Shojo Beat

Shojo Beat is one of the major publishers of manga in Japan. It's formatted in a magazine-type layout. Every publishing period, one chapter from all the mangas contained in the issue is released and published. The company put out its last issue in the summer of 2009.

The company gets it's name from the genre. The company targets girls age 8 to 18. For the most part stories focus on self discovery, over coming problem and romance (a combinational is also probable). Within those basic guidelines there are also many different sub-genres that are often within it such as historical, mecha, scifi, magic, adventure and slice of life.

Some of the last shojo beat mangas are:

• Vampire Knight (supernatural romance)
• Honey Hunt (romance,drama)
• Honey and Clover (comedy-drama, romance)
• Sand Chronicles (drama, coming-of-age)
• Haruka ~Beyond the Stream of Time~ (fantasy, romance)
• Absolute Boyfriend (science-fiction, romantic-comedy)
• NANA (drama, friendship, romance)
• Backstage Prince (romance)