UEHARA Kimiko

The story follows the life of Kyoko, an obstetrician and gynecologist practicing in a small town in Nagano, Japan. Note: this is the longest running josei manga.

Mari Saotome is a cry-baby. She lives only with her father since her mother is already pass away. She falls in love with ballet after seeing a ballet performance. One day, she hears her aunt and father arguing about her becoming a ballerina. To her surprises, she hears that her mother is still alive and also a professional ballerina, but her whereabouts is unknown due to divorce. From that day, Mari wants to be known in the entire world, so she can find her mother. (from mangaupdates)

This manga was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1990. (from mangaupdates)

Mari-chan is a third-year elementary school girl. She has been practicing ballet all her life, dreaming of the day she can dance on stage with her mother, who is a famous ballerina. Mari-chan was accepted at a ballet competition and was chosen to dance the role of the Beni Rose Princess in \`\`Rose Monogatari.'' However, at the Sugi Ballet School where she is attending lessons, Yuurei, the Princess of the Red Rose, who has escaped from the picture, scares Maiban Mari!

Kimiko Uehara depicts a moving graffiti of youth. Ai has disliked mountains ever since she was caught in a storm on a mountain trip with her late brother Takeshi. However, when she enters high school, she admires Nakao, a senior, and joins the mountaineering club. (from mangaupdates)

In Hokkaido, Ayumi is a rough girl and plays ice hockey much like her father before her. One day he surprises her by arranging an Omiai with a boy with as much experience on the ice as she has - except he's a figure skater… (from mangaupdates)

Marybelle and her brother Antoine were offspring of a fine noble family in France. But with wicked step mother in line, trauma was guaranteed in their lives! Soon, the siblings were separated as they moved to England away from their wicked step mother. In England, Marybelle was adopted by the Lambert family. Nine years on, Marybelle and Robert, the eldest son of the Lambert family, were already deeply in love. Their relationship, however, was not approved by Robert's father, Duke Lambert. The duke was concerned for the reputation of his son, who would inherit his title one day, being tanished by Marybelle’s low status. In the end, he requested her to leave the family for good. In her departure, Marybelle realised Robert's importance to her; so when Robert finally found her, Marybelle insisted on leaving him for his own sake. She also asked her new-found actor friend, Léandre to pretend to be her lover, hoping that Robert would give up on her. Eventually, Marybelle left Robert and returned to France with Léandre. (from mangaupdates)

Maiko is the daughter of a famous ballerina and in her 2nd year of middle school. She is studying to follow in her mother’s footsteps, and her grand dream is to dance with her older brother who is also a dancer and has left home. But there’s another dancer in the wings, a girl named Chiyako who was born on the same day and in the same hospital as Maiko… (from mangaupdates)

Ichinose Aki is a girl who has started to fall for a young man in her class named Suda, but she’s also discovered a secret about him – that he wears a wig. His hair is actually blond, his eyes are actually blue, and to say that he’s not from around here is an understatement… (from mangaupdates)

Lolly, our poor heroine who lives with her sick mother and a spoiled sister. Her live was changed when she encountered a handsome horse, Angel; Lolly eventually became the owner of Angel’s son, Happy. Carl met Lolly and Happy, just as he ran away from his wealthy family. He stayed with Lolly’s family ever since. Lolly was left alone after her mother’s death and her sister left home to pursue for a better life…. Carl stayed by her side for support; romance started to develop between the pair…. One day, Lolly met her first “enemy”, Tania, who invited them to an equestrian competition. Just as Lolly and Carl dreamed of wining the gold medal riding Happy in the National Equestrian Competition, Tania & father have set their eyes on Happy and invited Carl for training in her horse barn. In order to win both Carl and Happy back from Tania & Co, Lolly has to win the next equestrian competition. (from mangaupdates)

The five-year-old Lotti and six-year-old Johnny made the pledge that they would enroll to the Royal Music Academy together when they grew older. Sadly, the two were soon separated as their nation was divided into East and West countries by the two conflicting governments. Some years later, Lotti finally arrived the Academy against her parents' wishes. There she encountered the bad boy George. Originally, Lotti was not going to be accepted by the Academy as she failed the entrance exams... until the Student Body President, Carl, came in and told the headmaster that she was actually his fiancee. Even the Academy was divided into East and West wings, each representing the group of students from the two different regions. Carl was the Student Body President of the West wing and George, to Lotti’s great surprise, Student Body President of the East wing! (from mangaupdates)

Love and friendship between a girl and a horse, and a hint of adoration for a boy who is awakening. The girls' dreams and hopes are reflected in their big, sparkling eyes as they walk straight ahead....