Cheeky Angel


Cheeky Angel is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The story revolves around the adventures of 15-year-old schoolgirl Megumi Amatsuka, a popular and beautiful tomboy that always get into fights with a secret: she used to be a boy. Originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, it has been collected into 20 tankōbon volumes.
It was adapted as a 50-episode anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment, which was broadcast on TV Tokyo between June 2002 and March 2003.
In 2001, the manga won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.

Story

At the age of nine, Megumi is an aggressive boy prone to always fighting. One day he saves a strange man from a gang of other children. In return, Megumi receives a magical book. After accidentally bleeding on the book, a genie named Pierrot appears and offers to grant him a wish. Megumi wishes to become a strong man's man. Pierrot, a trickster, inadvertently turns Megumi into a woman. Megumi, furious, throws the book into the riverbank. Believing the only way to reverse the spell is to retrieve the book, Megumi begins a 6-year-long search but is told that she can find the book if she attends Furinkan High School.

Characters

;Megumi Amatsuka
;Miki Hanakain
;Keiko Tanaka
;Megumi's father
;Tsubasa Amatsuka

Megu-chan Protection Club

;Genzō Soga
;Ichirō Fujiki
;Tasuke Yasuda
;Hitomoji Kobayashi

Other Characters

;Yoriko
;Takao Gakusan
;Reiko
;Yoshimi Shirasagi
;Setsuka Soga
;Yanagisawa

Media

Manga

Cheeky Angel, written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Nishimori, was published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday on June 2, 1999 and finished on August 27, 2003. The individual chapters were compiled and published by Shogakukan into twenty tankōbon volumes, released between September 18, 1999 and September 18, 2003.
The manga was published in English by Viz Media. The first volume was released on July 7, 2004, and the final volume on January 9, 2008. Viz Media re-published the series digitally between May 12, 2005 and February 23, 2016.

Theme songs

; Opening
; Ending

Reception

In 2001, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.
J.P. Arevalo describes the anime as having " laugh-out-loud humor" and praised its blend of drama and comedy.