St. Dragon Girl, Vol. 1 (St. Dragon Girl #1)

As you know, I'm a huge fan of shonen manga and I don't read many shojo mangas because there is mostly romance and not much fighting in those, but this was one of those few shojo mangas that has a nice amount of romance in it, at least not yet (which is not too much) and lots of action (so that it doesn't become boring for me).

A few of the things that I loved about this book was the plot. I enjoy reading books about demon fighting and magic, so it's only natural that I would end up reading this series and liking it. Plus, I love the characters too. Also, I haven't read many books where the main character is a dragon or has dragon powers.

Warning, Spoilers

This is about a 16 year old girl, named Momoka Sendou, who was born in a martial arts family, loves to fight, and is really good at it (yay! I love protagonists that are butt-kicking girls and not damsels). She is best friends with a boy named Ryuga Kou, who is also her neighbour, and his cousin Shunran and they all grew up together. Ryuga is a summoner/sorcerer (in this volume it say summoner, but in volume 2 it says sorcerer).

The story starts with Momoka catching a pervert, then a boy says something and Momoka gets mad and she tries to punch him, and it turns out to be Ryuga, Momoka's childhood friend. Apparently, he called her dragon girl since the beginning. Everyone knows that Ryuga is a sorcerer. Momoka and Ryuga have been protecting their frend Shunran from demons for years (since she has high spiritual energy, demons are attracted to her). They always start fighting because of petty little matters, it's so funny. Oh, and Momoka is obsessed with panda bears. Momoka knows loves Ryuga, but she doesn't want to tell him her feelings because she's afraid that he'll tease her and not take her seriously (as I said above, this is rare to see in the first volume of many mangas).

Because Shunran is almost kidnapped by a demon king that appears every one hundred years, after a few days, Ryuga summons the dragon lord to possess him so that he's strong enough to beat the demon, but Momoka hears about this and tries to stop him but she's standing in the ways and the dragon lord ends up possessing her instead. So now she really is a dragon girl. Ryuga doesn't have enough power to turn her back, so instead he seals the dragon temporarily.
Shunran and Ryuga were supposed to stay home from school for the next few days so that Shunran would be safe, but she snuck out and then Shunran and Momoka got attacked by the demon that wants to kidnap Shunran. Momoka can hold her own against a demon even when the dragon powers are sealed. Although, the demon soon becomes too much for her to handle alone, and then Ryuga comes by and unseals the dragon so that they can seal up that demon for good. She adjusts to the dragon powers right away and easily. Then Ryuga seals the dragon's powers again.

Over the next few chapters in this volume, Ryuga kisses Momoka a few times, claiming that he only kissed her to unseal the dragon powers when his hands were tied, but he obviously enjoyed kissing her.

Different adventures in every chapter, which is great. Also, I love the art of this series, it's so beautiful. I heard that there is now a manga series called St. Dragon Girl Miracle by the same mangaka. Does that mean that it's the sequel to this series? Please let me know, because I'm confused.

Also, I was wondering, how come most of the characters are wearing chinese clothing if they live in Japan (I'm just curious).

I wonder why the main character in most shojo mangas has pig tails, not that I mind, I'm just wondering.

Momoka is not your typical shojo manga main character. She loves to fight, is really skilled at it, doesn't need someone to protect her, and knows that she's in love since the beginning of the series. Although, there are some similarities: she's gullible, has brute strength (many shojo protagonists are strong, but don't have much fighting skills), fights a lot with the guy she loves, and is a good person.

I wonder what happened to Momoka's mom, they only talked about her dad, but nothing about her mom, I wonder if she's even alive. This question is part of what makes want to read more quickly so that I can find out. Plus, there are only eight volumes in this series, so it shouldn't take me long to finish this series.

Those are some of the major incidents of this volume, of course more happened, but I don't want to bore you with all of the details.

Overall, I love this manga, it's one of my most favourites, along with Kodocha, FMA, Inuyasha, etc. I hope I still love it by the time I finish reading the series.

This turned out to be a longer review than I thought it would be, sorry about that, I'll try to keep the next ones shorter, I think it's because I'm in such a good mood today and because I love this manga so much, which is so hard to put into words.


I rated this book: 5 stars.