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*[[Sumika Yamamoto]]
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*[[Waki Yamato]]
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*[[Year 24 Group]] (a collective formed in 1969 that is largely responsible for the modern shōjo manga genre; membership has changed over the years)
*[[Year 24 Group]] (a collective formed in 1969 that is largely responsible for the modern shōjo genre; membership has changed over the years)
**[[Yasuko Aoike]]
**[[Yasuko Aoike]]
**[[Moto Hagio]] (''[[They Were Eleven]]'')
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*[[Category:Comics|Comics]]
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Revision as of 13:50, 19 November 2007

Manga is the Japanese word for comics, which in Japan have a much wider readership than they do in the United States. Many manga are serialized in weekly or monthly magazines like Shonen Jump or Shojo Beat, and, if they run long enough to warrant it, are later collected into paperback volumes called tankōbon. The subject matter of manga is quite various and often explicitly targeted to markets that are delineated by age and sex, i.e. shōjo (for girls), shōnen (for boys), josei (for women), seinen (for men). There are also defined markets for romantic and sexual fiction, i.e. shōjo-ai or yuri (lesbian "girl-love" stories); BL or yaoi ("boy-love" stories); ero, or hentai ("perverted" pornography), etc.

Female Authors of Manga

See Also