what does josei mean
Josei manga. Josei manga also known as ladies or ladies' comics is a type of manga created mostly by women for late teenage and adult female audiences. Readers range from 15 to 44. In Japanese, the word josei means simply woman, female, feminine, womanhood and has no manga-related connotations at all. Josei comics can portray realistic romance, as opposed to the mostly idealized romance of shÅjo manga, but it does not always have to be. A famous example of a josei is Honey and Clover, which was animated, which is unusual for josei comics.