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“Wild West shoujo manga follows orphan Miriam's life and romance with sharpshooter Douglas after being taken in by Grace.”
Kouya no Tenshidomo
荒野の天使ども
7.91
1,074 rank · 2,830 readers · 37 favorites
Shoujo
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Wild West shoujo manga follows orphan Miriam's life and romance with sharpshooter Douglas after being taken in by Grace.
This is a cowboy shoujo manga set in the Wild West. Miriam is an orphan. Her father was a drunken gambler; she only had a dress and they moved from place to place, until one day her father died and Grace took her in. The series follows Miriam's life, growing up, and falling in love with her life-long friend, the skillful sharpshooter Douglas.
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 6
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.33
Running avg · Feb 2009 → Apr 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “It is very rare to come across a mature yet amusing manga and Miriam is exactly that. Miriam has a well crafted and brialliant storyline. You do not have the heroine falling in love in the first...”
- 8 “The first installment in the Miriam trilogy, this is the story of a little girl who will do whatever it takes to protect the ranch where she lives and its owner. She forcibly recruits three young...”
- 6 “I’ve had it saved for a while, but I finally got around to reading Kyouko Hikawa’s 1983 manga Miriam. Hikawa has an unusually large number of series available in English for a mangaka who wrote...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 16 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 08m approx
- Published Mar 1983 – Jun 1984
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M5085 catalog