Notes
A monograph about a corollary genre aimed at adult women, “ladies comics” (rediisu komikkusu), has also recently been published: Kinko Ito, A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Images of the Life, Loves, and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Japanese Women, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Sharon Kinsella, Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.