Minima!

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978-4-06-341499-8
Minima!
Genre Comedy
Magazine Bessatsu Friend
Demographic Shōjo
Original runDecember 13, 2006February 13, 2008
Volumes4
February 2008 [3] 978-0-345-50182-0
2 March 11, 2007 [4] 978-4-06-341525-4 May 2008 [3] 978-0-345-50407-4
3 October 12, 2007 [5] 978-4-06-341548-3 December 2008 [3] 978-0-345-50680-1
4 February 13, 2008 [6] 978-4-06-341566-7 August 2009 [3] 978-0-345-51072-3

Reception

Mania.com's Nadia Oxford and About.com's Deb Aoki comments on the manga's realistic portrayal of a high school girl who is a victim of bullying. [7] [8] Pop Culture Shock's Katherine Dacey criticises the manga artist's artwork saying that Sakurai "has a limited repertoire of character designs, and a tendency to draw vaguely alien faces with bulging eyes and foreheads." [9] Casey Brienza at Anime News Network commends the manga's ability to seamlessly "shift from human-sized perspectives to toy-sized ones and back again". [10]

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