cute girl doing the cute thing of pining for Chad

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>>287507535
If you don't like that you're a gay retard!

Yuri is just CGDCT but the T are other G.

how do you self insert into shoujo as a guy?

>>287507883
You could insert as Chad, or as the heroine if you can channel that wolf inside you, but I personally like self-inserting as the dad hyu-hyuing at his teenage daughter in love
Not Uka's dad though, Uka's dad is a pussy bitch

>>287507883
It's like how in Symphogear you're supposed to self-insert as Doctor Ver. In Shoujo you self-insert as the teacher berating the kids for enjoying the spring of their youth, or the NTR rapeguy creating drama out of thin air to waste half a year's worth of chapters, or the Dad embarrassing his daughter in front of her crush.

Personally I like self-inserting as the annoying dumbass male background character that exists just to show that the love interest "isn't like the other guys" by comparison

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>>287507883
I don't believe I self insert but there are male characters if you do self insert. You can self insert as the guy making the female lead go doki doki.

>>287507883
idk how do you self insert into a CGDCT?

>>287507883
It’s easy. Wait a sec, anon, dont tell me you’re one of those subhumans who are <181cm and doesnt have big hands?

>>287507883
How do you self insert into anything?
The male lead is a dude, there are other dudes, you are a dude, it's not that hard to figure out. Also this >>287508438 at least there are guys rather than not.

>>287507520
Okay you win, recommend me a shoujo manga without love triangles or male love rivals.

>>287507520
Dumb self-insert hetcuck

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>>287508609
Zekkyou Gakkyuu

>>287507883
You self insert as the guy mc-chan is having girlboners over, of course.

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>>287508609
You should read/watch Tamahoshi/A Star Brighter than the Sun. The anime is getting S2!
It's also a series where the male lead is just as earnest and nice as the protagonist, a lot of anons might like that. Wholesomeness overload
Honestly I don't think most of the shoujo I've watched had a love triangle, Honey Lemon Soda doesn't either?

>>287507520
but shoujo has men ewwww

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>>287509602
I like yuri as much as the next guy but het relationships are nice too.

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>>287509602
>shoujo has men

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>>287509646
>Why do I feel like this when I'm around him?

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>>287509681
>his hands are so big

>>287509725
Girls reading shoujo manga to learn about love and romance is one of my favorite anime tropes

>>287509773
What about boys reading shoujo manga to learn about love and romance?

>>287509852
boys learn about romance from DBZ, Naruto, etc

It is unreadable as a man unless they tone down the usual shoujo tropes.

>>287507569
>>287509646
Boyfags are insane.

>>287509888
Shoujofags give me the dirtiest most shameful shoujoshit where all the tropes are amped up and I'll try to read it.

>>287509861
No wonder they all ended up virgins

>>287507520
No. Shoujo is awful in 99% of cases.

>>287507520
But shoujo is full of useless crap like drama and sex.

>>287507520
Has anyone else noticed that in anime for men the girls have a range of personalities but in shojo all the guys are really similar

>>287510193
No? The guys in every shoujo series posted in this thread are all different.

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>>287510193
Anime for men doesn't have men.

>>287510193
Take the most popular shoujo from last season (Tamon-kun) and tell me how the guys are similar to each other

>>287510288
Wrong, that would mean most anime is for women.

>>287507883
The heroine would have to be literally me but most of the time they're intredasting so you don't self-insert.

>>287507883
Why do you have to self insert?

>>287510193
>in shojo all the guys are really similar
Women tend to template the main male love interest because that's what traditional romance for women does.
But they can make decent side-characters like Taira in Polar Opposites.
So it's really a problem of women having no mind to deviate from norms.

>>287507520
I'm excited for season 2

>>287507883
You imagine you're a nonexistent side character that follows the MC around explaining stuff, making wisecracks, helping with fights, hugging her when she cries, and grabbing her butt/tagging along for the onsen for some reason

>>287509888
The tropes are the best, especially old school Shoujo where there's always a fever dream part and age gaps

>>287507883
I don’t need to. The girls are cute, so that’s why you watch it.

>>287511751
This. Nu-shoujo lacks the high brow melodrama of old school shoujo, which takes half the fun out of it.

>>287511751
>>287512268
I think Shoujo got hit with the restriction stick sometime in the 2000s since 70s to 90s Shoujo was full of sex, dead minors, and various taboo topics that little girls ate up
Mangaka that would have written for old Shoujo seems to have migrated to Josei and Seinen nowadays
Apothecary Diaries, for example, would not have looked out of place in old Shoujo beside Fushigi Yuugi

>>287507520
CGDCT is basically an artificial genre built to extract pure cuteness out of highschool girls doing random cute stuff, and suck on it. Every single drop not wasted. Or you can think of it like this. Slice-of-life moments from shoujo get cut up, shuffled, and remixed into "mixtape" of SoL scenes, and that becomes CGDCT. More or less.Same thing happens on the shounen side. You get small pockets of romcom, comedy, and SoL moments inside battle manga, but perhaps less in the anime. Then you strip those moments out, glue them together, and suddenly you have a SoL comedy show (often aimed at girls), like Hetalia, Kuroko no Basuke's moements in their room (it's funny how they end the series with a SoL moment, not in the basketball court.)

But the biggest difference is camera focus. In something like Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki(romance aired last cour), the girl talk and boy talk scenes are fun, but the framing still stays centered on the FMC and MMC.The friends feel like droids or AI made to make the FMC/MMC cuter. The camera and the drama are fixated on them. Meanwhile, CGDCT and typical comedy SoL shows tend to distribute attention more evenly across characters, almost no hierarchy, no real center.

And honestly, the most annoying part of a lot of shoujo is how sickeningly sex brain they are.