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“Labrador puppy Ponta becomes human via magic bone and falls for popular boy Mirai.”
Guru Guru Pon-chan
ぐるぐるポンちゃん
7.02
9,259 rank · 2,402 readers · 54 favorites
Shoujo
Pets
Award Winning
Comedy
Romance
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Labrador puppy Ponta becomes human via magic bone and falls for popular boy Mirai.
Ponta is a Labrador retriever puppy, the Koizumi family's pet. She's full of energy and usually up to some kind of mischief. But when Grandpa Koizumi, an amateur inventor, creates the Guruguru Bone, Ponta's curiosity causes trouble. She nibbles the bone... and turns into a human girl! Surprised but undaunted, Ponta ventures out of the house and meets Mirai Iwaki, the most popular boy at school. When Mirai saves her from a speeding car, Ponta changes back into her puppy self. Yet much has changed for Ponta during her short adventure as a human. Her heart races and her face flushes when she thinks of Mirai now. She's in love! Using the power of the Guruguru Bone, Ponta switches back and forth from dog to girl... but can she win Mirai's affections? (Source: Del Rey)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
5.6
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 2
σ 3.01
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.01 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.5 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.5
Yes
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Score over time
↓ 2.40
Running avg · May 2011 → Aug 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Being a lover of dogs I just had to try this out. Mostly expected it to be silliness considering the premise. And it does have plenty of laughs. But there's some good emotional content to it as...”
- 10 “So... this manga to date, is the weirdest shoujo manga I've personally read. The romance, situations, and plot are so bizarre, it's amazing that I'm able to walk away from reading this acting like...”
- 2 “When I was a kid they had the first few volumes of this at my public library and I really liked them. I randomly remembered it a couple weeks ago and thought why not go hunt it down online and...”
Verbosity
Short · 60%
Medium · 20%
Long · 20%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 37 × 9 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 56m approx
- Published Jan 1997 – Jan 2000
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0397 catalog