Crossword clues for shojo
Wiktionary
a. (context lang=en anime manga) Being in the style of shōjo anime. n. (context lang=en anime manga) A style of anime and manga aimed for young women.
Wikipedia
is a Japanese word for "girl".
The word is originally derived from a Chinese expression written with the same characters. The Chinese characters (少 and 女) literally mean young/little and woman respectively. In Japanese, these kanji refer specifically to a young woman approximately 7–18 years old.
A is a kind of Japanese sea spirit with red face and hair and a fondness for alcohol. The legend is the subject of a Noh play of the same name. There is a Noh mask for this character, as well as a type of Kabuki stage makeup, that bear the name. The Chinese characters are also a Japanese (and Chinese) word for orangutan, and can also be used in Japanese to refer to someone who is particularly fond of alcohol.
Usage examples of "shojo".
In shojo manga, love stories are structured through the exaggeration and aestheticization of the protagonists who are the same sex as the readers.
But even those foreigners who recover from their initial astonishment to awaken to the pleasures of manga are often still puzzled by the genre of girls comics, or shojo manga.
First, more than ninety percent of those who write and read shojo manga are women.
I will discuss later, shojo manga acquired a certain number of male readers, but even so that readership has not expanded beyond a limited number of afficionados.
Second, the main themes of shojo manga include soap-opera dramas of mother-daughter relationships, stories of girls rising to stardom, and love stories.
Third, the names, appearance, and situations of the characters in shojo manga are either imaginary or pseudo-Western in inspiration.
Unlike comics written for men, which advance in a linear fashion from one frame to the next, shojo manga employ an irregular narrative progression and make liberal use of modified frame shapes.
The first shojo manga worthy of the name began to appear in the mid-fifties.