Josei manga
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Josei manga, also known as ladies' comics and its abbreviation redikomi, is an editorial category of Japanese comics that emerged in the 1980s. In a strict sense, josei refers to manga marketed to an
Mayu Shinjo, one of several artists who has authored both josei and shōjo manga
Gekiga
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Gekiga is a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult audiences and marked by a more cinematic art style and more mature themes. Gekiga was the predominant style of adult comics in Japan in the 1960s an
Josei manga
…manga for a heterosexual male audience. The emergence of manga for an adult female audience as a category in the 1980s was preceded by the rise of gekiga in the 1950s and 1960s, which sought to use manga to tell serious and grounded stories aimed at adult audiences, and by the development of more narratively…
Examples of a manga-style figure (left) and a gekiga-style figure (right)