Mimi (magazine)
Japanese manga magazine
Mimi (Japanese: ミミ), stylized as mimi, was a Japanese shōjo manga magazine. It was published in a monthly and partially semimonthly rhythm between August 1975 and December 1996 by Kodansha. It was one of the first manga magazines targeted at an audience of girls in their late teens. The magazine was best known for publishing Waki Yamato's The Tale of Genji.
History
The magazine was founded in August 1975. At this time, shōjo manga was undergoing a transformation, with a new generation of women around the Year 24 Group and others pioneering new visual and narrative forms. Mimi was one of the first manga magazines targeted at an audience of girls in their late teens and young women, founded before Bouquet (1978) and Petit Flower (1980). The catchphrase written on the cover of its first issue was "to you, just in the spring of life", referring to its target group of readers who had read manga already in elementary school or junior high school and had now grown older.
In its first years, the magazine was specialized in publishing short stories. Some of its early contributors were Machiko Satonaka, Shinji Wada, Suzue Miuchi, Yōko Shōji, Makiko Hirata as well as two members of the Year 24 Group, Minori Kimura and Toshie Kihara.
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