Hello, everyone, and welcome back! Thank you to all our previous backers for your support of Tezuka books. Because of you, we are able to print 4 books in our higher quality paper, and a digital-only book will finally be available in print. Thank you so much!
We’ve taken some time and listened to your requests, and for our next project, we’d like to print Osamu Tezuka’s shojo manga, Storm Fairy.
Shojo is a type of genre born in Japanese magazines that were segregated according to gender. Shonen and shojo was printed similarly like the funnies in your Sunday newspaper. Magazines aimed at boys created the genre shonen, magazines aimed at girls created shojo. Post-WWII showed a surge of girls interested in manga, and when Tezuka published Princess Knight, he raised the bar on what was acceptable for Japanese girls (at the time) could read. Now, we are asking you to help us print another of Tezuka’s lost work to English readers.
