Moto Hagio has been reinventing shojo manga (Japanese comics marketed at 10-18 year-old girls) since 1969. Unconstrained by boundaries of genre, she has sculpted a career characterized by intellectual curiosity, psychological authenticity, and an aesthetic sense that has often been at odds with a shojo manga mainstream littered with Sailor Moon knockoffs and sub-Harlequin-romance cliches. Now, for the first time in English, we offer a Hagio primer, a selection of short stories spanning four decades of groundbreaking work 1971-2007 by an artist who is working at the peak of her creative...