Top 10 Best Josei Anime List [Recommendations]
Anime "Best of" Genre List
Paradise Kiss
Yukari is a typical high-school student who listens to her parents and attends school everyday. As she starts to question her way of life, she encounters a group of fashion design students who has a clothing label known as “Paradise Kiss”. The group needs to find a model to showcase their designs in an up-coming fashion show and decides to pick Yukari instead. Initially, Yukari was reluctant to be associated with this seemingly eccentric group, but eventually, she realises that they are really nice people. Furthermore, their passion and enthusiasm to follow their ideals and dreams make Yukari realise that she has not been enjoying her life and this motivated her to pursue her own dreams.
Princess Jellyfish
Amamizukan is an apartment complex where no boys are allowed. Tsukimi, a girl who adores jellyfish, lives there happily with her friends who all have nerdy obsessions of their own. Their peaceful lives gradually start to change when a beautiful woman helps Tsukimi out of a pinch. She stays overnight at the apartments—but it turns out “she” is really a “he”.
Nana
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Chihayafuru
Chihaya Ayase is a frank and ebullient girl who becomes fascinated by the obscure world of competitive karuta, a card game based on Japanese poetry. Introduced to the aggressive style of the game by a quiet and thoughtful elementary school classmate named Arata Wataya, the two quickly become close friends. They start playing as a group with Taichi Mashima, Chihaya’s smart and athletic childhood friend, until they have to part ways during their middle school years due to several circumstances. As their high school life begins, they meet once again.
Eden of the East
On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be called as “Careless Monday,” does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then, 3 months later… Saki Morimi is a young woman currently in the United States of America on her graduation trip.
But just when she is in front of the White House, Washington DC, she gets into trouble, and only the unexpected intervention of one of her fellow countrymen saves her. However, this man, who introduces himself as Akira Takizawa, is a complete mystery. He appears to have lost his memory. and he is stark naked, except for the gun he holds in one hand, and the mobile phone he’s holding with the other hand. A phone that is charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash.
References: ANN, Wiki, MyAnimeList
umm…how is Boys over flowers Josie..haha..its the very epitome of Shoujo
You are right. I will look for a better option.
ai yazawa shows how professional she is with her works “paradise kiss” and “nana”. i also recommend her other succesful manga “gokinjo monogatari”. gokinjo monogatari and paradise kiss are also connected to eachother, for exaple, gokinjo is about mikako kouda/sakurada’s life who is miwako sakurada’s big sister and miwako is one of the characters in paradise kiss and this is just one of other relations between these 2 mangas. you definitely should watch and read them both, 3 of all are real masterpieces of ai yazawa that shows us her grace, realistic style and passion of fashion, with a little sadness and kinda sorrowful finals. she lireally is the best when it comes josei, i think.