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After Izumi, Kodama was the second shojo kashihon manga anthology series released by Wakaki Shobô publishing company. It competed against standard shojo manga magazine like Shojo (Kôbunsha) and Shojo Club (Kôdansha). Masako Watanabe, Satoo Tomoe, Setsuko Akamatsu, Michiko Tanaka and a lot others who published in it became the women frontrunner of shojo manga during the 1960s, which was mostly dominated by men during the 1950s.