| Doll | |
&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:Doll_01_cover.jpeg) The English-language cover of the first Doll volume as published by Tokyopop in North America on August 10, 2004 | |
| ドｰル (Dōru) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mitsukazu Mihara |
| Published by | Shodensha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Feel Young |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Original run | 1998 – 2002 |
| Volumes | 6 |
Doll (Japanese: ドｰル, Hepburn: Dōru) is a science fiction josei (targeted towards women) manga by Mitsukazu Mihara. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Feel Young from 1998 to 2002, the thirty-three chapters of Doll were collected into six bound volumes by Shodensha and published from August 2000 to August 2002. Taking place in the future, the plot focuses on relationships between people and the eponymous androids; the series has an overarching plot that follows an illegal reprogrammer of Dolls and his revenge against the corporation which creates them. One of the characters, the corporation that manufactures the Dolls, and the concept of the Dolls appeared earlier in Mihara's short manga "The Sunflower Quality Of An Integrated Circuit" (集積回路のヒマワリ) (1995), later collected in IC in a Sunflower (1997).
In 2003, Tokyopop licensed the series for an English-language translations in North America and the United Kingdom, publishing the series from August 2004 to October 2005. The series has received several positive reviews from English-language critics, and the first volume placed in ICv2's list of the top 100 best-selling graphic novels for July 2004. In 2011, Tokyopop's North American branch stopped publication and returned its manga licenses.