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The popular mangaka Wataru Yoshizumi appeals to her young and slightly older women readers for over a dozen works published for the last 15 years.

Johji Manabe is an adventure manga author. His works organically combine fantasy and sci-fi, humor, romance and ecchi.

Ai Yazawa is a well-known shoujo (girl manga) author stressing her characters' clothes. Readers know well her works like Paradise Kiss and Nana.

Rumiko Takahashi is a most famous and respected manga author with the millionth milestone in 1995 and the current 100+M copy sales.

There were comic books growing up but never realized the potential market for this. Sometimes I think a comic book that I specifically remember reading as a child and see what it's worth today. I am amazed and a little mad that I stayed with them. My current collection of comic books began in the mid-1980s when comics were only seventy-five cents. I lived in the house and rent little attention. I happened to notice a comic book store not far from where I worked. I went and entered another world. The best part was the comics that have declined in price. I would get bags full and read with delight in the early morning hours. Other times I found autographed copies of the artists or writers and buy those. When Batman and the Dark Knight series came out I got the first four views. Unfortunately they were stolen, along with some valuable merchandise.

Illustrated short stories for women fall under basic genres like shoujo, magical girl, josei, yaoi, yuri. Each targets its own audience with short story relating to one of them and usually containing other genre elements like fantasy, historical, etc