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Sugar Princess: Skating to Win
Sugar Princess (シュガープリンセス )
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Violence: 1 / 10
Nudity: 2 / 10
Theo Theme: 1 / 10
Neg Theme: 1 / 10

Brief Description:
Maya Kurinoki is an 8th-grader who has no experience in ice-skating but seems to have natural talent. She performs a double axel and impresses a scout named Eishi Todo, who tells her that he can make her a skating "princess." Todo tells Maya that she'll have to convince famous skater Shun Kano to coach her and become her skating partner. Unfortunately for Maya, Shun only wants to skate singles. (Source: Shojo Beat)

http://www.shojobeat.com/manga/sug/

Rated All Ages.
Story and Art by Hisaya Nakajo
Serialized 2005-2006 in Hana to Yume.
Published in the US by VIz Media under their Shojo Beat imprint.
Complete at 2 volumes.

User Reviews
05/11/2012: airichan623 [ Already Rated ]

I love this series. It is so sweet and innocent. This manga follows the adventures of Maya Kurinoki, a 3rd year middle school student who is recruited as an ice skater by Coach Eiji Todo when, while skating for the very first time at a local rink, attempts a double axel and lands it. The coach then sets her to train for a pairs competition with a 2nd year high school student named Shun Kano, who is an ice skating prodigy. But when the owner of the rink grows ill, his son tries to close it. Now the only way to save their rink is for Maya and Shun to place in a pairs competition. Well written and very clean. The only reason I didn't like it was because it felt incomplete. I would recommend this manga to first timers as well as addicted manga fans. The art is not extremely unique, though very well done.

Sexual Content/ Nudity
Hardly anything, making this one of the cleanest manga I'ver read. When Maya's skating coach first sees her skill on the rink, amazed by her ability, asks her, "Do want to be a princess?" and when Maya tells her friends about this approach, they believe he might work for an adult website, but he's just a middle-aged ice-skating coach. Shun protects Maya from a drunken old pervert.

The only instance of very vague nudity is when Maya walks in on a naked Shun (only his bare back and ankles are shown). Maya is unfazed (she shares a room with her younger brother), but Shun is very embarrassed.

Added: May, 2012