is an 18-volume bishōjo

Bishojo

is a Japanese term used to refer to young and pretty girls, usually below university age. Bishōjo is not listed as a word in the prominent Japanese dictionary Kōjien...

lolicon

Lolicon

, also romanised as lolikon or rorikon, is a Japanese portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex". In Japan, the term describes an attraction to underage girls or an individual with such an attraction...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 series published by Animage Comics

Animage

is a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine which Tokuma Shoten began publishing in July 1978. Hayao Miyazaki's internationally renowned manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, was serialized in Animage from 1982 through 1994...

 from November 10, 1982 to March 10, 1987. The first volume was released under the name , before the series was renamed to Petit Apple Pie with the original title as a subtitle.

The series primarily featured works from editors and contributors to the erotic lolicon magazine Manga Burikko

Manga Burikko

was a lolicon hentai manga magazine published by Serufu Shuppan from 1982 to 1985 in Japan. The magazine was launched as a competitor to Lemon People, but it only lasted three years. The manga in the magazine were generally bishōjo and lolita manga which were mostly science fiction, parody, shōjo...

, but did not itself include any erotic or pornographic stories.

Artists

Following is an alphabetical list of some of the artists who published stories in the Petit Apple Pie series.

• Abyūkyo
• Apple House
• Hideo Azuma
  Hideo Azuma
  is a Japanese manga artist born on February 6, 1950 in Urahoro, Hokkaidō, Japan. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine Manga Ō...
  
  
• Chibakonami
• Morio Chimi
  Yoshiki Takaya
  is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the manga Guyver, which has been adapted into multiple anime features as well as live action films. Guyver was serialized in Shōnen Captain for the lifetime of the magazine from 1985 to 1997...
  
  
• Hisashi Eguchi
  Hisashi Eguchi
  is a Japanese manga artist. He made his professional manga debut with Susume!! Pirates in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1977. Other notable works include Stop! Hibari-kun and, more recently, the gag series Charamono. Eguchi married Japanese idol Mizutani Mari in 1990.-External links:...
  
  
• Kamui Fujiwara
  Kamui Fujiwara
  is a Japanese character designer and manga artist. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer science when in grade school. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, which is attached to Tokyo Zokei University...
  
  
• Kasumi Gotō
• Miki Hayasaka
  Miki Hayasaka
  is an illustrator and manga artist born on 1955-09-05 in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from high school in 1973, he moved to Tokyo and began attending classes at Chiyoda Designer Academy, though he left before completing his degree. During the mid-1970s, he worked as a background...
  
  
• Yōko Hino
• Mochiru Hoshisato
  Mochiru Hoshisato
  is a Japanese manga artist. His simple drawing style reflects the gentle nature of his often romantic tales of modern young Japanese salary-men. While Living Game has been favorably compared to Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku, Hoshisato's Yume-ka mo Shinnai and Honki no Shirushi contain fewer...
  
  
• Fujihiko Hosono
  Fujihiko Hosono
  is a Japanese manga artist. Hosono was born in Ōta, Tokyo. In 1979, he made his debut with Crusher Joe while he was a student at Keio University. Around the same time, he joined the as an animator...
  
  
• I.N.U
• Jun Ishikawa
• Akira Kagami
• Megumi Kawaneko
• Kei Kazuna
• Marchen Maker
• Meimu
  Meimu
  Meimu , real name , is a Japanese manga illustrator. While attending classes at Osaka University of Arts, he made his debut as a manga artist. Meimu's talents have been featured in various genres of storytelling, from science fiction to horror...
  
  
• Noa Misaki
• Tōru Mizushima
• Usagi Morino
• Chimi Morio
  Yoshiki Takaya
  is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the manga Guyver, which has been adapted into multiple anime features as well as live action films. Guyver was serialized in Shōnen Captain for the lifetime of the magazine from 1985 to 1997...
  
  
• Noriko Nagano
• Ai Naniwa
• Meiru Notsugi
• Yukao Oki
• Jun Saegusa
• Yumi Shirakura
• Yoshihisa Tagami
• Chiko Takahashi
• Yōsuke Takahashi
  Yosuke Takahashi
  is a Japanese horror manga artist who is known for his works Mugen Shinsi and Gakkō no Kaidan. He graduated from Komazawa University. He made his professional manga debut in 1977, and has had stories published in the manga anthology series Petit Apple Pie.-References:...
  
  
• Miki Tori
  Miki Tori
  , also known as Micky Bird or Mickey Bird, is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, essayist, and screenplay writer. Tori has won multiple awards for his work, including two Seiun Awards and one Bungeishunjū Manga Award...
  
  
• Shinji Wada
  Shinji Wada
  was a Japanese manga artist in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and best known for the creation of the Sukeban Deka franchise. He has been the cover artist for and had stories published in the bishōjo lolicon manga anthology series Petit Apple Pie....