“28 experimental short stories exploring male-female relationships, featuring diverse characters and a recurring tragic tale of guilt and redemption.”
Shounen Shoujo
少年少女
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28 experimental short stories exploring male-female relationships, featuring diverse characters and a recurring tragic tale of guilt and redemption.
Shounen Shoujo is an assamblage of Satoshi Fukushima's short stories. The only thing the 28 chapters really have in common is that they revolve around the relation between male and female, mainly boys and girls. Each story experimates with completely new topics. There may be young musicians, football playing girls, aliens, popstars, samurai, yakuza, seniors or even caries bacteria. Anyhow some of the stories are continued. What one could call the main story (because there is one episode in each volume) is telling of the girl Yoshiko who has pushed her friend into a deep fountain. Unfortunately this boy dies in this accident and Yoshiko now feels guilty towards the boy's younger brother Goro. In some time steps the reader is following their uncertain relationship. Despite the name, Shounen Shoujo is not a book for children. Often the stories end abruptly and leave a lot of space for interpretations.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 28 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 44m approx
- Published Jan 2001 – Jan 2004
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3625 catalog