Manga like Matsunae Akemi no Shoujo Manga Michi

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

Junjou Crazy Fruits

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Welcome to a dazzling girl's school life drama, where a fanatical Vice Principal will stop at nothing to bring her all-girl's school back to order. But the delinquent 1st year Jitsuko has her own priorities... which may have to do with a certain older homeroom teacher.

Note: Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1988.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , School , Delinquents , Shoujo , Female Protagonist

Tokimeki Manga Michi: Ikeno Koi 40-shuunen-pon

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Koi Ikeno shares the story of her manga career! In this autobiographical essay manga she looks back at her early childhood we see what manga inspired her, what it was like working as an OL and manga artist simultaneously, and the unexpected success of Tokimeki Tonight.
Also includes the one-shot manga M Y -sama ni Sasagu (M・Y様に捧ぐ)

Tags: Autobiographical , Shoujo