Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.183.122.16-20150803060404/@comment-29602226-20161020230025

MagicFool64 wrote: Galeah wrote: Make the monster boys innocent, vulnerable shotas that are hunted by horny human women.

If Monster Girls are nymphomaniacs, maybe Monster Boys are gentlemen

Mmm... I think I have seen some romance shoujos about monster boys courting the female protagonist. All the monster boys are of sexy breeds (vampires, incubi, werewolves, werecats, angels, fallen angels...etc.) and are kinda like twilight vampires, all acting cool and chivalrous and either being emo or confident casanovas, and all falling for the "oh, why me? I'm so dull!" female protagonist.

If the MBE were focused towards women, it would probably be kinda like that.

However, it would be NOTHING like the MGE. The MGE is mostly about brainless sex. Those romance shoujos are about a harem of pretty guys teasing, courting and/or stalking the main character for ages, showing her that she's the most important thing for them and making her shiver and feel special. There are some in which the main guy behaves in a borderline abusive way (to cater the bad boy fetish, I guess),

It is funny. Many women often complain that they can't identify with female characters in movies/comics/mangas/anime aimed to a male public because those girls are shaped by the male gaze and are like complements or prizes to the male protagonists, their whole existance as characters is justified only by being "the girl" of the protagonist... however, I feel the same about many male characters in shoujo mangas... I can't identify with them in any way, they are like pretty shells that exist only to romance the female protagonist.