In Japan, most manga are divided into categories by gender and age group: boys (shonen), girls (shojo), women (josei), and men (seinen). But the readership is more fluid than those strict labels ...

Many girls who grew up reading manga are now women reading manga, and this is leading to more titles being published here.

She studied the locations’ cultures by reading documents and other materials. The manga shows how girls are treated unfairly in different societies and how certain roles or values are forced ...

The manga debuted on the ComicWalker website in April 2019. It soon created a buzz, particularly among those who had read Alexievich’s book, which was translated into Japanese by Midori Miura.