The manga is an expression that oscillates between the literary and the graphic, it is not an illustrated novel and it is not a comic either. It is difficult to define it, however, what is certain is that it comes from Japan and we receive it as a cultural product.
There are many genres, styles and authors of manga. And yet, in the sea of all this data, there are issues that are —or seem to be— repetitive. One of them is that we keep the idea that the authors are limited to writing shōjo.
Shōjo is the genre known for being aimed at teenage female audiences, starring a girl. It usually has very innocent plots of romance or fantasy. In other words, his stories are quite digestible and his illustrations are pretty.
It is not that there are many manga authors in the huge Japanese writing industry, however, when one is usually recognized or popularized, it is mostly for her shōjo stories, as is the case of Kyōko Mizuki —Keiko Nagita’s pseudonym— and Yumiko Igarashi, the authors of Candy Candy.
But, of course, mangaka, like anyone else, write about whatever comes to mind. Next we present five female manga authors who wrote great non-shōjo works.
Koyoharu Gotouge
The mangaka of the most recent success, shone with her work Kimetsu no Yaiba. This had a beautiful animation that managed to be as impressive as the story itself.
The adaptation of his manga that came to the cinema with the title of Mugen ressha-Henholds the first place in the box office record in Japan.
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The CLAMP group
It is made up of four authors who are around fifty years old, although at the beginning, there were eleven collaborators. Each member has different activities. The names of the definitive CLAMPs are:
Nanase Ohkawa
Satsuki Igarashi
Tsubaki Nekōi
Mokona Apapa
They have a huge range of creation, but are mostly known for their sweet magical work Sakura Card Captornevertheless, Within his prolific production we find xxxHolic, Chobits and Tokyo Babylon which are works in which his strong attachment to the supernatural is evident.
It should be noted that the aspect of the supernatural is what truly predominates in all his work. They even built a multidimensional world in which their different characters exist and inevitably connect.
Akimi Yoshida
It’s the mangaka who wrote bananafishwhich can be confused with the soft yaoi genre, but nobody could deny that it has a plot full of action, tragedy, abuse, gangs and drugs.
Kazue Kato
His most popular work is ao no exorcist, also of supernatural genre and marginality. Although it deals with demons and exorcists, it remains a sensitive piece of work as well as exciting.
Hiromi Arakawa —who uses the male version of his name, Hiromu, as a pseudonym—
Classify here with his big sleeve Full Metal Alchemist, which featured two anime seasons. And that he is classified as a shōnen.
now works in yomi no shigai, a new work that revolves around another pair of brothers, only now they are a girl and a boy, unlike full-metal, where both were children.
Anyway, manga authors write fabulous works of love, action, and whatever, but I wish they’d write more and we’d place them better, right?
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