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Shoujo manga magazines typically feature stories with female leads: the character whose perspective and inner thoughts primarily narrate the story to the audience.

The manga collected in this stack are original works serialized in these same shoujo magazines, but instead feature a male leading character. Story plots can fall into any genre and vary widely, including Romance, Adventure, Horror, or Comedy.

Please note Boys Love (BL) stories and male casts with heavy BL subtext are excluded from this stack. Manga serialized in josei magazines are also excluded as there are specific publications which have a higher tendency to feature only male characters.

When some people hear the phrase "shoujo manga", the first image that comes to their mind is high school romance with cookie-cutter characters and the same melodrama recycled over and over again. Frequently they say to me, "I don't like shoujo"—as if an entire demographic of manga magazines that have been publishing for decades are only capable of writing one type of story.

This stack exists to dispel the stereotypical image of shoujo manga.

Long before the current isekai boom directed towards the male demographic, shoujo magazines in the 1990s were serializing grand adventures where female leading characters were transported to other worlds and faced adversity. At approximately the same time (late 1980s), shoujo manga titles were at the forefront of the reincarnation boom, where main characters living in the modern day discovered they had memories from the past.

Epic tales and past lives aside, manga written for the female demographic tend to emphasize character development before plot. This means good series excel at making the characters' emotions transparent to the reader and their progression or growth feel natural. When the leading character is male instead of female, this can also be very refreshing.

This list is curated from manga I've read and will not include every available title. It will be updated over time. If there is a manga you think that should be added, please feel free to leave a comment on my profile and I'll check it out~

This stack is full and soon will be split, for better readability.

The Meiji era spanned from 1868 to 1912, a period of modernization for Japan. When after 250+ years of self-imposed isolation (Sakoku), Japan came into contact with Western culture and got inspired by it. This period combines Japanese traditional culture with 19th century and early 20th century Western culture.

Recommended manga/manhwa that hasn't been adapted yet into anime part 30

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/5329
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6746
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6748
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55028
Part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55029
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55030
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55031
Part 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60035
Part 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60034
Part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60044
Part 11: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/60043
‎Part 12: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62517
‎Part 13: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62633
‎Part 14: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62635
‎Part 15: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/64116
Part 16: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75737
Part 17: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75739
Part 18: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75742
Part 19: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75744
Part 20: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75925
Part 21: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75941
Part 22: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76030
Part 23: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75923
Part 24: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76105
Part 25: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76028
Part 26: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75939
Part 27: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75926
Part 28: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76029
Part 29: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75933
Part 31: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/75924
Part 32: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76375
Part 33: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76436
Part 34: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76503
Part 35: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76508
Part 36: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/76952