Like most shojo the style includes lush costumes, impossibly beautiful boys and, yes, those big, saucer eyes and tiny, button noses. |
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Mostly written and drawn by women, shojo usually put cute, strong-willed 13 to 16 year old girls at their center. |
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It's on comic book stands now, so be sure to check'er out next time you're shopping for some shojo manga. |
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More than a quarter of the top 50 manga properties in the U.S. listed for the third quarter of 2005 were shojo. |
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In the field of Japanese studies, the cult of the shojo has received a great deal of attention. |
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The shojo is located as a liminal identity between childhood and adulthood. |
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When his mother had invited one of her friends over, she had brought with her a steady collection of shojo comics. |
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As for the dizzying byways of shojo, kinky romance manga for girls, I throw up my hands in Caucasian senior-male bewilderment. |
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When I picked up my first shojo manga, I felt immediately transported into the protagonists' life. |
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A fixture in Japan, shojo manga has just recently arrived on our shores. |
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With Howl, there are signs that Miyazaki is tiring of the shojo figure. |
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There is a whole category called shojo manga, or girls' manga, and as a rule it is much more sexually explicit and violent than the cell-phone novels. |
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Shojo comics have little in common with the corny romance titles of yesteryear. |
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