What this genre is
Out of the girls'-magazine horror tradition running from Umezu came the dedicated horror magazine Halloween, which produced artists with worldwide cult followings such as Junji Ito.
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
A mother obsessed with her own beauty tries to take her daughter's body. The representative Umezu horror, which brought trauma-grade fear into girls' manga.
The suffering of Midori, a girl sold to a freak show. Ero-guro and Taisho romanticism crossing — a cornerstone of underground manga.
Tomie, a beautiful girl who multiplies however often she is killed. Born in a girls' horror magazine, it is the representative horror manga with a cult following worldwide.
Junji Ito's signature work, on the strangeness that grips a town possessed by the spiral. A worldwide cult following for its unreasonable, beautiful images of fear.
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（you are here）↓
- 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.