On Modern Shoujo Manga and Sex: Excessive Sexual Material in Shoujo Manga and Magazine

I just wanted to say thank you to T.Ohara for translateing this artical. It was something i didnt know about and am sortof shocked to hear about >-< i would be outraged if i saw my little sister reading any shoujo or manga like this.

"Some girls around me had their first sexual experiences when they were 13 years old. I guess girls nowadays are just too loose."

This is a real big trouble. I only hope that this situation doesn't go on. Although, I guess it can't be helped... unfortunately.

It seems to be the way society is heading today. This is found everywhere from TV to music, etc. Best thing would be for the families to discuss this with their kids early on.

... I've honestly never seen shoujo manga types like that. I would consider that hentai.

What I find mainly sad is the way women are depicted. Knowing more about sex, yes, that's important, but how much the woman seems to be fitted in a stereotype/an object seems rather frigthening. It's rather unhealthy.

sigh. inner feminist awakes.

What's funny is, after reading that "New Law Banning Lolicon" article, it seems in Japan some people are trying their hardest to suppress these "otaku" culture, yet little attention is paid to these shojo magazines.

Yes, I'm sure there are organizations that are trying hard to fight these magazines as well, but how often do you see them making the headlines? It's always "This Maid in Akihabara was Assulted!" or "This Otaku Thing is Anti-Society!" and the likes.

"Scans from a shoujo magazine aimed at elementary to junior high school girls"

OMG i would consider that hentai/porn.

I think it's pretty obvious that the NSFW link you posted is not meant for elementary or junior high school girls. The amount of kanji on the page (with no furigana) means that elementary school kids wouldn't even be able to read it.

It looks like more of a parody or a gimmick ad. If you look on the bottom scan, it looks like they're selling DVDs.

thats just disgusting, but im not surprised after reading
yuu watases manga, i dont live in japan tho.
yuu watses snt explixt like that but shojo does show somethin like that as it is a love genre. i think.

How can this be aimed at young girls aged eleven? What disturbs me the most are these watered down "heroines." They provide stereotypes so these younger girls downplay sex in real life. It seems to me that they're instructing the young girls to find older men and act like their favorite manga characters.

i love sexy girls

The publishers are going to push more and more adult content inside shoujo mangas for the sake of sales. It's parent's duty to push back. Otherwise this trend would be irreversible.

this comics ur good and naughty

i think u'l find that shojo is aimed at girls from like 3 to 103, its simply that there are seperate age groups, (america have erotic comics uno,i read a spiderman comic once where mary-jane was all over spiderman...lolz)

Also the person who said discusting to the oral sex thing, ur obviously to uptight about sex in society, the world moves forward, thus we are more open in society about sex and stuff like oral sex has become something highly accepted and also added to the "basses" list...

I dont see a problem in young girls reading this sort of manga because its a way to educate them, if boys can see spiderman bunk up with mary-jane then why cant girls see samaji get off with kentaro??

id like to add that that final image was from a HENTAI magazine aimed at women NOT at elementary school girls

It's possible that the bulk of these are aimed at the Otaku market, which, while providing an outlet of liberation for Japanese youth (and describes most of the youth culture, from the age of thirty-five and below) can have its extremes and detrimental results. Focusing on these specifics enlightens parents to what they should boycott for their younger children, or monitor for. Suppressing in its entirety creates an outside consumer market that doesn't help the publishers any, however. Publishers need to exist for any genre published by an author to exist, hence publishing.
Doujinshi is for the hardcore fan and is often part of otaku culture. Young children who divert from mainstream in favor of something handmade by an underground are not guilty of anything other than curiosity, though it does make you wonder why the more explicit titles are not kept as back inventory.
Perhaps the sales of these doujinshi, known to contain such content, are the spurs for the larger manga companies to attempt to compete. Maybe those in charge of the publisher's marketing analysis branch need to reanalyze what they're competing with before they publish toward that market, since they're actually trying to reap from a larger field of their consumer market by widening the demographic to include such titles.
(Older children, teenagers and young adults have the spending money they are attempting to accrue a percentage of with these sales.)
Sexually explicit shoujo taking this long to come to the attention of parents is indicative of the lax practices of overworked parents in Japan, much as it is in the rest of the developed world. Titles like this have been appearing as American imports geared toward tweens (which makes the presumption that these are, in fact, early teen titles valid) since late 2004 or early 2005. I remember fondly thinking of what the moral majority of the U.S. would do once it happened upon one series involving a girl and her plug-in boyfriend. (Who, somewhere located in his description as a bonus, could not get her pregnant.)
Since the practice of sexualizing 'lolita' characters (however aptly the term applies to the more developed of these sistren) has been common enough to be market, you can be certain that the shoujo titles are actually meant, to some extent, for the male, probably otaku buyer demographic, with large incentives to market to these avid consumers propelling this.
That young females happen to pick up a book seemingly geared toward them is just happenstance, and mostly the fault of the bookstores themselves.

I think Sho-Comi is really aimed for an older teen-young women audience considering the material running thru there. I mean, that's the only one that I remember being pretty racy.