{"id":4600,"date":"2005-09-25T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2005-09-25T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T12:40:34","slug":"manga_and_girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"Manga and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the New York Times ran an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/18\/books\/review\/18glazer.html?pagewanted=1\">Manga for Girls<\/a>. In other words: shoujo manga.  Even though I might nit-pick on a few points, it&#8217;s a pretty solid article.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Shojo &#8211; the word means girl in Japanese &#8211; frequently involves a lovelorn teenager seeking a boyfriend or dealing with situations like entering a new school, being bullied or trying to break away from a clique. There are also action stories featuring girls in strong roles as scientists and samurai warriors. (The shojo genre has been called &#8220;big eyes save the world,&#8221; after the characteristic drawing style of girls with saucer-shaped eyes who are sometimes endowed with supernatural powers.)<\/p>\n<p>But parents and teachers, who are sometimes happy to see teenagers reading just about anything, might be caught off guard by some of the content of the girls&#8217; favorite books. Among the best-selling shojo are stories that involve cross-dressing boys and characters who magically change sex, brother-sister romances and teenage girls falling in love with 10-year-old boys. Then there&#8217;s a whole subgenre known as shonen ai, or boy&#8217;s love, which usually features romances between two impossibly pretty young men. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/18\/books\/review\/18glazer.html?pagewanted=1\">NYTimes: Manga and Girls<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the New York Times ran an article about Manga for Girls.  In other words, shoujo manga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-manga-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}