Tokyo Boys & Girls | |
![]() The cover of the first manga volume from the 2003 Japanese shinsōban release | |
東京少年少女 (Tōkyō Shōnen Shōjo) | |
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Genre | Comedy, [1] romance [2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Miki Aihara |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Flower Comics |
Magazine | Bessatsu Shōjo Comic |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | 1994 –1996 |
Volumes | 5 |
Tokyo Boys &Girls (Japanese:東京少年少女,Hepburn:TōkyōShōnen Shōjo) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Miki Aihara. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine,starting in 1994. [3] Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into five bound volumes from March 1995 to June 1996. [4] [5] Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language release in North America and published five volumes from July 2005 to July 2006. [6] [7]
Mimori Kosaka is accepted into Meidai Attached High School,which is her dream school because of its fashionable uniforms. Mimori dreams of being cute and feminine and finding a boyfriend in high school. Although Mimori looks forward to enjoying her first year of high school,things do not go as planned. After befriending a girl named Nana,Mimori reunites with her childhood friend,Haruta. However,instead of being friendly towards Mimori,Haruta is seeking revenge against her. A love triangle also develops when Nana falls in love with Kazukita Kuniyasu,who is in love with Mimori. As Mimori only likes Haruta,things get complicated.
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | March 1995 [4] | 978-4-09-136381-7 | July 5, 2005 [6] | 978-1-42-150020-1 |
2 | May 1995 [8] | 978-4-09-136382-4 | October 4, 2005 [9] | 978-1-42-150021-8 |
3 | September 1995 [10] | 978-4-09-136383-1 | January 3, 2006 [11] | 978-1-42-150202-1 |
4 | January 1996 [12] | 978-4-09-136384-8 | April 4, 2006 [13] | 978-1-42-150400-1 |
5 | June 1996 [5] | 978-4-09-136385-5 | July 5, 2006 [7] | 978-1-42-150589-3 |
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