is a shōjo

Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

 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...

 series created by Erika Kurahashi

Erika Kurahashi

is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She debuted with the one-shot manga Kitto konna yuki ni, published in the 1988 autumn issue of Ribon Original...

. The title can be translated in English as End of the Century Angel.

Story

Suzuka is a high school student. Between the lessons her best friend Miyabi, who is a big fan of tarot, lays the cards for her. She tells her that she will meet her big love soon. First Suzuka doesn't believe her, but then she runs into Konno, a popular boy from class d. They have a little conversation. Suzuka likes him quite a long time and so she starts to believe in the poetry her best friend made for her. Later that day she went shopping and as she left the store, two boys troubled her. Konno came running and hit the boys, who ran away. When he wanted to help Suzuka, who was sitting on the ground, she couldn't touch him. He was a ghost, or at least his spirit separated from his body. She couldn't really believe it. The next day at school her best friend told her that Konno had a traffic accident and is in coma. Konno stayed with Suzuka all the time and listened. They went to hospital and indeed he was lying there. He tried to reunite with his body, but he couldn't manage to. So he decided to stay with Suzuka and be her guardian spirit, as long as he is a ghost.

Volumes

1. ISBN 4-08-856213-5 published in June 2000
2. ISBN 4-08-856238-0 published in November 2000
3. ISBN 4-08-856274-7 published in April 2001
4. ISBN 4-08-856320-4 published in October 2001