Manga

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

• Risu Akizuki
• Moyoco Anno (Happy Mania, Sugar Sugar Rune)
• Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Izumi Aso
• Clamp (a collective formed in 1989; membership has changed over the years; notable works include Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, and xxxHolic)
  • Tamayo Akiyama
  • Sōshi Hishika
  • Satsuki Igarashi
  • Mokona
  • Kazue Nakamori
  • Sei Nanao
  • Tsubaki Nekoi
  • Ageha Ohkawa
  • Shinya Ōmi
  • Leeza Sei
• Nariko Enomoto
• Machiko Hasegawa (Sazae-san, beginning in 1946)
• Mizuno Hideko (Fire)
• Yumiko Igarashi (artist of Candy Candy)
• Ippongi Bang
• Fusako Kuramochi
• Suzue Miuchi (Glass Mask)
• Kyoko Mizuki (writer of Candy Candy)
• Milk Morizono
• Maki Murakami (Gravitation)
• Tomoko Ninomiya (London Doubt Boys)
• Keiko Nishi
• Chiho Saito (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
• Megumi Tachikawa (Saint Tail)
• Kaoru Tada
• Satosumi Takaguchi
• Rumiko Takahashi (InuYasha, Ranma ½)
• Natsuki Takaya (Fruits Basket)
• Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon)
• Yumi Tamura (Basara, 7 Seeds)
• Ebine Yamaji (Indigo Blue)
• Sumika Yamamoto
• Waki Yamato
• 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
  • Moto Hagio (They Were Eleven)
  • Riyoko Ikeda (The Rose of Versailles)
  • Aiko Itō
  • Toshie Kihara
  • Minori Kimura
  • Norie Masuyama
  • Wakako Mizuki
  • Yumiko Oshima (Banana Bread no Pudding)
  • Yasuko Sakata
  • Nanae Sasaya
  • Shio Satō
  • Keiko Takemiya
  • Michi Tarasawa
  • Mineko Yamada
  • Riyoko Yamagishi

See Also

• Anime
• Comics