![]() ![]() With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender―as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. Shojo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls’ culture throughout the postwar era. Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. ![]()
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