Moto Hagio is a Japanese manga artist. Regarded for her contributions to shōjo manga, Hagio is considered the most significant artist in the demographic and among the most influential manga artists of all time, being referred to as the "god of shōjo manga" by critics.
A documentary about marine iguanas (pictured) inspired Hagio to write Iguana Girl (1992), a semi-autobiographical manga about her relationship with her mother.
Hagio's bishōnen are inspired in part by films featuring young men in homoerotic scenarios, such as Death in Venice (star Björn Andrésen pictured).
Shōjo manga is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with shōnen manga, seinen manga, and josei manga, one of the primary editorial categories of manga. Shōjo manga is traditionally published in dedicated manga magazines, which often specialize in a particular readership age range or narrative genre.
Shelves of collected volumes of shōjo manga under the Margaret Comics imprint at a bookstore in Tokyo in 2004
Actress Hideko Takamine, portraying an archetypal shōjo wearing a sailor fuku in the 1939 film Hana Tsumi Nikki [ja]
Cover of the first issue of Shōjo-kai, 1902
A four-panel manga from the November 1910 issue of Shōjo (artist unknown). Note the henohenomoheji in the final panel.
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