Gaba Kawa

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Gaba Kawa

Cover of the original Japanese release
ガバ♥カワ
(Gaba♥Kawa)
Genre Fantasy, Magical girl, Romance
Manga
Author Rie Takada
Publisher Shogakukan
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Flag of the United States Shojo Beat
Original run July 26, 2007
Volumes 1

Gaba Kawa (ガバ♥カワ?) is a single volume manga written by Rie Takada and originally published in Japan on July 26, 2007 by Shogakukan. It tells the story of a demon girl named Rara who comes to the human world to cause mischief, only to find herself falling in love with a human boy. To help him, she uses her demon powers, but doing so causes her to immediately lose them.

It has been licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media. It first premiered in Viz's monthly manga anthology Shojo Beat in the April 2008 issue. The single volume is currently solicited for release on December 2, 2008, after it has completed its run in the magazine.[1]

Contents

[edit] Plot

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[edit] Characters

  • Rara Yamabuki is a demon who comes to the human world to do evil deeds. As a teenage girl, she starts attending Meian Prefectural High School. Though she is supposed to be evil, most of Rara's deeds are harmless mischief, and her true goal is to win the heart of Hiroshi Akusawa, a legendary demon whom she has a crush on though she's never met him. When she arrives, though, she meets Retsu Aku, a human schoolmate and mistakes him as Hiroshi because she thought he "flew" with her from a roof. After realizing he's a normal human, she uses her powers of flight to save him from an attack by the rugby club, which causes her to lose that power forever and realize she's in love with him.
  • Bibi Kurosawa is Rara's rival in love who also desires Hiroshi and debuts in the human world on the same day as Rara. She enjoys bullying Rara.
  • Retsu Aku is a freshman Rara's high school and is constantly harassed by the clubs at school because of his athletic ability and refusal to join any of them. He is almost always seen with his friend Kayato Higuchi. Retsu first meets Rara after spotting her jumping off a roof (intending to fly to school). He mistakenly believes she's going to kill herself and "saves" her by jumping after her and cushioning her fall. He has been granted a sixth sense so he is able to see ghosts and spirits. In the manga Rara follows him to make sure he's safe and he discovers her.

[edit] Production

The manga's title Gaba Kawa is a combination of the Japanese words ganbaru, meaning to persist, and kawaii, meaning cute. It refers to someone who is so persistent, it is cute.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Amazon: Viz Adds Gaba Kawa, Heaven's Will, Oishinbo. Anime News Network (2008-02-24). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
  2. ^ "Gaba Kawa: Flashback" (April 2008). Shojo Beat 4 (4): 258. 

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