What is No Roses Without Thorns: My Life As a Shojo Manga Assistant about?
Status: Finished
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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Status: Releasing
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"Barashura" de wa: Saratto Nagashita Ken no Kuwashii Ohanashi「(薔薇シュラ」では さらっと流した件の詳しいお話)
"Barashura" de wa: Aete Suruu Shita Ken no Kuwashii Ohanashi (「薔薇シュラ」では あえてスルーした件の詳しいお話)
Tsurakatta Hanashi Soshite Koi wa Shuraba de Umareru...... ka!? (つらかった話そして恋はシュラバで生まれる……か⁉︎)
Tags: Anthology , Shoujo , Autobiographical
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