Not a genre but actually a demographic. Refers to anime based on manga that was originally serialized in a magazine targeting girls of any age. American fans seem to often be confused and classify any show that has romance and/or major female main characters as shoujo-- this is wrong.
Anime based on manga targeting young women would be called josei. (though very little of the manga targetting young women gets made into anime-- the only ones I can think of are Ebichu and Momoiro Sisters.)
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| A Little Snow Fairy Sugar | Buy | See Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar |
| C | ||
 Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar |
Buy |
Saga is a normal school girl living in Europe. She has everything planned down to the smallest details for her daily life and she works very hard (in addition to being very musical). Her friends love her for this and her self-appointed rival Greta does not. Things are fine until one day on the way home, Saga discovers something small, ultra cute, and very hungry -- the apprentice snow fairy named Sugar. Humans normally can't see fairies but in this case Saga can. Having fed the hungry fairy, Sugar has attached herself to Saga like a lost puppy. And when Sugar's friends and fellow apprentices Salt and Pepper join the scene to look for the elusive "Twinkles", what's a girl to do? |
 Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar Summer Special |
Rent |
Saga is now 17 and the Hammond Theater Troupe is coming back to town. When she comes home one day, her grandma finds a dress of Saga's from when she was in grade school and played a princess in a school play. She played the princess while rival Greta played a wicked witch. This play inspired Sugar-tachi to make a play of their own. Will Saga get over her stage fright? |
 Chou! Kuse ni Narisou |
Avoid | Ranma 1/2 wanna be |
| E | ||
| Earth Defender Mao-chan | Rent | See Rikujyou Bouei Tai Mao-chan |
| F | ||
 Fruits Basket |
Buy |
Tooru Honda is a 16-year old girl living in a tent in the nearby mountain woods. Her father died when she was very young and her mother had just recently died in a car accident. Not wanting to put her grandfather (on her father's side) out while his house is being renovated, she told him she would stay with friends so no one knows she's living in a tent. In the meantime, she goes to school and works her part-time job on a cleaning crew so that she can pay her high school tuition (in Japan, high school is like college in the US). |
| Furuba | Buy | See Fruits Basket |
| Furuutsu Basuketo | Buy | See Fruits Basket |
| G | ||
| Ground Defense Force Mao-chan | Rent | See Rikujyou Bouei Tai Mao-chan |
| I | ||
| I'll make a habit of it | Avoid | See Chou! Kuse ni Narisou |
| M | ||
| Mao-chan | Rent | See Rikujyou Bouei Tai Mao-chan |
| R | ||
 Rikujyou Bouei Tai Mao-chan |
Rent |
Mao-chan is an 8-year old girl who wants to defend Japan from the evils of those ever-so-cute aliens that just keep landing from outer space. Fortunately her grandfather is in charge of the Ground Defense Force and so Mao-chan and two other 8-year old girls (Silvia-chan and Misora-chan) are given the task to defend Japan's ground, air, and sea. Cute girls to fight cute aliens thanks to alien technology left by the turtle Tamo-chan (Love Hina) which transforms the girls into "magical" girls. Why are the cute aliens invading Earth? |
| S | ||
| Sugar | Buy | See Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar |
| Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy | Buy | See Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar |
| Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy Summer Special | Rent | See Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar Summer Special |
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