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Manga for younger children

Actually it was two volumes of the manga "Ultra Maniac".

*ahem* I think what Dormcat was trying to say was you might want to give these books a try

jgreen wrote:

*ahem* I think what Dormcat was trying to say was you might want to give these books a try

When recommending manga to a person, the first two places to look at are 1) other titles by the same author and 2) other titles serialized in the same magazine, unless the questioner had already looked through these two sets. I had no idea how many titles had his daughter read already, thus links to those mangaka should be more efficient, unless atoledo has difficulties using his browser. Besides, I prefer giving others fishing poles than fishes.

On the examples you have given: Sailor Moon is not quite within the same crowd. It has a strong sentai theme as well as the magical girl "protecting love and peace through transformation" genre.

If you go into a Borders and say "Do you have any manga serialized in Ribon magazine?" they won't have any idea what you're talking about.

Well, I'm not superfamiliar with Ultramaniac, but it's basically a magical girl story that's turned on its ear by being about the non-magical friend, right? If the girl is drawn to the magic aspects of it, I think it's perfectly feasible she'd enjoy Sailor Moon as well. It's pretty hard to find, though, so it's kind of a moot point.

On a similar tip, Pichi Pichi Pitch and Mamotte! Lollipop are two more magical girl stories (the former about a group of magical mermaid girls, the latter about a girl who befriends two wizards) that are aimed right at the young girl demographic. I'd recommend Sugar Sugar Rune first, but they might be a good alternate.

We are not even sure where does atoledo come from, are we? Scholastic is available in 16 countries.

I'm not sure if you know that the anime version of Ultra Manic had modified the original story heavily in order to suit the two King Record / Starchild seiyū better.

Not sure why, but all four titles you've recommended belong to Nakayoshi. Do you have a special preference for it?

I think the more obvious reason why I picked those is because they're both available in the US from Del Rey, who sends me free copies of virtually every series they publish, which means I'm more familiar with their output than I am some others (though I follow Viz, Dark Horse, and Vertical pretty closely as well).

I wouldn't say either Pichi Pichi Pitch or Mamotte! Lollipop are great series, but they're entertaining enough and they're definitely aimed at the "9-year-old girl" age demographic, which is why I mentioned them.

"Free copies of virtually every series they publish?!" (sigh)

Generous American licensees. Here in Taiwan, only some insolent mainstream media reporters (no, I'm not implying you or anyone else ) would "ask" publishers to send them free copies of "samplers." We don't really have anime/manga reviewers here, and those who are recognized as ones are more well known as collectors.

Let's see if atoledo could provide more information about other titles his daughter had read.

Other titles that I have heard are kid-friendly (note check this out for yourself this is second hand info) are Shugo Chara! which is about a girl with three magical friends that hatched from eggs;

Kitchen Princess which is about cooking;

Mamotte! Lollipop which is a about a girl looking for love and soon two cute, magical boys drop from the sky fair warning I have heard there is a bit of large breasted characters in this one.

Also as a search hint: if you search a title on Amazon a list of similar titles bought by indivduals who bought the work you searched for is generated and can help you explore different titles.