Petit Flower

Petit Flower (プチフラワー, Puchifurawā) was a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shogakukan.

Shogakukan began publishing Petit Flower as a regular magazine in 1980, after the success of Flower Comic, a one-off special issue of the manga magazine Bessatsu Shōjo Comic.

[1] The magazine targeted a readership of girls and women in their late teens to mid 20s.

[2] The magazine was initially edited by Junya Yamamoto [ja], who was also the editor of Bessatsu Shōjo Comic;[2] consequently, the artists published in Petit Flower typically were given limited editorial support but a significant degree of editorial freedom.

[3] The magazine published works by several of Shogakukan's most notable female manga artists, such as Moto Hagio and Keiko Takemiya.