is a Japanese

shōjo manga is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with manga (targeting adolescent boys), manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and manga (targeting adult ...

artist best known for ''

Confidential Confessions is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Reiko Momochi. The individual volumes of the series were originally published by Kodansha in Japan as ''Memai'' (''Dizzy''), ''Namida'' (''Tears''), and ''Tobira'' (''The Door''). The thr ...

''.

''Confidential Confessions''

''Confidential Confessions'' (jap. , ''Mondaiteiki sakuhinshū'', literally „collection of works dealing with problems“) is a series of short stories first serialised in the manga magazine ''

Dessert Dessert is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Greece and West Africa, and most parts o ...

'' by publisher Kodansha from 2000 to 2002 and later collected in several ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or m ...

'' volumes. Each of the stand-alone episodes deals with a different problem of teenaged girls such as suicide, self-harm, sexual harassment, prostitution and bullying.

''Daisy''

In 2012, ''Daisy'' (original title: , ''Deijī 〜3.11 joshikōsei-tachi no sentaku〜'', literally „Daisy – the decision of the March 11 high school girls“) was also serialised in ''Dessert''. This manga is based on the novel ''Pierrot'' by Teruhiro Kobayashi, Darai Kusanagi and Tomoji Nobuta. It tells the fictional story of a high school girl from Fukushima-shi and the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster which affects the lives of her and her schoolmates. Although they live far away from the contaminated evacuation zone, they have to face problems such as the fear of long-term consequences of possible exposure to radiation, many schoolmates relocating to other prefectures, the decline of the farming and tourism sectors which causes financial trouble for their parents, and social ostracism by people from other parts of Japan. In 2014, ''Daisy'' was published in French in two volumes by publisher Akata as ''Daisy, lycéennes à Fukushima'' („Daisy, high schoolers in Fukushima“), and in 2016 in German as a single volume by publisher Egmont under the title ''Daisy aus Fukushima'' („Daisy from Fukushima“); part of the sales revenue from this edition went to a relief fund for children from Fukushima.

''Tokenai koi to chokorēto''

''Tokenai koi to chokorēto'' (, literally „unmelting love and chocolate“) was also serialised in ''Dessert'' and subsequently published in two volumes in 2016. It is about Tamako, a ninth-grader who confesses her love to a classmate on Valentine's Day, and her mysterious rival for the boy's love. The manga was published in German by Egmont under the title ''Bittersweet Chocolate'' (2018) and in Korean by Hacchae Cultural History as ''녹지 않는 사랑과 초콜릿'' („chocolate and love“, 2018).

Selected other manga

* , ''Kamisama ni misutereta 20 hiai'', 2005 * , ''Kokoro'', 2006 * , ''Jinx!!!'', 2013 * , ''Otona no mondaiteiki shirīzu Sakebi'', 2018; published in French by Akata under the title ''Moi aussi''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Momochi, Reiko Japanese female comics artists Manga artists Living people Women manga artists Year of birth missing (living people)