Shojo romance stories are something that I've found vastly under-represented in main-steam animation. Even those of the Genre that are considered vastly influential and popular like Fruits Basket and Ouran High School Host club received anime adaptations that are lack-luster to say the very least. It is exceedingly rare in the first place that any Manga adaptation actually covers the story in whole, and even more so for Shojo-romance stories. And so, I was utterly ecstatic …

Season after season, it is easy to see that exclusively female-targeted shows are exceedingly rare. The few that appear are almost always visual-novel or shoujo manga adaptations. This simple fact is not the problem. The issue that I have come across is that however masterfully crafted the original works may be, it is always up to the Animation Studio that picks up the property to be the face of the product as Anime adaptations have a much further reach in this industry.
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