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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.

A shoujo manga means a comic published in a magazine targeted towards the young female demographic (under 18) in Japan.

Josei manga with a Male Protagonist: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/42856

A shoujo manga means a comic published in a magazine targeted towards the young female demographic (under 18) in Japan.

Josei means a comic published in a magazine targeted towards the adult female demographic in Japan.

This is a list of all the Shojo and Josei manga licensed by eManga (Digital Manga Publishing) that I could find. However, they have an extremely large BL and GL selection that I didn't look through entirely, so if that is of interest, they are marked as specific sections on their website and have their own imprints (June and Lilyka which merged with eManga). DMP/eManga has been around a long time and many of these titles are Out of Print.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/56786

Some titles without MAL database entries:
- Marin by Miyoko Satomi (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/5n4d52s/marin)
- Wild Knight: Knight of The Seal (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/znygacw/fuuin-no-kishi)
- Your Gentle Hand (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/u8lvcq5/kimi-no-yasashii-te)
- Don't Tell My Husband (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/i7ezcc4/hakoiri-oku-sama)
- Ai Ribbon (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/65vly38/ai-ribbon)
- A Spiritual Boy (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/4ero6gu/spiritual-danshi)
- Mizuki (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/e0l7w3d/mizuki)

*Brave 10 is a Saiyuki situation where part was published as seinen while the other part was published as Josei.

I tried to compile an extensive list of the English Licensed Shojo and Josei manga titles where romance is a sub-plot at best, if present at all (many of these don't have any romance present).

Part 1-dark/horror/thriller: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/my
Part 3-Sci-fi/Historical/Mystery: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57098
Part 4-Cute Stories: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57096
Part 5-Character dramas/Modern Real-life Japan: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57100