What this genre is
Women artists such as Masako Watanabe and Hideko Mizuno came to the front. Across rental books and monthly magazines, shojo manga worked out its grammar — from tears-and-mothers to full-blooded romance.
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
↑ Grew out of this
Key works
No key works recorded here yet.
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（you are here）↓
- 1972 Year 24 Group↓
- 1972 Epic Shojo Romance↓
- 1978 Boys' Love↓
- 1980 Ladies' Comics↓
- 1986 Shojo Horror↓
- 1992 Magical Girl Warriors
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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.