The WORST Shoujo Ever

Today I review the anime The Wolf Girl and the Black Prince and analyze the red flags I personally found while rereading and rewatching the anime and manga of this series.

[Sanorace]

I feel like it's perfectly okay to have main leads that are toxic, I just want that relationship to be framed as bad in the narrative, like have other characters react to it negatively so that people know that this is not something the writers are encouraging.

[mariling.]

I remember reading comments about how Sata changed in the manga and blindedly started reading, but as chapters went by the only thing that popped in my head was: "Where is the change???". at the end of the manga the only thing she gained was not only a horrible husband but also a daughter that called her a pig? Like bro, not even the kid respected her, what a life.

[Elli]

A lot of shoujo manga I have read when I was a lot younger made me wonder if these authors don't see verbal and emotional abuse as abuse (they clearly don't).

[Eeveelien]

This series is extremely toxic. When I started it I had hope mister Black Prince would soften up over time but it never happend, and that's when I dropped it. The whole concept of "love changes a person" wasn't applied to him and that's such a shame.

[Voxavs]

It would be a cool manga if over a course of it it actually went the psychological horror route. Her loosing friends, developing serious eating disorder and being miserable but in complete denial. And then the entire second half could have been about her realizing that something is wrong, getting out and working through trauma and dealing with actually healthy relationships. I would read that.

[kaitlynmorgan]

That whole ed chapter is so dangerous. I can't believe they're targeting this to young girls

[starcloudnebula]

Bruh, I watched this in middle school because my tastes were considered childish for watching squid girl. I tormented myself because of social validation.

[deborahcarvalho]

I read the manga years ago (6 years, I think), I was always screaming to myself "Why the hell is she still with him?". I was hoping for her to make him regret everything he did and she finds a new love (I think someone else even appears in the manga later, but obviously she didn't choose him). But I dunno if this manga is the worst shoujo ever when Kurosaki-kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai and L-DK exist.

[pewpewlli]

7:20 “i don’t care if you’re chubby or skinny, in general gaining weight is the problem” tf that just means he hates her chubby😭

[ladypool]

Ah yes this anime where Kyoto Sota: treats her like a slave (Buying food for him or doing his homeworks. He's really lazy!) Insulted her after she confessed her love for him, makes her cry and NEVER appologises. This guy is a jerk! If i remember, he had a sad past BUT it's not a reason to treat Erika like that. She deserves a nicer boyfriend than him! He's not as abusive as the Sakamaki brothers from Diabolik lovers but still a bad person 😠

[cherriegetison]

Wolf Girl and Black Prince always reminded me of Kare Kano's 2nd episode stretched to a whole series, but I love the way it's done in Kare Kano. The male lead realizes at the end of the episode that the female lead is suffering, and he apologizes, thinking he was just playfully teasing her about a (silly) secret he found out about her. Of the shoujo I've seen, I think Tsukasa Domyoji from Boys Over Flowers is the worst male lead. But in the author's defense, he was originally supposed to be the second male lead until she realized he was really popular. She did (eventually) fix him, at least what I noticed in the anime as the story went on. From what I've seen, some of the later live-action dramas flat-out remove his worst moments.

[moonbat]

I hated it in highschool and hate it now 🙌 I kept waiting for his character growth, never happened. Then when I found her dream job he broke up with her and made her feel like she was at fault for not wanting to go to whatever college kept her closes to him.

[natasapap]

I didn't watch this anime, but my little sister did, she use to love it, but she is 24 now and completely over it thank god. On another note my cousin, who is 15, thinks that the anime Diabolik Lovers is the definition of romance and I don't know what to do tbh.

[TheSingingBUn]

ah yes, I hated this story when I first read it. remembered even back when I was 12 or 13, I hated stories with 'annoying' 'submissive' heroines and bully male love interests. Back when Hana yori no dango was popular, girls around me loved that series and I hated it to a tee for how misogynistic that story was and how the heroine was bullied into romancing the scumbag. Then when stories like Fruits Basket, Kare Kano, Oran high school host club showed up, I was elated, thinking 'oh maybe the genre's moving away from the red flag troupes. But nope, Wolf girl and black prince shows up and that didn't cut it for me.

[InedibleMuffin]

Even as someone who's grown up in asian culture where being skinny is the "ideal" and fat shaming isn't as unusual, Kyouya's reaction at the end really hit a sour note for me. Like.. it stood out among everything else as extremely mean spirited, and he doesn't even get punished for it. And I think that's what bothers me about his character as a whole.

I do like shoujo guys who are playfully mean and tease the MC, (the apple slice arm fat comment is something I could see my peers saying, I found it funny), but it gets to a point where he crosses a line and needs to have some sense smacked into him by the MC.

[saeranchoi]

The amount of people who were hoping that love would fix Sata(n) is crazyyy 😭

And they say that “it’s only fiction” but clearly these kinds of shows have had an impact on impressionable girls if that’s the first thing they think of when they encounter a trash of a man in media. In real life abusive men almost never get better and the hope that women cling onto is one of the things that keeps them trapped.

[junglevampire]

I remember at one point when I was 12, in my cringy anime phase, I wanted to watch it after
I saw it in an anime magazine but never did because I wasn't invested enough and I'm kinda glad I didn't see it.
I was so disgusted seeing Sata's actions and words in this video. Erika deserves better.
This was a great video though, keep it up👍
Edit: never mind, Erika doesn’t deserve better after finding out she’s no good either

[mochid]

I remember 13 y/o me hoping so hard for there to be a twist and her to end with the black haired guy (Sata's best friend I think), because he was nice and charming. She literally has NO need to be with Sata's freak ass 😭

[evaeart_]

In actuality, fat shaming can lead to comfort eating to feel dopamine cause you're emotionally feeling bad and could also start getting stressed and hiding when you eat. A good partner should cook for you and cherish you, not abuse you or shame you in any way possible.

[YukaAkemi]

So much shoujo manga was insidious and taught some rly toxic things to rly young impressionable children 😭 case in fact, me. I never watched wolf girl and black prince but I did read and watch shugo chara and it had a “will they won’t they” teasing relationship between amu and Ikuto who were like 13 and 18 and it reinforced in my young child brain that it was desirable to be perused by an older man. Now I’m in my 20s and I realize how harmful all of that was and it infuriates me that those messages are written as light hearted romance in innocent shoujo manga for very young girls, If I had read wolf girl I would have definitely internalized it’s harmful messages too about relationships and weight