Shōjo Friend

Shōjo Friend (Japanese少女 フレンド, shōjo fureindo ) was a manga magazine, published from 1962 to 1996 in over 900 editions in the Kodansha publishing house. It was aimed primarily at young girls and published shōjo manga.

The first issue was published in December 1962. The magazine appeared as Shukan Shōjo Friend (週刊 少女 フレンド) from now on a weekly basis. Thus it was in conjunction with the Margaret founded a few months later, the first weekly manga magazine for a female readership, while monthly shōjo magazine Nakayoshi and shōjo were published with Club for several years at Kodansha. 1968 followed with shōjo comic in Shogakukan another weekly magazine, which the magazine alongside Margaret had another competitor. 1965, the monthly magazine sister Bessatsu Friend was founded.

In the 1960s, among other things, Tetsuya Chiba, Kazuo Umezu, Machiko Satonaka, Akira Mochizuki and Chieko Hosokawa worked for the magazine. In the 1970s, had Waki Yamato -san ga Tōru with Haikara and Yōko Shoji with Seito Shōkun! great success. Nevertheless, the edition number decreased, which is why the magazine was founded in 1974 converted to a slower rhythm of publication; it has now been released twice a month. From 1991 it was published monthly.

The last time the magazine was published with the October issue of 1996. After setting the subscribers of the magazine changed to the newly founded dessert.