

Mangirl is about a group of girls who start up their own manga magazine called
Earth Star Entertainment.

While I was looking up some info about the show, I noticed that the original
manga was serialized in "Earth Star Entertainment's _Comic Earth Star_
magazine" (Source: [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangirl!#Manga)).
This seems to be a real company with [a real website](http://earthstar.jp/)
that even shares its logo with the fictional company's logo in the show.

![Screenshot from Mangirl anime showing a character's badge with the fictional
company name and logo](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aplHM.png)

Is any of Mangirl based on anything from the real life Earth Star
Entertainment? For example, were the creators of the real life company all
females or all amateurs, similar to the characters in the show?


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Is Mangirl based off a real story to some degree?


It's pretty difficult to find information about Earth Star Entertainment, but
from what I can tell, I don't see any similarities. According to its
[website](http://earthstar.jp/company.php), it was established in 2006 and its
current director is Masashi Kikuta and the president is K. Makuuchi. Masashi
is a man's name, so presumably, Masashi Kikuta is a man. The major affiliated
talent for the anime is a woman, but there doesn't seem to be any specific
link to anything that you mentioned.


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