Citations:cute girls doing cute things

English citations of cute girls doing cute things

• 2002 July 20, D B Malmquist, “[A-F]_Terrestrial_Defence_Force_Mao-Chan_-_01.avi”, in alt.anime.shoujo‎^[1] (Usenet):

  A while ago James Sternberg wrote here something like "If it's about cute girls doing cute things, it's probably for guys". That rule seems to hold up pretty well in the face of of recent stylistic overlaps ("Sugar", "12 Kokuki")

• 2002 October 24, James Sternberg, “Which of These is Shoujo 2”, in alt.anime.shoujo‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Its kind of hard to tell, but my general rule of thumb is that if the show is about cute girls doing cute things, it is made for guys. Shows in this category include Sugar, DigiCharat, and Kokoro Toshokan.

• 2006 March 15, Alex Taylor, “Magical Girl show recommendation”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[3] (Usenet):

  But Rayearth is very much not a "cute girls doing cute things" kind of show in either season. Excellent, but not necessarily the style of thing that the OP wants.

• 2017 September 4, Magewolf, “Just out of curiousity (#1?)”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎^[4] (Usenet):

  The most recent one I have noticed was in the currently running anime Centaur no Nayami. Which is a rather unusual show mixing Cute girls doing cute things,racism, political correctness, animal people, and the antarcticain snake-people illuminati.

• 2019 January 29, Ahasuerus, “(Quora) Mary Sueishness”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎^[5] (Usenet):

  School-based anime without boys? Would that be "cute girls doing cute things", which has been popular lately? My exposure to the genre has been very limited and what little I have seen (_Sound of the Sky_, I believe) didn't impress me, so I am out of the loop.