real because I can’t think of a single one! they - shoujo or josei - always have romance tagged as one of the main genres, while shounen most often does not. I mean they are animanga without romance but it is never those two demographics which sucks since shoujo is aimed towards young girls
*^ animanga with female mc
daughter of a thousand faces is easily my favorite (ongoing) series. the main character isn’t perfect or overly calculating she has real flaws and feels genuinely human. her training arc is also super grounded. there are no time skips or sudden jumps in power. she starts off weak and you really see her struggle and grow. there’s no clear male lead, which i actually like. there are hints of romance imo but nothing is definite yet (still no clue who she might end up with, honestly lmao). if i had to compare her to someone, i’d say she reminds me of katara from atlab.
Yes I’m looking for something like the legend of Kora a shounen like story with a female mc, just minus the romance
i'll definitely look around when i have time! i just wanted to mention that daughter of a thousand faces doesn't contain any romance or implied romance. i initially thought there might be some because of a few comments i saw, but it turns out it's just speculation. i'll see if i can find something for you, though!
But I just watched little women and the quote “And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.” Just hit so hard her struggling to write while everyone around her is telling her to get married for her stories to have love. Idk if it’s the lack of asexual Shoujo and Josei writers but every fantasy, school life, mystery, drama, historical, with a female lead always has a very dominating story line male lead, for romance or other things. Like they’re so fleshed out just to be reduced to hey I’m gonna marry this clearly over powered male lead with a copy paste personality. Like I know Male centered stories have romance but it feels like a side story line since most of the time the romance is later or it’s about the mc mostly(which I’m not defending since I know the lack of female characters with personality is a scarcity in shounen) I just appreciate the plot focus on the story line not with romance. Of course I’m excluding the romance shounen and harem shounen. Which I can easily filter out. With shoujo it’s much harder. Like idk if they’re being forced to include romance or all writers of shoujo and Josei just have this need for a man in the story.
Like can I get some recs with a female main character who’s focused on their craft doesn’t have an overly dominating story line male lead. And isn’t clearly a fetishy story aimed towards men. Just a female mc and the story. Like I can’t think of one. Also no romance please.