Girl Talk: Shojo Manga Life Lessons!

Konichiwa, reader-sans!  Turtle-chan is back and ready to make her first real post!  Yosh!
Alrighty, well, I find myself watching and reading a fair amount of shojo manga and anime because I love the stories and the art style, but lately I've started realizing some things about shojo that I've never really thought of before.
Last night, I just finished watching La Corda d'Oro Primo Passo which is this lovely little anime about a girl named Kahoko Hino (or Hino Kahoko) who gets involved in the music school's musical competition following various strange and mildly comedic events.  Anyway, Kahoko is a competitor along with a girl younger than her majoring in clarinet, a boy younger than her majoring in cello, a guy her age majoring in violin, and two guys older than her who are majoring in trumpet and flute respectively.  Later on, another guy her age joins in on piano.  Kaho herself plays violin.  Yes, it's a reverse harem again...  I can't help but like them, okay...  Anyway, as all reverse harems require, all of the guys fall for Kaho in the end and in the special episode after the finale, all of the guys end up serenading her.  How cute and corny is that?!?  (>-<) Seriously, that is just one of the many examples of how guys could learn so much from reading shojo manga when trying to figure out how to make a girl happy!  Boys out there, I'm telling you as a girl myself: if you want to know what girls like, you usually can't go wrong with shojo! (^_^)  Of course, there's the whole issue of ecchi and other more sexually related themes, but I guess if that's what you're into then that could probably be useful information too...
As it is, the few people I talk to in real life don't know this, but I'm a romantic through and through, but too shy to ever say or do anything about it in an actual relationship.  I'm basically a tsubaki (camellia flower) actually; a flower without a fragrance.  I worry about upsetting the other person and I don't voice my complaints which ends up being what destroys the relationship (aside from my horrible taste in guys, that is!).  So, to anyone looking for relationship advice, fights can be a good thing as long as you're able to step back after you've cooled off a bit and make up afterward.
Now, off of my soapbox, I guess I'll throw out a list of shojo anime and manga that I've read and divide it by category.  If anyone wants to know a little about the plot of any that I list, feel free to ask!  Also, if anyone has any suggestions to add to the list, feel free to throw those out there as well!  By the way, out of all of these, I think there are only about six reverse harems.  Sayonara!
- Turtle-chan


Romantic Comedy:                                                            Ecchi:
- The Wallflower (manga and anime)                                - Black Bird (manga)
- Library Wars (manga)
- Dengeki Daisy (manga)                                                 General Romance:
- Tail of the Moon (manga)                                              - Sand Chronicles (manga)
- Ouran High School Host Club (manga and anime)       - Miki Falls (manga)
- Kaichou wa Maid-sama (manga and anime)                 - The Lapis Lazuli Crown (manga)
- Kotoura-san (anime)                                                      - Full Moon o Sagashite (manga and anime)
- Skip-Beat! (manga and anime)                                       - Beauty is the Beast (manga)
- Kamisama Kiss (manga and anime)                               - Kitchen Princess (manga)
                                                                                          - High School Debut (manga)
Unsure/ Kinda Weird:                                                       - From Far Away (manga)
- Diabolik Lovers (manga and anime)                              - Millennium Snow (manga)
- Brothers Conflict (anime)                                               - La Corda d'Oro (manga and animes)
- Chobits (manga and anime)                                            - I am Here! (manga)
- Vampire Knight (manga and anime)
- Instant Teen (manga)                                                      Suspenseful Romance:
                                                                                           - Night of the Beasts (manga)
Really Friggin' Depressing:                                              Girl Power and Romance:
- Socrates in Love (manga)                                              - The Story of Saiunkoku (manga and anime)

Hajimemashita!

Well, I guess I kind of need to introduce myself, so I guess that's what I'll do.  Konchiwa!  I'm Turtle-chan!  I created this blog because of a scholarship that required you to make a blog post, but I was unable to submit my post for that scholarship because of some stupidity involved in their requirements (long story short, they required that you have a ".edu" e-mail address which I, nor really any students I know, do not have).  Anyhow, since I've already created the blog, I figured I might as well use it, so I guess I'll just be posting random stuff from here on out.
So, for my first random post, I guess I'll tell you guys a little about myself.  I am really into manga and anime and my blog name is a reference to the manga/anime series The Wallflower.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it's kind of a romantic comedy with a reverse harem (I use the term "harem" not in the sex slave sort of meaning; it's just a house full of dudes) and one girl stuck living with them.  The boys are challenged to turn the girl into a lady within three years and they will get free rent.  Sounds easy enough, but you have to consider the girl in question.  Sunako Nakahara (for the purists, Nakahara Sunako).  A dark, disturbing girl who has not seen her own reflection in years and refuses to take care of her body due to a traumatic--for her--incident with a boy calling her ugly.  Her interests include horror movies, detective manga, anatomical models, and "the darkness."  Oh, did I mention that she gets violent nosebleeds whenever she looks at the boys?  Yeah, it makes for some great comedy.  Anyway, the anime has these little segments in each episode with all sorts of little life tips and they call it "THE ROAD TO WOMANHOOD!!!!" (they have a voice shouting it...), so I thought it would be funny to name my blog after that section because I'm like a slightly less extreme Sunako who doesn't get nosebleeds when gazing upon beautiful things.
That's all I've got for now, but I'm sure I'll think of some more randomness later.  Sayonara, reader-sans!


- Turtle-chan