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Shoujo

The Shoujo I decided to read was Our Precious Conversations, which was pretty much a random pick from my Crunchyroll manga reader. It is a Shoujo revolving around romances however in a somewhat meta approach where the book constantly insults shoujo romances. I can definitely see this targeted at young girls, around the age of middle schoolers as the people in the book fit the same age, I think this book though also has some of its targets be for boys as you also experience thought through the main male character.  A lot of the ideas this work pushes are positive for young people, like just overall niceness and being accepting of people for how they are. This definitely is not my favorite book ever but it has a nice sense of innocents and youth that I found refreshing.

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