Gokinjo Monogatari--Neighborhood Story

Gokinjo Monogatari

Gokinjo Monogatari ("Neighborhood Story") is a shoujo manga by Ai Yazawa-sensei, originally published in Ribon magazine. It also was made into a one-season anime series. It's the story of Mikako Kouda, a creative, energetic girl who dreams of becoming a fashion designer, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the boy next door, and their friends at the Yazawa School of Design. It's got a much more stylized, cartoony style of drawing than Yazawa-sensei's previous works, and what really set it apart are the characters' extremely stylish clothes.

11/9/98: The first draft of everything I want to put on this page is finished. I'm going to finish the cover scans and background images (and make the existing backgrounds lighter) when I can get home and pick up the rest of the manga.

2/10/99: While checking out the Shoujo Manga Mailing List, I discovered that (::gasp::) there are other Gokinjo Monogatari fans out there, so I have some incentive to work on these pages. If you're reading this, my future plans for this page include: 1) finishing scanning the covers, 2) editing the synopses, 3) doing some actual design work on this web page (sorry it's so plain and ugly right now--it's totally against the spirit of Gokinjo Monogatari), and 4) doing actual line-by-line translations of the manga.

5/14/99: Task #1 completed! All covers are up!