Shonen anime tends to do better than shojo anime, but a recent seminar put on by Crunchyroll talked about how popular shojo actually is. The seminar was for Japanese businesses, and it discussed what anime people in the West are watching on their platform. Asa …Read more »
It’s time to get your nostalgia on! The Eternal Shojo Café has debuted in Shibuya, Tokyo to highlight five shojo series from the 90s and early 2000s. The anime series from the 90s are Akazukin Chacha, Kodomo no Omocha (a.k.a Kodocha), Nurse Angel Ririka SOS …Read more »
I could barely believe it in 2012, when the United States finally saw a DVD release of the 1979 shojo anime classic, The Rose of Versailles. In 2020, I was taken even more aback by the release of an English version of Riyoko Ikeda’s original …Read more »
The Secret Urban Legends manga is a horror short story collection that features young women in high school or middle school. Betrayal of friendship is a common theme, as is finding darkness in people and places you associate with innocence. Because of the ages of …Read more »
Rikachi’s latest shojo series, as the afterword explains, was not originally intended to be a fantasy. At its core, it’s a basic rags-to-riches love story: the prince rescues a pauper girl, takes her in, lavishes her with riches that would make anyone swoon, yet our …Read more »
The magical girl genre is one of the longest-running in manga and anime, and spans a surprising range from the upbeat shojo fare which has been its trademark, to male-oriented fan service like Cutie Honey, and darker themes like Madoka Magica. While some magical girl …Read more »
Demon Slayer is a shonen series, but shojo manga magazine Margaret is showing it some love. Ahead of the Demon Slayer movie release, Margaret asked six shojo artists to do their own rendition of Demon Slayer characters and interviewed two of the anime actors. Ayumi …Read more »
It’s always fun to see how a well-known manga might be adapted into another genre. Shoujo manga artist Yoko Maki—who worked on series like Romantica Clock, Aishiteiru Ze Baby, and more before retiring in 2019—decided to apply a distinctly shoujo aesthetic to the characters and …Read more »
© Fuyumi Soryo / Kodansha Ltd. There comes a time in every shojo and josei fan’s life when Fuyumi Soryo’s classic series Mars drifts into view. This melodramatic soap opera is a treasure that includes a little something for just about every fan, with memorable characters that …Read more »
Young debuts are far from unheard of in the manga industry, but some cases really push the boundaries and go beyond simply being impressive. Case in point, the latest debut author in shoujo manga magazine Margaret is named Nana Hoshiki, who is just 13 years …Read more »
Would you put up with a two-hour bus commute to attend the high school of your choice? What if you had to wake up before dawn and make the trip from your home up in the mountains? That’s the situation Ten Serizawa faces in Suu …Read more »
Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, the popular shoujo manga from Yuu Watase, is coming to the stage. Again. The manga was adapted into a stage play in 2010, then a musical in 2016. Now a sequel to that musical is headed to a theatre in …Read more »
Queen’s Quality is a sequel to QQ Sweeper and isn’t the best place to jump on board. If you haven’t read the previous series, it’s hard to catch up on the plot or get invested in the characters. While Motomi does a decent job of …Read more »
In Japan it seems there’s a stereotype that shojo manga begets unrealistic expectations of romance from its readers. Rich, powerful, handsome men seem to always go dropping into the protagonists’ laps with implausible ease, so people assume that women who grow up reading shojo manga …Read more »
Imagine, if you will, the thundering power of giant robot anime intermingling seamlessly with a dreamy shojo-style narrative. Wait, you don’t have to imagine it, because Sunrise’s The Vision of Escaflowne exists! Whether you remember the series from 20 years ago or this is your …Read more »
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