Guru Guru Pon-chan | |
ぐるぐるポンちゃん | |
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Genre | Romantic comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | Satomi Ikezawa |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher |
Del Rey Manga (United States) Tanoshimi (United Kingdom) |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Bessatsu Friend |
Original run | 1998 – 2000 |
Volumes | 9 |
Guru Guru Pon-chan (ぐるぐるポンちゃん) is a manga by Satomi Ikezawa about a Labrador puppy, named Ponta, who turns into a human and falls in love with Mirai Iwaki, who's very popular in his school. In 2000, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. It was published in the United States by Del Rey Manga.
Ponta, the Koizumi family's labrador retriever puppy one day eats the 'talking bone' that the grandfather invented to allow an animal who licks it the power of speech. Instead of just being able to talk however, she transforms into a human girl. When she rushes out into traffic as a girl, she is saved by the most popular boy at school and falls in love with him. To be near him she enrolls in school and tries to learn how to live as a human.
Del Rey licensed Guru Guru Pon-chan for an English-language release in North America and published the volumes from July 26, 2005 to July 31, 2007. In the United Kingdom, Tanoshimi published Guru Guru Pon-chan from August 3, 2006 to August 2, 2007.