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My Neighbor Totoro
Ocean Waves
Only Yesterday
Ouran High School Host Club
Paradise Kiss
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Romeo x Juliet
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Serial Experiments Lain
To Heart
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Tokimeki Memorial
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I may burn for Final Fantasy, but I'm addicted to shoujo anime. What's the difference? Well, I'm so passionate about Final Fantasy that all anybody had to do is ask, "So, do you play videogames?" and then I'll be talking 500 miles an hour about the latest Final Fantasy game I've been playing, which Final Fantasy game I like best, which Final Fantasy game I hate, and what my hopes are for the upcoming Final Fantasy game. If you need empirical proof, just count the number of times I said "Final Fantasy" in this paragraph. There you go.
As for shoujo anime, I had to possess incredibly obnoxious amounts of it or I get the shakes. I won't hesitate to spend money just to get my grimy paws on new shoujo anime. Oh yeah, and if somebody tells me (or if I read on some site) that so-and-so is the greatest shoujo anime ever to grace the face of the earth, I have to have it or else it will eat away at me. So it will be a cruel joke to tell me that a title is really good when in reality it's not even worth the disc it was recorded on. Because I will search high and low to get it. Really.
But yeah, the difference between my Final Fantasy passion and my shoujo anime addiction is still not clear. But here's one way to distinguish between them: I may talk about Final Fantay to anybody who would listen, but it will take a long time for me to talk about how much I liked Sailor Moon and Fushigi Yuugi. There.
But shoujo anime consumes me. It consumes me so bad that I have shoebox after shoebox filled with them. I would spend hours cataloging them, alphabetizing them, reburning them, and relabelling them. What? That just means I'm anal retentive? Whatever. Hey, I don't catalog my library of books...
Over the years, my taste in anime has significantly narrowed. I already preferred shoujo anime to other genres of anime before. Now, I have become much less tolerant of any anime that doesn't have
1) A female
leading character
2) Decent romance
3) A good-looking male protagonist
and have
1) Sudden girlfriend
appearances
2) A female harem
3) Basically any love triangle where there's more girls than guys
4) Panty shots
5) Actually, any sort of female fanservice
Well. It sure helped me trim down my anime collection.
Spoiler
warning
Major spoilers ahead! In the given anime's synopsis, I would typically
talk about how the story starts and then give a general overview of the
series. It should be noted, though, that an anime would sometimes start
with a certain scene and then have flashbacks to something that happened
earlier. It could be a few days earlier, a few years earlier, or even
a lifetime earlier. The review would be quite vague, but I would be talking
about some elements of the story that might also take away some of the
suspense. But easily the biggest spoilers in these anime primers are the
favorite episode sections. Read at your own risk.
The synopses and the reviews also use a lot of anime terminology. Hopefully, they would be common enough to be understood contextually if not lexically. The sections also make references to other anime. If the characters are well-known, I probably won't elaborate about them too much. For example, I would talk about Usagi and would be implicitly referring to the heroine of Sailor Moon. But if the characters are relatively obscure, I would then provide some elaborations. And if you're still lost, you can always consult the otaku glossary.