Marionette Generation

Marionette Generation (マリオネット ジェネレーション, Marionetto Jenereeshon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruhiko Mikimoto.

The manga was serialised in Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype beginning in 1989,[1] and was later collected into five tankōbon volumes which were published between July 1989 and March 1998.

[2][3] The series was licensed in North America by Viz Media,[4] who serialized it in Animerica Extra.

[7][8] Individual chapters are called "part"s. Animefringe's Patrick King commends Mikimoto's artwork, saying that he has "an undeniable knack for illustrating characters that clearly convey their emotions".

[15] In a later review, King commends the series for its "sheer imagination and artistic brilliance" and comments that the manga's romance has "less panty shots and more drama than usual, and with the addition of a talking doll there's really no way you can go wrong here".