Josei
Literally [Woman]. Targets women 18-30. Female equivalent to seinen. Unlike shoujo the romance is more realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is more explicit and mature.
A Lifetime’s Glance, A Year’s End
If you were to meet someone, once a surgeon. At thirteen, he and your mother were both rescued in the same hospital, but unexpectedly, six or seven years later, he lost his hearing. No longer able to perform surgery, he picked up books instead and became an ordinary university teacher.
If he, like you, had a mother who abandoned him, and a father he could never speak of. If he lost his health in the process of a nationwide effort to save lives. If he loved you…
“To have Gu Pingsheng, my life holds no regrets.”
It’s just the story of two rather unfortunate souls warming each other.
Before the Descent of the Apocalyptic Game:
The world pitied Wang Jiu. Cheated on, divorced, and forced into a remote, backwater county town, she appeared to be the frailest, most miserable woman on earth.
After the Descent of the Apocalyptic Game:
Her ex-husband watched his former wife effortlessly thrash muscular men and annihilate the Boss, acting as the MVP of the entire battlefield. He wasn’t surprised in the least. After all, this was a woman who had silently drafted a plan to murder her husband and dispose of the body. He later learned the murder plan was a fabrication, but the fact that she had seduced his mistresses into betraying him for her was very real.
For eons, Blue Star existed alone in a corner of the universe. Though it lacked the ability to traverse the cosmos, its people held infinite dreams of the starry sky.
Then one day, dozens of starships warped into existence, hovering above the planet.
From that day forward, the evolution of Blue Star began.
Amid this thrilling evolution that everyone longed for, Blue Star, a world rich with its own religions, myths, and legends of immortal heroes, fantasy, and magic, discovered with astonishment that the direction of humanity’s evolution was… ABO.
And so, for this planet long dominated by a patriarchal society, all worldviews were shattered, collapsing only to be rebuilt anew.
Tang Qiu, a celebrated award-winning actress with legions of adoring fans, woke up one day to discover she had transmigrated.
She had not only swapped bodies but also swapped “careers,” becoming a lowly cleric a position envied by the masses but actually fraught with extreme danger.
Tang Qiu: “Can I resign?”
Church Priest: “No. Once you have accepted the Baptism of Light, you are a faithful believer of the Goddess of Light for life.”
It appeared that being a cleric was a lifetime binding contract.
Tang Qiu had molded herself into all manners of characters, but this was her first time playing a cleric. Although difficult, it was also highly challenging. She readily accepted her new identity. Yet, just as she was actively plotting how to perform this role to perfection, she never imagined that she was bound to more than just this one profession…
Tang Qiu: “It is truly rare to find a Vampire who enjoys masquerading as a human.”
Lucille: “A certain cleric who transforms and pounces on people every full moon has no standing to make such remarks.”
Tang Qiu smiled. “I don’t understand what you are talking about.”
She returns consumed by hatred, scheming without restraint, using every means to get what she wants – climbing from one man’s bed to the next.
The female lead is neither a saint nor some fiercely independent heroine. Enter at your own risk.
Seven male leads. Not all of them come untouched.