Shōjo manga
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Shōjo manga is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent girls and young adult women. It is, along with shōnen manga, seinen manga, and josei manga, one of the prima
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]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Hideko_Takamine_in_Hana_tsumi_nikki%2C_1939_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Hideko_Takamine_in_Hana_tsumi_nikki%2C_1939_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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.
Moto Hagio
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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
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).