What this genre is
Tezuka's Princess Knight laid out the shape of story manga for girls. Ribon and Nakayoshi launched, and a market for shojo manga stood up.
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
The adventures of Princess Sapphire, raised as a boy. It laid out the shape of story manga for girls, and its Takarazuka-like world flowed into the shojo manga that followed.
Akko, a girl who can become anything through her mirror. One of the ancestors of the magical-girl form, and Akatsuka's hit in a girls' magazine.
Shojo & Josei — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 1953 Early Shojo（you are here）↓
- 1958 1960s Shojo↓
- 1972 Year 24 Group↓
- 1972 Epic Shojo Romance↓
- 1978 Boys' Love↓
- 1980 Ladies' Comics↓
- 1986 Shojo Horror↓
- 1992 Magical Girl Warriors
All genres
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.