'We now devote one third of our entire floor space to comics,' Japanese weekly Shukan Shincho quoted an employee at Kinokuniya's New York outlet as saying.
Shojo Beat, which first went on sale in June, is run by Viz Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shogakkan and Shueisha, two of Japan's biggest publishers.
They are mostly stories about detectives and heroic types, 'less likely to rile the Puritanical streak of most Americans', according to Mainichi Shimbun.
Some US parents complained recently because kids could buy unsealed versions of a Doraemon comic (read mainly by pre-school children in Japan) that featured the character Shizuka taking a bath.
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