#80s shoujo

[classic-shoujo]

Nanairo Magic (1986) by Yu Asagiri

#yu asagiri #nanairo magic #あさぎり夕 #80s manga #80s shoujo #なな色マジック

[seldomscans]

Hagio Moto's Egg Stand (1984)

After seeing the Demian reference in this one shot, I knew I had to translate this. And with the help of my friends with good taste, CiceroCiceronis and shielshi, we present you a movie-like story by Hagio.

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This manga was published in Hagio's Houmonsha (訪問者, 1995) bunkoban volume.

Special thanks to Box Head Idiot, who gave me the chance to translate this beautiful story. I hope Hagio fans out there aren't missing their scanlations on MD!

PS. Egg stand received a stage play in 2017. You can read about it here:

#moto hagio #hagio moto #萩尾望都 #egg stand #エッグ・スタンド #scanlation #one shot #80s shoujo #retro shoujo #vintage shoujo #WW2 #la résistance #paris #historical manga #hermann hesse #demian #year 24 group #24年組

[butterfly-latte]

80's shoujo Peppermint Rose!

I don't know anything about these dolls, except that they are a VIBE.

My patrons were able to see this early!

Coffee?

#peppermint rose #artists on tumblr #fan art #80s shoujo

[asnowperson]

When I was a child, a lot has happened. My beautiful memories are pretty much all from the time when my mother was still alive. After she died, there were things that made me sad, and things that made me feel helpless. I couldn't care less. There is no god anyway. There were also things over which I despaired, and things I was too weak to resist. I am a grown-up man now, and it’s all in the past. I’ve already forgotten what happened more than a decade ago. And yet, my child’s heart that will never find any peace has closed off its ears to the distant voices of my hometown.

From Hagio Moto's Mimi wo Katamukete (耳をかたむけて), which was published in two parts in Petit Flower in 1982. It's the third chapter in the bunkoban version of Mesh (メッシュ). This chapter tells the backstory of Millon, and it's my favorite chapter in the entire manga.

#hagio moto #moto hagio #萩尾望都 #24年組 #year 24 group #80s shoujo #80s manga #mesh #メッシュ

[devilsrains]

patalliro! (1982)

#patalliro! #my gifs #shoujo anime #bl anime #mine #patalliro #70s shoujo #80s shoujo

[raphaelly]

To anyone who might be a Takarazuka fan and an old shoujo fan and a yuri fan, I got my hands a few days ago on that one completely obscure short yuri manga from Ariyoshi Kyoko and scanned it as well as I could with a mobile app!

For a lil summary ~

“Naao's dream is to join the Byakuouji Revue, an all-female theater group (modeled after the real-life Takarazuka Revue), and become a big star. To enter the Byakuouji Revue, she first has to attend the associated music school. She also discovers that she's started having feelings for other girls...”

Seems like it never got any release outside of Japan and afaik there aren’t even any raw scans of the japanese release on the internet and for something that is basically the culmination of all my passions, that felt criminal. 

I gotta say the scans aren’t the best, sorry about that, I basically took pictures of every page and tried to “straighten” them with an app, as I wasn’t very comfortable cutting every page (and basically destroying the volume) to scan it properly, considering how rare copies are and considering the shipping costs.

It’s all still readable and Ariyoshi’s beautiful art can still be enjoyed! So here is the link to the google drive with the scans for anyone who might want to check it out! (And also translate it lol I certainly can’t do that myself)

#kinda felt bad only sharing this link in a semi private server #the whole world deserves to know about this #it's not revolutionary or anything just every sapphic theatre nerd dream #especially masc gay takarazuka nerd aka me #ariyoshi kyoko #dream message #yume message #takarazuka #80s shoujo #yuri manga

[boymagicalgirl]

California Monogatari Volume 2 Cover

#akimi yoshida #california story #california monogatari #heath swanson #eve luchiano #80s manga #80s shoujo #vintage shoujo

[yumikoigarashiedits]

Why is this manga so underrated?

Mayme from "Mayme Angel" (1979-1981) by Yumiko Igarashi

#mayme #mayme angel #johnny #jodie warren #beverly warren #mayme warren #louise warren #mr darnell #dana darnell #armand #shojo manga #shojo #shoujo manga #shoujo #manga #70s shojo manga #70s manga #70s shojo #70s shoujo #70s #80s shoujo #80s anime #80s manga #80s shojo manga #80s shojo #80s shoujo manga #70s shoujo manga

[misoarts]

#art #shoujo #60s shoujo #80s shoujo #90s shoujo #retro anime #retro shoujo #vintage shoujo #artists on tumblr #hopeposting #positivity #positive quotes #positive vibes #good vibes

[scrimblospectrumdisorder]

started reading tokimeki tonight, I know, unforgivable that I haven't already.

such a cute series... i really can't wait to continue it. ranze is so sillygirl coded!! I love her expressions so much.

#me.txt #tokimeki tonight #vintage manga #vintage shoujo #shoujo manga #80s shoujo

[pumpkin-and-mayo]

she deserves the world

#shoujo manga #please save my earth #80s shoujo #classic shoujo

[classic-shoujo]

Hikari no Pansy (1988) by Mariko Okumura

#光のパンジー #hikari no pansy #80s manga #80s shoujo #mariko okumura

[seldomscans]

Tokyo no Shuraba - Tokyo no Casanova After Story

Hello, world!

Attolia and I discovered Kuramochi Fusako by pure coincidence. We loved her style, read her work that was available in English, hunted down her work that was not available in English, and here we are. She really gave us the push we needed for bringing older, forgotten shoujo titles to more people. We are happy to present you Tokyo no Shuraba, the after story of Tokyo no Casanova!

This short story was first published in Kuramochi Fusako no Hon (1985), and later republished in color in Betsuma. We have taken ours from the second volume of A-Girl (1985).

Get it here, or read it here. Enjoy this short story!

#kuramochi fusako #fusako kuramochi #くらもちふさこ #tokyo casanova #tokyo no casanova #東京のカサノバ #scanlation #80s shoujo #80s manga #shoujo manga #retro shoujo

[asnowperson]

Hagio Moto's Egg Stand

I wanted to get Hagio's Houmonsha (訪問者) one shot collection off my reading list, and read this one shot, Egg Stand (エッグ・スタンド) yesterday. This 100-page one shot was first published in Petit Flower's 1984 March issue. It tells the story of a young orphan boy (Raoul), a dancer girl (Louise) and an activist who's part of the French Resistance movement (Marchand) in an occupied Paris.

I cheated and read the French version (Le coquetier) published in the second volume of Hagio's collected works, De l'humain. This actually kind of added to the story, considering that it takes place in France... Anyway... Egg Stand was quite a depressing story on the worth of life and meaning of death, while terrible stuff happens to another Hagio bishounen. I enjoyed reading a serious, historical work by her.

The page I posted above is a reference to Hermann Hesse's Demian and the chick-egg allegory there. Let's refresh our minds:

“If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born.”

This where the main theme of the story comes from: If a chick dies inside its egg without hatching, does it even know it was alive? Does it realize it's dying? What do people feel as they die? What do people feel as they kill others? The chick's world is inside of the shell, and it lives and dies without ever seeing what's outside... Are we not the same? Do we actually break our shells as we "live"? If you don't, can you still call it "living"? Are we dead inside our shells, or are we really alive? While the whole drama might feel like every other WW2 movie, this one shot leaves you with all these questions, and thus is worth reading. I am weak for literary references in manga.

#hagio moto #moto hagio #萩尾望都 #エッグ・スタンド #egg stand #24年組 #year 24 group #80s manga #80s shoujo #WW2 #la Résistance #french resistance #one shot #hermann hesse #demian

[devilsrains]

patalliro! (1982)

#i made 2 gifs of this scene it was good :) #patalliro! #shoujo anime #bl anime #my gifs #patalliro #mine #70s shoujo #80s shoujo

[myladyoscar]

me when the YURI pill hits

#yuri #dear brother #yaoi #she takes pills in the show lol #and its funny cuz its obvious that #they had no idea how ppl on drugs act #80s shoujo #riyoko ikeda