Billion Girl

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Billion Girl
Cover of the first volume (Hakusensha edition)
ビリオンガール (Birion Gaaru)
Genre	Comedy, Romance
Manga
Author	Miwa Sakai
Publisher	Hakusensha (vol 1) Kadokawa Shoten (vol 1-10)
Demographic	Shōjo
Serialized in	Hana to Yume (vol 1) Asuka (vol 1-10)
Original run	2001 – 2004
Volumes	10

Billion Girl (ビリオンガール, Birion Gaaru^?, ￥Juuoku Shōjo) is a shōjo manga series created by mangaka Miwa Sakai.

The first volume has been published by Hakusensha and ran in Hana to Yume magazine. Later it ran in Asuka, and all volumes (including the first one) have been published by Kadokawa Shoten.

1 Story
2 Characters
3 Volumes
4 External links

[edit] Story

Kanoko Ooba is a 16 year old innocent girl currently attending high school. Her family owns a traditional Japanese sweets shop since the Meiji period. When her family's company becomes bankrupt, a mysterious stranger offers to pay their family's debt, in exchange, he wishes to marry one of the daughters of the Ooba family. When Kanoko's two elder sisters refused to be married, Kanoko volunteered herself in hopes of saving her family.

[edit] Characters

Kanoko Ooba

She is the youngest daughter (a high school girl) of the old Japanese Confectionary shop "Ooba", which is on the verge of bankruptcy. She has 2 sisters who bully her around. She marries Houjo in exchange for her family debts to be paid.

Taiga Houjo

He is the Houjo Family's 17th successor. He married Kanoko because of the 1 billion dollar loan. He gets lonely rather easily thus he has a playboy image.

Yasuhito Amamiya

He is Kanoko's classmate. He is very handsome but speaks in a somewhat sissy way. He likes messing with Kazuma. It's pointed out that he has had a hard life when looking up Kanoko's family registery. He has a really caring personally and doesn't like any of the other girls in the class.

Obinata

He is the Houjo family's super efficient house keeper and is in charge of managing Taiga.

Kazuma Oshinari

Kanoko's and Yasuhito's classmate who is secretly in love with Kanoko, though it's not really a secret. In his 1st year all the girls in his class were to give him chocolates for valentine's day. The task of giving him the chocolates was given to Kanoko thus leading him to believe they were from her. She quickly told him they were not and he's been bitter to her since.

Tatsuya Mibu

A first year high school student. Wants to take over Ooba Confectionary shop when he gets older. A rather smart kid. Is a spy for Oshinari and Amamiya as the apprentice at the Ooba shop.

Reo Ijuuin

Taiga's half older brother. They sorta look alike (Taiga has long hair and Reo has short hair). His mother is Taiga's mother older twin sister and it's because of this he hates Taiga and his mother. He wants to steal Kanoko away for revenge.