1. What is shojo manga
As I quote John Treat in the discussion of Shajo below, Banana Yoshimoto's works are very manga-like. Also, Haruki Murakami has said before that one of his most favorite manga is Yumiko Oshima's Banana Bread Pudding (see History section for details on Oshima.) It seems that they care a lot about bananas. ... I will cite a passage from John Treat's essay about shojo culture, "Yoshimoto Banana Writes Home: The Shojo in Japanese Popular Culture." ... In what Mitsui Takayuki has termed the 'vacuity of the present,' Yoshimoto Banana's work is held to symbolize the...
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