Josei manga are Japanese comics aimed at older teenage girls and adult women who are able to read kanji without the aid of furigana. Josei manga should not be confused with "shōjo manga" (少女漫画) for younger teenage girls or "ladies comics" or "LadyComi", which tend to contain erotic content. Readers can range in age from 18 to 45. "Josei" is the Japanese word for "woman".
Your and My Secret, known in Japan as lit. "My and Her Three X's", is a manga series by Ai Morinaga. The series was first published in Enix's Monthly Stencil in January 2001, was later obtained by Mag Garden who published it in Monthly Comic Blade then Monthly Comic Avarus where it concluded its serialization in August 2011. The individual chapters were collected and released into eight tankōbon volumes by Mag Garden. A continuation of the manga, subtitled as Extra-Part, was serialized in Mag Garden's online magazine, Web Comic Beat's, between June 2012 and March 2013; it was later released in a single tankōbon volume. In Japan, Boku to Kanojo no Peke Mittsu has been adapted into three radio dramas and a live action film. Your and My Secret follows the effeminate Akira Uehara who switches bodies with the tomboy Nanako Momoi due to an accident.
Hell Girl, also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is an anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen. It focuses on the existence of a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of the mysterious title character and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series.
Setona Mizushiro is a Japanese comic artist. In 1985 she participated in the publication of a dōjinshi. She remained active in that world until her debut in 1993 with the short story Fuyu ga Owarou Toshiteita that ran in Shogakukan's magazine, Puchi Comic.
Otome Road is a nickname for a street in Ikebukuro – a district of Tokyo – which is located to the west of the Sunshine 60 building near Ikebukuro Station. The name originated in the May 2004 issue of Puff magazine. The name is derived from a dense grouping of shops that specialize in "Otome-kei" merchandise, all on one side of a roughly 200 meter corridor. Frequenters have more bluntly called the area "Fujoshi Street".
Yaoi fandom consists of the readers of yaoi, a genre of male-male romance narratives aimed at those who participate in communal activities organized around yaoi, such as attending conventions, maintaining or posting to fansites, creating fan fiction or fan art, etc. In the mid-1990s, estimates of the size of the Japanese yaoi fandom were at 100,000-500,000 people, but in 2008, despite increased knowledge of the genre among the general public, readership remains limited. English-language fan translations of From Eroica with Love circulated through the slash fiction community in the 1980s, forging a link between slash fiction fandom and Yaoi fandom.
Fujoshi Rumi is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by manga author Natsumi Konjoh.
Book Girl is a collection of Japanese light novels by Mizuki Nomura, with illustrations by Miho Takeoka. The series contains 16 volumes: eight cover the original series, four are short story collections, and four are of a side story. The novels were published between April 2006 and April 2011 by Enterbrain under their Famitsu Bunko imprint. Yen Press licensed the light novel series and began releasing it in English in North America in July 2010. There have been four manga adaptations serialized in Square Enix's shōnen Gangan Powered and Gangan Joker, and Kadokawa Shoten's shōjo Beans Ace and Monthly Asuka. An anime film adaptation produced by Production I.G was released in Japanese theaters on May 1, 2010.
Tonari no 801-chan is a Japanese four-panel Internet manga written and illustrated by Ajiko Kojima. It centers on the relationship between a male otaku named Tibet and his yaoi-obsessed fujoshi girlfriend Yaoi whose obsession manifests as a small, green furry monster. Kojima started the manga on April 18, 2006 on his blog. Ohzora Publishing released the first bound volume in December 2006, and by June 2007, it had sold 150,000 copies. As of June 2018, eleven volumes have been published. The manga began serialization from the first chapter in Ohzora's Romance Tiara magazine in April 2009.
Yoshihiro Yonezawa was a Japanese manga critic and author. He is also known for being Comiket's co-founder and president. He died of lung cancer at 53. He won the 2007 Seiun Award in the special category and 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award.
My Girlfriend's a Geek is a Japanese light novel series in two volumes by Pentabu based on a popular blog of the same name with 11 million page views. A manga adaptation by Rize Shinba started serialization in 2007 and was published by Enterbrain under their B's LOG Comics imprint. A movie adaption was published in 2009 with My Geeky Girlfriend as the International English title. Both the light novel and manga have been licensed for release by Yen Press.
Blue Sheep Reverie is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Tateno. The individual chapters were collected into nine tankōbon volumes which were released between August 28, 2006 and November 18, 2015. The manga is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing under its Juné imprint, which released the first tankōbon volume on December 16, 2008, and the sixth on July 30, 2014. The manga is licensed in Germany as Blue Sheep Dream by Egmont Manga & Anime.
Oreshura (俺修羅), short for Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru, is a Japanese light novel series written by Yūji Yūji, with illustrations provided by Ruroo. SoftBank Creative has published 14 novels since February 2011. There have been four manga adaptations and an anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired from January to March 2013.
Ai Ore! is a Japanese manga series by Mayu Shinjo. It was adapted into a live action film in 2012.
Piece: Kanojo no Kioku is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Hinako Ashihara. It is published in French by Kana. It is adapted into a television drama series that premiered on 6 October 2012 and ended on December 29, 2012.
Akiko Morishima is a Japanese yuri and shōjo manga writer and artist.
Senpai to Kanojo is a Japanese romance shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Atsuko Nanba. A live action film adaptation was released on October 17, 2015.
Shōjo, shojo, or shoujo manga is manga aimed at a teenage female target-demographic readership. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 (shōjo), literally 'young woman'. Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative styles, from historical drama to science fiction, often with a focus on romantic relationships or emotions. Strictly speaking, however, shōjo manga does not comprise a style or genre, but rather indicates a target demographic.
My Girlfriend is Shobitch is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Namiru Matsumoto. It began serialization online on Niconico Seiga in July 2015. An anime television series adaptation by Diomedéa and Studio Blanc premiered from October 12 to December 13, 2017.
