Merry Month of (Shojo) Manga: FOUR SHOJO STORIES

This month The Manga Test Drive celebrates its seventh birthday!  I know we've been a little absent lately thanks to work on Sakuracon panels, but doing those has left us in the mood to talk about shojo manga even MORE.  So let's kick off this seventh year of reviews with a month's worth of shojo manga reviews, starting with one of the oldest and most treasured examples from my own collection.

FOUR SHOJO STORIES,  featuring stories by Keiko Nishi, Shio Sato, & Moto Hagio.  First published in 1975-1989, and first published in North America in 1996.

PLOT:

This short story collection covers tales of young girls dealing with family drama and supernatural forces, a group of various children trapped on a spaceship trying to solve a mystery, a future traveler whose travels nearly end in disaster, and a husband dealing with his faltering marriage in the middle of an earthquake.