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This one's for the girls

Not all of this season's top new books take such a serious tone. For lighthearted fun, there's the increasingly popular genre called shojo manga (which translates as "girl comics"), a subcategory of manga that's as likely to appeal to teenage girls as to the typical comic-book audience of young boys. Shojo typically involves mischievous, large-eyed school kids learning important lessons about human relationships and growing up—but it's a lot more fun than that sounds. One good example is the new Imadoki!: Dandelion, by renowned Japanese shojo artist Yu Watase. Volume 1 of Imadoki ("Nowadays") follows the spirited Tanpopo Yamakazi, a new girl at the elite Meio School, who meets a cute boy tending a garden; in an effort to make friends, she organizes a gardening committee, and chaos ensues.

Becky Ohlsen has been a comics geek since she plundered her brother's X-Men collection at age seven.