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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.

Part 1 -https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6823
Part 2- https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7370
Part 4 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9506
Part 5 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9550

Free on Book Walker - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9163
Manga on Comixology Unlimited - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9505

2 part where there will be sleeves of 7 volumes or more for the most veterans in the 7u7 fetish.
Returning to the concept, one of the main characters (usually the male) wears glasses.
Almost all of them will be shoujo demography but there will still be some other shounen that I remember, enjoy
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2 parte donde estarán mangas de 7 tomos o más para los más veteranos en el fetiche 7u7.
Retomando el concepto consiste en que uno de los personajes principales (normalmente el masculino) use lentes.
En su casi totalidad serán demografía shoujo pero igual estarán alguno que otro shounen de los que yo recuerde, disfruten

Only manga with kanojo in the title...(I cheated on some of them)

Gintama? Ichi the Killer? Gantz? Bleach? GTO? Not today, ma'am

These are all shoujo manga (manga targeted towards girls and young women) featuring male protagonists/main characters
[The following list includes series of VARIOUS genres]

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[Not on MAL]

-She’s My Knight
-Hunting Summer
-Ai wo Kataru nara Hisoyaka ni

Keyword: social anxiety, hikikomori, NEET, inferiority complex, autism, introvert, recluse, social outcast, shy characters, unsociable characters, awkward male lead, awkward female lead, clumsy protagonist, loner protagonist, unpopular protagonist, dandere, bookworm, misfits, nerd, nerdy female lead, insecure, anxious characters, lonely people, naive female lead, innocent female lead, diffidence, social isolation, solitude, socialisation, narcissism, psychopath, sociopath, anti-social protagonist, misanthrope, Asperger syndrome, schizoid personality disorder, embarrassing situation, loneliness, mental illness, otaku, crybaby male lead, depression, unrequited love, weak male lead, antihero, antiheroine, social phobia, shy protagonist, socially awkward character, socially clueless character.

These shoujo mangas were the representation of shoujo demographic back then, mostly around 2007~2015 (the golden era).
There could be more if this is not an only-shoujo-not-josei stack and older ones (00s).
The last three is somewhat newer manga but made some impact and/or just straight up really good ones.

Romances where at least one of the characters plays video games. I've excluded harems, isekai, and light novels.
This is certainly not an exhaustive list, so if I missed anything, make sure to tell me.

From multiple sources, like Drama wiki, Wikipedia, Google research results, @shoujocrave on Twitter, my own memory, the "Adapted from a manga" tag from MyDramaList and this specific list: https://mydramalist.com/list/61GEm7o3


Josei edition: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39613

Genre of romance with a loner mc as protagonist or male lead. Anti-social/introvert. Those last two words are there for the search.

I know of more that aren't in the stack right now. Some are in the pending queue ( like this: https://myanimelist.net/manga/142728/Inchara_na_Ore_to_Icha_Tsukitaitte_Majika_yo ) and others dont appear to be in the database at all. If you want to know the names of some of those just message me and Ill tell you the titles.

Also if theres any that are missing from the stack I dont know about, message me and Ill add them.

Pt 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39921

Pt 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/45037

A list of the shojo and josei with some amount of volumes available through Kindle Unlimited. The number of volumes ranges between 1, the first 3, half, or all of a series.

part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/56698

A list of all the digital-only english licenses for Shojo and Josei manga by Kodansha. This does include some titles that received print-runs from now-defunct publishers like Old Tokyopop or Del Rey Manga. Depending on what they announce the list will be edited accordingly.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/56730
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/56738

*The Cloistered Princess and the Royal Groom is also a kodansha Shojo digital-only title, but I didn't have room for it on this list (https://myanimelist.net/manga/146330/Hikikomori_Hakoiri_Reijou_no_Kekkon?q=The%20Cloistered%20Princess%20and%20the%20Royal%20Groom&cat=manga)

*I Don't Want to be killed by you, my crown prince!: set up by the blessed one, I will avoid a second attempt on my life! is also one, but I ran out of room (https://myanimelist.net/manga/149797/Outaishi-sama_Watashi_Kondo_koso_Anata_ni_Korosaretakunai_n_desu__Seijo_ni_Hamerareta_Binbou_Reijou_Nidome_wa_Kushizashi_Kaihi_shimasu)


There are 2 titles which Kodansha publishes as digital-only currently that don't have MAL entries:
- My Ice-Rose Husband Said He Only Wants Me to Play the Role of the Next Duchess, but Now He's Stalking Me at Home!
- Her Majesty Wants a Divorce: Now that a Saint has Come from Another World, I Suppose I'm No Longer Needed, Right?