Shōjo manga (少女漫画, lit. "girls' comics", also romanized as shojo or shoujo) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent...
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of shōjo manga through the efforts of artists in the Year 24 Group. The Year 24 Group contributed significantly to the development of shōjo manga by creating...
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa. First published as a two-part prologue in Shueisha's monthly shōjo manga magazine Cookie...
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along with shōjo manga (targeting adolescent girls and young women), seinen manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and josei manga (targeting adult...
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Yuri (genre) (redirect from Shōjo-ai)
homosociality between girls would re-emerge as a common theme in post-war shōjo manga (comics for girls), Class S gradually declined in popularity in favor...
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its two main marketing genres: shōnen manga aimed at boys, and shōjo manga aimed at girls. Until 1969, shōjo manga was primarily drawn by adult men for...
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The Rose of Versailles (redirect from Rose of Versailles (manga))
series was developed during a significant transitional period for shōjo manga (manga for girls) as a medium, characterized by the emergence of stories...
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Banana Fish (category Shōjo manga)
then-established shōjo manga conventions of highly stylized illustration and romantic fantasy-focused stories. While the series was aimed at the shōjo audience...
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primarily female manga artists would draw shōjo for a readership of girls and young women. In the following decades (1975–present), shōjo manga continued to...
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Kageki Shojo!! (かげきしょうじょ!!, Kageki Shōjo!!) is a Japanese manga series by Kumiko Saiki. It was serialized as Kageki Shojo! (かげきしょうじょ!, Kageki Shōjo!) in...
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demographic. shōjo (少女, "young woman"): Anime and manga intended for the adolescent female demographic. shōnen (少年, "young man"): Anime and manga intended...
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Moto Hagio (category Women manga artists)
among the most influential manga artists of all time, being referred to as the "god of shōjo manga" (少女漫画の神様, shōjo manga no kami-sama) by critics. Hagio...
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Lolicon (redirect from Lolicon manga and gender roles)
sharing with shōjo manga a "lack of reality". Azuma's combination of the stout bodies of Osamu Tezuka's works and the emotive faces of shōjo manga marked the...
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Kazuo Umezu (category Manga artists from Nara Prefecture)
aesthetics of shōjo manga with grotesque horror visuals and broke with conventions of shōjo manga at the time. Horror manga like Nekome no Shōjo and Reptilia...
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Hell Girl (redirect from Jigoku Shōjo Futakomori)
Hell Girl (Japanese: 地獄少女, Hepburn: Jigoku Shōjo), also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is a Japanese anime series conceptualized by Hiroshi Watanabe...
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Reptilia – which were originally serialized in the shōjo manga (girls' comics) magazine Shūkan Shōjo Friend from 1965 to 1966. The individual series were...
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Look up shojo, shōjo, or shōjō in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shojo may refer to: Shōjo (少女), the Japanese word for "young girl", often romanized...
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awarded the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo category in 2018. It was nominated for the 41st Kodansha Manga Award in the shōjo category in 2017. On Takarajimasha's...
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(stylized as orange) is a Japanese romance manga series written and illustrated by Ichigo Takano, aimed at the shōjo and seinen demographics. The series follows...
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Revolutionary Girl Utena (redirect from Shōjo Kakumei Utena)
to be "uncomfortably stereotypical[ly] shōjo" to "strongly impress upon the audience that this was a 'shōjo manga anime'" and establish the tropes that...
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Year 24 Group (category Shōjo manga)
grouping of female manga artists who heavily influenced shōjo manga (Japanese girls' comics) beginning in the 1970s. While shōjo manga of the 1950s and...
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version of the manga, retitled X/1999 in its initial printing, was serialized in Viz Media's Animerica Extra and released under the Shōjo imprint. The magazine...
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Shueisha (category Manga distributors)
edition of Shōjo Book was released, Shōnen Book was made, and Shōjo Book series were released in bunkoban editions under the Shōjo Manga Bunko imprint...
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Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category in 2001. As of May 2006, the manga had over 16 million copies in circulation. As of March 2019, the manga had over...
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three years. The manga in the magazine were generally bishōjo and lolita manga which were mostly science fiction, parody, shōjo manga-style, anime-related...
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The Heart of Thomas (category Shōjo manga)
Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. Originally serialized in Shūkan Shōjo Comic, a weekly manga magazine publishing shōjo manga (manga...
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approaches, genres and visual elements to shōjo manga earlier in the 1970s. According to Mizumoto, shōjo manga became "less girly". Homosexuality and sex...
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Sailor Moon (redirect from Sailor Moon (manga))
Moon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi from...
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The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons (category Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga)
Household') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shizuki Fujisawa [ja]. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's shōjo manga magazine Betsucomi...
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Shōjo Tsubaki (少女椿, "The Camellia Girl") is a stock protagonist of kamishibai during its revival in early Shōwa period Japan. The character and her story...
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