Q 01/05

In which shojo manga do members of the Sohma family turn into Chinese zodiac animals when hugged?

A) Peach Girl

B) Fruits Basket

C) Kitchen Princess

D) Honey and Clover

Answer · why

B) Fruits Basket

Fruits Basket follows orphan Tohru Honda, who is living alone in a tent in the woods when the cursed Sohmas take her in. The family's outcast turns in...

Q 02/05

Which shojo comedy begins when student Haruhi Fujioka breaks a vase worth eight million yen?

A) Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun

B) The Demon Prince of Momochi House

C) Ouran High School Host Club

D) Wolf Girl and Black Prince

Answer · why

C) Ouran High School Host Club

Ouran High School Host Club has Haruhi work off the debt by entertaining the club's clients, while the rich boys who run it at first take her for a bo...

Q 03/05

Which artist, nicknamed the god of manga, drew the 1950s shojo adventure Princess Knight?

A) Osamu Tezuka

B) Shotaro Ishinomori

C) Leiji Matsumoto

D) Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Answer · why

A) Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka drew it after an editor asked for a girls' series to match his hits for boys. His heroine Sapphire is born with two hearts, a boy's blue ...

Q 04/05

In which shojo manga does a ten-year-old girl accidentally free the magical Clow Cards from a book?

A) Sugar Sugar Rune

B) Wedding Peach

C) Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne

D) Cardcaptor Sakura

Answer · why

D) Cardcaptor Sakura

Cardcaptor Sakura sends its heroine to recapture every card with Kero, the cards' guardian, as her guide. Her best friend films each capture and suppl...

Q 05/05

Which term names the manga category aimed at adult women, the older counterpart of shojo?

A) Seinen

B) Josei

C) Shonen

D) Kodomo

Answer · why

B) Josei

Josei emerged in the 1980s, when publishers launched new magazines to keep shojo readers who had grown up. In Japan the category is better known as la...