What this genre is
Sailor Moon connected the structure of the battling hero to shojo manga. The fighting girl became a central image of Japanese pop culture from then on.
Shojo & Josei — about this band: The expressive revolution of the Year 24 Group: interiority, romance, BL, josei.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↓ Flowed into this
Key works
In the name of the Moon, I'll punish you. It created the template for the transforming heroine team and rewrote girls' culture around the world.
The story of Sakura Kinomoto, a magical girl collecting cards. Sweetness and a wardrobe of costumes made it a new classic of the magical-girl form.
Two middle-schoolers who fight with their fists. The transforming heroines at the origin of the long-running Pretty Cure series.
A shocking work that inverts the magical girl's wish and despair. Cruelty behind a sweet drawing style rewrote what a magical girl could be.
Shojo & Josei — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 1953 Early Shojo↓
- 1958 1960s Shojo↓
- 1972 Year 24 Group↓
- 1972 Epic Shojo Romance↓
- 1978 Boys' Love↓
- 1980 Ladies' Comics↓
- 1986 Shojo Horror↓
- 1992 Magical Girl Warriors（you are here）
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About this entry
Genre boundaries are drawn where the network of manga happens to concentrate, not by decree. Years are approximate. Where opinions differ, this page says so rather than picking a winner.