![]() The shoujo revolution brought with it more experimental panel composition It’s short, so you should honestly just read it for yourself here, but I’ll outline it real quick: It reads as surprisingly tropey from a modern lens, which suggests a lot of future yuri carried its lineage. ![]() Siroi Heya no Futari is a groundbreaking 1971 oneshot by Ryoko Yamagishi that is all but forgotten these days, but was one of the very first manga that could be considered yuri. But what about the other authors in the Year 24 Group? As it turns out, some of Ikeda’s contemporaries were depicting female-female relationships more explicitly, at the cost of relegating them to even more tragic endings. So in short, Oniisama e is the way it is because its author was literally inventing modern shoujo in the process. Narratives became complex and sometimes politically relevant, channeling the radicalness of the student protests just a few years earlier. Subgenres such as science fiction flourished under this reimagining of shoujo, while romance became far more prevalent, even in controversial forms such as boys’ love and girls’ love. This set the stage for a revolution in the early 70’s, in which a group of female artists retroactively referred to as the Year 24 Group all started greatly expanding the boundaries of what shoujo could be. Because of all of this, romance, which is the first thing you think of in terms of modern shoujo, was rare.īut by the end of the 1960’s, the genre had gradually shifted into being written primarily by women, and adolescent settings had begun to gain popularity. ![]() The target audience was far younger, so most early shoujo depicted young children instead of high school girls. It’s hard to imagine just how different shoujo was before the 70’s, but most of it stems from the genre being treated for decades as a stepping stone for male mangaka before they could get to publishing shounen instead. ![]()
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