Favourite Bishoujo Show in 2005

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What was your favourite bishoujo show in 2005? Say why.

[perigee]

Girls Bravo because it doesn't try to be anything other than what it is, a harem show with light humor, an interesting plot twist and likable characters. I'm looking forward to seeing the final volumes in this year's release.

[Rhodes]

Shuffle

All 5 female leads with Ama, the Teach and you also have Mayumi if you like that look... flat as a board.

2nd would be My-Otome... hey more Shizuru is always a good thing.

3rd D.C.S.S. I like Nemu so sue me. You get Sakura back at the end and a mix of new blood for the show. I feel for this show, road kill to shuffle.

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What are we defining as "bishoujo"? Flat out any show that has lots of cute girls in it, or does the label reflect something in terms of actual series content?

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The dramatic story, the proper pacing, the music, the beautiful characters and character-designs (tv and movie), the excellent vocal-acting, the vivid backgrounds, the superb animation, etc, etc, etc.

Air is not just the best bishoujo of 2005, but it's the best anime of 2005.

[Suwako Moriya]

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disarm said:What are we defining as "bishoujo"? Flat out any show that has lots of cute girls in it, or does the label reflect something in terms of actual series content?

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I was about to ask the same thing. Plus it doesn't help that people have various opinions on what makes a girl cute. Plus the more anime that can count as bishoujo the harder it will be to decide. It also doesn't help that often the bishoujo aspect is just one part of the series. The bishoujo aspect is mixed with something else making some comparisons possibly apples and oranges. Unless your only criteria is how pretty the girls are.

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Mimi Masuko said:
It also doesn't help that often the bishoujo aspect is just one part of the series. The bishoujo aspect is mixed with something else making some comparisons possibly apples and oranges. Unless your only criteria is how pretty the girls are.

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Right. A lot of shallow people who dismiss anything with lots of females as being stupid fanservice crap misuse the term "bishoujo" as a derogatory word. To them, Girls Bravo, Shuffle and My~HiME are all "bishoujo" and most of the time you know they haven't seen any of the three because they're all completely different.

But, omg! Cute girls! It's bishoujo crap!

Thus, I don't want to play into that by just taking "bishoujo" as the defining characteristic of just any show with cute girls in it.

[Suwako Moriya]

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disarm said:To them, Girls Bravo, Shuffle and My~HiME are all "bishoujo" and most of the time you know they haven't seen any of the three because they're all completely different.

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Well I haven't watched much of Girls Bravo. However yeah My~HiME without a doubt is completely different from SHUFFLE!. Okay well maybe not completely different since both series have bishoujo. However it takes a lot more than being in the same genre and/or sharing some traits for two shows to be the same.

[VanG]

DCSS is my favourite, such a nice ending...

[Rhodes]

bishoujo means pretty girl... so any show with lots of pretty girls would count. normally a bunch of girls around one guy. but i would say any show that is top heavy with girls vs boys. Or especially any show based on a bishoujo game like shuffle or dc. hime may not of been based on a bish game, but it has a bevy of pretty girls in it. love hina for instance isnt based on a bish game but it is similar.