. I adore that series to bits~♪
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used to be like this. though even before reading yaoi, the most shoujo werent my taste- so I find yaoi (or it found me^^). now I also like shoujo but only the more diffent ones? when they are good, I really do enjoy them a lot.
some people say they are total the same (only diff is gender) but I dont think so. I think the 'construction' is still diffrent. also in shoujo you often have this soft bubbles or something in the background, often a 'close up' on the female face when there is a supposted to be shocking moment lol
Or am I just weird. So cuz I read a lot of yaoi I can’t read boy x girl anymore, and if I do I can’t read/see it as it used to be. So I just don’t read it anymore and I only read a few.