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 |
| Angelic Layer | Rent | See Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer |
| Ask Dr Rin! | See Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite! (TV) | |
| B | ||
| Battle Doll Angelic Layer | Rent | See Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer |
| 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? |
 Chou-Gals! Kotobuki Ran |
Rent |
The day-to-day adventures of typical glitzed-out girls in Shibuya. |
| D | ||
 Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite! (TV) |
Kanzaki Meirin, a junior high school student, comes from a family of Feng Shui masters. Her powers are so strong that she has to hide them from her father, so that he never learns that she runs the web page of his greatest Feng Shui rival, Dr Rin! Only her older brother knows the truth. But Meirin is hiding a greater secret, that of her love for her childhood friend, fellow high school member and soccer club hero, Asuka Yuuki. If only he could trust the hidden powers of Feng Shui, for it always shows Meirin the best path to success and happiness. |
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| 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 | ||
| Gals, Super Gals! Kotobuki Ran | Rent | See Chou-Gals! Kotobuki Ran |
| K | ||
 Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer |
Rent |
Near future. "Angelic Layer" is a quite popular cyber-game where the players ("Deuses") control the little dolls filled with sophisticated technology ("Angels") with the power of their minds. Those "Angels" fight each other at the round-shaped arenas. They have different balance between speed, strength, vitality and so on. Misaki Suzuhara, 12 years old schoolgirl from Wakayama comes to her aunt in Tokyo to enter the school here. By the chance she sees Angelic fight and decides to try it herself. Misaki and her new speed-type Angel Hikaru throw their challenge... |
| M | ||
| Mobile Angel Angelic Layer | Rent | See Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer |
| P | ||
| Please Ask Dr. Rin! | See Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite! (TV) | |
| S | ||
| Sugar | Buy | See Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar |
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