is a Japanese 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...

 by Satosumi Takaguchi serialized in Monthly Asuka

Monthly Asuka

is a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten, aimed at teenage girls. Much like its sibling publication Shōnen Ace, it places some emphasis on anime tie-ins and spinoffs...

. It was adapted into a television drama series, two live action films, two OVA

Original video animation

, abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation...

s and two drama CDs. It is one of the series with delinquent girls (sukeban

Sukeban

means delinquent girl or boss girl in Japanese, equivalent to the male banchō. A dictionary of says that sukeban only refers to the leader of a girl gang, not any member of the girl gang.-Characteristics:...

) popular in the 1980s. Two new manga series were published, one from 2003 to 2009 and the other from 2007 to 2008.

External links

• New Hana no Asuka-gumi! at Shodensha
  Shodensha
  is a Japanese publisher of mostly non-fiction magazines and books, though it has recently begun publishing light novels and manga, including magazines which contain both...