In the hazy summer of 2018, I, a shoujo manga reader who watches about 1.5 anime series a year, was tricked twice by anime adaptations & had to learn that
1, Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight by Kinema Citrus =/= josei manga series Kageki Shoujo!! by Saiki Kumiko ❌

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The Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight franchise might have stolen its spotlight last year. But Takarazuka fans, don't miss Saiki Kumiko’s fabulous series Kageki Shoujo!! It's running in josei manga magazine Melody after it originally debuted in now-defunct JUMP X in 2012 🌹🎶

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Sato Fumino’s steamy romance with art by is out today! If you’re looking for a josei series with adult characters and a thrilling romance, Beast † Blood Volume 1 is the for you!

https://t.co/DjsZdPwmXm

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Caught another shōjo/josei manga version of the thieving gentleman's escapades:
🎩 Lupin Étude is a series by Iwasaki Yōko that's running in Princess GOLD (digital only). Volume 3 of the comic came out a week ago. Like Saitō Chiho's version, it's based on the stories by Leblanc.

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One of the queens of figure skating & dancing shoujo/josei manga, Makimura Satoru. In 40+ years, she's created hits like Ai no Aranjuez, Dancing Generation, NY Bird, Shiro no Farruca and Do Da Dancin’!. Her latest series Moment has been running in Cocohana since 2014 💃⛸️

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Concept cover art for my Josei short comic Outcasts of Earth.

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3 former art students living & eating together, through the good times and the bad: Okazaki Mari's gourmet josei manga Kashimashi Meshi is featured on the cover for the March issue of Shodensha's Feel Young magazine 🍲🏙️

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During the 1980s shōjo/josei manga boom, when a lot of men read magazines like Ribon or Bouquet too, novelist & critic Takahashi Genichirō (a quirky & amazing person btw) called for the destruction of the wall between junbungaku & entertainment erected by so-called intellectuals.

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Bouquet series often had protagonists transitioning from senior high to university & then finding jobs, marrying. Kind of like an in-between space for shoujo-josei manga, tending more toward what we today would call josei manga. (Another clue: no ruby/hiragana kanji readings.)

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Aujourd'hui, partage d'un gros coup de cœur ! Le shôgun est une femme dans le Pavillon des hommes chez https://t.co/qvN6D9n0yV

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Hi !

Our josei romance visual novel, That Which Binds Us, is currently 20% off on Steam right now!

https://t.co/qkHrqc9R7J

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We’re happy to announce a romance series about a biotech scientist whose world is shaken when her sister hires an alien mercenary as her bodyguard! If you’re looking for a josei series with adult characters and scenes, Beast Blood's it! https://t.co/ElRssw5cvW

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Be Love kept its biweekly rhythm for decades, unlike other josei manga magazines which are all monthlies/bimonthlies now. Or dead, like its former rival YOU. BL will now come out on the 1st of every month whereas 2 of its biggest rivals Flowers & Cocohana are out on the 28th.

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Heisei Year ― 1993
→ Oishii Kankei.
Makimura's beautiful Josei manga about the growth of Momoe - going from the life as a rich spoiled daughter to becoming an independent pretty chef with many ups and downs in cooking and love.

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Jour 12 : Quel est le shôjo dont personne n'a parlé mais que tu as adoré ?

Pour moi, c'est Gokusen () un josei à la fois romantique, drôle, réaliste et mature. Et toi ?

Pour en savoir plus, voici ma chronique ▶ https://t.co/iw8RV7AFVw


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Also in the new year's issue of Feel Young (# 1/2019): new chapter (plus full-color pages) of Yamashita Tomoko's Ikoku Nikki which I'm expecting to rank very high on end-of-the-year (josei-oriented) manga lists ⬆️💯 It'll also be on the cover of next month's Feel Young!

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