| Cheeky Angel | |
 Manga volume 1 cover, featuring Megumi (front) and Genzo | |
| 天使な小生意気 (Tenshi na Konamaiki) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Nishimori |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | June 2, 1999 – August 27, 2003 |
| Volumes | 20 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masaharu Okuwaki |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Nobuo Ogizawa |
| Music by | Daisuke Ikeda |
| Studio | TMS Entertainment |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 6, 2002 – March 29, 2003 |
| Episodes | 50 |
Cheeky Angel (Japanese: 天使な小生意気, Hepburn: Tenshi na Konamaiki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The story revolves around the adventures of 15-year-old schoolgirl Megumi Amatsuka, a popular and beautiful tomboy that always get into fights with a secret: she used to be a boy. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 1999 to August 2003. Its chapters were collected in 20 tankōbon volumes. A 50-episode anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment was broadcast on TV Tokyo between April 2002 and March 2003. In 2001, the manga won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category.
- ^ a b Welsh, David (March 23, 2005). "Shô-nen-jo showdown! FRUITS BASKET vs. CHEEKY ANGEL". The Manga Curmudgeon. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
Of course, it may be as simple as packaging. Fruits Basket wears its cuddly fantasy elements on its sleeve, while Cheeky Angel takes a soapier approach to its trade dress. But, really, you can't read Fruits Basket all the time, can you? Surely there's room for gender-bending battle-comedy-teen romance on your shelves, too?
- ^ "The Official Website for Cheeky Angel". Viz Media. Archived from the original on February 26, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
- ^ 天使な小生意気. Akiba Souken (in Japanese). Kakaku.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.