Shojo Fight 11 PDF Download

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1646593871
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Neri’s been invited to train with the national team, but the experience physically teaches her just how much she has to learn. She visits the room of captain Kiryu and ace Komyoji, two athletes who’ve toed the line of death—and they have something to teach her. Meanwhile, Takako’s depressed after seeing her uncle—her only family—flirting with team member Mayu, but a little encouragement from Neri gets her focused on the game once more. Together, they face off against Mayu, part of Kokuyodani’s golden years and the toughest middle blocker in all Japan!

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1682339254
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Ever since that day, Neri Oishi’s resolved not to make friends. She’s fifteen years old and plays volleyball at Hakuunzan Private Academy Middle School, which is known for producing top players of the sport. Neri’s doing everything she can to hold herself back, including hiding that she was the captain of a team that took second place in a national tournament when she was in elementary school. While she’s immersed in this team sport, why should Neri have to kill herself? What keeps her from quitting volleyball in spite of that? Get ready for an ensemble volleyball drama!

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646599608
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Kokuyodani, aiming for a spot in the quarterfinals, squares up against their third opponent: Kanaria, the national champions from last year. A worthy opponent, no doubt...but then Kanaria falls victim to a sinister plot! Can the reigning champs regain their footing, and can Neri's team continue to play at their peak against a wounded foe? With monsters lurking across the spring tournament, the real battle begins now!

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1684911826
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"You don’t have to try and act normal." Every word from these young athletes has the weight of their lives riding on them as they try to navigate their chaotic lives...and as you try to traverse your own, wavering between teamwork and loneliness. It's Kokuyodani against Seiji in the spring nationals, and Neri's confrontation against the monstrous, greedy Maya Amamiya is reaching its climax!

Author: Yōko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642126144
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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"You like the way liking him makes you feel, don’t you?” Whether it be in romance, in friendship, or in volleyball, you have to go all out! This is the volume where we finally meet the person who has Rumiko’s heart. “Trust her and let her take care of you.” Now that the away game in Osaka is over, Neri and the rest of the Kokuyodani volleyball team have returned to Tokyo. They pass their days peacefully, training and engaging in other club activities. The same goes for Manabu and Michiru as they settle into their relationship. However, all that may change one day when Michiru accompanies Manabu to visit her father at the hospital where he works. There, he learns of the terrible circumstances Shigeru is in.

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636990517
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Kokuyodani has advanced its team to the quarterfinals! Their next opponent is Suzaku High, coached by Sara's father Tsuchiya. Suzaku captain Teranuma, fully recovered from a knee blowout, and her talented setter Arisugawa lead a tournament favorite that's bound to give Neri and company trouble...but how will Sara and Kyoko deal with Tsuchiya, an alcoholic who used to abuse Sara's mom? And what about the vast, conspiratorial plan by Mikuni Corporation president Meiko Mikuni to power up women's volleyball across Japan...at any cost?

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646592387
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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The team is headed for the local winter tournament, which decides whether they qualify for the big spring championships—but their new lineup forces Manabu and Shino to tackle serious questions. Realizing how difficult the road is ahead for her, Manabu resolves to give it her all—but she's soon visited by Takako Yui. She warns her about Seiji High player Maya Amemiya, a rival with an odd fixation on Neri, and it isn't long before Manabu declares war on this interloper!

Author: Yoko Nihonbashi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1646597567
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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The spring national volleyball tournament is finally underway! Yamabukiya High's team consists of girls who used to run the school manga club. Between their first tournament and the tricky foe they're paired with, the Stray Dogs have trouble keeping a decent pace. Then, pushed to attend a game Neri's playing in, Mayu and Tamaki reunite. With that, the tale of the "golden years" team that ended with Mari's death picks up once more...

Author: Jaqueline Berndt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030014851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century—discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology—this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.

Author: Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438473915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls’ magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters’ “immature” qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls’ fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls’ fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The bookhighlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko’s dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo’s social realism, Morita Tama’s autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls’ perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality. “This book provides many fascinating, perceptive, and fresh insights into a variety of aspects of girls’ literature and culture, which have not yet been discussed in English.” — Helen Kilpatrick, author of Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators: Images of Nature and Buddhism in Japanese Children’s Literature