Manga like Itsumo Pocket ni Chopin

Genres: Drama Music

What is Itsumo Pocket ni Chopin about?

Status: Finished

The daughter of Aiko Sue, a famous Japanese pianist, Asako Sue struggles to grow as a pianist and as a person, and understand others around her.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Coming of Age , Classical Music
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No Roses Without Thorns: My Life As a Shojo Manga Assistant

Bara wa Shuraba de Umareru: 70-nendai Shoujo Manga Assistant Funtouki

Also known as No Roses Without Thorns: My Life As a Shojo Manga Assistant.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

What's it like to be a manga creator's assistant, when she's working on the most popular shojo manga in the country?

The 1970s were a golden age for girls manga, or shojo manga, in Japan – but what was it like to create these pages of roses, sparkles and romance? Manga artist Nami Sasou shares some of the not-so-glamorous stories from the ink-stained battlefield of... cute girls' romance manga? A highschool assistant to Suzue Miuchi, the creator of the famously popular Glass Mask, this manga about making manga tells it like it was... With a decidedly "shojo" point of view!



Note: Nominated for the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Ranked #3 for female readers in the 2021 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.

Tags: Autobiographical , Female Protagonist , Drawing
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