I'm sorry for this necromancy.
I just really need to grumble about shoujo at least a bit, and I've thought that reviving this thread will be better than making a new one.
10 years ago I've liked two animes of shoujo genre - Vampire Knight and Lovely Complex, so I've gived this genre several more chances, but, unfortunately, in vain - since then none of such a things pleasured me.
I've tried to watch several more shoujo/josei anime, read shoujo manga/comics and play otome games, but most of times I couldn't even end them, because of their incredible mawkishness! Most of them were SO extremely sweet, that my teeth started to hurt!
For example, I've read a lot of good reviews on "Nana" anime and was curious to watch it, but still couldn't do it because of its sweetness. The same goes for "Skip beat" and many others. For the same reason I can't get into the most popular manga and anime-style comics, positioned as "oriented on girls readers".
Otomes have given another sort of dissapointment for me in addition. Even those 5-10% of them, which weren't too sweet, still were total bummer! I've accustomed to the fact that in "date simulators" for boys you usually can discover sex scenes with all of main girl characters, and thought that in analogical games for girls there will be the same thing. That's why I've usually waited for the sex scenes with my fav boys characters during the whole otome game, but never have got them! (ノ ゜Д゜)ノ ︵ ┻━┻ And every time I was angry, cause what was the point in developing plot branches of all those guys if I couldn't get f*ck with any of them even in the best endings?!
Ok, now I've blew off steam. Thank you for attention.