Ikeda Riyoko's Wedding Dress (1981)
This time, we bring you a story that is the dictionary definition of josei manga: Wedding Dress by Riyoko Ikeda.
When Eric, who also kindly proofread this script for us, mentioned that Ikeda had a manga where the protagonist plots revenge through a wedding dress, I knew I had to find it.
Said manga is compiled in the first volume of Ikeda Riyoko's Short Story Collection published in 1988 with the same name and another collection of short stories from 2014, Kaze no Joukei (Wedding Dress is only in the print version, not the digital version). But luckily, this short story also has two digital releases: One is included in vol.2 of Aoi Zakuro, and the other is a single-story digital release. I got the second one.
Some more digging told me that this manga was first published in issue No.5 of Monthly Seventeen's Special Issue YOU in 1981. I couldn't find an image of the cover of the magazine, but I trust where I do my digging: Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture has scans of old Puff issues with the list of ALL the manga published in a given year. It reminds me of how we used to get our desired information before the internet, and I love it.
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PS. Looking up publication info is more time-consuming than one might think.
