Mystery manga: help me if you can. . .

[Mangafanatic]

Okay, I know I read this summary somewhere. I thought it was in an "upcoming release" thing, but I'm not sure. So here's the summary.

It's about this chick who's a bit of a tomboy. Her dad is some important person-- a prime minister or a rich guy by marriage or something-- and so he pays these two(or three) guys to come and train his daughter to be a charming young lady. Maybe the guys he pays to train her owed him for something or were being blackmailed. Maybe. And you know, this is shoujo manga-- just fill in the blanks.

So, does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?

[Ashley]

Well, I can tell you this much--there's a 99.9% chance it wasn't written by Tanemura Arina.

[TheMelodyMaker]

I couldn't tell you either, but it sounds a lot like Taming of the Shrew (and possibly My Fair Lady).

[Psycho Ann]

It's a story premise a bit similiar to Perfect Girl Evolution but that's all I remember that most closely resembles the manga you're looking for. Otherwise... 'shoujo transformation' plots make up a big chunk of shoujo manga ^^;; If it's not too long ago, have you tried backtracking through your browser's history lists?

[Mave]

Ann just took the words out from my mind upon reading this thread: Perfect Girl Evolution.

4 young bishies take on the task of turning a freaky anti-social girl into a young beautiful charming lady, in return of free housing and other amenities(?) provided by the girl's parents. Sound familiar?

Even if this is not the story you're looking for, do check this one out. I like it so far. xD

[MasterDias]

Hmmmmm.
Del Rey recently announced an "upcoming release" manga called "The Wallflower" which has a story summary somewhat similar to what you discribed.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=417

Aside from that, I'm not sure.

[Mangafanatic]

AHH!!! That's it! Wallflower. Now I remember. Yeah, actually, I'm pretty sure that Perfect Girl Evolution and Wall flower are one and the same. Thanks so much for the help,

[Psycho Ann]

*Spits out her soda* WHAT?!?!?!? Yamande is licensed!?!? And they're calling it "The Wall Flower"? ^^;;; Oh well, I hope they keep everything else original (good thing it seems the names are all correct), I'm definitely going to buy and collect this series ^^

[Kisa]

Where can you get it? sounds good . . . ^^

[Mangafanatic]

I don't think it's release yet. Hmff. . . but I think I wanna read it when it comes out. Anyone know where I can get some sample art? A scanned page. Anything?

[Psycho Ann]

http://www.animewaves.net/animewaves.php?goto=m-pge

Though do know it's a mangascan site and if you're against these things, I'm not recommending the mangascan itself. It's only that that's probably the only place you can glimpse the covers. If you're wondering, yes, I read Yamanade from there, but I will buy the graphic novels if they come out. A really funny series though there might be some content that might offend readers.

[Indigo_Eyes]

This manga has a lot of unsuitable stuff for a Christian-so much that I stopped reading it after like I *think* the 2nd volume. I read the unlicensed version of it by a scanlating (scans+ translations) group earlier this year-this is news to me that's it's being licensed. First of all, the main girl seriously wanted to kill one of the guys in the manga. She had it all planned out (her killing him) and was very upset when he was kidnapped by some guy to be made into a male prostitute b/c it ruined her plans for killing him that she had for later on that night. The main (and only) reason she had for rescuing him was so she could continue on her plans for killing him b/c

no one was allowed to kill him but her

. Also, the manga gave the impression that the mangaka wouldn't mind having those two main characters 'sleep' together (you know what I mean) through little things like all the girls at the school they went to being jealous of the main girl b/c she lived in the same house as them and could do all sorts of things like 'peek on them in the showers, slip into their beds at night' and other perverted things like that. Eventually the main girl does accidently see one of the guys naked in the shower and the guy was very close to being shown full-frontal nudity. Needless to say, I stopped the manga b/c of all those sort of things that the mangaka added in. Also, the girl is weird-all she does basically is watch very gory (her fav.) types of western movies all day w/ no lights on in her room. I think that the only times she went out of her room was to cook for them, use the bathroom, and go to school. I don't recommend this series.

[Indigo_Eyes]

Yes, that scanlation group that Psycho Ann gasve is where I got it but I still don't recommend it.......

[Jasdero]

yeah. that does sound like a good read. i'll have to check up on it. perfect girl evolution/wallflower, i mean. ^_^

[Psycho Ann]

As I said, there's going to be content that may be offensive to most. I personally just had a good laugh ^^;;; Since I'm a fan of horror *anything* and what PGE/Yamanade/TW dishes out is actually quite mild to most titles I've read over the years.

Indigo_Eyes, the way you said those things really made them sound worse than it is... or maybe I'm just insensitive to it in context to the manga. Up to volume 5, things really aren't that bad, it's almost a satire at points and make fun of these factors even. But again, I do urge for everyone wanting to see this series to consider Indigo_Eyes post, they are in there, and if you're not sure then check it out for yourselves.

For those who like The Ring (especially the Jap version) you might like it as much as I do

[Indigo_Eyes]

Indigo_Eyes, the way you said those things really made them sound worse than it is...

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like such a downer. The mangaka probably meant a lot of those things as comedic things, it just didn't always come off that way to me.