2007 Readers Poll: Best New Shojo Manga

Readers' Choice Results for Favorite New Shojo Manga

Author & Artist: Aya Nakahara
Publisher: Shojo Beat / VIZ Media
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Tall girl Risa has a lot in common with short guy Atsushi. They like the same music. They have fun whenever they're together. And everyone thinks that they make a great couple, or at least a great comedy team. So why are they trying to help each other date other people? Can this mismatched pair find love despite the several inches that separate them?

Author & Artist: Matsuri Hino
Publisher: Shojo Beat / VIZ Media
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Yuki Cross goes to a very special school that has both day and night classes. But there's a sinister secret surrounding the exclusive night school students: They're all impossibly gorgeous, aristocratic and they're all vampires. While Yuki is a human, she plays a special role as a member of the Disciplinary Committee. She must help keep the peace between the human day students and the vampire night students, and deal with the fact that some of her dearest friends (and crushes) also want to drink her blood.

Author & Artist: Yuu Asami
Publisher: Go! Comi
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In the not-so-far-off future, robots are a part of everyday life in Japan. So when Sui's father brings home a prototype of a new model of robot companion to test, she's glad to oblige. She's even happier to help when she finds that the robot is designed to look like a very hunky young man. But Sui soon discovers that it's not so easy to teach a robot how to behave like a human.

Author and Artist: Kazuhiro Okamoto
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
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Shizuka is an introverted girl who has to deal with schoolwork, boys, and a medical condition that is starting to turn her invisible! She finds support with Mamoru, a boy who is falling for her despite her condition, and with Keiko, another girl who suffers from Translucent Syndrome who has finally turned completely invisible.

Author: Miyuki Kobayashi
Artist: Natsumi Ando
Publisher: Del Rey Manga
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A sweet new shojo manga series that's almost good enough to eat, Kitchen Princess is about Najika, a young girl with a heart of gold and a talent for cooking. Najika has a crush on a boy she met long ago – but her only clue to his identity is a silver spoon. When the spoon leads her to enroll in the exclusive Seika Academy, Najika finds that it may take all her culinary magic to be accepted in her new school and be reunited with her true love.

Author and Artist: Kozue Amano
Publisher: TokyoPop
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In this fantasy vision of the future, Mars has been transformed into a planet where 90% of its surface is covered by water. In this tranquil new world exists Neo-Venezia, a new, yet old city that looks very much like Venice, Italy. Akari is a young girl who comes from Manhome (Earth) to become an Undine, a gondolier tour guide. Along the way, she makes friends and discovers magical delights in the canals and alleys of this aquatic city.

Author and Artist: Yuki Nakaji
Publisher: CMX Manga
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College: A time for new friends and new loves — and getting confused about which is which. It seems like Suzuna is on track to land Eichi the guy of her dreams. But her other new friend — the beautiful Hinako — has some interesting information regarding Eichi that's going to force Suzuna to take a second look at the whole situation. She's about to discover that love can come with some unexpected competition.

Author and Artist: Bisco Hatori
Publisher: Shojo Beat / VIZ Media
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Chiyuki was born with heart problems, and her doctors say she won't live to see the next snow. Toya is a teen vampire who hates blood and refuses to make the traditional partnership with a human whose life-giving blood would keep them both alive for a thousand years. Can Chiyuki teach Toya to feel a passion for life, even as her own is ending?

Author & Artist: Tachibana Higuchi
Publisher: TokyoPop
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When Mikan, an ordinary girl from the country goes to visit her friend who goes to a school for gifted children, she finds out that 'gifted' has a whole 'nother meaning at the Alice Academy. Students at this exclusive school have telekinetic, pyrotechnic and extraordinary intellectual talents ranging from harmless to frightening. Now enrolled as a student, Mikan must discover what her "Alice" is before her classmates send her packing back to the 'burbs, or worse.

Author & Artist: Arina Tanemura
Publisher: Shojo Beat / VIZ Media
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Haine's got problems. Her once well-to-do family 'sold' her to the Otomiya family in exchange for a 50 million yen business loan. Her past life as a juvenile delinquent in middle school has tainted her reputation in her new school, the elite Imperial Academy. And to top it off, Haine is appointed as bodyguard for her secret crush, the school's student body president, nicknamed "The Emperor". Can she protect herself and her heart from political intrigue surrounding her love?