''Lady Love'' is a Japanese

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

series by Hiromu Ono. It won the

Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, the event is sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in three categories: '' shōnen'', '' shōjo'', and general. The awards began in 1977, initially w ...

for ''shōjo'' manga in 1984.

Publication

''Lady Love'' was serialized in the publisher

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

's magazine '' Bessatsu Friend'' between 1981 and 1984. Eight collected volumes were originally published by Kodansha between September 1981 and February 1985. An artbook was released on November 14, 1984. The series was republished twice; first into eight '' shinsōban'' between July 8, 1994, and August 19, 1994, and then into four '' bunkoban'' between March 10, 2000, and April 12, 2000. The series was published in the '' Corriere dei Piccoli'' in Italy. The manga also spawned a sequel series titled that was serialized in '' Be Love'' between 2005 and 2010. It was published in four volumes between September 13, 2006, and February 12, 2010.

References

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