Passionate friendship the aesthetics of girls culture in japan shamoon deborah m isbn 9780824835422 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Passionate friendship the aesthetics of girls culture in japan shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls characterized by a very dense visual style featuring flowery backgrounds and big eyed androgynous boys and girls it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in japan. Passionate friendship answers these questions by reviewing japanese girls print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girls literary magazines to the 1970s revolution shojo manga when young women artists took over the genre it looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girls literature and illustration across the twentieth century both pre and postwar and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls even as they were informed by . Whether because comics for girls were such a novelty in the us at the time robbins 1999 or the smashing global success of sailor moon thompson 2007 shojo m. Passionate friendship the aesthetics of girls culture in japan shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls characterized by a very dense visual style featuring flowery backgrounds and big eyed androgynous boys and girls it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in japan