Shoujo — anime and manga aimed at a special target audience — girls aged 12 to 18. The plot usually centers around a girl and her development as a person, often featuring romantic relationships of varying degrees of intimacy, with great attention paid to character development. Male characters are very handsome, noble, brave, and selfless. A characteristic feature of Shoujo visuals is often a high degree of conventionality in the drawing — either grotesquely humorous or refinedly romantic.
