When I finished reading this manga and I searched it on MAL, I couldn't believe so few people had read it or at least had it in their must read list. Maybe no one will ever read this but I need to explain why this manga should be readed.

Showa Ichidai Onna is a manga made by Kazuo Kamimura (teacher of the also amazing mangaka Jiro Taniguchi), known by being the cocreator of Lady Snowblood between others; and Ikki Kajiwara, the screenwriter of Ashita no Joe.

The manga's main character reminded me in some ways to the main character of Lady Snowblood, she's a young woman with a strong character and a facility to beat your ass easily. In the manga, we follow her since her childhood to her young adulthood, and with her we see the Japanese society evolve. We see the american occupation troops and the inhabitants of a country that had just lost a war and was completly ruined, and we progressively see how Japanese culture occidentalizes itself and how people starts to work to improve their country.

Surely because it's an unfinished cancelled comicbook, this manga's story isn't brilliant, and it's character development can be confusing or nonexistent. But Kamimura's art (though it isn't his best work) and the background stories that tell how people lived in that era turn this manga in a must-read comic that every manga reader should enjoy.