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Shoujosei (Shoujo and Josei) Anime & Donghua to look forward to in 2024
With the return of Kimi no Todoke after 12 years, I welcome all to the Shoujo renaissance! Let’s roll on the hype train! (MyAnimeList links are in titles)
Winter Anime Season (January - March)
Momochi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji Airs January 6th
Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsu suru Airs January 7th
Isekai de Mofumofu Nadenade suru Tame ni Ganbattemasu Airs January 1st
Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san Airs January 8th
Yubisaki to Renren Airs January 6th
Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon: Watashi no Shiawase na Katachi Airs March 15th
Gekai Elise Airs January 10th
Akuyaku Reijou Level 99: Watashi wa Ura-Boss desu ga Maou dewa Arimasen Airs January 9th
Wonderful Precure Airs February 4th
Ensemble Stars!! Tsuioku Selection Checkmate Airs March 10th
Spring Anime Season (April - June)
Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai Airs April 4th
Vampire Dormitory Airs April 7th
Touken Ranbu Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji Airs April 2nd
Rabbits Kingdom the Movie Airs June 14th
Summer Anime Season (July-September)
Senpai wa Otokonoko Airs in July
Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai: Kyou kara Jiyuu na Shokunin Life Airs in July
Kimi ni Todoke 3rd Season Airs in August
Fall Anime Season (October - December)
Hoshifuru Oukoku no Nina Airs in October
Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naru zo: Akuyaku Reijou ni Naru hodo Ouji no Dekiai wa Kasoku suru you desu! Airs in October
Natsume Yuujinchou Shichi Airs in October
Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi Airs in October
Haigakura Airs in October
2024 Date TBA
Mahoutsukai Precure! 2
Acro Trip
Yarinaoshi Reijou wa Ryuutei Heika wo Kouryakuchuu
Mófă gongzhu de xiao fánnăo
Yeosin Gangnim
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie - Walpurgisnacht: Rising
Shoujosei Anime & Donghua in Development (as of 2023)
Continuing this idea from last year, here are the known shows and movies with pending release dates. This post will constantly be updated during 2023 until January 1st 2024. Remember to support when these shows eventually come out!
With a new year comes a new post from Yours Truly! And this year, us fans are getting an actual year of shows to look forward to! Thank you all for your support that has brought these anime! Please continue to show the love this year and onwards!
This was previously part of my ‘Shoujo and Josei Anime/Donghua to look forward to in 2022’ post but it became too long after so many announcements so I’ve made it into it’s own post!
Here’s the link to that post in case you’re interested: Link
We are finally being noticed and fed! Please support these when they eventually come out!
Shoujo & Josei anime/donghua to look forward to in 2022
This year we see the continuation of several series, a reboot (yay mew mew!), a prequel, two new josei adaptions (ultra rare!) and two new shoujo adaptions thanks to everyone’s support.
there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday
all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):
- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)
- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)
- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)
- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained
+ stop asian hate gofundme
+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)
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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]
ive been reading and learning things about whats going on in minneapolis for a good 4 hours and heres all the cold hard facts ive collected so far in case yall dont have the time or the energy to double check everything youve been seeing
George Floyd was executed on camera after being arrested for suspected forgery (a suspicious $20 bill); he was compliant and told the 4 officers he couldn't breathe under the weight of officer Derek Chauvin's knee on his neck, which could be heard and understood by the bystanders filming the incident but did not move any of the 4 officers to stop/intervene.
The paramedics, after arriving on the scene, had to reach under Derek Chauvin's knee to check Floyd's pulse. By the time he had removed his knee, it had been a full 8 minutes, the final 3 of which he had already gone still.
The initial police reports of the incident were at best inaccurate and at worst outright lies. Floyd was described as "suffering medical distress" as they put him in handcuffs and that he "resisted arrest."
After the video surfaced highlighting how disgustingly false this was, they changed the narrative to "man dies after medical incident during police interaction."
All 4 officers were quickly fired, but not charged (however Chauvin just recently was taken into custody for 3rd degree murder)
Protests calling for justice were met with rubber bullets and tear gas fired into crowds (police were the first to turn the protests violent) beginning tuesday
An undercover protester, potentially identified as a St. Paul police officer, attempted to ignite riots by smashing the windows of an autozone as actual protesters told him to stop. He was dressed in all black with an umbrella (it wasn't raining) and tactical boots. People noted that broken glass provoking more vandalism is a known and understood phenomenon in the field of criminal justice.
Rioting, vandalism, and looting began as buildings were set on fire, including the precinct the 4 officers operated from. A local Target refused to sell milk to tear gas victims, and has now been all but destroyed.
A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, a poc, was arrested on live television, in an area secured by police and devoid of protesters, after identifying himself and voluntarily complying with their wishes. The reason given was that they were told to move and did not comply (a lie, as noted by the reporters commentating the live broadcast). A white CNN reporter nearby, however, was left alone.
A border protection predator drone circled the city today with no official explanation.
Trump tweeted that "looting leads to shooting," a quote from a 60s miami police chief notorious for civil rights abuses and even welcoming claims of police brutality. Twitter flagged it with a warning that it glorified violence.
Protests have spread to other cities throught the U.S. including Louisville, Memphis, L.A., and more, in response to similar and/or identical systemic issues of racial discrimination and brutality.
Police responses have varied in violence and intensity in each location; one police cruiser drove into the crowd in L.A., and seven people were shot in Louisville.
Minneapolis introduced a curfew to bring an end to the riots, calling in the national guard.
I hope I didn't miss any crucial details. If you are protesting today, make sure to leave anything capable of tracking you at home and that you are wearing a mask (for the virus, tear gas, and anonymity). Please be safe.
(Disclaimer: this isn’t an expert opinion but just what I’ve seen work for other fandoms. Apologises as this will be a long post).
The problem is Shoujo and Josei doesn’t get more attention. Anime adaptations are few and even though Shoujo Isekai mangas are amazing, most people in the anime community consider Isekai to be already oversaturated that they don’t give it a chance. The question is: how do us fans get more anime adaptations? More light novels given manga adaptations? More anime convention panels? More official merch? Basically, more attention? The answer is
Watching new seasonal anime as soon as it’s available. Why? Because legal (yes guys unfortunately free sites don’t count) streaming sites like Crunchyroll, Funimation, VRV etc. record the number of people who watch anime on their platform by episode and if they see that a particular anime gets views immediately a new episode is live, of course they are going to continue to support it and relay their stats to the original anime studio. I know these sites have lots of ads (I hate it too) and some only allow VIP subscribers to watch an episode as soon as it launches, that’s fine as long as you can watch the episode when it becomes free for you. Pro tip: the more people the better! Message your friends, your cousins, anyone you know that can check the episode out for a few minutes. And rate the episode if you can after you’re done!
By trending. Do you know how many times I’ve logged in here and saw some manga trending and decided “Might as well check out what the fuss is about”? Trending on any social media platform shows something interesting happened to the point that many people want to talk about it and this can attract new people to the fandom. Also, to be able to get so many people talking shows that the fandom is big or at least gives that illusion. It doesn’t have to be written posts, even fanart, tagging a picture of merch you have that you like or any contribution regardless of if you think it’s good or not is better than nobody engaging.
Giving high ratings on MAL. I’m pretty sure most have heard what happened to Chihayafuru Season 3 but if you haven’t, to summarise Chihayafuru 3 had been given great ratings on My Anime List to the point that it became one of the top rated anime in the Autumn 2019 season. However, this irritated some who believed other anime deserved the spot more and they started giving 1 star ratings on purpose until it lost it’s spot. The MAL team had to work hard to delete these reviews and bring the balance back (which I think has been restored but don’t quote me on that). MAL is a anime database that, just like Crunchyroll, records what anime/manga people are watching, plan to watch and already done with. Lots of people pay attention to their stats when they announce what the highest rated anime is etc. Therefore, giving high reviews to anime or manga you liked and making recommendations on the site won’t go unnoticed.
Buying light novels/manga volumes. Yeah, y’all knew this was coming. Supporting the authors financially is always the best way to draw more attention to a fandom because it shows the series is profitable. Notice how I didn’t put this first? Because a lot of people may not have the money to support at a given time (I’m a student so I only get to work during seasonal periods). English translations are also very hard to come by so when an official English translation is published, buy it if you’re able to, even if it’s just one volume you can afford. As far as reading online, I wish so much that Shojo Beat had its own app like Shonen Jump does, but only shoujo manga. Until that happens, there are others apps to read manga on. Particularly for Isekai, there’s Webnovel, Tapas and Tappytoon. If you’re more interested in Chinese manhua Webcomics, WeComics and Mangatoon have more than other apps. In case smut is more you style Coolmic and Renta are what you need. I chose these apps because money spent there gets back to the authors but there are probably many more apps out there. Some these give daily currency so if you can get something to read if you log in frequently.
Watching convention panels and other streams. So there’s a con on and you can’t go. Doesn’t matter! If there is a live broadcast, make sure to tune in and leave a comment. Views on each panel are recorded too so if lots of people tuned in for a panel, the planners would consider hosting a similar one the next time. But what if the panel is in a language you don’t understand? Comment anyway! I feel that English speakers comment less because the speakers might not understand them. However, showing appreciation for the creator of your favorite series shows them that they’ve got more people out there rooting for them.
So there you have it. That’s all I can think of at the moment. Like I said this is just what I’ve personally seen and think works, if there’s anything I missed please comment and if you already do all of this, I mean no insult or offence. Now back to my hermit hole!