Smile issue 3.12 cover featuring Fuyumi Soryo's very popular manga Mars. Property of artists and TokyoPop.

TokyoPop ran a shoujo oriented manga magazine for a short time, entitled Smile. It only featured about four manga at a time and never really matched up to Viz's Animerica Extra, so perhaps that's why it faded off.... o0; After cutting back on magazines, however, TokyoPop picked up production on translating serialized manga. ^^

Scan of a battle/ fight scene in the ninja shoujo title Juiline by Narumi Kakinouchi. Property of all involved. Compare this with the following shounen style manga battle scene and noticed the differences in "flowy-ness" and the like. ^^

Shonen Jump Issue 0 cover. property of artists and Viz. Click image for large version.

Viz has released a US version of the wildly popular Japanese manga magazine, Shounen Jump. Viz, however calls their  version "Shonen Jump," it is essentially a smaller version with about 8 series running at one time, all series that had run in the original, I believe.

A sample page of dragon BallZ that ran in the above issue. Chosen to demonstrate a simplistic "sketchy" style and action. Property of Viz and Akira Toriyama.

And, just for "the heck of it" I decided to translate (scanlate actually) a small manga comic strip type thing I found in my August 2002 issue of LaLa. It's by  Kikuzou Kashiwaya. Why did I chose it? Well before I even translated it I laughed about what was going on... and it demonstrates well the shoujo style with the sparkles and bishounen (pretty boy). ^^ Click on the image for the page. ^^