Cheeky Angel, volumes 1 and 2

Volume 1

The story opens with a guy giving a girl a hard time. Another girl appears and knees the guy in the groin and tells him off.

Miki talks to Megumi, the girl who took care of the guy, and it's obvious that there is something unusual about Megumi. The story then goes into flashback mode, six years previously, when Megumi was a boy. He and Meg were out by a creek when some other young boys wanted to cause trouble. The boy with Miki beat them up but was slightly injured in the process.

They had met a guy claiming to be a magician and he gave them a book. Some of the blood spilled onto the book and a figure appeared and the boy made a wish to be the manliest man (like Ranma's 'man among men' push), but a strange figure from the book changes him into a girl and everyone else's beliefs about him change to beliefs about her. Even the physical room he lives is in changes to that for a girl.

From that point on, Megumi strives to find a way to returning to being male. In her anger, she had thrown the book with the strange figure into the river and has never been able to find it since.

One by one other characters are introduced. Genzo is the name of the punk at the start of the series. Tasuki is a hentai-lover. Hitomonji knows martial arts. Ichiro is basically an average boy. Keiko is a girl that hates Megumi, always wanting all attention for herself.

Fujiki Ichiro meets her and he's extremely nervous. Then Soga walks in. Megumi beats him up, but Miki reminds her that in junior high Meg was known as Gang Girl and Wonder Dyke for her tomboyish and rather violent ways. She has a major problem with guys being attracted to her.

Soga gets involved in several fights and generally is the one who gets beaten up. Soga tells her he loves her and she tells him she hates him. Every time Miki says something to Meg about how she's behaving like a girl Meg gets really angry.

There's even a group of guys that join together to 'protect' her and find out more about her.

Volume 2

Soga is still trying to come on to Meg and getting nowhere. Some guys try to jump Meg but she takes care of one and Soga takes care of another. Later Genzo is getting beaten up by some other guys.

There's a bigger fight with several of the guys involved. Gradually, the other boys are realizing that Genzo is not as horrible a person as they had originally thought. The guys later want to find out 'the mystery of Megumi.' They find out where she lives and it turns out to be a really big mansion.

We see Megumi's father for the first time and he refers to Genzo as a greasy punk. They are allowed into the house and Megumi tells them all that she's really a guy. We also find out her father is weird and sort of perverted.

She tells them the entire story of what happened to her in the past. Miki backs up her story. It all just increase's Megumi's desire to return to being a boy. She keeps looking for the book from the past.

Megumi later says she'd like to see Genzo be a girl so he starts trying to act like one. Hitomonji Kobayashi makes his appearance in the manga. He shows no interest in Megumi. She tries to talk some sense to Genzo. Later a guy attacks him with a knife but Meg and Genzo stop him.


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