Josei
Josei manga (pronunciation: [ dʑosei ], Japanese 女性 漫画 'women comic ' ), also ladies' comic ( レ デ ィ ー ス コ ミ ッ ク , redīsukomikku ), is a Japanese comic that was specially drawn for adult women.
Demarcation
While the Shōjo manga is aimed at pubescent girls, the Josei manga is designed for adult women who already have a love or professional life. Most Josei titles are realistic and deal with experiences from work, family, interpersonal relationships, or stories about pets.
They are mostly drawn by female mangaka .
history
At the end of the 1960s, when the first Seinen manga for adult men (like Golgo 13 ) grew in popularity, some women's magazines included a few pages of comics for the first time, but these hardly attracted any attention and were created by rather unknown female cartoonists.
Manga magazines , dedicated exclusively to the publication of comics for adult women, first appeared in 1969 with the Funny ( フ ァ ニ ー , fanī ), which Osamu Tezuka founded as a sister magazine for his avant-garde magazine COM , and in 1974 with Josei Comic Papillon , the was started by the Futabasha publishing house as a female counterpart to the Seinen magazine Manga Action . The magazines, which were intended as experiments, were failures and were discontinued within a short time, although they were able to win well-known shōjo mangaka such as Mizuno Hideko and Maki Miyako for themselves.
Josei's first successes did not emerge until the early 1980s. Manga magazines like You and Be Love were founded. Popular shōjo mangaka such as Riyoko Ikeda drew the first successful Josei manga.
From 1990 the manga magazine Comic Amour appeared , which for the first time did not publish any emotionally striking Josei manga, but was devoted to pornographic comics for women and was therefore very successful. At the same time, magazines such as Yan Mama Comic appeared , aimed at young mothers.
Only a few series such as Honey and Clover , which was also implemented as an anime series, and Nodame Cantabile , a manga about music, become bestsellers. Other modern examples of Josei mangas are Tramps Like Us , Helter Skelter , Happy Mania or the works of Erica Sakurazawa and Kiriko Nananan .
Circulation numbers
The following magazines of the genre had a circulation of at least 100,000 copies in 2017:
| magazine | publishing company | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Elegance Eve | Akita Shoten | 150,000 |
| For Mrs. | Akita Shoten | 150,000 |
| Ren'ai Hakusho Pastel | Ōzora Shuppan | 120,000 |
| Marunama | Hōbunsha | 100,000 |
The most commercially successful Josei titles in terms of circulation are:
- Nodame Cantabile by Tomoko Ninomiya (completed, 24 volumes): 37 million copies
- Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsugu (ongoing): 22 million copies
- Honey and Clover by Chika Umino (completed, 8 volumes): 8.13 million copies
- 7Seeds by Yumi Tamura (completed, 35 volumes): 6 million copies
- Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa (completed, 5 volumes): 6 million copies
literature
- Kinko Ito: A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics. Images of the Life, Loves, and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Japanese Women . The Edwin Mellen Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-7734-1420-4 .
- Jaqueline Berndt : The Manga phenomenon: Comic culture in Japan . edition q, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86124-289-3 , pp. 126-137.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide , p. 172.
- ↑ 一般 社 団 法人 日本 雑 誌 協会 . Retrieved March 22, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ 歴 代 発 行部 数 ラ ン キ ン グ | 漫画 全 巻 ド ッ ト コ ム. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ 「ハ チ ク ロ」 累計 813 万 部 超 え の 大人 気 コ ミ ッ ク が 、 待 望 の ド ラ マ 化. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ ア ニ メ 『7SEEDS』 田村 由 美 の SF 人 気 作 が Netflix 独占 配 信 | ア ニ メ イ ト タ イ ム ズ. Retrieved December 27, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ 北 川 景 子 ＆ 向 井 理 、 『パ ラ キ ス』 NY ロ ケ 完 遂！ 向 井 、 北 北 川 と は 「腹 を 割 っ て 話 し た」. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .