


The shoujo version of Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun delivers love comedy featuring a budding young mangaka’s attempts to pursue her shoujo manga fantasies with her senpai, which unfortunately don’t turn out as well as she had imagined…
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Police have arrested a man for kidnapping a 9-year-old girl after he was reported as a suspect by the public “for having shoujo manga” and “looking like an otaku” – finding both a shoujo and as many as 4 volumes of shoujo manga in his possession.
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Otaku and critics alike have been busy scrutinizing light novels and manga released throughout the year in an attempt to discern which among them stand triumphant – in the opinion of 2014’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi at least, which also handily delivered its choices by genre.
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Nakayoshi’s youngest ever published mangaka in 26 years is a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and is by all accounts rather good.
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The most amazing manga of 2013 – according to the collected opinions of the top mangaka, editors, industry figures and random celebrities surveyed for Kono Manga ga Sugoi!’s 2013 edition at least – have been unveiled, and the results are sure to be some help to manga lovers struggling to find out what they should be reading and what they might be missing out on…
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Anime heroines whose lineage derives from shoujo manga have been ranked and found good, despite whatever doubts about the tastes of the voting demographic may be present…
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Those anime which target a female audience – shoujo or otherwise – yet can still somehow be enjoyed by males have been ranked, opening up a wealth of possibilities for the more adventurous male anime fan.
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Japanese have been bemusedly confronted with the wonders of “anime eyes” makeup, supposedly “attracting much attention throughout America” and certainly attracting much attention in Japan (though perhaps not for the same reasons).
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Nov 22, 2011 16:40 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Fine Art, Image Gallery, Interviews, Mangaka, Plastic Surgery, Sculptures, Shoujo


Mangaka and artist Rokudenashiko (“rokudenashi” means “ne’er-do-well”) has lately been earning much acclaim (or attention at any rate) for her “Georaman” and other vaginally inspired sculptures, having opted for the direct approach in reproducing her own intimate parts in her work.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Aug 20, 2011 23:18 JST
- Tags: Bleach, K-ON!, Naruto, One Piece, Rankings, Shonen, Shonen Jump, Shoujo, USA

American publishing industry figures for the top selling manga franchises help underline the superior taste of American audiences when it comes to manga, and (rather more surprisingly) the fact that US manga fans have apparently forsaken the shonen manga holy trinity…
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It is being claimed that girls are now more interested in male-marketed shonen manga than in the shoujo manga publishers think they are supposed to be reading.
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Manga fans supply a ranking of which mangaka they always assumed were male, whether based on name, art style or story, only to be surprised to find they were female.
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