I'm not a particular fan of shoujo, but I still sometimes read them, and admittedly, some of them are pretty good. However, most of them are pretty bad.

For example, Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet is a pretty popular one. Whatever, I'll give it a try. I mean, the problem with all these romance novels is that they give the same sort of vibes no matter which author you read about: girl main character gets swept up in a hot guy's pace somehow, thet somehow get into a special relationship in weird circumstances before it eventually sprouts into love. Am I missing something?

Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet employs all the cliches possible, apparently. I'm not going to lie, in the few chapters I read, there were some good points, like the art. While not groundbreaking, it's pretty good, clean, and clear-cut, and that's enough for something like a romance manga. Characters...are not that cliche, I guess, but the story is so cliche that I just couldn't go any further.

The "I'm somehow living with a hot guy cliche," the "eccentric hot guy personality," and most importantly, and the last straw for me, was "bad guy comes and hot guy saves me!!!! and now i love him!!"