shōjo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Perhaps more than other manga artists, the first female shōjo creators embraced the idea of manga as escape as they spun tales of a fairy-tale European past vivid with details."
- "Not only is shōjo manga a fundamentally gendered genre, but there is a gendered division of labor in its production — that is, roughly 75 percent of shōjo manga editors are men, while 99 percent of the artists are women (mostly in their teens to late twenties)."
- "Stylistic developments made shōjo manga instantly recognizable: notably, characters with exaggerated feminine and childlike features, such as iconic large eyes to show emotion, encourage empathy, and indicate the main character, and flower symbolism."