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By: ed

ed — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:30:16 +0000

Simon is correct. H&C is from a josei imprint and magazine. Some would consider Kaze Hikaru a josei title but that is a little more borderline as most of the series in Flowers Magazine have older characters as leads but Shogakukan markets this as “shojo” on the cover.

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Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:46:40 +0000

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By: Simon Jones without a blog

Simon Jones without a blog — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:56:02 +0000

I’m also pretty sure that Honey and Clover was in a Josei magazine. Though I might be wrong on that. It’s not a series I’m particuarly fond of.

By: Rilina

Rilina — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:31:54 +0000

I’d say Honey and Clover is borderline josei, if not full-on josei. One of the truism of librarianship is that teen readers don’t go for nostalgia, and Honey and Clover definitely has lots of that. I really wonder how it’s going to do in Shojo Beat. I suspect Honey and Clover is also considered josei by some because its anime adaptation was aired in the Noitamina late-night time slot.

By: Huff

Huff — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:07:44 +0000

“Nana is technically shôjo, but Honey and Clover is full-on josei, right? At least in terms of its publishing history?”
To my knowledge both are considered shojo titles that happen to be aimed at/read by older teens or women in their twenties. The labeling system is rather confusing (I have no idea what Awabi would be since Takahama’s stuff usually runs in avant-guard anthologies that aren’t sex-specific), but I always get a very shojo “vibe” when I’m reading both of them, more-so with Nana due to the relentless melodrama, as opposed to someone like Erika Sakurazawa or Nananan Kiriko.
I completely agree about how we need more josei published here. In some ways it seems to have an even harder time selling than a lot of genre seinen titles. The day Kyoko Okazaki (whose work is about as far away as you can get from “chick lit”) gets published in English I’ll be as happy as a clam.

By: gynocrat

gynocrat — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:26:28 +0000

I should’ve read your blog first, and then called it day. ^_-