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Doubt!! is a shōjo manga series by Kaneyoshi Izumi. Doubt! is published in Japan by Shogakukan and in North America in English by VIZ Media. Shōjo or shoujo (少女 lit. ... A page from the Marmalade Boy manga, volume 1 (Japanese version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... Shogakukan (小学館 Shōgakukan) is a major publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, nonfiction, childrens DVDs, and other media in Japan. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the... This article deals with the American media company. ...


Doubt! is about a teenage girl named Ai Maekawa. Ai is "jimi" (a Japanese slang term that refers to homely, studious girls), and she has freckles, which are considered to be ugly in Japan. Ai has been unable to find a boy who loves her, and she states that she will be a virgin at thirty. Oshita, a boy who Ai secretly likes, is revealed to have "popped" the "cherry" of Yumi, a girl who Ai hates with all her heart. When Ai hears this, she yells at her classmates to be quiet. Yumi in retaliation flips Ai's skirt, revealing that Ai wears cartoon character underwear that reads "Cutie Bunny." The shame makes the day Ai's "worst ever." Six months later she is at a new school and is now beautiful. She is immediately noticed by Sō Ichinose, a boy who winds up as the head boy in Ai's class. Ai is then the target of rumors and gossip by competing girls in the school. Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... Freckles are small brownish spots of melanin on human skin in people of fair complexion, predominantly found on the face. ... In its most general sense, virginity is chracterized by a state of unimpacted purity, usually stemming from a lack of experience (newcomers to the The Rocky Horror Picture Show are traditionally referred to as virgins). ... The hymen (also known under the slang names cherry and maidenhead) is a membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ...



 
 

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