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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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2019-01-29

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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2019-01-29

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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2019-02-08

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

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2019-02-19

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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2019-02-20

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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2019-02-23

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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2019-02-28

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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2019-03-06

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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2019-03-07

2, Girls!! Badminton!! What a concept! But: Hanebado! is based on the seinen sports manga by Hamada Kōsuke and not an adaptation of josei manga artist Isoya Yuki’s Akane no Hane (from now-defunct Hibana magazine) ❌

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2019-03-07

Ohana Holoholo by Shino Torino~

A queer slice of life josei manga that is a must read!

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2019-03-07

Feel Young line-up also includes est em's Ii ne! Hikaru Genji-kun & Yamashita Tomoko's Ikoku Nikki (read this, josei manga fans!!). And chapter 50 of Tendō Kirin's Kimi ga Kokoro ni Sumitsuita; its 8th volume is this month's only new release by Feel Comics (out now).

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2019-03-08

Ishida Takumi’s sexy yet complicated josei manga series Kakafukaka is getting a live-action TV drama adaptation. It stars Morikawa Aoi, Nakao Masaki, Yūki Kōsei & Nakamura Risa. Fukuda Momoka is set to direct the series premiering Apr 25 on MBS, a day later on Amazon Prime Video.

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2019-03-25

Shimura Takako’s adult yuri series Otona ni natte mo (Even if you become an adult) starts in the May issue of josei magazine Kiss, out now. Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her 30s, meets a woman at a bar. They instantly connect and soon their lives will be changed forever.

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2019-03-25

Also in Kiss Ariga Rie’s Perfect World & Ishida Takumi’s Kakafukaka. Both have a TV drama coming up with premiere dates in April. Good news for fans of TV series based on josei manga, especially now that the TV drama based on Mochida Aki's HajiKoi (Cookie/Shueisha) has ended!

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2019-03-25

Hidaka Shōko’s department store saga Hi ni Nagarete Hashi ni Iku is on cover of Cookie’s May issue. The line-up also includes Yuki Nachi’s Boku no Ie ni Oide Wedding spin-off, Shitara Masako's Osomatsu-san & Mochida Aki’s josei hit HajiKoi which picks up where volume 8 left off.

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2019-03-26

Combo
-le Les Liens du Sang, où une mère surprotectrice devient une menace: https://t.co/rmUHMzdys0
-Le Waltz où un collégien aimerait se vêtir en fille https://t.co/ppR0Uy8mb0

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2019-04-06