History Manga / ComicGirls

Compare with ''Manga/HidamariSketch'', also a {{Moe}} SliceOfLife about artists. Also compare {{Manga/Bakuman}}, a more {{Shonen}} example of a manga about manga artists.

* PhotographicBackground: Par for the SliceOfLife course, but especially obvious in episode 7 where all the eyeglass store backgrounds are obviously photographs with a light Photoshop filter over them (probably because hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses are too complicated to paint over convincingly). The animated characters stick out like a ConspicuouslyLightPatch.
* PornStash: In the first episode, after knowing Ruki draws mature material, Koyume and Kaoruko attempts to find one of these under her bed, reasoning that she needs one to write her stories. [[SubvertedTrope Ruki doesn't have any]].

* TohokuRegionalAccent: {{Subverted|trope}}. While Kaoruko and Fuura are both from the Tohoku region, they both speak standard Japanese. The reason is they are both {{friendless|background}}, so most of their language are influenced by the media. Kaoruko even says her peers with more friends do have a thicker Tohoku accent than she does.

''Comic Girls'' (こみっくがーるず, ''Komikku Gāruzu'') is a [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] manga by Kaori Hanzawa that began running in May 2014. It follows Kaoruko Moeta, a manga artist who creates 4-koma manga. When her work is met with overwhelmingly negative reception, her editor arranges for her to live in a dormitory with other aspiring manga artists. Kaoruko meets a variety of individuals on her arrival, including {{shoujo}} manga artist Koyume Koizuka, {{shounen}} manga artist Tsubasa Katsuki, and Ruki Irokawa, who specialises in Teens Love, a more mature {{shoujo}} subgenre. Together, the girls strive to improve their craft, all the while helping one another overcome the trials and tribulations associated with working in the manga industry. Along the way, Kaoruko befriends her roommates and meets the other tenements in their dormitory.

Serialised in ''[[Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Manga Time Kirara Max]]'', ''Comic Girls'' received an anime adaptation that aired during Spring 2018. The anime adaptation, produced by Nexus, is directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto, with characters designed by Keiko Saito and music by Kenichiro Suehiro.

* UncattyResemblance: All the main cast notice one thing in the second episode: Kaoruko and Nyaos are both [[ShrinkingViolet social phobic]] and have nearly synchronized emotions. They two characters are even played by the same voice actress, Hikaru Akao.

** Althought it was hinted in episode 1. Kaos was 'last to arrive' because there would be renovations that year.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: An InUniverse plot point in volume 4 of the manga. Ruki's little sister Miki, who dreamed of drawing manga for children, just got her first manga beginning serialisation in a ''Manga Time Kirara'' magazine a few days before meeting the girls; she knows only that she finds the manga published within to be full of cute artwork and friendship. Cue the cliffhanger of Kaos and Koyume informing her that ''Kirara'' manga are actually aimed at a {{seinen}} demographic...

* RealityEnsues: Ririka discusses some of the downsides of being a professional SequentialArtist - having your publishers and your audience dictate what you draw. Because of that, she's happier drawing as a hobby and supporting the girls in their endeavors.