Tangerine Dreams is a guide to shoujo manga and anime, josei manga, and Korean girls' manhwa published in English. Many people are confused about which series are shoujo and which are guys' shows featuring female characters. The definition of shoujo manga is simple but worth stating here: it is manga published in shoujo magazines as defined by their publishers. Shoujo manga are Japanese comics for young and teenage girls and Josei manga are comics for young women. Manhwa are from Korea. They are primarily created by female artists for a female audience. Shoujo anime are naturally the animated versions of girls' comics, although there are a few original animated productions not based on a manga.
You can purchase American commercially produced anime and manga from general online stores like Amazon and from specialty anime and manga retailers. One of the most popular specialty stores is The Right Stuf (USA), which is where this site links to thru the book and DVD links. RightStuf has regular company sales (check the front page, reachable thru the previous link by clicking the "RightStuf.com" graphic) and Weekly Specials. I've heard that Canadians can try asking RightStuf to supply a filled-out NAFTA form to bypass customs duties (I have yet to remember to do this!). Due to the everchanging nature of anime DVD releases and the rapidity with which they are released and rereleased as singles, DVD box sets, thinpaks, "remix" and other discounted editions, before eventually going out of print, you should always visit AnimeOnDVD to see what's been released and is upcoming for a series. This is also the reason why I have ceased listing DVDs individually: all links point to either the RightStuf Search page or to an item category page so you will always see what's available now.
This site hasn't been updated since March 2007. The increase in releases and the rapidity with which DVDs are rereleased, jump licensors, or go out of print became too much for me to keep up with. Also the blog got messed up after switching servers and I never got around to restoring it. I don't know what to do with this site right now. I hate how out of date it's become, so I've begun switching all the DVD links over to direct links to RightStuf's search engine - I've completed the Anime page so far. I may leave the individual pages with links for the manga since those don't get rereleased like DVDs do (generally). But for any new series, I will simply be posting links pointing to RightStuf's search. Assuming I ever get up the energy to go thru all the new releases for the past year and pick out the shoujo ones O_O What this all means is that no new series released since March 2007 are listed O_O I sort of dropped off the manga and anime scene for over a year so I have no idea what's going on right now. I hear Geneon shut down! Wow O_O