Four Shōjo Stories
Four Shōjo Stories is a manga anthology published by Viz Media in 1996. It is a collection of manga – manga aimed at an audience of adolescent girls and young adult women – containing two works by the manga artist Keiko Nishi and one each by the manga artists Moto Hagio and Shio Satō. It was one of the earliest published works of manga released in English. The book was later pulled from publication, as Viz did not seek permission from the original publisher Shogakukan to publish the works collected in Four Shōjo Stories as an anthology.
Works
;Promise by Keiko NishiThe brother and father of Reiko, a teenage girl, died not long after she was born. She must cope with her mother neglecting her, including her mother's decision to remarry. Reiko begins skipping school and she often meets by chance a boy who had helped her when she was little. He helps her get used to her new situation.
;They Were Eleven by Moto Hagio
Ten young space cadets are put onto a decommissioned spaceship as their final test. If they pass this test, their lifelong dreams of being valued people in their respective societies will come true. They find upon reaching the ship that they have an eleventh member. The crew suffers hyperthermia because their ship is too close to a star, and they must find out which of their number is the spy.
;The Changeling by Shio Satō
In the distant future, Lin is employed to check up on Earth's terraforming efforts. She runs across a peaceful-seeming world, but her ship is nearly sabotaged.
;Since You've Been Gone by Keiko Nishi
An unfaithful husband is with his lover as an earthquake devastates his home. His wife refuses to be evacuated, as she wants to find a purse with "deep sentimental value".