Creaked pen nibs, trembling manuscript paper, and splattered ink make out a picture of the soul! The flower garden of dreaming maidens is a battlefield! Yasuko Aoike, Suzue Miuchi, Mineko Yamada, Minori Kimura, Yoko Tadatsu, Toshie Kihara... Miwa Sakai, who has experience as an assistant to this illustrious line-up of shoujo manga artists in the 1970's recounts her experiences in a candid manner in this essay comic that describes the behind the scenes history of the shoujo manga world