Year 24 Group

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While the membership of The Year 24 Group is not official, the term refers to the of female mangaka who completely revolutionized shoujo manga, and whose influence can be seen in every modern shoujo work. The term comes from the fact that many of them were born in the year Showa 24 (1949; for this reason they are also occasionally referred to as the Forty-Niners). Commonly cited members of the group are as follows, as well as their best-known work(s) (if any) in the English-speaking fandom:

- Yasuko Aoike (From Eroica with Love)
- Moto Hagio (A, A'; They Were Eleven)
- Riyoko Ikeda (Rose of Versailles; Oniisama E...)
- Aiko Itou
- Toshie Kihara
- Minori Kimura
- Wakako Mizuki
- Yumiko Ooshima (The Star of Cottonland)
- Yasuko Sakata
- Nanae Sasaya
- Shio Satou
- Keiko Takemiya (To Terra...; Kaze to Ki no Uta)
- Michi Tarasawa
- Mineko Yamada
- Ryoko Yamagishi (Shiroi Heya no Futari)

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Sticky: Manga Available in English ( 1 2 ) Anomalous	31 replies	by eupheminism »» 09-27-09, 9:32 PM
Scanlations iyakuko	0 replies	by iyakuko »» 08-12-09, 7:06 AM
Natsu e no Tobira Subtitle Edit GarnetJello	6 replies	by GarnetJello »» 03-12-09, 9:19 AM
Year 24 Flower Group Websites GarnetJello	0 replies	by GarnetJello »» 11-02-08, 4:18 PM
Interviews with the Fabulous Forty-Niners GarnetJello	1 replies	by SchnickelFritz »» 10-31-08, 1:44 AM

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Deirdre | 8 hours ago

Hi all,

i have a spanish shojo blog (shoujospain.blogspot.com -also available in english-), and we are planning to do a special retro shôjo special for 2010 called Moto Hagio & The Nijūyo-nen Gumi.

As we plan to do a very big special, we are looking for experts on the less known manga-kas as Yumiko Oshima.

If you want to help, please e-mail us at shoujospain[at]gmail.com

I hope this is ok.

Anomalous | 09-11-09, 2:29 PM

I've updated the club picture gallery to reflect a wider variety of artists! If you know the titles any of the manga represented, please do tell me.

Anomalous | 09-08-09, 5:42 PM

Hey, guys! Vertical, the company that brought us Terra e and Andromeda Stories in English, is asking via twitter if there's any demand for US releases classic shoujo. If you've got a twitter, send 'em a quick tweet and tell them that we want some! (They're not looking for specific title ideas, just general interest.)

http://twitter.com/Vertical_Ed or @Vertical_Ed at the beginning of a tweet.

Anomalous | 08-31-09, 7:16 AM

For those of you watching at home, new Hagio scanlations:
Heart of Thomas ch5
A oneshot from Anywhere But Here called Yama e Iku

sakura_r0se | 04-27-09, 5:19 PM

Hi everyone!

I somehow found this club while searching around for any clubs that had manga relations of Moto Hagio's stuff = )

Liquidize | 03-30-09, 9:09 PM

Hello. ^o^ I finally joined this interesting club.
At first, I wasn't reading much in the shoujo genre, but I recently read Suna no Shiro and I was hooked! I guess I'm a sucker in tragic series, but I hope to discovered more manga in this club.