The Story
Moto Hagio has been reinventing Shojo manga (Japanese comics marketed at teenage girls) since 1969. Unconstrained by boundaries of genre, she has sculpted a career characterised by intellectual curiosity, psychological authenticity and an aesthetic sense that has often been at odds with a Shojo manga mainstream littered with Sailor Moon knockoffs and sub-Mills and Boon romance cliches. Now, for the first time in English, Fantagraphics offers a selection of Hagio short stories spanning four decades of groundbreaking work by an artist at the peak of her powers.
Description
Moto Hagio has been reinventing Shojo manga (Japanese comics marketed at teenage girls) since 1969. Unconstrained by boundaries of genre, she has sculpted a career characterised by intellectual curiosity, psychological authenticity and an aesthetic sense that has often been at odds with a Shojo manga mainstream littered with Sailor Moon knockoffs and sub-Mills and Boon romance cliches. Now, for the first time in English, Fantagraphics offers a selection of Hagio short stories spanning four decades of groundbreaking work by an artist at the peak of her powers.
