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@ 2008-05-20 23:11:00
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Show #61 - '70's Shojo Manga Panel, Part 2
Show #061 Direct Download:

OP: "Ace wo Nerae!" by Kumiko Ohsugi, Opening theme of Aim for the Ace
ED: "Glass no Kamen" by Mariko Ashibe, Opening theme of Glass Mask (1984)

Part two of two of Dr. Weeaboo's '70's Shojo Manga panel from Anime Boston 2008.

Notes (to be completed later):

Ace Wo Narea (Aim for the Ace)
The Forest of Cinderella
Oke No Monso? (time traveling, Egypt, has pharaohs, ongoing? siblings in love, Sister's name: Isis)
From Eroica with Love is being published by CMX, and besides Swan and Emma, it's their best title.
Glass Mask
The Showa 24 Group (Nijûyonen Gumi)
No Play about the Crimson Goddess
What is No Theater?
Kaze to Ki no Uta - The Song of the Wind and Trees
Naomi
Otome Chikku manga
The Swaying of the Flower Swing
Manganovel.com free translation stuff and it's legit
Moyoko Anno is recommended - Flowers and Bees, Happy Mania, Hataraki Man


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[info]naniwa
2008-05-23 04:52 am UTC (link)
To answer Noah's question about what happened at the end of the 70's...

There really were two major factors to this.

The first was touched a bit by the Dr. As was the case in many other countries people quickly began to forget the rebellious era of the 60's and early 70's. Vietnam ended and those protests died down. People were still unhappy about the US military but now that people could afford to go abroad and experience the rest of the world fewer people were standing up against the US. The fashion, as you might see in Patrick's book Japanese School Girl Inferno, kinda gets bizarre with the pajama girls and such. The end of the 70's was also the beginning of an era of great economic growth for Japan. In the 50's and 60's there was a little more desperation and as such in the artists that came of age in the 70's, began to draw stories of struggle. In some ways it followed the growth of gekiga that way.

The second factor was the growth of manga in the early 80's. It is said that the golden era of manga was the early 80's. I would say it would be the early 70's, but a publisher would say the 80's because it was when the industry became a business. Some of the older publishers went out of business. The major publishers that were releasing shoujo began to brand their magazines to cater to specific genres - nakayoshi was young young readers and maho shoujo; ribon was the old skool but it wasn't popular; margaret was melodrama romance; shojo comic had fantasy and racy romance; hana to yume was comedy, sci fi, and slice of life. Some of the 49ers were no longer shoujo writers. Some like the creator of Candy Candy was doing shounen (and T&A comedy at that), while Takemiya was drawing shounen sci-fi. Ichijo Yukari was doing comedies and she was apart of the early stages of josei (which developed in the 80's). Shoujo was much more marketable. It wasn't just something for girls, pubs had a large audience and doujinshi events, that were just popping up at the time, would reflect that (most DJ artists have been female).

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