contents of the magazine other than manga 5. I focus on the changes in the magazine and shōjo manga from several aspects: 1. In the second part of this paper I inspect the magazine Shūkan Margaret as a representative of the mainstream of shōjo manga in the 60s. Next I consider publication history, because accessibility poses as a further obstacle in keeping the works of this period in the consciousness of critics and the general public. First I analyze the critical and scholarly discourse on shōjo manga, which came to focus on the 70s, and consequently deemed the 60s a mere ‘pre-history’. ![]() ![]() In the first part of this paper I attempt to find reasons for how the creators of and works from the 60s ended up being obscured within the history of shōjo manga. With the shift to weekly publication frequency in the 1960s the media of shōjo magazines and the shōjo manga serialized in them changed greatly, nevertheless this decade is an understudied period in shōjo manga history.
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