Shoujo romance starts off good

>shoujo romance starts off good
>halfway in thr author decides to introduce another male that steals the feMC
Why are female authors like this? Why must NTR be everywhere?

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It means female main character is truly desirable.

Shoujo is for girls. You're supposed to identify with the feMC, not with her male love interests. It's no different than le childhood friend losing the MCbowl in traditional harem.

Because no-one wants to pick the first guy. The first guy sucks. You want an exotic, rich, dangerous stranger to sweep you off your feet. If he doesn't work out, you can still go back to Guy A on the rebound.

I would have thought women reading shoujo romance wouldn't like this NTR stuff. The point of reading it is to fulfil their fantasy of meeting "the one" and forming a relationship with him.

>shoujo romance
You did this to yourself. What were you even expecting?

>I would have thought women reading shoujo romance wouldn't like this NTR stuff
Do you like it when your genki/dere childhood friend loses the mcbowl? It's the same thing, they don't give a fuck. The raison d'être behind harem/shoujo is the feeling of being wanted and that's it. It doesn't matter who wins and who loses.

Shoujo's all about misunderstandings, love triangles and drama. Josei is generally the same, but also with rape. On rare occasions you'll also get some weirdly pure ones (like a heterosexual couple of 30 year old virgins) that I honestly can't wrap my head around other than as a worksafe proxy for lesbianism.

It's not NTR if YOU'RE the one looking for your true love.

It happens quite often. You tend to root for side characters even though your self-insert is supposed to be the MC.

>shoujo romance starts off good
Doubt.

>NTR
You morons have made this word completely useless for both people who want to avoid content with it and people who want to seek it out.

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Okay what is ntr and what is it not?

It's only NTR if they're officially in a relationship.

no

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>feMC
You pathetic self-inserters prove time and time again that “the m.c.” is just a word you use for “my self-insert” to avoid having to actually use his name, so as to not be reminded that he's a different character from you.

And the second one is “the one” here, just like Botan.

For pathetic virgin self-inserters it means “thee is a pathetic virgin in the plot, and there is at least one character who had sex with someone other than this character.

Why are they always rapey and possessive? I would think that's genuinely disturbing, but it happens in every shoujo series.

women love that shit, read the comments to any shoujo romance chapter where the rapey ML shows up, they get wetter than the niagra falls

The love interest is just as rapey in boy's romance.
The only difference is that in girl's romance it's typically not trivialized and dismissed but actually portrayed as tense and a character flaw.

Obviously these aren't absolutes and it also happens sometimes in boy's romance, but those are typically written by female auctors.

To generate drama and conflict. Bonus points for smut. In the end, despite the desperate push to pretend that shoujos are better and more mature than other 'boys genre' the majority of shoujos follow the same formula typical harems or battle shounens:

"Meet Kageno, the super dull, glasses wearing, short first year high school girl. She has no friends and envies people who are enjoying their youth. Meet Mitsunaga Youta, the most popular handsome guy in school."

Always the same structure. Average/dull/plain/ordinary guy (girl if shoujo) with popular (probably rich too) girl (guy if shoujo), return of a childhood friend, the bold-never-have-a-chance girl (this is reversed in shoujo, when the passive ones are the ones with less chances). Don't forget the transfer student or exes.

shoujo with cute JS>shoujo with rapey boy

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>the majority of shoujos follow the same formula typical harems or battle
No, they don't, for one:

>To generate drama and conflict
This is indeed what it thrives on which is commonly absent in boys' romance.
Thee's some girls' romance with outright harems, but it's far less common and friendless protagonists are nonexistent.

Is the love interest super good looking? Yeah, of course, but so is the protagonist most of the time and it's indeed usually about drama, conflict, and mixed emotions, not wish fullfilment and power phantasies and most importantly, the protagonist is pretty much never improbably dense but rather very often conflicted.

NTR makes my heart race. I love NTR. There's no better feeling than the despair of having your loved one stolen by someone better than yourself.

> the protagonist is pretty much never improbably dense but rather very often conflicted.

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>No, they don't
Yes, of course. Majority of shoujos are entirely unique actually.

I know little about genre but i just switched "shoujo" tag on a website and read chapter one of first manga and it was plain girl x ikemen, i decided to check around a bit more and second manga i found was about popular girl, but she's secretly plain otaku at home, third one is plain girl x ikemen and she had no friends, so i dunno man i think its a bit like male harems in a way, mc is closer to normal or average for broad appeal, not always, but there's plenty that are like that.
Also first guy seems to always have some mental issues, from just always faking a smile, emotionaly distant, to one very funny manga where guy had a thing for punching main character, he just had a fits of tard rage at which he punched main heroine, then second guy gets introduced and he was a manwhore, heroine was plain girl, but magically gave boners to male cast when they saw her suffering, i'm really regretting i forgot the name of this one, it was hysterical.

>Rapey
>but it happens in every shoujo series
Not in Fruits Basket, Akatsuki no Yona, Kimi ni Todoke, Ao Haru Ride, Lovely Complex, Akagami no Shirayukihime, OHSHC, Yumeiro Patissiere, Special A, Skip Beat, Kamisama Hajimemashita, the dude in Itazura na Kiss is an asshole but he isn't rapey. It's more common in flop shoujo manga who will never get an anime adaptation. The possessive part is usually true though.

apart from the already addressed misuses of terms here
it's like shounenshit
shoujo is plagued by the same retarded shit in the same it's recycled to no end because the audience is just as basic
10 yr olds who want to read about the stupidest things instead of something that makes sense
seinen and josei are that with edge, and they both do it because hurr durr we need to be more adult

Zig Forums will say some shit like all women love it, but not all do. It's just what sells in Japan for some reason, and it sucks. I'll check out some of the ones here

Sorry I meant "I'd." Lovely Complex is my favorite.