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   From: ryoko@gatech.rmv.this.part.edu   
      
   Dave Baranyi  wa:   
   >But first, it appears from the previews that Natsume will be accosted by a   
   >tsundere megane-ko. (Hmmm - how common are tsunderes in shoujo manga?)   
      
   I think normally when they appear, they tend to play the role of   
   "supportive friend of the female lead". Very rarely do they appear as an   
   antagonist designed to pull the male love interest away from the female   
   lead.   
      
   In the manga I've read, the female antagonists in shoujo tend to be: a   
   very quiet sickly girl who has anemia (and therefore faints a lot), a   
   prim and proper rich girl from a good family, or the devious   
   manipulative bitch. Sometimes these appear as childhood friends,   
   sometimes they are fiances, but they are almost always from the male   
   love interest's mysterious past.   
      
   The male love interest's "fan club" (in those shoujo manga that have   
   them) are almost never serious contenders for the male love interest,   
   and, in fact, I can't think of a single manga where that was the case.   
   They are usually just used for comedic effect, or to show how much   
   torture the female lead can withstand (and how big her heart is, gaaah),   
   or to show how awesome the male love interest is by rescuing the female   
   lead from his vicious groupies.   
      
   Wow, this sounds totally lame even to a big shoujo-fan like me. Heh. I   
   just read Nana vols 7-11 this past weekend, and am looking forward to   
   more soon when it is released.   
      
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