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Umi Takase

Umi Takase is a manga author. In 2016, she won an honorable mention at the seventy-eighth Shogakukan Newcomer Comic Awards, where she debuted her stand-alone short story "Ethnic Mirror" in the special issue of Flowers. I Wanna Be Your Girl was her debut series on the GANMA! manga app. She followed that up with Toko-san Can't Be a Good Grown-Up and Stay Away, Stork.
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 4
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 3
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 2
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 1

Books

I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 4
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 3
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 2
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 1

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